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Hahaha this is so me!!! All confidence until someone gets a photo of me sitting down :joy:

Perfect thank you! Loads of helpful points here :smiley:

Hahaha, glad it's not just me! :wink:

Yeah I guess I just needed reminding how much of a difference these things can make :smile: hadn't really considered how important lats were but makes total sense now I think about it! Thanks so much, definitely going to be giving them some love from now on :wink:

I definitely need to be more conscious of form/breathing! Totally guilty of just pushing up and hoping for the best sometimes :sweat_smile: I don't have a video to hand but these are great tips, might help to pay proper attention to a mirror from time to time :wink: I have been neglecting lats recently but was quite a fan…

I was using them quite a bit back when I was even more of a newbie and scared of freeweights haha :wink: I'll have to give the pull-ups a go when nobody's looking :wink: they always look impressive so congrats for that!

Thanks so much for this - I'm totally fine with being patient as long as I know I'll get there in the end! Just don't want to be doing it wrong all this time haha :smile: Seems like lots of people have this problem so that definitely makes me feel better :wink: Plan of action is definitely a bit more (more varied) upper…

I've literally never tried to do a pull-up in my life haha, but I guess if you can do bodyweight on a pulldown you can do pull-ups right? I think I'm definitely gonna have to throw in a bit of variation and see if that helps :smile:

Yeah I guess it gets easier once you get past the first rep? Is 1 rep at a higher weight better than 4 reps 5kg lower? Must be right? Only been stuck for a month or so and progress has always been slow-ish with OHP but can't hurt to throw in some extra things on days when I've got a little more time!

I haven't but that sounds really interesting, haven't heard of that before! Gotta be worth a try, thanks for the tip :smiley:

Yeah my technique is definitely far from perfect, I think I'm still where you were at! Encouraging that you got past it though :smile: definitely gonna be watching some videos on form for gym homework! :wink:

Yeah I feel like maybe strengthening nearby muscles might help a lot :smile: Could definitely use some help on form as well so thanks for that, will give him a look!

Oh and I forgot to answer this part - struggling to get even a couple of decent reps on the next weight up and don't want to get injured/drop it on my head haha :wink:

That makes sense! Sometimes gets left till further down the list depending on which equipment is free but I'm sure that would help :smile: At the moment only doing 5x4 because I was so bored of being stuck at the last weight!! But maybe worth doing fewer sets to take it up a notch? Great advice thanks :smiley:

At the moment just doing deadlifts, squats, bench press and overhead press. And throwing in the occasional other thing if I have more time. So I try to spread out the bench press and overhead press so they're not one after the other but definitely worth fiddling around with to see if that helps :smile:

True! Squats and deadlifts always give me a morale boost haha, thanks :wink:

Thank you!! I'm not in a rush but just don't want to be wasting time :smile: Hopefully it will sort itself out eventually! All great advice :smiley:

I knew you guys would have some awesome advice!! Thanks! :) @penquin53, those look delicious! I have played around with salads before but always end up putting in the same things and getting bored so those are some great ideas. Pinterest is a always good too but makes me hungry haha ;-) @9tailnaruto‌, either hold or cold…

Sorry for being so slow in replying but thanks a lot, have heard lots of good things about that so may well give it a look! Congrats on your success so far :)

Haha I am female, thanks, will check those out :-)

Thanks a lot! This looks really useful - I'm not in a rush so I'm fully prepared for it to take a while. Definitely planning on 3x a week and will use this as a starting block. Only other challenge will be making sure I get all the protein in! Hopefully it can be done though :)