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Accidentally copying @GoodtimeJohnny from yesterday. He wore it better.

@endo A moving post, thanks man.

Roomy enough to teach the kiddo cartwheels. X-post from waywt

From the top:
Crocs (with socks)
IH bakers
Utilitees

Trickers 🥾
HebTroCo GVNR
Utilitees
IH indigo herringbone work

@Bailey Sweet, I'll order a pair. Thanks both you and @tody

@ShopatIronHeart Hey, were those 34's that are in stock always left over after the initial rush, or were they returns? I thought I'd missed these.

How does the waist measure up with the cinches done up? The other measurements are on point, but ~36 inches on the waist might be hanging off me.

Hooo, managed to snag one of the last 2 in my size. Bloody urgent work almost lost me another drop.

@TeflonDon Thanks mate. I think our house will need the proper job, and once you've spent quite a bit on several portable units, I think I may as well pay a bit more for a multi-split system. I've been saving up anyway in anticipation of moving house or doing up the loft, and think this would be a worthwhile investment. If it can be installed before the end of summer, then hey, I'm going to chill this place down to arctic levels of cold and be fighting the offers off.

@jdwaid I did read about some places setting these up, but then I also read about various local councils giving people crap for running their A/C "unless absolutely necessary" because it was going to impact their green targets. Mf, the only person who should decide whether to run their A/C is the person in the house.

That last heat wave broke me. I'm making enquiries about A/C, even with the house on the market. Me and half the UK in all liklihood, probably won't be able to get it installed until winter.

Slightly IH related coda to my post yesterday, but it was Gosport that set the record for hottest June temperature recorded in the UK at 36.1 degrees C. Morbid congratulations to the crew, especially if you endured it in a 21oz Canadian tux.

@Giles No worries! Kept me distracted from a painful business email I had to write for 25 minutes! I'm sure you'll hit your numbers in no time with a considered approach adapted to whatever you find works best for you.

@hajduk Historically, we have only had to worry about houses getting too cold in winter. Now we have to worry about the mercury hitting 35 degrees Celsius and occasionally 40 degrees in the summer with some regularity and reliability. But housing guidelines still only worry about the former, so new houses (mine was built in 2016) are built to trap and retain heat, not to disgorge it when it's hot. It's currently 33 degrees outside in the shade where I live, and the thermometers in my kids' rooms say 31 and 29 degrees respectively. (I have told Mrs H to stay with them with my parents, who have A/C, tonight as that's just not safe for a 3 year old and a 7 month old.)

My house is great in winter, by bills are teeny (I'm also slightly weird in that I set the thermostat to 17 and wear heavyweight denim and flannels) but in summer it's an oven.

Over here in Europe we generally turn our noses up at A/C, the self-important European/UK zeitgeist seems to be that Americans are just being their typical selves and over-consuming as usual by putting A/C into anything with a roof on it, and we will endure the heat for the sake of not using power and the climate, but I'm sick of it. This is like the 3rd or 4th summer in a row where we get these nasty heatwaves, and is our second this year.

It's hot in the UK, I'm sweating just sat at my desk, can't sleep, nor can the kids. I hate that UK houses aren't built for AirCon. If one more person says "but you grew up in Abu Dhabi, you must be used to it"... Yeah muthafucka, everywhere in the UAE has A/C because it's too fucking hot and they run those things at full blast 24/7.

@Giles By way of credentials, I used to have a 260kg 1RM deadlift at ~90kg bodyweight. I've dropped the barbell training while the kids are little as it's just much faster to get in and out of the gym if you're doing stuff that doesn't require fiddling about with plates. But I've read the comments and this is what blew up my deadlift when I was into powerlifting-style training and got me from ~100kg to >240kg as a standard "yeah, I can lift that any day of the week" training weight.

1. Hook grip. This is when you grip overhand with both hands, but put your thumb roughly parallel to the bar and wrap your fingers around them too. Yes, your thumbs fucking hurt while doing it, but it's a much stronger grip for deadlifting when you get the knack for it and your thumbs have built up a nice callus. (And calloused thumbs just make you feel hardcore.)

