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and just for laughs, how my "workshop" currently looks...

deconstructing this "dj booth" so i can make room to build my new home office space.

would like to get a couple of minutes in the same room as the person who built it and used nothing but 4" nails and rounded off timber screws to attach it everywhere (and welded those stupid fucking records to the ceiling). I just wanna talk to him...

once it's cleared and the space is cleaned up i'll be sticking up a stud wall with a door frame to split my office and workshop spaces up (and give me another wall for putting up shelving in the workshop).

Rustins Wood Hardener?

I used this on a rotten piece of wood in the corner of a bedroom ceiling that had been quite badly water damaged and it set rock hard then i used ronseal wood filler to rebuild the bits that had flaked off/been removed before hardening.

not sure of it's longevity but it all was pretty simple to do and about 10 months later not had issues with it yet.

balena etcher also likes to fuck up the readability of usb sticks by windows machines.

keep this bookmarked if you use it. i've relied on it many times to unfuck my cards.

https://blog.balena.io/did-etcher-break-my-usb-sd-card/

oh fuck off.

Just seen cons held here in Bognor and littlehampton.

reaffirms my suspicions that most people around here are thick as pig shit. not an affluent area at all.

the tories have let off all of boris water cannons as their final act of sabotage

cheers.

making some progress with my back squat barbell flexibility now too. realised today it's actually more comfortable with hands closer in with thumb over the top now than wider grip with just fingertips which was all i could manage last week so in a lot more of a proper positioning and a lot more stable

still getting soreness in my lower bicep up until i re-rack the bar so i have to gingerly unfurl myself slowly but it's nowhere near as bad and improving session on session.

feel much less concerned about it now.

forgot the bench i picked too...

https://www.gymmaster.co.uk/product/gm2-fully-adjustable-flat-incline-decline-fid-weight-bench-gunmetal-with-wide-backrest-and-nonslip-cushions/

it's all about as cheaply priced as i think i'd be willing to go before i'd worry about quality so it's all very entry level stuff and you'll find nicer stuff out there for a bit more but so far it's all been great.

i also picked up 2x 1.25kg and 2x2.5kg for filling in the gaps in the weight combinations and the barbell and accessory plates holders for the gm2 rack. their shipping gets expensive as it's fixed amount per item but it also means you don't really have to buy all the extras at once as you wont save money combining postage anyways. their site is cheaper than what they sell it on amazon and ebay for so that helps.

everything was pretty easy delivery wise. the flooring comes on a pallet on a tail lift luton so they used a pallet jack to put it on my drive but it's not massive just 1x1m still and i had to lug them round the back by hand myself one by one which was fine. there's a mildish rubber smell for a few days but i don't notice it at all now. the weights all come boxed separately in pairs except the 20kg which are 1 per box so easy to move around individually and other than pissing off the courier not a tricky delivery.

assembly you'll want two 17mm sockets or wrenches to do the bolts as they need holding in place while tightening as they spin freely but otherwise it's pretty simple stuff

code: DOASKID

not selling but i can tell you what I just bought which is all at the affordable end of the market and a couple weeks into ownership i'm very happy with.

flooring: (had a june 25% discount code which still seems to be working for the moment at least, auto applied at checkout)
https://www.gym-flooring.com/products/20mm-sprung-pro-gym-flooring-highest-rated-in-uk-heavy-duty?variant=43744544620742

rack:
https://www.gymmaster.co.uk/product/gm2-half-power-squat-rack-cage-with-optional-weight-storage-spotters/
has a decent amount of attachments you can add on. the GM3 power rack is more expensive but way more versatile. build quality is very decent for the money i think.

bar: (short on space so got one my gf and I can use that's not full 7') use NWS15 code off top of page for 15% off.
https://www.networldsports.co.uk/womens-olympic-barbell.html
note: under 6'6" international it wont fit on most racks I looked at.

plates: (i got 100kg set)
https://strongway.co.uk/collections/bumper-weight-plates-packages/products/50kg-70kg-100kg-olympic-bumper-weight-plates-set?variant=41722224279751

I paid for everything with paypal option as i was worried i'd be screwed if any of them weren't legit paying by debit card but they all delivered on time with no issues.

it's much better to let them ineffectually wobble a brush with zero control or leverage from 10m away like our old one did. he basically gave the windows a bit of a damp sweeping.

