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It is OK to not know what you are doing but you really need to do some research and try and learn what you should be doing and how to work towards the goals that you have in a safe manner.

You are describing two very different movements here and they both use very different groups of muscles. Doing curls I presume you mean bicep curls in which case the muscle that is doing the majority of the work here are you biceps, this is quite a bit muscle in terms of your arms and so you will naturally be able to lift a lot more without any practice doing this movement.

The "T" shape movement you described does not use you biceps at all, this movement is using a lot of you smaller shoulder muscles. There is absolutely no way these muscles can lift the same amount, not only because of their size but just generally how the body works, this isn't a movement you do as often in day to day life and definitely not lifting any kind of heavy weights. Not to mention the fact that the weight is further away from your body so just by doing a basic equation the force it is exerting is far greater due to being double or more the distance from the pivot point. Even a well seasoned body builder would never be able to lift the same in these two movements.

The reason you are getting pain is because you are trying to lift too much for that movement with your current strength level. There isnt anything wrong with your body but the fact you haven't injured yourself already you should consider yourself very lucky.

Strength training is very beneficial for general health and wellbeing even if your goal isnt to just get jacked but you really need to take a step back and do some reading and try to inform yourself on what you are doing otherwise you are not only going to increase your chance of injury massively but you are also not going to be making the most of the work you are actually doing so you are wasting a lot of time and effort.

You want to be hitting different muscle groups in different work outs. You want to have both push and pull movements for the upper body as well as doing some core work. Don't skip leg day either you want to be doing both knee and hip based exercises within your leg days. For example when I go to the gym I'll do 4 days a week:

Vertical push and pull exercises for upper body.

Hip and core exercises for lower body.

Horizontal push and pull for upper

Knee and core for lower.

Everyone has different routines and goals but you should really put in the time to make yourself a routine.

Until you know what you are doing as well stop over loading and just lifting as much as you can. Take the time to learn the movements and proper form for those movements. Use low weights that may not seem like they are working you out properly whilst you learn proper form to avoid injury going forward. Either film yourself and watch it back or ask others for form checks on things you are doing and then slowly start adding weight once you have the form and know what you are doing.

If you over load with weight and it is too heavy for you, even if you can "lift" it your form will be off because it is too heavy for you and again you risk injury.

In terms of reps and stuff if you are wanting to build strength then you want to go lower reps with a higher weight so that you fail by around the 6th or 8th rep. That doesnt mean high reps is wrong, high reps will help you build endurance rather than strength.

Please please please go and do some reading because as it is right now it is obvious that you don't really have any idea about the basic mechanics behind what you are trying to do let alone how to most efficiently work out beyond that.

If you have that much money to drop on a gym at once then I'd highly recommend you seeing a PT a few times maybe to just try and give yourself a good basis of what to do going forward from someone that knows what they are talking about.

Working out and strength training is fucking great but if you injure yourself straight away you are going to drop it and then always have a bad idea of what it is and the benefits it could have for you purely because you were too eager and did it wrong.

Good luck with the beginning of your fitness journey and I really hope you can find your way as it can seem very daunting to begin with but just be very careful because if you fuck yourself up it could be forever with the way you've gone about it so far :)

I am just finishing up on Sandersons Tress of the Emerald Sea, it is pretty good, usual Sanderson affair and that is never bad!

I also just started reading the English translation of the Angentinian comic The Eternaut. I just finished the TV series which was a random choice not knowing anything about it and I really enjoyed it although it was somewhat unsatisfying in terms of not really answering any questions regarding what is actually going on. So I decided to read the original material to find out!

I'm surprised the police actually came out at all, they usually don't give a fuck.

As someone else said you need to go to the council, they will have a department specifically for noise complaints and anti social shit like this. You will probably need to fill out a form online and then they have officers for this specific problem who will call you and probably come out to visit. They will be your best recourse to finding a solution to this.

Yeh, I had a regular spot on cue that I did every week but also I liked the fact that you could just rock up and schedule a slot in a free room and play whenever you felt like it, people that followed you would be notified and then you could just play.

As much as I liked doing my weekly spot for a while it became more of a chore because I knew I had to do it as opposed to just jumping on when I actually felt like I wanted to spin for a bit. But yeh your additional ideas were reminding me of that time and I had a lot of fun there so would definitely look into it if you end up having success with this and growing into your additional ideas.

I tried twitch for a bit but I fucking hate that I can't just hook into a broadcast using the built in broadcast functionality of my software, I have to have a whole other laptop running OBS, setup audio interfaces, run a video so people have something to look at. I just want to play the music man and not deal with all that setup, cables and bullshit xD

No worries, I'll try and dig some mixes out when I get home later and send something across.

I used to stream a lot on a service called "Cue" before that went down which was kind of similar to what you are trying to achieve with DJs live streaming and live chat rooms etc just with a bit less of a radio feel. I have over probably hundreds of unique mixes recorded from back then along with recording every practice mix for a long while, so if you wanted a good chunk of original content to broadcast whilst you get your project up and running properly to help fill out a schedule I can also share that with you.

