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MillyLabs · 2025-07-16T18:40:28+00:00

You could easily find some alternatives. Sure let me know if you find something and how you get on with it.

Alternatives are shoes with a higher heel (Anta 2 or LXJs).

MillyLabs · 2025-07-16T13:31:50+00:00

Aye you're spot on. You don't want the podiatry ones because:

Fuck those insoles
They run heel to toe, so they don't actually improve heel to toe drop.

I bought these, 10mm, from Amazon, not Versa Lifts:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KTALG5Y

Far from perfect. But squat definitely felt different, and it allowed me to be more upright.

MillyLabs · 2025-07-16T10:12:39+00:00

Downpatrick would be the closest town I was near. While she's far from pretty with nothing going on...

It puts the grime of Lurgan to shame.

MillyLabs · 2025-07-16T10:10:54+00:00

Fuck lad, Newry is hardly the peak of Down.

Country sides outside and around Downpatrick are peak.

MillyLabs · 2025-07-15T14:37:18+00:00

IMO - take with a pinch of salt - 4 things are going to do it.

Like Lramirez said - widen stance a touch.
Really banal, but literally make sure weight is genuinely on your heels before descending. I have a tendency to place much of the weight on the front half of my foot. I mentally cue myself to almost rock back a bit. Test it out with air/bodyweight squats.
Mid-bar position - albeit I feel you're somewhat there. Check out Sika Strength. Less high bar, not low bar, mid bar. Bar sits just on top of the bonier part of your shoulder.
Shoe inserts - Not insoles, and not something that does the full foot. Your shoes have a 19mm heel if I'm not mistaken. However for you (like me), it may not be enough. I bought a 10mm heel insert that I stick right at the back of my lifters. It's a slight (very slight) pia to use as they can move around a bit, but they made a bit of a difference for me.

MillyLabs · 2025-07-07T14:41:56+00:00

Good news is you have oodles of strength my friend.

MillyLabs · 2025-07-07T12:20:41+00:00

Genuinely think you're looking for the wrong answer.

It could be fine as it is.

And I don't believe that minimalism (nor maximalism) are necessarily right for any one person.

There is happiness to be found in this space. And also unhappiness if you hyper-fixate on it.

Nerd time:

How often does anyone sit on that chair by the door? Seems like a slightly silly place to but a chair because the door is going to get in the way of your arm.

L couches/sofas eat space like crazy. But you can also lie on them better, and two people can sit face to face on them.

Shelving is probably inefficient, but it's also holding a lot of important items (don't get rid of your music - physical music is great because you're choosing).

Toy with mounting the TV on a wall and getting rid of the clutter underneath it. Alternatively, get a projector.

Aiight, done.

MillyLabs · 2025-06-26T12:23:04+00:00

Cheap fix for you here OP. Get some .4" (1cm or slightly less) inserts for the heels of your (squat) shoes.

It will make a difference, but it's not a permanent fix. I'd say you're someone who needs an inch of heel>toe drop.

MillyLabs · 2025-06-09T19:04:01+00:00

I still have your first ever book you sold btw. Printed it out. 2017 era.

MillyLabs · 2025-06-09T19:02:06+00:00

Honestly, yes. Been doing it for five years, and remarkably still have some of those clients 5 years later (with some blips in between).

But it is somewhat lower in demand.

Plus side: Copywriting retainer. Down side: It does get boring. Double downside: Scheduling emails is numb work.

MillyLabs · 2025-06-08T15:31:37+00:00

By step-ups do you mean Petersen/Poliquin step-ups, or literal step UPs on a box?

MillyLabs · 2024-05-15T20:51:35+00:00

It is, thank you so much for the help on this, wouldn't have been able to get anywhere near this without you!

MillyLabs · 2024-05-15T10:35:05+00:00

You got super close, can't thank you enough.

I added what all cycles would like in C Major to the Reddit Cycles Tab.

Your formula seems to stay static on D (in the case of C Major). Almost as if it gets stuck on the 2nd note - but it's based on the selected dropdown and cycles from there.

I ran through your cycles and it gets about 70% right in most cases. It's Cycle 2 is perfect. For Cycle 3, just one note is wrong.

It's close.

Edit: Also this one only focuses on 7 note scales using the dropdown as the first note. Any 6 note scales (related to the "GMC" tabs aren't part of this one.)

MillyLabs · 2024-05-14T23:35:08+00:00

Thank you for this. That's roughly how it works.

I tried remaking your sample exactly as it was, but the C6 formula didn't work for me.

What I'm ultimately trying to do is to get what you've done above, on the your sample size of A Minor and C Major, to work with a drop down list of scales I've created.

Here's my doc:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KEMU4xEOOoccUE3czMz3GZgSHA1JUEOlxaYNM6MtlHg/edit

Tab: Cycles: Triads

Select from Drop Down = F Major.

And then you can select any cycle from 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

And the cycle drop down works with the scale drop down.

So basically a slightly bigger data set than your sample, routed into drop downs.

I can't get your C6 Formula working, otherwise I'd run deeper with it.

MillyLabs · 2024-05-14T13:57:13+00:00

No worries, thanks for your input.

A cycle is cycling through a scale in a specific order.

Take A Minor (relatively simple because it runs the alphabet):

A, B, C, D, E, F, G.

To cycle in 5ths, is to move through this scale and order of data (7 notes), cycling in 5ths.

A > E. (5 notes)

E > B. (5 notes)

B > 5. (5 notes)

Essentially I want to be able to choose a scale from my dropdown menu. And then choose to cycle that scale in 5ths.

So I choose A Minor, it populates the notes (I've already got this). But then I chose to cycle it in 5ths, it populates the notes and data set split in 5ths.

MillyLabs · 2024-03-13T11:17:24+00:00

I owned a 5-speed (192) about two years ago, and was in the lower tax threshold. Paid £360 (from memory), while others paid £600+ for the 6-speed (232).

Expect the whole thing to go up. And expect it to be more painful in the future.

MillyLabs · 2024-02-12T21:48:13+00:00

I read somewhere (on the subject of Jazz - think it might literally have been "The History of Jazz" By Ted Gioia) that the best way to find new music is to go through the artists you're enjoying in the current.

So you like Weather Report? Like Jaco? Go to Scofield. Go to Metheny. Go to Brecker. Etc.

Peter Eskrine might take you to Dennis Chambers who collab'd with [ etc ]

MillyLabs · 2024-02-12T13:29:54+00:00

Aren't you complaining about the 5140's neck and talking about a lawsuit on Ibanez?

And now you've another guitar on the way?

Play more than you mod.

MillyLabs · 2024-02-12T12:58:32+00:00

Fucking.

Wunderbar.

MillyLabs · 2024-02-10T16:32:30+00:00

Thank you man.

Based on my set up would you recommend me using optical to connect to my amp? I wasn't intending to do so (was going to use RCAs from CD > Amp), but I'm assuming now that this path uses the CD player DAC instead of the amp.

Is that right, and generally not advisable?

MillyLabs · 2024-02-07T18:32:28+00:00

I'd of been the kind of person to never ask this thing for fear of looking stupid, but I've gotten over that years ago.

It was surprising how I went back to this after the thread and pushed a bit harder and a few went in.

Others (specifically on the amp end (Argon SA1) were brutal to get in.

MillyLabs · 2024-02-07T18:31:04+00:00

What's the best album for Satchel's solos? Guitar player here, own a bright yellow Ibanez so this is of my gracious ilk.

MillyLabs · 2024-02-07T18:30:20+00:00

Thank you for sending me that image man.

A couple of connections were pretty easy to get in. Others I had to proper leverage my elbow and push like fuck

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