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Looks like one of the older ones, I’ve got the Soprod movement. Can’t fault it. My bracelet shows some signs of wear, but nothing that worries me. The price doesn’t seem that good for not mint condition.

Have had mine for about 2 years now. Daily wear, still looks great, and as said elsewhere a little less of a homage watch.

They are even more lovely in the flesh. I drooled over them in Tokyo a few years ago. Unfortunately they were a limited release, so no new ones to be found.

Damn you! I love the blue, was relieved when they went out of production and I hadn’t brought one. I’m not sure I really want to know how much they go for now... but I do

No normal ocean one, but this was 136g on my scales. Feels lighter on the wrist than the seiko srp775 I tried on the other day.

Steinhart Ocean Ti 500 just turned up in the post. Really lovely in the flesh, the Ti has such a great colour and band and body seem to match well despite early bad reviews. Love the dial and ceramic bezel insert.

Should improve over the next few months. I try to not touch mine for at least 2 months.

Setting up for dumbell press on a bench is a bit of a faff with bigger weights though - also a bit of a pain if you're doing a hypertrophy routine and want to include reps to failure/include negatives.

Neither is better, just different.

One is definetly better for your shoulders, and also better if you don't have a spotter. No way you're going to be doing negatives or failure with a bar. You can go to failure with dumbells though without any fear of crushing yourself with a bar. As for setting, its not that hard once you get the hang of it. Only real problem is finding dumbells big enough, the ones at my gym only go up to 50kg.

Plus, I would like a spotter for the heavy reps on a barbell, today was the first time I've been at the gym with someone I know.

Dumbells are your friend. Not only far better for engaging all the smaller stabilising muscles in the bench press and allowing your hands to rotate through the pressing motion you can also max out without ending up getting crushed under a barbell.

First game of rugby in 18 months for me this weekend (Australia). I've gone from an unfit 128kg down to a very fit 105kg (6'6"), and size 38" pants down to a 34". I've also managed to avoid having double shoulder reconstructions after being a week away from surgery this time last year. Changing to neutral grip dumbell work for bench, shoulder press etc and lots of rotor cuff exercises have stabilised my shoulders to point I no longer need surgery. Having said all this I'll probably destroy myself on Saturday and spend the next 12 months recovering.

I tend to alternate (push v pull, curl v extend) too, gives the muscles an extra bit of time to recover. Rather than just doing a full run of bicep exercises, for example

I'd suggest you should actually try doing a split system and giving each muscle group a proper rest time, i.e a week. If you're training 4 days a week, you should try a 2 day or 4 day split. At the moment I'm on 4 Day split as follows:

• Chest and biceps
  
• Legs
  
• Ride (this ride is nearly always very slow due to state of legs)
  
• Back
  
• Shoulders and Triceps
  
• Ride
  
• Ride
  

Debenhams online have a sale on some of their Loakes
http://www.debenhams.com/men/loake
On top of that, CC97 gets you an extra 15% off.

Cheers for the heads up, shoes for a wedding now sorted at a very nice discount.

For planks, I do 3x3x1minute with feet on a swiss ball. So front for 1 minute, rotate to one side for 1 mintue, then rotate to other side for 1 minute, for 3 rounds. Works a treat.

JDB yes indeed. The last three months I have cycled through recovery, re-injury and it has progressively got worse. I plan on two weeks complete rest before starting on forearm stretches & 1kg wrist curls. Any further pain and I immediately go back to further rest. I have full motion so I am assuming that I will be able to shadow box and jump rope so that my boxing training doesn't go immediately up the Swanee. Not the end of the world as my abs need work !!!

How did you injure yours?

Much the same as you I think. Mixing up different chin-up grips, and its just went. Have been through physio, lots of RICE. In the end I've just trained around it, started doing hammer grip curls and being really careful not to twist my arm and engage the inner elbow tendons. Has taken a while buy it seems to have helped adjust my arm usage enough to give the tendons time to heal properly. Still icing and stretching a lot, and have just stared very light normal grip curls .

