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| » What the fuck happened to me? (Go to post) | 13-04-2016 @ 00:31 | ||
Post Edited: 13.04.2016 @ 00:32 AM by baldt 1 | |||
| » How many people can pull 300kg in the UK + another bullshit question. (Go to post) | 11-04-2016 @ 23:35 | ||
| I think Im at my strongest on deadlift (or have been) at around 105kg. when I get heavier my centre of gravity (enormous belly) pulls me forward and it ruins my line. | |||
| » What the fuck happened to me? (Go to post) | 10-04-2016 @ 17:31 | ||
| Chist trained at PureGym at some ungodly hour. they dont have a "proper" bench, the benches they have are an odd height from the floor and the squat racks pins are also an odd height. In order to put the rack height at arms length i had to place a 25kg plate and a 2.5kg plate under each leg of the bench to lift it. this meant i couldnt put my feet on the floor and had to bench almost feet up. Anyway.... Bench 20kg x 10 40kg x 10 60kg x 10 80kg x 10 100kg x 10 120kg x 4 140kg x 4 165kg x 10 - I stopped when I thought I had 2 left as I dont have a spotter 100kg for 35 reps just for a pump - aim to get 50 shortly Incline in Smith Machine a number of reps with some weight incline dumbell flyes 24kg x 10 46kg x 12 then 10 press ups 50 then 30 then 23 | |||
| » How many people can pull 300kg in the UK + another bullshit question. (Go to post) | 10-04-2016 @ 17:11 | ||
Post Edited: 10.04.2016 @ 17:21 PM by baldt Paul Coopers 300kg at 74kg is impressive, Tom Martins is just world class, bearing in mind Tom is probably the best deadlifter the world has ever seen. he will be taking Coans 409kg record soon no doubt | |||
| » Sugar tax (Go to post) | 09-04-2016 @ 20:44 | ||
little_a said: I must applaud you on a couple of well presented and articulate posts baldy mate, and I pretty much agree with every opinion that you have on this baldt said: you can only pound one woman. but several prior experiences will unfortunately force me to disagree with this I thank you Little_a however I would argue that pounding 2 or more women at the same time (unless they are consenting, open minded and up for a threeway) will eventually lead to one or both of them finding out, leading to a "correction to the bubble in the pounding market". This may lead to a recession (no woman to pound). | |||
| » How many people can pull 300kg in the UK + another bullshit question. (Go to post) | 09-04-2016 @ 20:30 | ||
| 300kg is decent but a 105-120 lifter should probably be doing it after 5 or so years of training these days. In the gym I train at there are 3 who can do 300 out of a town of around 50000. there are probably 20-30 (maybe more in Edinburgh?). extrapolate that there are around 2000-4000 in the UK. how fecking accurate that is I dont know | |||
| » Sugar tax (Go to post) | 08-04-2016 @ 19:02 | ||
little_a said: I'm not going to talk as though I'm stating fact because I can't speak for 'everyone', but I believe that the majority of people that I have ever come into contact with do actively pursue it obsessively. There are merely differences in their success at doing so. I also think you are severely overstating the majority of peoples level of compassion for the rest of the population, but I'm a cynical old bas***d and in truth am quite envious of your outlook.  i think if people take a look at what they already have and switch of the TV and facebook they would have significantly happier lives. you can only watch one tv, drive one car and pound one woman. | |||
| » Sugar tax (Go to post) | 08-04-2016 @ 18:58 | ||
scruffmcbuff said:My favourite part was when he said they are just taking the money no one really wanted. Lol. I have one day off a month. Thats including weekends. And i get the arse hole taxed out of my wages. to say that bankers are taking money that we dont even want? Id have to disagree with that one. As wouls pretty much everyone. if a share at the start of the day is £3 and ends the day at £3 it can still hit £3.50 during the trading day, thats where bankers make their money (or traders and hedge fund guys). you dont want it, its there for the taking but if no one takes it then its gone, it doesn't collect in a pile somewhere. If you do want it then get into spread betting or CFDs. Bankers money isnt "real" money in the same way the theoretical value of your house doesnt matter until you come to sell the thing. their pay is real and on the whole they pay a decent amount of tax on it (30-50% of income tax receipts come in from the 1%). as far as bailing the banks out goes, thats not "real" money either, the BoE simply prints money and