50th year PRs

Yeah, on bumble. I seemed to match with far more "normal" people on bumble and hinge, but I think that's location dependent. Tinder was a lot of bots/weirdos.

My biggest tips for online dating are to have good pictures, open with something more than "hi", and to pay for whatever premium subscription the app has.

The premium is because girls get like 50 times more matches than guys, and it helps you in the algorithm to show up higher, so you get more matches. I just wanted to delete those damn apps. It's fun for a couple of months, then gets tedious.

definitely weirdos on tinder. women just texting 'HOWSERIOUSAREYOU?' before you've even met them.

sick read on their part mind you. because I'm not serious at all

DB Bench 5x8-30kg
DB Flye 3x8-24
Barbell Curl/Hammer Curl ss 3x6/6-40/16kg
Tricep Push Down/Extension ss 3x8/10-35/25kg

another terrible sleep unfortunately.

light gym session, basically to make myself feel better

3x8 each leg single leg extension 28kg
3x9 front squat 50kg - haven't done any squatting for months and kept this light and could already feel cramping
3x5 single leg leg press 100kg - this really hurt my left knee cap
3x4 deadlift 130kg. this also hurt my knee so I stopped
3x8 single leg seated leg curl with light weights

meh. annoying and slightly worrying knee pain. it's on my bad knee and over the top of the knee cap.

we'll see if it sticks around

Hopefully the knee stuff doesn't turn into anything serious; with that said, congratulations on the sustained cut and hopefully things with your soon-to-be ex get worked out quasi-amicably and reasonably effectively. I have a buddy that took ten years to get divorced after separating and your way seems better.

If I was a great rich white and 50+....

I couldn't imagine not going straight to MDE after a divorce.

If I was weak in the español, not sure where I would go. Definitely not Asia and everything else so facking far away from Down Under.

But I do know the color of my skin and my wealth would require the next girl to be less than half of my age. So I am thinking I would work like hell til 55 or 60, learn Español and then get a big ranch near MDE, maybe Rio negro or Guatape. The rest would just take care of itself. It would be a good last 20 years, exactly what a great rich white deserves.

I can't believe I didn't include feel wrath in my great rich white list. Was just flashing back to the brand new BMW smell comments he made a few years ago. He might be the greatest and with that generic white name, the whitest. I would only put downtown to battle him for the greatest title, this divorce probably gonna hurt though. Downtown has like 6 kids though.

Guys like montecore and kidcolin definitely second tier. Melkerson third tier, he has never hinted at wealth. But you never know, sometimes the most modest and stingiest is the richest.

What's MDE? Medellin?

Probably my favourite holiday ever

If I didn’t have kids, I’d be out of Sydney and chasing Latin girls in a flash

Idk what rich means but I’m gonna be way less of it soon. Good news is that my house might have tripled in value the past 10 years and no cap gains tax. Bad news….got to buy another one in the same area which will also be eye wateringly expensive plus give 5% of purchase price to Gubmint

Also bwslim richer than me. If he’s still alive in here

Can't believe I'm falling down the great rich white rankings; in hindsight, it's a good thing I didn't take that undertitle.

Sat

6x8 seated DB Press 24kg
3x13 Barbell Shrug 90kg
5x8 seated hammer row 150kg
4x9 wide grip row 67kg
ab work

Sun

5x9 DB Bench 30kg
3x9 Incline DB Bench 26kg
4x9/6 Preacher Curl 45kg/ss Hammer Curl 16kg
Abs

Knee still hurting so can't row. Might try tomorrow, but suspect it'll have to be unblanaced towards the right knee

This weekend has been the World Virtual 1k, which had been my target for the year. 8th in 2022, 7th in 2023 and I'd thought I had a PR in me.