Tendon rehab. Having torn both tendons in my inner forearms where they attach to the elbow (overuse by doing pull-ups and inverted press-ups) I am in tendon rehab. Ice & complete arm rest for the next two weeks. In the meantime I am starting the day with yoga stretches and abdominal work.

Be prepaired for months of trouble if you're not lucky. 4 months on and mine is only just feeling ok full full range of motion. So easy to re-injure it doing simple things like carrying groceries, mine has almost healed 4 or 5 times.

Going to replace the white bits with black, as and when they wear out.

Saddle to black Gobi
Grips to same in black
Rims to P35 in black.

But the ride is pretty amazing. Weighs nothing, so despite appearances, you can throw around like a BMX. To be honest as someone that grow up riding a BMX around steep valley woods on the edge of dartmoor. Thats how I ride it.

At 5'7" on a 29er. I guess I look like a kid whos dad bought him a BMX a few sizes up so it'll last.

Need to change those tensioners too.

I've been on my P35/Hope combo for almost a year now and love them. Nice and stiff, even with 110kg rugby player single speeding up hills, and give the big tyres a lovely shape and plenty of cushion with a ridgid front end.

Anyone got a link to the start times for the time trial today?

Cool, thanks

The ikea one is awesome but i'm renting and don't want to drill the ceiling

No need, I use an Ikea one I made and it works fine without drilling. The pole has rubber ends, and a threaded section on the base to generate enough compression with. I use mine to store my 29er mtbs no problems.

Having lost custody of a Nikon D80 in a recent breakup, and finally destroying my heavily used Panasonic TZ3 in a snowboarding crash I'm getting back into the camera market. Have been eyeing off a micro 4/3 set-up as I'd like something small enough to fit in my camebak mountian biking, and a DSLR is just to big. Have been tossing up between the new Olympus OM-D and the Pansonic G series. The OM-D is a very nice bit of kit, love the digital view finder, but they are rather pricey and I'm not sure its worth the extra cash over a Pen P3 or GX1. Anyone had much experience with the OM-D or Pen series? Also any recomendation for a second lense, something in the 14mm to 25mm range?

Completed my first half marathon on Sunday morning, official time of 1:39:48. Very happy (and surprised) to have cracked the 100 minute mark. The run was a lot of fun, but I starting in the 2:00-2:15 group did make the first few km rather frustrating.

First half marathon coming up in 3 weeks, completed a 22km training run in 1:51, felt good till the last 3km, when I ran out of leg juice. Think doing it after work, and no food since lunch contributed. Does 1:45 seem like a reasonable race target time? Think not having a backpack full of clothes, getting lost, and just general race atmosphere has got to be worth at least a few minutes.

So Scotland V Aus kicking off in a few hours, any optimistic fans out there think they have a chance? The real interest should start with the Wales game this weekend.

Down to 106kg this morning, from 128kg this time last year, aim is to be sub 100kg for my 32nd birthday in August. After battling through pre and post Christmas parties, then really busy Jan and Feb I'm settled into a good healthy routine again, eating well, not drinking to much and setting PBS every time I go out for a run or a ride. Avoided the scales for a few months as they were just depressing me, but feeling good again now. So to everyone that's struggling keep at it, don't let a few downs stop you.

Well I would say it may not be a huge problem, depends on how much walking around with your pack you actually intend to do. Having spent about 6 months in total in that area I can't think of more than a few occasions I actually walked more than a few km with my main pack fully loaded. Tuk-tuks, mopeds etc are so cheap that they are the main way you'll get from bus and train stops to accomodation, then drop of the big bag and away you go.

So, officially tendinitis and bursitis and this time the other shoulder, not the one which I murdered some years ago. Codeine and diclofenac and nothing for a week - and I was doing well with my kettle bell.
Because of this I can't donate blood tomorrow, which also sucks.

I've got bursitis in both shoulders and a torn supraspanatus tendon in my left. Surgeon is very keen to operate (surprise surprise), but I've been having some good results with some physio, rotor cuff strengthening exercises and changing technique to neutral grip with dumbells for bench press, shoulder press etc. Results so far are very promising, and anything that keeps me off the operating table and on the bike, rugby field and off the couch is great at the moment.