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I think I'll buy one and check it out. The company's page is at dynabee.com and they have a little guideline there on exercises to do, and I moved my wrist in some of the motions and imagined the resistance that the gyroscopic motion would put on there, it seems like it would be pretty cool. I have a lot of stress balls (the gravity gripp rocks) and grippers (all about the captains of crush!) ...I'm a musician so I'm always on the lookout for things to improve my forearm/hand/finger strength and dexterity! The gyro looks like it would do more for my drumming as opposed to bass playing though...much more wrist oriented. I'll post back up when I get it, although I think my fiancee may be eyeing that as a christmas gift for me already!

Also keep in mind that your workouts cant stay the same forever. When you stick with a set schedule for too long, you'll find that you plateau pretty badly and that's when a lot of people's motivation goes through the floor. Keep the intensity progressive, otherwise your body will become too efficient at the same old thing. Change things up often enough so that you dont fry on what you're doing, and never give up

If youre serious about getting a good neck workout, check out ironmind.com, they have a lot of lesser-seen specialty workout equipment. I bought their 'headstrap fit for hercules' and the thing ROCKS, it has a soft and comfortable, fully adjustable headband that you can load with enough weight to break your neck 50 times over. Funny most of their items they have there just go way beyond any capacity you can even dream of using them in...just remember to start out easy with your neck!!!

There is a section on that in this Qigong book I am reading (Qigong: The Secret of Youth by Jwing-Ming Yang) it gives some pretty good info on it. Divides it up into 4 intensities and gives different training methods, along with massage and healing techniques, tying it all into a Qigong framework. Yang keeps mentioning his previous Qigong book in a prerequisite context (The Roots of Chinese Qigong) but I havent picked it up yet - I plan on it though! As far as the iron fists goes, there are these bags you can get (dont recall the terminology offhand,) that you can fill with rice (good to start with) and then move on to sand when your hands are ready for it. Better starting place than something outright solid!

I only listen (or really pay attention, for that matter) to tunes when I'm doing aerobic exercises. Then I listen to angry stuff. Superjoint Ritual is always good for that

I've had a couple good ones...in no particular order... -when I was a kid we were at my grandmother's and we all got called in to dinner, I was running downhill with a toy hoe (yes, the gardening tool ) and I fell on it...it went right inside my upper lip... -I used to pole vault in high school. I broke 4 through all of hs, but the last one was the worst, I was upside down, full bend on a 13' pole and it snapped 5 feet from the top, the bottom hit me in the shoulder blade at about mach 5 and the top flew 30 feet away. I didnt move my arm for 3 days after that....another 4 inches higher and that woulda been my neck...and MUCH worse... On the same shoulder, I threw a military press over the back of the rack and wrenched the hell out of it...that was NO fun! The worst was blowing up my L5 disk and having chunks of it inflamed and pressing on all of the nerves in my back and going down my legs. Many things contributed to it...one of the worst was before I knew it was really bad, I punted a football...OW...I think what made the chunks was getting punched by an angry psycho ex girlfriend right in the small of my back and dropping to the floor, not feeling my legs... Now I stretch every day and work out and I'm in better shape than ever Too bad it took me getting all busted up to get me off my * and get it done!