Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

[Jody]

I've mentioned this before but today is the day.

One year ago, I thought to myself, I wonder if I can do 100 press-ups in a day. It turned out I could, so I kept doing it. Now a year later I have completed at least 36,500 press-ups!
I started with 4 sets of 25 spread throughout the day. Sometimes I would do an extra 25 for fun, sometimes I was concerned that I might have only done 3 sets so would do another 25 just to be sure. I've even got back out of bed on a couple of occasions as I realised I still had 25 left to do that day !
Over the past year I have utilised various different forms off press-up including wide arm, diamond, low arm and raised feet.

My current routine is 25 x 3 second press-up, one minute rest, 5 x 3 second press-up and straight into 20 x 4 second press-up. I do this while my tea is brewing in the morning and again around 4pm. Next stage will be 25 x 3 second, one minute break, 25 x 4 second. Once I have that down I'll be putting my feet on a exercise ball for even more pressure !

[gremlin]

Press ups are a much undervalued exercise. If done properly they exercise virtually the whole body.

Try to add a crunch into some of the press ups. Hard.



Give yourself another challenge - freestanding headstand. If nothing else it's got comedy value but also needs core strength for balance.

I'm still struggling with a forearm stand

[Skub]

I favour the good old plank myself,I dunno whether it's more or less beneficial than push ups.

[Jody]

Press ups are a much undervalued exercise. If done properly they exercise virtually the whole body.

Try to add a crunch into some of the press ups. Hard.



Give yourself another challenge - freestanding headstand. If nothing else it's got comedy value but also needs core strength for balance.

I'm still struggling with a forearm stand

I have toyed with handstand press-ups at times, though I neede a wall to keep me upright. IIRC I can just about do 10, but it feels like my heads going to pop !

I favour the good old plank myself,I dunno whether it's more or less beneficial than push ups.

Both have advantages and disadvantages. One thing is for sure though, doing either is waaaay better than doing nothing !

[gremlin]

I favour the good old plank myself,I dunno whether it's more or less beneficial than push ups.

A push up is just a plank with some disco moves thrown in.

The hardest push up, IMHO, is the up- down-half raise-down again-return to up. Done slow, for added bastardness.

That, or a weighted T press/ push up.

Try it with curls as well. Makes a real (horrible) difference.

[Noggin]

My ex kitten is sort of harness and lead trained. I'm so glad I found her a home where she is loved so much and they are working on the harness/lead training so they can take her with them when they go camping!!!

[Saga Lout]

The realisation that my stride length is almost identical to a Roman soldier's of two millenniums ago. My step counter counts 2,000 steps (give or take 50) per mile. The connection to our history: yet another way Imperial is better than metric.

[Saga Lout]

My ex kitten is sort of harness and lead trained. I'm so glad I found her a home where she is loved so much and they are working on the harness/lead training so they can take her with them when they go camping!!!


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[Noggin]

My ex kitten is sort of harness and lead trained. I'm so glad I found her a home where she is loved so much and they are working on the harness/lead training so they can take her with them when they go camping!!!


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Hmmmm - I 'think' I've changed permissions in YouTube so they are available?!!

[slowsider]

The realisation that my stride length is almost identical to a Roman soldier's of two millenniums ago. My step counter counts 2,000 steps (give or take 50) per mile. The connection to our history: yet another way Imperial is better than metric.

Thats a bit sinister, Dexter.

Romanes eunt domus.

[slowsider]

My ex kitten is sort of harness and lead trained. I'm so glad I found her a home where she is loved so much and they are working on the harness/lead training so they can take her with them when they go camping!!!


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Be thankful for small mercies.

[Yorick]

There's a few folk on here with a few bob. Me and Iccy included.

He's a fucker, but we love him.

I loved his tales of his MV thingy.

But he can drop the shit and talk about sailing trips. Some with family. Money can't buy that.

[Yambo]

There's a few folk on here with a few bob. Me and Iccy included.

But he can drop the shit and talk about sailing trips. Some with family.

Money can't buy that.

You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried. Very few people get given a yacht.

