Silmarilliane's roadmap 2024

[TimovieMan]

The resistances are how much tension the band provides at various stretch levels (so if it's fully stretched, it's going to be close to 65 lbs of weight resistance for the black one, and 35 lbs for the red one).

This basically means what its equivalent in weight lifting would be. So for using it as a help in doing chin-ups, it's basically the amount it will "help" in lowering the amount of body weight you lift.
So if you use both, your chin-ups will be with a reduced weight of up to 100 lbs (but they probably won't stretch that far).

Progression is then made by doing the chin-ups using both until you can do enough reps, and then only using the strong one until you can do enough reps, and then only the lighter one, and finally without the bands.

[Silmarilliane]

2 hours ago, TimovieMan said:

The resistances are how much tension the band provides at various stretch levels (so if it's fully stretched, it's going to be close to 65 lbs of weight resistance for the black one, and 35 lbs for the red one).

This basically means what its equivalent in weight lifting would be. So for using it as a help in doing chin-ups, it's basically the amount it will "help" in lowering the amount of body weight you lift.
So if you use both, your chin-ups will be with a reduced weight of up to 100 lbs (but they probably won't stretch that far).

Progression is then made by doing the chin-ups using both until you can do enough reps, and then only using the strong one until you can do enough reps, and then only the lighter one, and finally without the bands.

 

OK thanks! I'm going to go for the purple one then (despite being a few quid more!) as that should (hopefully) give enough assistance for starting out, but means it'll be usable for other exercises when I no longer need assistance (which WILL happen )

[Silmarilliane]

On goal #8 (the crafty projects half done) I have actually well and truly finished my hoverboard footstool! (pics in spoiler below) this has been SO many years in the making - I think I bought the skateboard deck in Jan 2021?!

I've also dyed two pairs of trousers that were too light - I did bucket method and obviously didn't stir well enough as they've come out kinda streaky, but one pair is snakeskin pattern so I think it works, and the other didn't massively take the colour anyway so I'll see what it looks like when I wash and dry them. I put two old white tshirts in too, so they're both a pale turquoise (with streaks) but also fine as they were 'house' tshirts anyway.

 

I'm really pleased with the hoverboard, and it really SHOULD have given me some Happy Feels but at the moment it's being outweighed by the general Blue Feels I've got at the mo, as well as not really having anyone round at my house ever to show it off to.

 

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[Silmarilliane]

Side point on goal #3, tl;dr I really need to stop trying to track this bcuz stressing me out

 

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FB seems to have essentially ended the situation but without any clear comms on it. Obv I'm having general feels of rejection and confusion on this (not helping my mood) and overthinking reasoning - currently swinging between either they just massively lost interest or they got too interested, and given they're ENM married, that's an issue. However, who tf knows because no actual comms...