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Practical note on the fasted lift itself rather than the pills: if you are training hard at seven and not eating until midday, the thing that will limit you is not supplement timing. I did fasted morning sessions for a year and my top sets were consistently worse than the same sessions done fed, by enough that I eventually moved my window to start at ten rather than twelve. Nothing about the supplements changed. If your lifts have plateaued while everything else is in place, that is the variable worth testing.

Six weeks in, some new aches in joints that aren't used to being loaded are ordinary. The rule I use: dull and next-day is adaptation, sharp or during the movement is a problem. Yours sounds like the first one but keep an eye on it.

This happened to me with shoes. Threw out three worn-out pairs at once and was left with only boots and sandals.

This is the bit I was worried about and had no way to evaluate. The 'must diagnose something specific in the trial' test is a good filter, thanks.

The volume creep is real. I definitely finish sessions much louder than I start them.

Wire it up before you refactor the action code, otherwise you are changing error handling while blind.

Film your hands from above for ten minutes of the etude and watch it back with the sound off. It is uncomfortable and it is the fastest diagnostic available to you tonight.

Hours per year rather than per week is a reframe I needed. Month nine is unnervingly close to where I am.

Bear in mind rates vary enormously by country and city, so the numbers you get in a thread like this are not really comparable. What is comparable is the ratio: locally, the difference between the bottom and top of the range is usually about a factor of two and a half, and the teaching quality does not vary in the same order.

Agreed on latency. We gave up on playing anything simultaneously and it turned out that mattered far less than I feared, the lesson is mostly me playing and them stopping me.

That rolled bag is a bellows, it pumps fresh air in every time it gets squashed in your pack. Rigid container, no headspace.

So is the answer to take the big one but keep one small client alive deliberately?

Add rows. Heavy inverted rows or ring rows twice a week build the mid-back mass that pull-ups need and that pull-ups alone don't develop well at low rep counts. It's the most common missing piece I see.

That's more sensible than what I had planned. Any rule for how much wool content is worth paying for?

Filmed from the front and my left hand is maybe 4cm further forward than my right. Consistently.

How's your pushing volume? A lot of people building levers do almost no pressing, and a back-dominant program with weak anterior support is a common setup for front-of-shoulder trouble. Dips and push-ups aren't a distraction from lever work.

Slight alternative: a pair of parallettes and a resistance band set. Under £50, no mounting at all, and it covers pushing, dips at low height, L-sits, planche work and assisted rows. You'd get your pulling at the park.