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| » The Assassin (Go to post) | 04-04-2022 @ 21:40 | ||
| FitNotes Workout - Sunday 3rd April 2022 ** Flat Barbell Bench Press ** (Superset 1) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 70.0 kgs x 10 reps - 80.0 kgs x 8 reps ** Seated Cable Row ** (Superset 1) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 70.0 kgs x 10 reps - 80.0 kgs x 8 reps ** Machine Hack Squat ** (Superset 2) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 80.0 kgs x 10 reps - 90.0 kgs x 8 reps ** Lat Pulldown ** (Superset 2) - 50.0 kgs x 12 reps - 55.0 kgs x 10 reps - 60.0 kgs x 8 reps ** Lateral Dumbbell Raise ** (Superset 3) - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 10.0 kgs x 10 reps - 12.0 kgs x 8 reps ** Dumbbell Curl ** (Superset 3) - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 10.0 kgs x 10 reps - 12.0 kgs x 8 reps ** Cable Face Pull ** (Superset 3) - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Superset Interval ** - 03:00 The Sunday mid-afternoon stint, straight after 1-3pm table tennis training, seems like a keeper so far. | |||
| » An old, fat fool starts a log. Hope no-one minds (Go to post) | 27-03-2022 @ 17:53 | ||
| I haven't played for a while, but always used to start with RAISE and, if that didn't yield much, MOUTH. | |||
| » The Assassin (Go to post) | 27-03-2022 @ 17:51 | ||
| FitNotes Workout - Sunday 27th March 2022 ** Flat Barbell Bench Press ** (Superset 1) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Seated Cable Row ** (Superset 1) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Machine Hack Squat ** (Superset 2) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Lat Pulldown ** (Superset 2) - 50.0 kgs x 12 reps - 50.0 kgs x 12 reps - 50.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Lateral Dumbbell Raise ** (Superset 3) - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Dumbbell Curl ** (Superset 3) - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Cable Face Pull ** (Superset 3) - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Superset Interval ** - 03:00 Same as last week. If there are no DOMS, next week we go up. | |||
| » The Assassin (Go to post) | 23-03-2022 @ 11:29 | ||
| Thank you, guys. It’s likely to be a maximum of once a week for me now, after take tennis practice on Sunday afternoon, until the long holidays. But i feel better in myself for lifting. I just wish I’d had some weight loss like you, Pete, but I’m too greedy. | |||
| » The Assassin (Go to post) | 21-03-2022 @ 22:58 | ||
| FitNotes Workout - Sunday 20th March 2022 ** Flat Barbell Bench Press ** (Superset 1) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Seated Cable Row ** (Superset 1) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Machine Hack Squat ** (Superset 2) - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps - 60.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Lat Pulldown ** (Superset 2) - 50.0 kgs x 12 reps - 50.0 kgs x 12 reps - 50.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Lateral Dumbbell Raise ** (Superset 3) - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Dumbbell Curl ** (Superset 3) - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps - 8.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Cable Face Pull ** (Superset 3) - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps - 15.0 kgs x 12 reps ** Superset Interval ** - 03:00 Gap of not quite four months, though I've been playing table tennis most days. It was the 9th anniversary of Alan's death on my return. Missed, hugely. | |||
| » An old, fat fool starts a log. Hope no-one minds (Go to post) | 17-03-2022 @ 22:29 | ||
| So you've been back in the workplace for a while and now they're going remote again? What reasoning have they given, out of interest? | |||
| » So, are we going to talk about the war (Go to post) | 13-03-2022 @ 21:44 | ||
Post Edited: 13.03.2022 @ 21:45 PM by Rick mikecm said:Admins/owners - is it not time to either revamp this site or bring it to a close? It is turning into a weird, conspiracy-theorist quagmire like 4chan etc. First it was toxic conspiracies about a global pandemic and vaccines and now it seems to be the same but around a horrific, brutal invasion of a sovereign country and a massacre of civilians by a psychopathic dictator trying to re-establish the Soviet Union. You definitely have a point. It's a small minority, but they aren't half noisy. | |||
| » World's Strongest Woman (Go to post) | 27-02-2022 @ 17:03 | ||
PaulSavage said: Nah i just come on to look at units log. Unfortunately the moderators are also idiots / trolls on here so will always struggle to keep anyone here. The moderators are me and boar. I think you'll struggle to find an occasion of either of us trolling. Idiots, possibly. But I think you may be confused. | |||
| » An old, fat fool starts a log. Hope no-one minds (Go to post) | 26-02-2022 @ 11:22 | ||
| Update: having raised the man by phone, it is log-related in as much as a tree fell in the storms and took out his street's internet. He's fine and should be back online in a week or so. | |||
| » An old, fat fool starts a log. Hope no-one minds (Go to post) | 26-02-2022 @ 11:12 | ||
| It has been a week since you've logged. If this were talking about your digestion, I would be rushing you to hospital; as it is, I am only marginally less concerned. Are you ok? | |||
| » An old, fat fool starts a log. Hope no-one minds (Go to post) | 15-02-2022 @ 09:57 | ||
| I'm definitely moving better. Maybe a break was good for us. | |||
| » freedom of information request from the office of national statistics (Go to post) | 14-02-2022 @ 12:52 | ||
