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From what I've read this seems to be the case with many cheaper benches. However, I've just enquired about 4x10kg York plates for £25. Unfortunately the ad went up 4 days ago so they might have been snapped up.
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From what I've read this seems to be the case with many cheaper benches. However, I've just enquired about 4x10kg York plates for £25. Unfortunately the ad went up 4 days ago so they might have been snapped up.
Caporegime
For £150, you are better off heading down a cheap gym and paying by session when you need to be there.
Caporegime
I've got a cheap pro power bench, and even that does not wobble...Probably due to the way it is held up, probably different.
Works though.
You could get a half decent bench that does incline/decline, and some weights for £150...Just depends how heavy you want the weights to be.
Caporegime
And what happens when that £150 runs out? he stops?
If you can get a nice bench and weights, it's more beneficial in the long run.
Associate
Yeah, and Morba, I'm not such a tank as you, so less weights are required, thus keeping the cost down 
. For the holidays it'll be just upper body stuff, the squats/deadlifts will be for when i get back to school, so just barbell, dumbells and bench required really. If I get these 4 10kg discs for 25kg that'll be a big step 
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My max bench is only about 80kg, so the weights wont have to be more that about 65 I would have thought.
. For the holidays it'll be just upper body stuff, the squats/deadlifts will be for when i get back to school, so just barbell, dumbells and bench required really. If I get these 4 10kg discs for 25kg that'll be a big step .My max bench is only about 80kg, so the weights wont have to be more that about 65 I would have thought.
Caporegime
You dont need to be a tank fella 
gyms give you lots of weight, which isnt just for when you want to lift a lot, its great for not needing to keep changing weights on bars.
It also gets you out of your house, which is better for motivation
Delvis - £150 should last him quite a while, imo would be a better spend.
When the money runs out? would hope that he would be earning to keep going... gym is for life, not for summer
gyms give you lots of weight, which isnt just for when you want to lift a lot, its great for not needing to keep changing weights on bars.
It also gets you out of your house, which is better for motivation
Delvis - £150 should last him quite a while, imo would be a better spend.
When the money runs out? would hope that he would be earning to keep going... gym is for life, not for summer
Caporegime
You dont need to be a tank fella
gyms give you lots of weight, which isnt just for when you want to lift a lot, its great for not needing to keep changing weights on bars.
It also gets you out of your house, which is better for motivation
Delvis - £150 should last him quite a while, imo would be a better spend.
When the money runs out? would hope that he would be earning to keep going... gym is for life, not for summer
If he can afford it then fair enough.
If he's like me and can't really, or just does not want to frequent the gym, then a small home setup will suffice while he is off school as he said.
Personally I'd like to goto the gym, I'd just rather go with someone I guess....Probably the fear of attempting to lift puny weights infront of people I don't know?
p)...It's the long day's I've taken up that put me off at the moment.
Caporegime
we all lift puny weights at the start and to a lot of people we lift puny weights for our 1rm ;]
there is someone out there that warms up with all of our 1rm's, thats for sure
there is someone out there that warms up with all of our 1rm's, thats for sure
Caporegime
Indeed
Just getting home when I do after work, with what little time I have left before I goto bed really does not help my enthusiasm lately...I'll get into the swing of thing's hopefully.
Caporegime
if you get home late from work, goto gym in the morning
Caporegime
if you get home late from work, goto gym in the morning
I get up at 6 as it is...I ain't getting up earlier than that
Caporegime
odd, but wow!
not sure its real
not sure its real
Caporegime
I get up at 6 as it is...I ain't getting up earlier than that
so what is your day spent doing?
Could I ask what your training plan and diet is? I'm trying to shift the excess of my uni career as I'm just a slim guy with a belly, but whilst I've seen results, I'm really struggling to get anywhere near where I want to be.
Man of Honour
Ooooh this bulking diet feels so wrong
I don't like feeling fatter
I don't like feeling fatter
Man of Honour
Man of Honour
My diet isn't bad though, I wouldnt have said so anyway, see what you lot think
7am - 100g oats or 3 weetabix, 30g Whey, and a yoghurt
10am - Banana, and another small serving of oats with semi skimmed milk, 10am is tricky for me as I get very little time
12pm - Tuna mayo and sweetcorn sandwich on wholemeal bread, 30g Whey
1pm - Workout
2pm - Brown baguette with either tuna and salad or beef with horseradish and red onion, go ahead bar and 30g Whey
4.30pm - 3 eggs scrambled, with chicken slices on brown toast
7pm - Usually a chicken breast with veg or some sort of pasta/rice dish
9.30pm - 100g of low fat cottage cheese with a pint of milk
Surely that isn't considered dirty bulk?
7am - 100g oats or 3 weetabix, 30g Whey, and a yoghurt
10am - Banana, and another small serving of oats with semi skimmed milk, 10am is tricky for me as I get very little time
12pm - Tuna mayo and sweetcorn sandwich on wholemeal bread, 30g Whey
1pm - Workout
2pm - Brown baguette with either tuna and salad or beef with horseradish and red onion, go ahead bar and 30g Whey
4.30pm - 3 eggs scrambled, with chicken slices on brown toast
7pm - Usually a chicken breast with veg or some sort of pasta/rice dish
9.30pm - 100g of low fat cottage cheese with a pint of milk
Surely that isn't considered dirty bulk?
Soldato
It isn't dirty to me, but 2 hours between 2 tuna/ mayo sandwhichs, I'd be green after a few days of that.
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