TJ says – the word “moderator” annoys him. * this may not be strictly factually correct.

To be fair Bez my old mate, I think you’re the only person taking it seriously.

You may not be taking it seriously, but I am. Those words up there are destroying my belief in humanity.

I almost forgot – “Ass”, when used to describe the behind. The word is “ARSE”.

But it’s a bit like if you want to see top of the range road bikes look at a sportive if you want to see kit that works and is worth the money look at the road races.

And if you want to see that folk can ride stupid long distances on any old bike look at audaxes.

Holly shit

Who is Holly and why are you lifting her shit?

FWIW – All three of mine will not be allowed to stay for longer than a weekend after their 18th birthday.

You basically get the biggest crucifix you can find and use it like a dumbell.

I wouldn’t think that there’s many on here who are new to cycling though. Although reading that last sentence back – i’m now not so certain of it.

Take the oldest to a martial arts club. He’ll learn that fighting is only for protecting yourself or your family.

I’ve had a Chariot trailer for 7 years now, and it still has a lot of life left in it. It’s been round many a trail centre, and has done a 8 mile commute twice, or thrice a day for most of its life. Bought ours from http://www.kinetics-online.co.uk/. Not sure if they still sell them, but the guy who has the shop is a regular on here. Bencooper…

(for the record, I’m a strong 9 out of 10.)

I’d say you’re underselling yourself with that.

Fine, that’s another reason why I have it. I’m super retarded about my car. A normal rack would mark the paint work big time and the seasucker doesn’t hasn’t yet.

FTFY

£600 worth of exploratory work they’ve already done to it.

Hmmm – that’s a hell of a lot of expensive exploratory work…. I’d be asking for an itemised bill stating exactly what they’ve done for that £600.

I’d then take the car home and fire a new engine in it.

The 2012 Tour de France winner, who already has four Olympic titles, said: “I’m going to continue to the next Olympics and try for a fifth.”

Whereas the true quote, not chopped mid-sentence was “I’m going to continue to the next Olympics and try for a fifth gold on the track, that’s the plan.”

Shoddy BBC again.

Hee haw: Adj. Meaning ‘Nothing’ or very little. Mainly a Central Scottish term.

Hee haw.

My advice would just be to exercise short of pain. I am shite at surgical though – too timid apparently. 😀

I would love to go and see the pandas, but I suspect I may be banned. 😉

Just nod

Whatever you do, dont smile and nod – you will always get the smiling bit wrong.

Start slow, get slower.

Haha aye. I think it’s more the chronic pain, fatigue and mental health perspectives that I was thinking of.

Either or – it would make no difference.

Couple of comments first:
Speeding recovery – good luck with that.
Why would you pay a specialist sports physio to do massage?

When you do get pain free start following the info given on the running-physio site for rebuilding calf strength.

Then start to build in what mulv1976 said. (THIS BIT IS KEY) if you dont know what proprioception is ask someone on here.

Then keep it all going until you are back playing pain free, with good strength and movement.

Then keep all the rehab going for around a year to 18 months after you’re back playing.

Key thing to remember here is that being asymptomatic and rehabilitated are two completely different things which are miles apart.

You see if Michael Owen had taken a year out of the game after his first hamstring injury he’d probably not have had any other related hamstring injuries in his career. Steven Gerrard did take a year out to deal with a similar injury and never had a recurrence of that injury. The point to be taken from this is that rehabilitation of an injury when done properly takes a long time.

What’s the rush? You have a few weeks to put your name in the hat. Once that few weeks is up they will have a draw to decide who gets exactly what they asked for and who gets nothing. After that – they have a general sale. Chill out people.

so I’d return the remainder and look at keeping as much of the deposit as possible.

On what grounds?

Froome made it look easy compared to the riders he was racing against.

The way the system is set up there is no benefit to getting in early.

I’m fine and dandy. That must be two or three years now that I’ve been good, and it still feels bloody great. The rest of you – stick in there – you will find a good solution in the end.

Ever seen anyone who is at the top of any activity who didn’t make it look incredibly easy?

Why does it not surprise me that some on here cant even sit on a toilet seat properly. 😀

Red.

Is that a new bungee jumping record been set now – youngest person ever?

Fans of Frankie Boyle will get the reference.

Amateurs. 😉

Mogrim – do you know who Dave MacLeod is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_MacLeod

Unsung heroes award is not a bad idea

I think there is already such an award. I seem to remember SFB winning something along those lines a few years back.

or are they just the “in thing” at the minute?

Pretty much.

Life is too short to hold grudges. Take it on the chin, be the bigger person and make up with them.

Exercises should be as simple as possible. Anyone that tries to put you into weird and wonderful shapes is trying to make it look complex so that you think you need to purchase their services.

Take stretching for example – hundreds of stretches for each and every single muscle in the body. All you really need to be able to do is get one end of the thing as far away from the other end of it as possible. There is no voodoo.

Balance. In this context, balance takes on two different meanings. First, in the most literal sense, you have to balance on one leg. This may seem obvious, but its importance cannot be understated since balance is essential in virtually any sport. Moreover, the simple act of balancing will work the small stabilizing muscles like glute medius that are not activated as much during bilateral leg work. Secondly, in any single leg variation, you also develop balance between legs. Single leg work will make it abundantly clear if one leg is stronger than the other and allow you to address any disparities and even them out, which will not only improve performance but also help to prevent injuries.

This is from footflap’s link above that is talking about the Bulgarian Split Squat. It’s not a single leg exercise – the non-standing leg is on the bench – that will supply loads of balance and support. Want to make that harder – take the foot off the bench and call it a single leg squat. Want to work the stabilising muscles more – do side planks.

More soft tissue massage than training and diet plans then?

I dont do soft tissue massage. I do player profiling, injury prevention training and injury rehab.

Never said that I played for anyone. I have plenty experience of working in S&C, and as a physio at premiership level though.