dannyboy73 said: not a single study concludes wearing a piece of cloth over your face stops a virus spreading. This is just as untrue as it was last time you said it. Still, this lasted longer than I expected. | |||
| » freedom of information request from the office of national statistics (Go to post) | 11-02-2022 @ 18:53 | ||
dannyboy73 said:The 'allowed' experts were a million miles off course with the modeling. i respectfully disagree. The numbers people like to wave around as alarmist modelling were early predictions of what might happen without serious interventions. They hold up pretty well given what we now know, imo. It's hardly an own to say that the models of what might happen without action didn't happen after we took action. That's like saying the millenium bug wasn't a big deal - it wasn't, but only because of massive intervention. And yes, the experts got some things wrong - most obviously, the Western experts were mostly wildly wrong about masking early on. The WHO were wrong about airborne vs droplet. And, by and large, they did own that. For example 2-5k would be dead every day in January without lockdowns, which of course did not happen I don't recognise this number. Can you point me at a source? That would equate to 750k to 1.5m dead per year, which does seem rather a lot. The actual death rate peaked at ~1300/day in January 2021, just before the lockdown started pulling it back down. I *suspect* you're referring to the early "what if" Omicron modelling, which was in no sense a prediction, which is why so many different scenarios were produced (although some of the less reputable media reported it as though it were). Some of those were worst-conceivable-case (and clearly labelled as such), at a time when we knew very little about the new variant except that it seemed highly transmissible. And worse still, the experts that raised valid concerns have been smeared and censored. In my opinion, the people who have had videos removed etc have not, by and large, been experts with valid concerns. They have been professional liars profiteering on confusion. There really is a difference. It is deeply ironic that the things people accuse the legitimate experts of - making money from the crisis, refusing to acknowledge being wrong in the past, etc - are exactly what their preferred "experts" do. Most of them have been calling the pandemic over since about April 2020. Remember the "casedemic" lies? | |||
| » freedom of information request from the office of national statistics (Go to post) | 11-02-2022 @ 10:08 | ||
| In my opinion, you're putting up a straw man here. Nimble said:Clearly they’re not able to directly wield power, but what we’ve seen is leaders effectively saying (and siding with Rick’s position in doing so) “I don’t/can’t understand the science, so I can but directly implement the experts’ advice”… Some may be SAYING that. They're not DOING that. Look. The usual process of government, particularly in a state like Britain where the modern tradition is non-expert ministers (usually not staying long in any particular role or with any notable domain expertise) running largely-expert ministries, with the benefit of extensive advice from, most obviously, key senior civil servants. Vintage sitcom material, in fact. The minister makes the final decisions, but (one hopes) they will take the advice of the people with a clue pretty seriously. And they fairly often do, with obvious exceptions (particularly, where broadcast policy is contrary to most expert advice, most obviously in recent times over Brexit, and for decades over a good deal of criminal justice policy). This is exactly what happened at the start of the pandemic, albeit not very promptly. Advice was given, and mostly taken. As the pandemic has gone on, the ministers have shown themselves less and less likely to follow the scientific concensus. This is - in my opinion, at least - because they are now more interested in doing what will be acceptable to their own back benches (the public appear largely to want them to do what the scientific broad consensus says) in order to preserve their current positions, rather than because of any genuine disagreement over what would be wise. So. There is no such black box policy making machine, and nobody is proposing one. Ministers, everywhere, over-rule expert advice whenever they want to, usually for bad reasons, and it's usually a s**tshow. Finally, to address the implications of an earlier post: you appear to be calling brief quarantines an extraordinary imposition requiring extraordinary evidence. But they aren't. They're completely standard reactions to epidemics, used for centuries, and the clear front-line tool against novel diseases. It's just that, in the West, we've been lucky enough not to need one for a while. Which is probably why the East Asians generally handled this so much better - they have. | |||
| » freedom of information request from the office of national statistics (Go to post) | 10-02-2022 @ 14:45 | ||
KevC86 said: Perhaps I'm misunderstanding here but is the short version of your feelings on this something to the effect that: If enough "experts" tell you something is true you will trust them even if everything you personally know suggests otherwise? For example if you're handed a "flying suit" and they assure you it'll fly would you jump from a plane trusting the suit even though to you it is clearly just a regular suit and you don't believe it will allow you to fly? (An absurd example i know but it gets the point across). If you replace "suit" by "rucksack", then this is a parachute. So, possibly. And it's still less common-sense unlikely than massive hunks of steel flying in the first place - and I write as somebody who has taught fluid mechanics and lift effects! (A very long time ago...) | |||