allocates it to a bank, its not money taken from somewhere, its not even reallocated from say the NHS budget to banks. It dilutes the value of sterling in the economy but if all of the other currencies are doing the same then theres no real change. the budget for the NHS is £118bn a year, the basic state pension costs £80bn, not including public sector pensions which are enormous, total spending on benefits and tax credits £217bn. the total wage bill for "bankers including bonuses is £30bn. Am I saying this is fair? no, of course its not fair but is it the reason the UK is in a s**tty state? is it balls. Your tax isnt going to bankers, its not going to fix the roads either, its going to pay the doctors final salary pensions. The average NHS doctor is still on a final salary pension equivalent to 40/60ths of their final wage (an average final salary of £80,000). The highest pension paid out per year to a GP (over and above any lump sum) is £160,000pa and thats for them not to work, retiring at 60 and probably living another 25 years (a cool £4m taken from the public purse). If you want take action against a long term drain on the UKs cash and the reason your tax bill is so high then protest against public sector pensions, thats what will kill the UK. tax the premiership footballers rather than letting them get paid through EBTs and other financial products, their average wage bill is £2.3m a year over 654 players, even Goldman Sachs "only" managed to pay their top 529 employees an average of £1.6m. Id be more f**ked off having to pay £1000 a year for a season ticket and most people only seem to be f**ked off with bankers because the houses they bought to try to make money crashed in value. Greedy bas***ds are everywhere, the bankers are just better at it. | |||
| » Sugar tax (Go to post) | 08-04-2016 @ 17:23 | ||
macroth said: beautifully misunderstood. | |||
| » Sugar tax (Go to post) | 08-04-2016 @ 03:00 | ||
| Scotland has a really interesting choice to make. if it goes the old traditional way of the socialist then it will fail, if it takes a bold step then it could become a Norway or Switzerland. 14,500 individuals in Scotland contribute an average of £85,000pa in income tax (12% of total income). if you raise the level of tax you risk have a net loss in income tax. You might not like it but if you lower the rate to 30% you'll see a significant increase in UK domiciled taxpayers moving to Scotland. the best situation for Scotland is if the UK vote to leave the EU, Scotland has another independence vote and separates before rejoining the EU. you want to beat london? then take a bold step and shift the FDI to Edinburgh or Glasgow. | |||
| » Sugar tax (Go to post) | 08-04-2016 @ 02:47 | ||
Wiegieboard said:Sorry, meant 80 billion since the 2008 crisis. (Last report I read so even more than that now) Wow, 14 billion in bonuses in a single year awarded to an industry that destroyed our economy. Imagine that £14,000,000,000 paid for 2,058,000 economy crushing state pensions for a year instead. If that £14,000,000,000 paid for 32,200,000 peoples yearly DLA entitlement instead.. Even if that £14,000,000,000 paid for 308,000 full time secondary school teachers. Most enjoyable would be if that money went back into my pocket to repay me for the bailout I gave many of them. and how did they destroy the economy? The entire system has failed, not because of the bankers, they simply managed the cash to pay for the greed of the consumer. you want a £500k house but only earn £50k a year? you work in a hairdresser but want a boob job and want to use credit to pay for it? then on you go. The banking system was encouraged to lend in order that normal people had credit to spend to hold up an economy built on nothing, ultimately when normal people all of a sudden lost their line of credit they couldnt spend their cash on houses, retail, etc and as soon as that happened the companies who were the biggest recipients of this went into administration. As far as the £14bn goes, at least 26% of that will have gone back into the economy in the form of income tax, the rest will be held in shares, cash deposits in banks (allowing the banks to lend at 8x the deposit balance). Whose tax do you think pays for secondary school teachers? of the £155bn raised in income tax the top 300,000 earners in the country paid £46bn of it. if you work in the public sector in any way then you "cost" the UK tax that has to be earned by the govt to cover it. there isnt enough private enterprise in the UK to create the wealth to cover this especially when you have a massive public sector final salary