No Crust Racing

On the advice of other S13 drivers I ended up with almost -3 fron and -1.5 rear camber, and total 2mm toe out front and total 2mm toe in rear, Castor I'm not sure, as much as I could get was the advice. The toe will be interesting and may be finessed at the track.

Any rough ideas on the cost of a pump? Can't imagine it'd take long to lay this slab so we'd only be hiring one for a few hours.

If the wheel hits the firewall you've got other problems...

I'll have a chat to the concreter and see what we can come up with.

Admittedly sleep is not great lately, but we have a 4mth old so that's to be expected. I've actually been eating more of late, specifically protien. I'v considered switching to a 3 day split with upper and lower body split on M/F and W for lighter assistance work. I dislike splits like that though because missing a session as I sometimes do, is more costly.

There's only double gate access down the side of my block, you'd get a car down there but not sure about a concrete truck, plus the weight would absolutely f**k my lawn. Or is there some kind of pump I can hire are you saying? As you can see I know SFA about concreting.

Cheers, started getting some numbers for local concreters so should have some indicative pricing soon. The real pain will be that wee can't get a concrete truck down there and it's 40m+ from the front of the block to the front of where the shed will be. Good times ahead.

How often have you had him doing deads or dead assistance exercises?

Still avoiding any leg work until this twinge stops and my lower back comes good, it's very slowly improving. I took on the more is more approach last night with the exercises. On the 116kg bench set I only got 4 reps and I was annoyed as I seem to have this tendency of doing something once and then not being able to back it up as I got 5 last time. So I took a 1 minute break then got 2 more reps, then took another break and got one more and then took another break and got one more rep out. So I got my 8reps at 116 but over a few sets. More is more. I managed almost 7 chins at 22.5 which I was happy with but took a break and squeezed out 3 more to make sure I got at least the target number of reps at the weight, and in this case a few more. Got 6 reps at 35kg on the dips, took a break squeezed out the last 2. I will take that approach moving forward and when I fail to make 8 reps I will just make them up over a few more sets, the fact I can weight a min and do more reps of anything means I am not pushing myself anywhere near the limit. As in, if I was absolutely maxing out, a 1 min break would not allow me to do 1-3more reps. I do have to keep in mind I do these exercises 3 times a week though so it's not a case of absolute balls to the wall go for it everytime.

Is that going to be any better than me just painting it myself.

I'll see if clear roof sheets are an option, these kits seem cheap because they are bulk ordered with no flexibility. Hadn't considered polished concrete, what is going to be more cost effective? I want to minimise the dust and stop oil staining it. I usually put old carpet down also, at least under the track car lol

Cheers, will get a quote through those guys too. Yeah just a workshop for my track car, and will be doing some vehicle wrecking/repair work in there as well. So not frequently in and out of it. Here's what's in the quote, I can post the drawing also. MAIN COMPONENTS ROOF CLADDING 0.42 Corro bmt - 0.48 Corro tct WALL CLADDING 0.35 Corro bmt - 0.40 Corro tct COLUMNS C15015 "C" Purlin, Fixed with heavy duty plates and bolts RAFTERS C15015"C" Purlin, Fixed with heavy duty plates and bolts PURLINS & GIRTS TS064.75 purlin fixed with heavy duty framing teks GUTTER Quad DOWNPIPES To ground level As for joins, here's the gallery. http://bestsheds.com.au/photogallery I shyed away from laser light sheets as I thought they were weaker (hail damage) and discolour and look shit over time. The centre roller door section is not removable on this kit unfortunately as I did ask. I know bigger is better but I only have so much space to work with, could go wider than 7m but then I'm into custom size territory and the prices seem to go up, this is the best kit I've found to fit my space.

Could be worth it purely for relief then. In conjunction with other things.

No idea, that's half the fun of working out problems Try the infirmary thread.

Your call, I don't much anything about that so not sure what it will do besides block the pain I assume? Or is it supposed to fix the problem or at least prove what it is?

MRI time?

