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yeah i found folding them over themselves helped a lot.

Glad to hear it's not as bad as it could have been. hopefully it can handle some pressure in the near future for pulls. if not i guess there's always those figure 8 strongman straps.

had to search online for tips to make it easier, had to do that for a lot of things but never putting on an item of clothing before...

how's your finger by the way?

18 is amazing. never been at that level, but when i was a bit... ahem... lighter, and did a lot of pull ups once I could do 8 I did a mix of higher rep bodyweight sets and lower rep weighted sets.

There's also the russian fighter pull up program - https://www.strongfirst.com/the-fighter-pullup-program-revisited/ - you could do the weighted variation.

But yeah, add weight at this point I reckon. if you don't fancy the program above you can find your 2rep max (2 rep max cause easy to accidentally cheat a bit on rep 1 of a chin/pull up) and try to do 3-5 sets of 5 at 85-95% of that weight (where 100% is your bodyweight plus whatever you hang off you) you'll be in a good spot.

turns out getting knee sleeves on is a bit hard huh...

cheers! Iron golems from warcry / Age of Sigmar. I just liked the models and fancied painting for the sake of it on these ones, not played either game.

thanks! I think a healthy fascination with rust (probs inspired by my now long gone clear lacquered ESB) has helped.

didn't realise there were lfgss hobby gaming folks. got back into the hobby during one of the lockdowns last year. Been playing in a 40k narrative crusade campaign at HATE, definitely recommend the crusade system, really fun.

Learning Kill Team next, but played a game of Frostgrave over tabletop simulator with a friend the other day and that was fun. I've got the starter set from warhammer fantasy 6th ed so will try making a frostgrave warband out of the empire from that.

Up for smaller 40k games or kill team learning games if anyone fancies.

ft some pics of things what I have painted.

Will have a mental once over / look into prices of other things I'd need to get to put these on bike, so no dibs for now but glws and I might pop back in if they're still about once I've made my mind up.

interested in wheelset - are they 32 spoke front and rear? Tried to tell from pics but couldn't.

I was limited by lockdown availabilities - but I bought this set - https://spartangymgear.co.uk/collections/weight-plates/products/olympic-bar-weights-set (plus and extra pair of 20s and a set of microplates) and it has done the job pretty well. I've been going to a gym again since they reopened, but it was good when using it / on deload weeks when I cba to walk to the gym for a 40 minute workout. I've also ordered stuff from Mirafit and they seem decent.

Depending on experience level, just make sure it's a bar with collars that spin (pref with a bearing) and it'll be fine.

finally made the mistake of accidentally loading the bar with more weight than intended (counted the 25kg plates as 20s) and confused why it was so heavy. 1+ amrap deadlift at 162.5kg, aiming for 5 reps, and hitting 2, sulking, then realising there was 172.5kg on the bar, feeling silly.

Oh and now I have a small red mark near my eye which from googling is probably from a burst blood vessel from bracing hard against my mouth rather than against my closed throat.

Nice! They're full on pause squats as well so way more in the tank. I take a set of 2.5, 0.5 and 0.75 plates with me to the gym since there's only 1 set of 2.5/1.25s. Worth considering.

Ah I see! I thought you meant weight increases between sessions rather than within sets.

Perhaps you could try to find out how hard the sets are supposed to be and use Rate of Perceived Exertion to decide what weight to use? E.g. if that last set is supposed to be RPE 8, on a good day that might be 60, on a low sleep or something day it might be 50.

5/10kg on bench is a pretty big jump. But as people say it kind of depends what your programming/coach says. If you can do +2.5kg every time you bench then I'd say keep doing that til you can't.

Some things like GZCLP have you do more sets of less reps when you stall, others have you decrease weight increment.

on the off chance it falls through the cracks, 3rd dibs.

building a SSMTB (with chain tensioner) commuter for my partner, looking for a frame or a complete to build off of, you know the type, rockhopper/stumpjumper/raleigh type of thing, steel, pref with mudguard + rack mounts.

can collect within reasonable distance of e17 or happy to pay postage.

pm'd re bmx

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I'll give it another go next weekend then, but I'll be riding up the canal and going early morning. Hopefully it'll be palatable.

If not I'll bite the bullet and buy a bmx to fuck around (read: break myself) on the local pump track.

rode from walthamstow up to pole hill yesterday and turned around even though I'd planned for more because of a massive sense of humour failure from the utter slop it all was and the swathes of people out (my fault, sunday late morning).

anyone know if it's any more rideable further into the forest?

Cheers mate, been sorted now.

Ideally 6 bolt, for use on a commuter / mtb / functional-ish thing.

Can collect in (a reasonable radius of walthamstow) London, don't mind postage if that's better though.

Had to wipe off the Epping dust in order to put it on.

I've got one of these, in good nick, can PM photos if you want. £75?

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