Do you even lift bro?

[silky fox]

Put the roller under the muscle you want to target.It massages and opens up the fibres which promote recovery.

[silky fox]

This guy cracks me up...https://youtu.be/Bnh1Pj-vIS8

[Rupe]

10.5km swimming in last 7 days. Going good to be tough keeping that up!

[silky fox]

Fantastic progress Rupe! I find swimming so theraputic and quite low impact but gives great results long term....My leg day was today BigJ..Pyramid reps..37-90kg and back down.Find it pretty easy.Been cycling a lot this last year.

[Rupe]

Pool swimming is like running on a treadmill but I go to coached sessions (and once a week just me doing my own thing) so it's broken down into sets of various paces and distance. Usually pyramids building and then decreasing distances.

But it's all for open water when the season starts. May to September it's ok with a wetsuit. Got one 6km swim event booked but there will be plenty of others.

[the village idiot]

9 minutes ago, Big J said:

but the chlorinated pool is hard to get excited about.

Especially when you learn (as I did the other day) that chlorine is odourless.

 

If a pool has that distinctive aroma, what you are smelling is chloramines which are produced when chlorine reacts with the bacteria, sweat, urine and poop in the water.

 

Nice.

[silky fox]

Especially when you learn (as I did the other day) that chlorine is odourless.
 
If a pool has that distinctive aroma, what you are smelling is chloramines which are produced when chlorine reacts with the bacteria, sweat, urine and poop in the water.
 
Nice.

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[silky fox]

Is that on squats? Have you considered increasing the volume on legs? After about 2.5 weeks mine have finally adapted to squatting every 48 hours and it's getting much easier.
 
Rupe, nice to hear that you open water swim. The problem for me is that by comparison, a pool is the awful. Swimming across a loch is bliss for me, but the chlorinated pool is hard to get excited about.

Leg Extension machine. Haven't tried squats.

[the village idiot]

1 minute ago, silky fox said:

water shit down?

 

What have rabbits got to do with it Silky?

[the village idiot]

10 minutes ago, silky fox said:

Leg Extension machine. Haven't tried squats.

Funny how times change. People pay good money for access to a leg extension machine today.

 

500 years ago it was utilised as one of the most fearsome forms of torture known to man.