Strength / Weight Training

I’ve no idea about kettlebell prices. I’ll stick with plates when I am able to get home.

That's a plastic bodied 10g kettlebell that's filled with sand. £80 is extortionate!

You want one made of metal, cast examples were usually about £40-ish for 20kg, increasing almost exponentially as the weight goes up.

Fair enough. Similar price as plates. Thanks for the info.

When is said made of cast iron I thought it would be. Hard to tell.

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Weird that. Image deffo looks like a plastic one. Either way, £80 before postage for a 10kg bell is mad expensive.
I paid £26 for a 28kg, which was a good deal admittedly.

Edit: the picture might just be totally wrong. Specs say it's an 8kg.

This is what a plastic one looks like:

VS cast iron

is it only me or does the cast iron one send shivers of pleasure down your spine?!

I think ive been in isolation too long....

Thanks. You are the kettlebell guru! I only posted to say they are on amazon to the OP. I’ve no interest in them at the moment. Lol

I'm just pedantic, and bored. Lol.

Ditto! Lol

You're a ferrous fetishist.

Worth having a look at Argos.

It's all about the brightly painted "competition" ones, when you see a battered one of those... #rubsthighs

Kettlebells seem to be sold out everywhere. I’m after either a 20 or 24kg one. Any ideas?

https://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-great-kettlebell-shortage

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I’ll try and improvise one.

Amazing have some cast iron ones back in stock in a few weeks. Not sure of that size though.

I have hardly done any any weights in recent weeks... Dont have the motivation.

Bit of a random one, but as people in this thread are knowledge and experienced it made sense to ask...

The lockdown means I'm having to pickup and carry Mini-H more frequently than when I was working, but importantly only ever getting a break at night. They are also getting fucking heavy and I can't ask my OH to give me a day off.

Are there any supplements like creatine I could take?

As they get older they shouldn't need as much carrying, but right now every morning I wake up feeling broken.

As far as I understand it, creatine has some helpful benefits and is cheap. It's somehow been lumped in with anabolics somehow which is ridiculous.
It does apparently give you added water weight so not good if you want to be light for any reason, and it can give a small percentage of people digestive issues.
Basically, worth a go but I doubt it's going to be a magic bullet.

Upping protein intake will help if you’re not getting enough already (double scoop once a day). Creatine is useful in general but won’t improve recovery directly. Examine.com is a great resource for identifying supplements that might be useful for almost any situation.

Not random at all - carrying increasingly heavy kids is basically weight training :)

Creatine is one of the most studied supplements and it’s benefits are more along the lines of “one more rep” for gym bros, BUT... it can also be good for recovery, by means of getting more water volume into your muscles. This does make you a bit heavier (my normal weight is 73-76kg but when on creatine I’ve seen it touch 80. It then drops off when I stop using it, same exercise load).

It can adversely affect sleep (haven’t found that myself) which would totally negate any recovery benefits imo. Sleep is the key component of recovery before any supplements, and being a parent, sleep is the thing that gets fucked with the most.

Another side affect some people have speculated is hair loss but correlation does not equal causation. It’s mainly used by men at an age when pattern baldness first starts to manifest so is probably just a coincidence. No one I know who uses creatine frequently has any hair loss issues.

Personally, I think you’re better off working on stretching throughout the day (working from home means everyone’s ergonomics have gone to shit) and just making sure you’re making the most of what sleep you’re managing to fit in to your life and reducing stress etc.

1.Sleep
2.eat well
3.drink plenty of water, reduce booze
4.stretch/work on mobility
5.sleep

@hugo7 this is good advice. I’d also think about how you’re picking up and carrying the kids. Basics like bending from the knees and taking the strain in your legs rather than your back when picking up. Keeping core tight and tucking your butt in when carrying, don’t let your back go ‘loose’ and be hung to hyper extend.
I feel your pain though as I end up walking/rocking etc my son for anything up to an hr at night and the ache becomes pretty intense!

Also, learn to embrace the hurt. If looking at it from gym perspective means theres growth. But from a carrying kids point of view, just learn to ignore it. It probably wont go away unless you train with bigger weights for longer making this insignificant, but then youll hurt all the time from the bigger weights...

In cylcing terms, remember the pain cave.

How old are your kids?