I remember a while we were talking about figure 8 straps. I fancy some figure 8s but need em to fit well. So like minimal increase in ROM when using them.
Cerberus has some different sizes. Are the sizing charts spot on or should I go even smaller?
Mine are a medium and a good fit; I have 7.5" wrists.
I donāt get a lot of extra ROM out of them, I donāt think, but Iāve not really tried to. Not that much of a strongman yet. They are a little loose for me, though - if you remember I can drop the bar while wearing them if I choose to.
You could probably wear a small, I guess? Sounds like youād want to err on the side of snug.
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Sounds good. Thnx big fella
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Tuesday, 21 June
Down to 221.8 today. Expecting a drop later in the week, just 'cos thatās how things have been going.
Training (Recovery/Easy Conditioning)
Weighted vest walk for like 30-40 minutes.
Also the usual outward rotation band stuff. Tested on the missus and she said there wasnāt a lot in it between left and right, so on the up and up.
Looking forward to finding out how badly my bench has been affected. Iād say not much, touch wood - I donāt have a lot of room to lose strength there!
I figure that any equipment I bought during the lockdown I will just hold ontoā¦because it seems plausible that we could be facing another lockdown in the fall/winter. So you might still get your moneyās worth from those KBs? Not exactly a fun thing to consider, but you never know.
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I think another lockdown is very unlikely, at least here. Canāt speak for other countries.
Kettlebells will be useful enough for days in which I have conditioning planned but donāt have much time to justify their purchase.
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Are you in the US? Utahās Covid cases have doubled since they reopened. The schools here are preparing for more online learning. I fear that flu season will see a Covid spike, too.
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Yeahā¦shitās crazy all over the place again. Round two incoming. This sucks.
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Same here. University just announced theyāre opening with extreme safety parameters and are closing again after Thanksgiving break and moving to online for the duration of the semester.
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Fortunately not. In Ireland our cases and deaths have been in consistent decline and the R0 has been between 0.3 and 0.6 for months.
Pubs, restaurants, gyms and cinemas are reopening on Monday. My wife is a teacher though and theyāre training for mostly online learning next year, so 100% normal is still a while away.
Theyāve said if they do go to lockdown again it will be localised. TBF I would be in that area, since around 25-30% of the population live in Dublin, but I could easily stay elsewhere and escape a localised lockdown if it came to it.
I think itās been handled reasonably well here. Certainly a lot better off than many western European nations, and considering weāve an open border with the UK things could have been much worse.
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Iām still not sure if itās as bad as they say. It might be bad, but is it worse than the flu?
Here in the US, we went from Covid straight to riot season. Oddly enough, the media stopped talking about a health crisis.
Weāre not sure what to do with ourselves now. I guess itās occupation season. See Seattle for info.
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Haha yeah thatās always a tricky one. My understanding from media reports is that youāre a racist murderer, right?
I think it IS worse than flu, but not by tons. But if flu had never existed and then all of a sudden sprang to life that would be pretty bad. So thatās what weāve dealt with.
I donāt know how much of the suppression of the virus has been down to the lockdown and how much down to the emphasis on social distancing and hygiene. It will be interesting to see what kind of spike we get here when we open up the hospitality industry. If itās low then it would maybe appear the lockdown was overkill, but it will be so tough to say.
Honestly, we wonāt have firm answers about all the questions this raises until historians examine this in 50+ years. Really brings home how āmay you live in interesting timesā is more of a curse than anything.
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Are you suggesting us Brits Johnsoned it right up? Because youāre right, we did.
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Well I won ā¬700ish on Cheltenham and bought a new laptop for the wife so for me, personally, going ahead with a 300,000-person horsie party in the midst of a pandemic was a great shout. In general, probably not so much.
I wonder how Theresa May would have done in the hot seat during all this.
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Do you? I think you secretly know the answer
As much as I didnāt like her as a PM, I feel like she couldnāt have done much worse than Boris ālet everyone get infected, including myself, and almost fucking dieā Johnson.
You have a refreshing amount of faith.
We got down to weeks of consistent 1 new case a day here in Aus and within a week of them relaxing the lockdown we went straight back to 20 a day and growing. They have already started to increase restrictions again !!
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Weāre very lucky over here in that we fucked our response up so royally the first time around that it actually seems impossible for us to fuck it up more. Weāre trying really hard, flocking to beaches, crowding into shops and generally being irresponsible dickheads at every turn but the death rate keeps refusing to climb.
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I mean, obviously thereās going to be an increase in cases when you go from āeveryone stay in your house all the timeā to āgo about your business but donāt cough on one anotherā and I donāt think that should surprise governments all that much.