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[Old Mod]

Yeah kind of that area

Quads Andy, as you sit on your glutes

Any power lifting exercise will naturally strengthen your core if you use free weights.
Squats
Bench press
Deadlift
You need your core strength to balance the weights. Machines don’t do the same job, they work a bit like the belt you talked about, artificially steady your core.

 

[WetSaw]

Quads Andy, as you sit on your glutes

Any power lifting exercise will naturally strengthen your core if you use free weights.
Squats
Bench press
Deadlift
You need your core strength to balance the weights. Machines don’t do the same job, they work a bit like the belt you talked about, artificially steady your core.

Lifting and lumping tiles all day doesn't count then?

 

[Old Mod]

Lifting and lumping tiles all day doesn't count then?

Well obviously not Paul if he’s been told to strengthen his core.
But I’d be looking more at the distance poor Andy has to bend over to pick stuff up, and try elevate things around me so I didn’t have to bend as much.

 

[Flintstone]

That is a problem marc for sure, bending over all day and it is a long way down, and I’m forever bending for my pen or tape etc. I’m open to suggestions. I’m guilty of bending and not using my legs for picking up tiles and things. I never really thought much about core strength

 

[Old Mod]

Suggestion one

 

[Andy Allen]

Suggestion 2....

Stop being such a whimp and just get the on with it....

 

[Flintstone]

Tape measure! Bit inaccurate, isn’t it ?

 

[Old Mod]

Tape measure! Bit inaccurate, isn’t it ?

Yeah but it does job, but the belt clip is excellent after it’s been used a couple of weeks.

Do you work off a table Andy?
You could put the tiles on a hop up too, just get everything off the floor mate.
It’ll be worth the effort.
I know sometimes there’s very little space, but you have to make it work for you.
Inconvenient loss of floor space is far less an evil than the loss of ability to bend over or walk.

 

[Flintstone]

If I’m wall tiling I have the cutter on the floor and stay on my knees as much as possible, if I’m wall tiling etc then I put the cutter on a Kettering table. I do have a hop up which I normally get out when I’m Tiling above waist height to put my adhesive on mainly. I think my worst enemy is bending for spacers and my pen and tape, which sounds daft because that’s probably the most easy to solve. Even grinding at the Ketter table I’m bent over a lot, that’s what finished me off on Tuesday.

 

[Old Mod]

If I’m wall tiling I have the cutter on the floor and stay on my knees as much as possible, if I’m wall tiling etc then I put the cutter on a Kettering table. I do have a hop up which I normally get out when I’m Tiling above waist height to put my adhesive on mainly. I think my worst enemy is bending for spacers and my pen and tape, which sounds daft because that’s probably the most easy to solve. Even grinding at the Ketter table I’m bent over a lot, that’s what finished me off on Tuesday.

Then at least get trousers with that pouch in front or a Joiner’s pouch. Put everything in there, plenty of room, even if you wear it behind you.
And you need to get a higher table for sure.
Or mod the one you have by making a frame to go over the top and then spacers to lift a new wooden top closer to your waist level.

 

[Flintstone]

I have pouch trousers but i use the pouches for money and phone, that’s first thing I’m gonna change. I know what your saying about the table, there only 750 high the Ketter table and it’s not a good height. I’ll have to sus out the best way of raising that. It’s a shame the legs are not telescopic. I can’t be the only long man on here with these problems

 

[Simon Dale]

Im so small I can work off a bucket

 

[Time's Ran Out]

@Localtiler - You’ve been doing a splashback recently!
That used to always do my back, but since I’ve left them to newbies never had a problem ( touch wood).
It stretching across the 600mm worktops.

 

[Old Mod]

It stretching across the 600mm worktops.

That’s the thing tho John, he doesn’t have to stretch haha

 

[Time's Ran Out]

That’s the thing tho John, he doesn’t have to stretch haha

Still got to get his head under the wall units. I’am 12 inches short of 6’8” and I find it painful afterwards .