Just looking at the results, last year's time would have taken 9th. I'd have needed a 0.9 sec PR to get 8th. Still...didn't do it, so it doesn't matter.

can't argue. the Aussie is in maintenance mode right now. Tough to know if I have the physical ability...definitely don't have the minerals to go hard at the moment. 6 weeks ago, I felt that a good training block could have had me in PR shape for the 1k and I was ahead of where I'd been the year before. But we don't deal in 'could and should and would'. There is only 'did' and I didn't.

I keep showing up though. Not pretty and no PRs but I'm staying active and keeping things moving. This tough period will pass I hope and we'll see if there's any minerals left foor a new fight

Inspiring if sobering stuff from the forum's resident gray pubèd; once more into the breach and all that.

4 hours sleep last night but heroically to the gym this pm. No records were broken or threatened

Seated DB Press 4x8-26kg
Push Press 4x6-60
Close grip row 4x11-67
Wide Grip pull down 3x10-67

2.5km rowing warm up then got 200m into a planned 5kr20 and just stopped. I literally have no interest in rowing whatsoever right now

Maybe it’s because of the diet and the lack of cals, maybe it’s because I’ve got nothing to aim for but I have no interest in it whatsoever

Switched and did

5x3 power clean 80kg
3x9 hang power cleans (fast) 60kg
3x10 RDL 80kg

Meh. All fine

9,10,10,9 DB Bench 30kg
3x9 Incline DB Bench 26kg
3x7 Flye 24kg

3x10/8 Preacher Curl 45kg/Hammer curl 16kg
3x10/10 Tricep Push down 35/Tricep extension 25

Your boy Carl Cox is playing two sets at EDC Las Vegas this year. Probably worth flying halfway around the world for.

That would be great.

funnily enough I’m going to a Ministry of Sound revival tomorrow. Carl was never a ministry guy but Norman Cook (fat boy slim) is playing among others

40 mins session with son tonight

4x10 wide grip pull downs 67
4x10 close grip seated row 67
4x8 DB Press 26kg
4x8 seated machine press 38

all fine

I saw Carl Cox play in Liverpool quite a few times in the previous century (I'm old). I'm probably biased, but Voodoo is among the all time great clubs. Cream was OK, but Voodoo was special.

Banging every time.

Maybe not as old as me? I never went to cream but went to Renaissance and Manumission

I used to see him at a club in Clapham Junction on Thursdays all the time in the 90s. When he was ‘big’ but not the institution he is today. God, can’t remember the name of the club. Scary

I used to finish rugby training at 9.30, get back to Clapham at 10 and go to this place til about 1 and then head home and then up for work at 7

Other fun fact was that I went to school with Sasha. He was the year ahead of me. We all thought he was a wanker because he was musical and in the choir.

The last laugh was probably on him

When you said Cream at first I thought you meant Creamfields, which is a UK festival I went to a few years ago. A lot different than US festivals. Cigarette smokers everywhere and lots of people wearing bucket hats with marijuana leaves, yet people looked baffled when I asked if they had any. Culture shock for this American but it was a blast.

I meant the club Cream, which was in Liverpool. They ran Creamfields, though. My
main festivals back then were illegal raves.

I saw Sasha at Cream a couple of times. It was very good; Paul Oekenfold was the resident both times.

I'm 52; I thought I was a bit older than you. But I could be wrong.

Very big weekend. A lot of chems, a lot of booze, smoked some cigarettes on Sat day and night

Drank through the pain on Sun and then drank a little on Monday too

Two days off and then managed to get a good sleep last night

5x5 DB Press 34kg
3x8 Flye 26kg
4x9 close grip seated row 77kg
3x6 Barbell Row 80kg, drop set 6@60kg
3x10 wide grip row 67kg

5x7 DB Press 26kg
3x12 Shrug 100kg
3x3 Power Clean 75
3x6/8 Preacher Curl 50/Hammer Curl 16
3x8/10 Skullcrushers/Clise grip Press 45kg

Did the session with 60-90sec rests. Enjoyed getting through it all quicker