Review of scooby

In this entry I'll offer a review of a site I stumbled across when looking up fitness information about a year or two ago. The URL for that site is www.scoobysworkshop.com.

I was pleasantly surprised when I found this site--mainly because the author of the site and I share similar fitness philosophies. The author of that site goes by the nickname "scooby," by the way, thus the title of this entry.

Scooby demonstrates bench press

It was refreshing to find scooby's site because, unlike the vast majority of fitness sites on the internet, he's not trying to sell you anything. Rather, he advises against buying expensive equipment and/or instructional material, encouraging readers to buy just a few used weights. His workouts are designed to be performed in a home setting, so gym memberships are likewise not promoted by him.

What's more, scooby even provides a wealth of material, including instructional videos, all for free. I would definitely advise anyone interested in starting a fitness regime to check his site. Even rank beginners can find useful material there--he's not at all elitist in his approach.

And he's not an amateur either. By his own admission, he's been lifting weights for 30 years--another reason I felt a kinship with him; he's pretty close to my age. His fitness pursuits all these years seem to have focused mainly on bodybuilding.

Which will clue you in to the aspect of his site that I find not so helpful. As you will know if you've read other entries in this blog, I'm not really interested in developing bigger muscles--"bulking up" as they call it in some circles. For one thing, I don't think there's a whole lot bulking I could do at 51 years of age, even if I wanted to. But then there's the fact that I wasn't interested in developing a bodybuilder's physique even in my younger years when it would have been feasible.

For my taste, there's too much emphasis on scooby's site on things like gaining muscle mass and reducing body fat--both obsessions for those who go in for bodybuilding. That said, he does have a good deal of information that can be helpful to those such as myself who are not pursuing a bodybuilder's physique. It just takes some ferreting around to find it.

For example he's got some good nutrition information and even recipes. And his videos give good demonstrations of proper form for various exercises. Scooby also provides a review of P90X which happens to agree pretty substantially with my own review written a couple of years ago.

So, all in all, scooby's site is a net positive. Anyone interested in fitness is bound to benefit from having a look. So, go check him out!

On the fitness front, we decided to take a week off this week. We're moving from one apartment to another so we're getting exercise from that. And we just give ourselves a break from time to time during the year. This is one of those times.