Either way I'll sort out a recent mix to send across for you to check out and go from there!

Welcome back, I was going to contact you the last time around but didn't get around to it before you stopped broadcasting.

I'd be interested in possibly doing you a mix each month of that months dubstep releases to be broadcast however I have absolutely no interest in using a mic at all. If you made a short, generic bumper ala rinse FM or the like that everyone could use I'd consider slapping that in a couple of times in a mix I'm just really not that keen on that kind of stuff ruining the flow of a mix personally.

I can send you one of my more recent mixes for you to check out if you like that you are also welcome to broadcast so you can have a listen and see if it is something you'd like more of.

Either way good luck with the project this time around!

I feel like that is pretty much a given at this point when reading Sanderson, enjoying it so far!

Additional reply so it doesn't just get lost as an edit but if you like those kinds of worlds then I recommend checking out Altered Carbon, I personally thought it was better than Neuromancer.

I keep meaning to go back and read the other two but just never got around to it. Would you recommend them?

I have just started Tress of the Emerald Sea by Sanderson. I love Sanderson books in general so I know I will like this but I have also read about 10 Deathlands books in the last couple of weeks so needed a break with something else for a bit :D

I have read Neuromancer three times now and I 100% know what you mean. You do understand it more with each additional pass that is for sure but personally I think it is a bit over rated.

Not bad by any stretch of the imagination, and worth a read but I don't think it is as good as people hype it up to be. I think part of that is the strange writing style.

Great book but I highly recommend you read the second book, Fall of Hyperion, afterwards as it rounds out the story nicely. I know there are more books afterwards but I was satisfied after the first two as I felt that it completed the story nicely and j never felt I wanted more tbh.

Yes, 100%. It has to be quite loud around me for me to not be able to hear them when I have them turned up to Max, I can hear them just fine cycling around in heavy traffic for example unless maybe I was stopped directly next to an idling lorry or something like that.

Ear protection only enhances your ability to hear them because of the way they work, putting in ear plugs shuts out all of the ambient noise around you and isolates you with the sound. I will usually have to turn them down considerably once I put ear defence on otherwise they would be way too loud as they aren't competing with anywhere near as much sound entering your ear canal through the normal route.

I have also used them before at the same time as over ear headphones so that I could play games and talk to people on the phone at the same time, you have to balance the volumes but once you get it right it works perfectly.

I never tried the cheap versions so I can't comment on the difference between them.

I took a year from finding out they were a thing before I actually pulled the trigger on getting some as I just wasn't sure about how they would be and if I would like them or not, I just wish that I had tried them sooner.

I always buy Aftershokz which are the most expensive ones but they are really well made and I can't recommend them enough!

Right?

Right now we also get Blackbirds, Robins, magpies, jackdaws, sparrows and blue tits everyday too. I like that they have a little oasis from the city in my garden!

Only three episodes in so far but have been enjoying El Eternauta (The Eternaut) an Argentinian apocalypse type show based on a comic of the same name.

I can't really offer much more info as I'm going in blind and haven't read the comics or anything but it has my intrigue up and looking forward to finding out more information as to what is going on.

It is also nice and refreshing to see an apocalypse type show that isn't based around the USA.

Don't know and don't really care to be perfectly honest. I live in a street that is predominantly students and I have to put up with loud parties and people screaming in the street outside my bedroom window pretty much every week, often multiple times a week.

My upstairs student neighbours this time last year left a tap on and then went out to party so I was woken up at around 1 am to the fire alarms shorting out and a waterfall coming through the light fittings in my living room.

Two days ago someone stood outside my house for around two hours between around 23:00 and 1:00 just smashing plates in the street every 5 mins or so.

So to be perfectly honest I couldn't care less how they feel about me feeding some pigeons a couple of times during the middle of the day. They can all go fuck themselves.

Bone conduction headphones.

I can run and cycle more safely being able to hear my surroundings as well as have some entertainment.

I can wear ear defence whilst working with industrial machines and still listen to music / audiobooks so that time doesn't drag so much. 15 years ago I'd be wearing over ear headphones with everything turned up so loud to try and drown out the machines that it was in no way good for my ears.

I can take acid, go for a walk in nature and soundtrack my trip as well. I love being able to hear the world around me but also mix in music to a good background level so I don't miss out on either audible delights.

I pretty much wear and use them for 8 - 12 hours, 6 days a week, love them!

For the general public I wouldn't put any albums from specific artists. Even an artist who is popular the world over the majority of the general public will only know their "hits" and not all the album tracks, so even if you were shuffling through albums there will be a lot of stuff people don't know and the general public generally just wanna hear the same shit over and over not explore catalogues.

So I would grab a load of popular compilation albums. I'd grab all those "now that's what I call music" slop, maybe some hits compilations from different decades and a few different mainline genres. Just stick to stuff that is mainstream as fuck.

Obviously where you are geographically will change what is most popular but you should have at least an idea of what is popular where you are anyway :D

Dungeon Siege is great, I used to play a lot of 2 online back in the day, loved the secret chicken level that gave me D2 cow level vibes. However the third game is fucking hot trash and was so disappointing on release.