Ahh that's right, well I wouldn't imagine it'd be a quick fix. Unfortunately these things happen and it takes time to heal, do whatever you can to help it. Especially frustrating when you don't know exactly what the problem is. You can still do cardio though? Jog, walk, exercise bike?

For your shoulder? The hardest part of recovery is often the mental aspect, especially for active people, but I've come to peace with it because I know I always come back, usually better than before. Chin up, you will get it sorted eventually.

Planning my shed and have a few questions from those who have done it before. Here's what I'm planning. I will be building it myself/with mates. 7x10.5x2.7m WxLxH (11 degree roof if that matters). Gable end will have 2x 2.5x2.7m WxH roller doors. Current quote has motors on those but I think I might save the $500 and take them out. There's 1 personal access door on the quote also. That comes as a kit delivered for just under $5500 through Best Sheds (with the roller door motors taken out and $700 delivery to me but the price is substantially better than anything else I have seen so far). My questions. - Is this a decent price? I'm in Victoria if that matters. - What's the consensus on Windows? I thought about adding one up the non roller door end, this adds about $200 to the price. - What have people done insulation wise? I want it to be semi comfortable and am willing to put some basic insulation in the walls and under the roof sheet, assuming foil then batts? I will use the same kit on the doors I used on the house garage doors which worked well, it was a GDI Reflecta kit, two bits of aluminium with honeycomb material sandwiched between. I will put in at least 1 whirlybird and have a plate to block it during winter. - I'd like to paint the floor, easier to paint the slab before the shed goes up? Or can it not sit out in the weather? Appreciate any comments/feedback. Cheers

I collected the cages today, when I get time I'll install it and can then comment on the quality/fit etc.

This is now sold.

Mixed bag last night and the last few days. This hammy/whatever will not go away so this weekend I took it much easier than normal, only mowed lawns. Yesterday I was super ginger on the leg to the point of not bending if the hammy was going to twinge and when getting low for something letting my other (the bad side) leg do all the weight bearing, it seemed to have an affect as yesterday is the best it's felt in ages, not right but better. Last night I warmed up as usual but only did a few sets of 3-5 squats and only at 55kg and that was enough, I did not DL or bent row. I walked after gym as the dog hadn't been, but kep the steps shorter as not to stretch out the leg. Same thing again this morning on the walk. I will continue to baby it until it goes away and if that means zero squatting for 2 weeks then so be it, I've been through this sort of thing before with my elbow which was quite bad and took me making it 100% my focus in everthing I did I for me to get it right and now it's golden so I know this method works for me. As for gym I mixed it up a little and moved the final set weight to the second set and then added some for the final set, surprised myself a little. Amazing what you can do when you aren't burning up so much powerz squatting and DL'ing. Bench - 93 109 116 (5) Got the 109 sets out without issue which shows endurance is more an issue than outright power. WAs happy to get 5 reps at 116 too, the bar is full though, I will need more high weight plates to go higher than that, but really my goal was 120 and I'd say I could do that now, maybe even 130-135 which isn't bad in my mind for a self trained bencher. Chins - 7.5 17.5 22.5 (7 failed 8) Got the 17.5s out easy enough and almost got the 22.5 as well Dips - 10 30 35 (6 failed 7) The dip bars are startung to look a little stressed so I may have to sit on this weight or here abouts and start adding volume, still 30+kg doesn't seem too bad. Oh my compression sock turned up too, much tighter fit on these ones but will be wasted for a bit while I avoid leg work.

My cages have been sent, whether that's because I was fairly persistent in my nagging or because Brad has sorted things out and is clearing up a back log of work is not known to me, I'll be glad to get my hands on it though, put it in the car, and get my ass track side.

Possibly, but I'd like to think I'm one of the more active stretchers/foam rollers here but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm being effective with the time spent or that there's not some other underlying issue that stretching doesn't fix. I've found in the past that I usually have to "reset" which is normally take a week or two off aggravating motions, then begin specific work for the problem areas, it took me a good few years to get my elbow right after it was hammered from all the bro curls but now it's as good as it's ever been, it just takes time (hopefully not that long though as I've learned a lot about how to recovery from these sorts of things). I'll get there.

Cheers will keep in mind.