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"Been through bad time lately with suffering with this. Dark thoughts as well. I know some posters on here suffer with this. Anyone come through the other side of this shit?

"A number of posters have been yellow carded and told to stay off this thread unless they have anything constructive to add.This is a thread that has been very useful to so many, for any other posters with scores to settle, argue on another thread. This thread is sacrosant.Thank you"

"Pipe down eric, this is a thread about things ironsofcanada has done. Now, have you any questions you'd like to ask him?"

"Yes. I experienced some very dark events in 2014-15 that led me on a downward spiral. It is quite easy (with help) to drag your way out of this to a bright future. Fair play to you for showing some balls and putting this out there, great first move. For me professional advice set me straight, not saying it will work for you but at least give it a shot. The quicker you act the easier it is."

Bungo 3:14 Thu Jan 16 Yeah that does seem to get harder every year. The rolling hills of the English country side for me as of late.

"For me I think it would be less the jumping off, but climbing to the places that they do jump off. I obviously don't need anything like that much adrenaline!"

Please. You make norwaytips interesting.

"Bungo I am in no rush to try. Got a lot of that out my system as a teenager and Scout, I think, with ziplining and repelling and such. Now free to go on and live my boring life."

I sometimes wonder how much money I'd have to be offered to do a base jump. As yet I haven't been able to think of a sum large enough.

Jesus wept.

"Alfs I had opportunities to try both when young and had pretty ready access to both. Base jumping requires more money, skill and a pretty specific environment as compared to running. Not sure the comparison works. (To be fair, I did not have the body type to actually be great at rowing.)"

"""I just found white water canoeing more exciting"" I always think the same about running. ""I just found base jumping more exciting"""

"ironsofcanada 1:08 Thu Jan 16 I'm sure it is. The best rowers I knew were almost zombies. They rowed, they trained, they ate, they rested, 7 days a week every week. I think they were too tired to do anything else."

"Great respect to all the rowers, great for you. I just found white water canoeing more exciting."

There have been rowing clubs in east London since Victorian times. The current Lea RC is an amalgamation of all of them.

Northern Sold 12:25 Thu Jan 16 Yup. Definitely a different part of the Thames.

Yeah deffo Bungo fella... any gym that I have ever frequented over the years I cannot remember any top rowing school member types being there... don't think I have ever seen any Coxless pairs scuttling up the Estuary

"Northern Sold 12:09 Thu Jan 16 I see. Mine was not an Essex thing. I went to one of the top rowing schools in the country. One of our teachers was an Olympic gold medallist who had been in a winning boat with Steve Redgrave. Many people from our school Boat Club have regularly gone on to row in the Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race. These were supremely fit and strong people, but they didn’t look like over-inflated body builder types. If it didn’t make the boat go faster, it was irrelevant. Sounds like very different circles."

"Cough... no sand at LoS son... just pebbles, tampons and cockles...."

"Cough... no sand at LoS son... just pebbles, tampons and cockles...."

Bungo... it's the Essex thing ;-) Roids was absolutely rife when we was going in our 20's... we was at one of the few gyms that was `supposedly' drug/roids free... bloke (Roy Perrott) used to run it in Southend.. ex Mr Universe or something... had a photo of him in competition with Arnie one side and Lou Ferrigno up in his gym... all dead weights not a machine in sight... used to preach something rotten if he ever found anyone taking roids they would be banned.... anyway last I heard he supposedly got arrested in Newcastle for importing steroids or something... not sure if that was a rumour or not...

Northern Sold 11:38 Thu Jan 16 Re: Anxiety/depression BungoÔøΩ. Plenty of youngsters hit gyms back in the dayÔøΩ then everyone blamed Arnie and Charles AtlasÔøΩ. Sold got sand kicked in his face at Leigh on Sea

"Northern Sold 11:53 Thu Jan 16 Perhaps we moved in different circles? I knew serious sport enthusiasts, not show ponies."

Bungo... I'm 52.... I played Rugby at an early age so yeah gym work was a norm from a very young age... but even when I joined a gym membership when I was 18 it was full of young lads who wanted to make them selves look bigger... Pumping Iron was a massive video in our old video shop we run... was out all the time... young lads have always wanted to change their appearance

"Northern Sold 11:38 Thu Jan 16 Sure, but out of the 100s of people I knew, they did it to improve their abilities at whatever sport they played, not to look like an inflated lump on the telly. Also, they did it for free at school and didn't require private gym memberships and have to buy other stuff to achieve it."

Bungo…. Plenty of youngsters hit gyms back in the day… then everyone blamed Arnie and Charles Atlas….

"Joe C 4:42 Thu Jan 16 ""I do think Bolty is right that this current age of people striving for acceptance, appreciation and gratification 24/7 isn't healthy."" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am convinced that this is a major problem. I would not be surprised if marketeers for many products aren't deliberately now employing psychological 'how to make our potential customers dissatisfied with their lot' tactics. Case in point - my youngest who is now 18, was obsessed for the last two years or so that he was too skinny and not as 'built' as the lunks he saw on Love Island etc, instead of being happy that he was an absolutely normal 16/17 year old physical build. Therefore he wanted weights/gym membership/bulking stuff etc that I would never have even thought of at his age. Mostly seems to come back to somebody somewhere making money off the dissatisfaction."