Some true words spoken in jest:

Definition of a boat: A big hole in the water that you keep pouring money into.

Want to make a small fortune? Start with a big one and buy a boat.

The wind may be free but no fucker is going to give you new sails or rigging.

I have 4 boats, two of them with sails and the sail was the single most expensive part of either boat.

What I don't have, is a desire to tell the world every time I use one of them.

[Noggin]

But, some of us like reading about the sailing trips. I grew up sailing. My RDad had a racing yacht (cheap version!) and a wooden 'FolkBoat';and my sister and I learnt to sail and race various dinghies. You can buy and keep boats without it being super rich territory. Or you can buy big and expensive

Either way, I love reading about people trips on the water and their boats as much as I do about bike stuff. Currently following someone from the other place as he's posting pics of sailing around the channel islands - I used to live there and my Dad's family have a lot of history there

Not sure what people's issue is with others posting stuff about their hobbies/sports/lives? I've never read it as "I'm better/richer than you" - just as people who've got to a place in life that they can do what they want to.


As for family, they say blood is thicker than water. Never really understood that but probably because my best family "married into" the biological or are friends that have become family!!


Anyway - Sunday morning still (just about) so I'm heading out onto the mountain and into the clouds in the hope that they'll lift in time for the 'fete' type thingy that's happening on one of the smaller mountains. It'll suck big time with no sun!!!

[Count Steer]

Definition of a boat: A big hole in the water that you keep pouring money into.

Want to make a small fortune? Start with a big one and buy a boat.

As a wise and wealthy man once said, 'If it flies, floats or f***s..........rent it'.

[Noggin]

Definition of a boat: A big hole in the water that you keep pouring money into.

Want to make a small fortune? Start with a big one and buy a boat.

As a wise and wealthy man once said, 'If it flies, floats or f***s..........rent it'.

If it's got wheels or balls, it'll cause trouble!!!

[gremlin]

You want tales of water-borne financial extravagance?


I once took the Red Funnel ferry to the Isle of Wight, twice in a month.

[David]

You want tales of water-borne financial extravagance?


I once took the Red Funnel ferry to the Isle of Wight, twice in a month.

Tht was a bit naughty....the skipper normally drives those.

[cheb]

Boring but true, from wiki: Formed in 1861, and called The Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited, the merged company's name remains the longest for a registered company in the United Kingdom.[2] The shortened name Red Funnel was adopted after 1935 when all the company's ships had a black-topped red funnel. The longer name remains the company's formal name.

And gremlin might have driven them better than some of the captains, they crashed into the pier a few years back.

And more from wiki:

On 9 March 1997 Red Falcon, inbound from Cowes, collided in Southampton Water with the outbound trailing suction hopper dredger Volvox Hansa in fog. Both ships' masters were held to blame.[48]

On 10 March 2006 the car ferry Red Falcon, collided with the linkspan at the Southampton Town Quay terminal.[49] Eight passengers and one crew member were injured and significant damage was caused to the Southampton end of the Red Falcon and to the linkspan. The collision caused a 5-metre (16 ft) hole above the waterline and buckling of the car deck doors.

The Red Eagle collided with Humber Energy in the Thorne Channel, near Southampton Water, on the evening of 21 December 2006.[50] Coastguards said nobody was injured and neither vessel was badly damaged. Richard Pellew, of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, said: "Having examined the minor damage sustained to the Red Eagle we are advising Red Funnel on the repair work the ferry needs before it can resume normal service."

On 5 November 2016 a man on a personal water craft collided with Red Jet 4. No one was injured and no damage was caused.[51]

The Red Eagle was involved in a collision in thick fog on 27 September 2018. It was reported that the ferry had ploughed through the moorings of three yachts and a channel marker was struck.[52] The following month, the Red Falcon also hit several yachts at East Cowes in thick fog, sinking one of them. The vessel grounded in the incident with forty passengers aboard and was not refloated until three hours later. The sunken yacht, Greylag, was recovered the following day.[53]

[Yambo]

Boring

All those qualified people having issues. I feel completely inadequate now!