If you're using lifting straps though and aren't worried about grip training as a side-benefit of the deadlift, then those will be the most secure thing and ignore the hook grip because, like I say, it fucking sucks to do! If you're open to trying it, there are several good tutorials on YouTube.

These next two suggestions blew up all my lifts, not just deads:

2. Switching to full body workouts, rather than squat-day, bench-day, and deadlift-day. Basically I'd start squat day with squats, then do Accessory Lift 1 from bench day, and Accessory Lift 2 from deadlift day, and so on and so forth for bench day and deadlift day. It might be personal, but I found that this meant the per-workout volume was relatively light for any particular muscle group on any given day, and I could hit all 3 exercises hard, every workout.

3. Cycle Light/Medium/Heavy workouts too. For the main 3 lifts, squat, bench and deads, I'd also cycle L/M/H each time I hit the gym. So I'd do Light Squats / Medium Bench / Heavy Deads, then the next trio of workouts would be Medium Squats / Heavy Bench / Light Deads, then Heavy Squat / Light Bench / Medium Deads.

Light was working in the 10-12 rep range, Medium was working in the 6-8 rep range, and Heavy was working in the 3-5 rep range. In all cases choosing a weight that left a rep or 2 in reserve at the end of a set.

I'd increase weight for any particular day if my total reps across 3 working sets summed to the top end of the rep range. So 36 total reps for a Light day, 24 reps for Medium, and 15 for Heavy was the goal, and if I hit those, I'd up the weight on the next Light Squat (or whatever) day.

Combined with #2 above, I found this structure let me really progress with all my lifts.

I didn't bother with the L/M/H rota on accessories, just the main 3 lifts. Accessories were just done at a weight that was challenging for 8-12 reps and I'd increase weight once I hit 36 reps over 3 sets.

4. You may not need as many warmup reps as you think. With time, I found that dropping reps from my warmup sets meant I was fresher for the working sets but I'd still managed to 'grease the groove' as they say. So if I was aiming for 3x5 at 240kg on deads, I'd warmup by doing 12 reps at 60kg, 8 at 100kg, 5 at 140kg, 3 at 180kg, then just 1 or 2 at 200kg, 1 at 220kg, and 1 at 230kg.

5. A proper powerlifting belt is fucking awesome for bracing your core, but might be overkill. I didn't get one until I was deadlifting and squatting 180kg, but it was night and day afterwards. I got the one from SBD, but it's an expensive piece of kit.

@Oaktavia Black and white on black? That's batty!

@WhiskeySandwich Yeah, I'm mostly using the remark by Little Miss as an excuse to try on mutton chops. The spot of alopecia on the other side of the chin was more annoying, but the main thing was having a hairy neck in the recent heatwave, if I'm being honest, which is why I shaved down to just a 'tache in the first place 5 years ago or so.

@scooter Jackman's never had the connecting 'tache. I was thinking more Lemmy, without the hair.

Long story short, Mrs H convinces me to grow the beard out again, I do and don’t like it, I have a spot of alopecia in the middle of my chin. Little Miss H (3) yesterday says “you look old like grandad because you have white hairs on your chin”. So I thought “fine, the chin has got to go”. Currently sporting friendly mutton chops, done initially to wind up the Mrs, and I don’t hate them/think they are that ridiculous.

Thoughts of the forum? Keep or go back to just the 'tache?

@don_pipone The tatter was Chad Koepliner, so 'quick and dirty' is part of his slightly gonzo take on American trad. I liked the skull he did on this other person, personally, and was in line to hopefully get something similar on my calf, but sadly he was already booked up for the day. The design was no different from what you'll find on his socials. I was just astounded at how fast he was. How it healed up after that sort of treatment, and whether it was full of blowouts, I couldn't tell you, I wasn't that close to the action.