it's free on ps plus or whatever it's called as well.

so is dredge if anyone's not got around to that yet too.

managed first full workout on SL 5x5 today. spent 10 minutes stretching out my chest and shoulders about 90min before i started with shoulder dislocates, circular arm swings and a couple of other exercises I found online and to my surprise I was able to get under the bar first try. the lever force of my hand being pressed backward by the bar is still putting a lot of pressure on the inside bottom of my bicep by my elbows where I don't enjoy having my arms in that position and it's kind of sore for a few seconds after releasing the bar again but it feels like just tightness now and not like i'm supporting the bar weight with my arms as it's properly loaded onto my back.

my form is all over the place so i have a bunch more research to do to fix it but i took my first full step forwards today at least so very happy with that.

110.8 this morning after 10 days stuck at 111.2 so hopefully i'm out of the plateau now.

need to focus on my strength work now to try and help boost my bmr with some extra muscle as i worry my metabolism is going to adapt too low on just a calorie deficit alone and i don't have much room to go down any further so time to start upping activity instead.

cheers,

i'm fine with not seeing a change from one day to the next, but routine is a big part of me sticking to my goals and seeing if my weight has gone down when i wake up is the carrot on the stick that motivates me best.

it's just frustrating to see it remain static for such a long time. but i'd have been even more annoyed had i waited a week to see how much i lost and saw no change as my expectations for how much i'd have lost cumulatively by then would be even greater than looking for any change at all daily.

i should add getting under 110kg is the number that gets me back to where I was in 2018 when I was out of shape but still doing very active things (jog/walking 50k ultras for e.g.) which is the culmination of "phase 1" of getting back into shape in my head. screeching to a halt 1kg from the big number i have been eyeing since start of march as my first major target is probably the most annoying place it could have happened hence the frustration.

I remain pragmatic about the overall process though so it's all good.

well this has been less than ideal.

been running 3x a week and sticking to about 1500kcal so this is quite frustrating to see things stagnate like this.

i imagine changes are happening in my body measurements that i'm not noticing but motivationally seeing a continuous trend downward is a huge thing for me.

thanks for all the advice so far. have been going down a rabbit hole of learning so feel a lot better about how to deal with it now and less discouraged.

also my floor tiles arrived today so after a few sweaty hours lugging stuff around have got the place sorted to comfortably work out in. We're still months away from finishing the actual interior renovation of our summerhouse which we don't have the funds to do at the moment but it's usable for the time being at least.

I bought an extra spare tile i'm going to cut into 4x 50cm squares so i can stack 2 under each end of the bar when doing deadlifts so it'll be 60mm of rubber total between the plates and the floor for some extra protection which should be enough for now while i work my way up through the set of plates I have.

Have a bottle of bunnahabhain 12yo 2023 cask strength that would be wasted on me

Any interest for £55 posted?

yeah, it just threw me off as i went in all ready for first workout and it immediately scuppered me so i was at a loss what to do really.

the rubber floor tiles i ordered which were on backorder just got dispatched and due to arrive on friday now so i'll need to tidy up and shift my rack around (matron) to get them laid down at the weekend so I wont have really have time/space to workout this week anyways, i'm just going to focus on figuring out and starting a stretching routine and plan some replacement exercises to sub in for the barbell squat for the short term and I'll start everything afresh on monday.

i ordered a £7 150cm broom handle to do my shoulder dislocates with first. let's call that plan b. (though it's nice to know there's a way to spend my way out of the issue if i can't teach an old man new stretches)

nice one lmk.

sold to photoben/his mate 😅

went to start my stronglifts 5x5 program today on my newly cobbled together half-rack in our summerhouse and fell at the first hurdle.

having pored over the whole starting strength section on squats over the last week I went in armed with plenty of things to be looking out for only to find my mobility is so bad I physically can't get my arms on the bar when it's on my back, at widest grip possible on the bar i can just about get my hands on the bar with my thumbs over the top but my wrists are fully bent back and all the weight of the bar is being carried in my lower bicep and inside of my elbow and not on my shoulders. after a few attempts my arms were too sore to even get into that position.

was so excited to get going today as well.

I've seen shoulder dislocates are recommended to improve mobility but wondering if anyone here has overcome anything similar and can offer some first hand advice?

his t-shirt game is still on point though.