pension pot to pay for, statutory pensions to pay for, disability allowances, unemployment allowances, rent etc as well as road maintenance and everything else. would you suggest the govt do nothing, continue the massive inefficiency in the NHS, keep paying people benefits when they are functions that need to be performed but no one is willing to do it. its the leeches in the economy at both the top and the bottom that stop the people that really need the cash from getting it. you wonder why there are old men fishing about in bins for food when a scrounging idiot in Sighthill is getting DLA, jobseekers, council tax benefit and shoplifting to supplement his income? unfortunately the rich are mobile, if you tax them too much they will leave the UK. if they leave the UK then they tend to take their £ and convert it to $ resulting in a run on sterling, a strengthening of the dollar and making it even harder for normal people to afford to buy things. Everything needs to be more efficient, people who dont NEED benefits shouldnt get them, I mean how many disabled parking spaces does ASDA have these days? if they are all taken up by people who dont really need but managed to blag a blue badge then the ones that really need the space cant use it. if you increase efficiency in the NHS then you wouldnt need to spend more, why on earth are we spending more on health anyway? we should be healthier and requiring less spend. the biggest issue we have is the aging demographic, most of these pensioners worked from the age of 16 for roughly 45 years and now live til they are 85 (20 years on a pension), do you think the UK has enough in its pockets to cover at least 25 years of squeeze for the pensioners and the 5m unemployed (including those on jobseekers, students etc). | |||
| » Sugar tax (Go to post) | 07-04-2016 @ 18:49 | ||
Wiegieboard said:Behind because of pensions and healthcare or 80 billion in bankers bonuses a year, 150 billion in bailouts and trillions in nuclear armaments? 2 of these things are essential, 3 are not. Very funny the ones that were picked.... To put into real terms how ridiculous 80,000,000,000 in bankers bonuses is, my entire country with the best NHS in the U.K. and protected pensions and council tax freezes etc. is run entirely off of 30 billion a year. Seems to me like the reason for the "problem" is the unquenchable greed, psychopathic indifference and pig ignorance of British politicians and big business. £80bn? where on earth did you get that figure from? the cash bonus pool paid in 2015 was £14bn for bankers/insurance, for the rest of the economy cash bonuses amounted to £29bn. | |||
| » What the fuck happened to me? (Go to post) | 07-04-2016 @ 18:41 | ||
| Shoulders smith machine press 10kg per side for 10 20kg for 10 30kg for 10 40kg for 10 50kg for 10 60kg for 12 65kg for 5 50kg for 20 dumbell press 24kg for 10 42kg for 13 lateral raises 24kg x 10 x 3 16kg x 12 (drop) | |||
| » Sugar tax (Go to post) | 06-04-2016 @ 01:01 | ||
| no one is creating fictitious currency. everybody is a mass consumer these days, everyone wants things now but gets the bank to front the cash and thats from the lowest in society to the highest. we borrow now based on our "expected" future earnings. the reason there is so much free cash kicking about is because our economy is so f**ked with such a massive passive fixed cost in terms of pensions, unemployment, disability, etc that the bank of england have had to print over a trillion to get some growth into the market. as far as bankers making money? most of the profits these guys make is money that no one else wants. its the same as driving on the motorway, if youre 20m behind the car in front theres a space there for the taking. the broker nips in and takes the space. | |||
| » Fat to Phat (Go to post) | 05-04-2016 @ 03:58 | ||
FAT_SAM said: Quite simply increased focus like you get from caffeine but without the jitters and appetite suppressing effects you get from caffeine. My choice for comp day is modafinil with breakfast then a little caffeine prior to warming up for each lift. Caffeine is only needed in moderate doses to increase the efficiency of the NS and increase muscle contraction. In my opinion something else is better for the mental focus side of things. I hate eph though. It causes horrible dry mouth, loss of appetite, heartburn and cramps. You get none of these with modafinil. Dwain Chambers used to use modafinil on race day. thats really interesting but i suppose when i think about it the increase in focus would be significant. I never got anything from Eph and so never took pre workouts. | |||