Are you slowly turning into Bill Oddie 
or restarting the good life 
Youāll need to google that but Felicity Kendal!
Sometimes people just want them out of their way. Did Paul find some recently
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Iāve always been like it. Just now I have more scope!
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Won Arse of the Year a couple of timesā¦..
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Felicity Kendalās underwear, that needs a good wash
Edit: sorry for completely derailing the thread, I did start with good intentions
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That is some nasty talk for this early in the day ?!?
( she was gorgeous like !)
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Iāve got a 16kg kettlebell - on first lift you think itās quite heavy but Iād agree with Chris in that for some exercises youāll want over over 20
You can get reasonably priced bells on Amazon too
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Thereās often cheap kettlebells on Gumtree.
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My squat problems seem to have resolved themselves. Back up to where I was and whilst it didnt feel easy (because it shouldnāt), it didnt feel too difficult.
Im still some way behind on the weight, I am still convinced my height and leg length holds me back. Did 100kg for 5 on deadlift and that didnt feel too difficult either. Am only squatting 20kg more than I am benching. Maybe over the next few weeks the gap will widen.
I wonder as well if part of it is an energy thing. I had a cold last week which made me really hungry and I ate loads, previously because trying to lose weight I have been restricting wonder fi that was making things difficult.
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Iām finding my legs are lagging behind my upper body. Iāve made good progress on Bench & Military Press but seem to struggle to add any weight to Squat or Deadlift.
I only train legs once a week and itās the last of the 3 sessions so the one that always gets missed if something comes up, which probably doesnāt help.
My best Bench is 1x125kg with 4x140kg for Squats & 4x150kg for Deadlift.
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Solid numbers there. Getting over 100kg on squats seems impossible for me, whereas am thinking I can be benching 100kg in a couple of months.
Still tempted to have some PT sessions. Am sure Im not using my glutes enough.
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3/wk squats if you want them gains!
100kg is strong enough though imo
If youāre squatting your own body weight for any significant number of reps youāre good
@GRamsay did you get technique looked at earlier in the year? Food is a good point, but maybe worth looking at heavier but lower reps?
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Had a pt session on Monday
First one for a bit
One of my ten targets this year is a squat challenge
Details to follow ā¦.
ā we will start nice and light ā¦. easy and progressā
Errr three days later the doms in my legs are two days after an Ironman ish.
I am in agony.
Lol
Why do we do this stupid shit?
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I do all my weight stuff as dynamically as possible, as my main aim is to improve my strength, flex, resilience and speed for the actual sports I do (MotoX / BMX / MTB / wakeboard/ Snowboard / Skateboard / Skate / climbing etc.). So I tend to use free weights, walk up to a weight, throw it up to full extension, lower down, step back and then repeat. Not too much concentrating on form, fixed position or static machines repetitions etc. Warm up mainly on the Concept II and then do weights in 3 sets of around 8 to 10 reps of maximum weight I can manage. Core stuff is lots of dead bugs, lying to standing and back down with kettle ball, pull-ups, rope climbs. Works for me without too much injury or stiffness either in the gym or in sport. Not convinced that curls, or bench press or squats on their own would add much. Usually no shortage of gym people telling me I am doing it all wrong though. Swimming tends to be mainly drills and more for flexibility and recovery as my style is too poor to be doing much distance work. Used to be good at running, but body weight and grumpy achilles mean I do as little as possible at the moment. Would like to do more springing/jumping up onto blocks, but have found that that is a very quick way to bring back achilles problems no matter how good I think they feel.
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There is a guy who does very similar in our gym ???
Heās a climber/ adventure racer apparently
Does some weird stuff, the juice bombs think heās bonkers, he started using the hyrox sled ( light ish weight but actually running with it ?!?)
Watched him a few times while Iām on the static bike .. very explosive !
Good luck to him
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Thinking about it Iām comparing apples with oranges there as only bench is a 1RM the others are 4 reps. If I take that into consideration, itās not as lopsided as I thought; with squats actually being the strongest and Deadlifts being the outlier.
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Just came up on my on this day 14 yearās ago
274kg leg press.
That was before I took cycling seriously and lost too much mass, sadly. It was a mistake, especially when getting on in age.
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Lifting seems to be going really well for me at the min. Pretty much lifting more weight than I ever have, certainly more than I have records for from the last few years. Over BW for DL, close with squats, 60% of BW for bench and row. Never been a huge lifter as Ive always struggled to maintain consistency over a long period but am now.
Surprised at how much difference creatine has made. Lifting is easier but also how it makes the muscles look and feel.
Really enjoying it as well, also helps when your girlfriend says I noticed your muscles though your shirt on our 3rd date. 
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Must resistā¦
Must resistā¦
Sorry, I canāt. 
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Forgive me TriTalk Father for I have sinned.
Iāve been missing the odd session each week (for various reasons) lately; I do Push, Pull, Legs and instead of rotating the sessions I have a habit of going back to Push on the day I usually start meaning Legs is normally the one that gets dropped. I was thinking earlier that I hadnāt done a Leg session for a while so checked my tracker and it was 28th March.
I donāt usually train Fridays but Iām going today and some kind of penance is in order, if I donāt crawl out on my hands and knees I havenāt tried hard enough.
Ps. I have been doing Deadlifts on a Sunday which are a bit Leggy, although most class them as a Pull day exercise I think.
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