[jk999]

Get someone else to do it works for lol 😁

[TomCrowther]

I feel your pain, literally. My neck is never right!
I started with no customers and built up a good round from scratch. This gave my body time to adjust to the demands which is helpful. I ended up flat out five days a week, training four days too.
Got two franchisees now and another business which is not manual work. I spread my own window cleaning out over the whole week and never do more than two full days on the bounce. I do my commercial jobs either at the crack of dawn or early on a Sunday. I take at least one full day off during the week and try not to do too much any single day. I am 51.
The young guys who work six full days a week will eventually feel the strain but you know how it is. You can't tell kids anything and we were all the same.

[Michael Peterson]

foam rollers are good, but dont roll the lower back, use it like a see saw

[Dave Anderson]

Some awesome tips peeps..Thanks ! 

Shrek/Dazmond.... Yeah you might be right i.e body not getting rested/recovered enough :-)

Paul Alan some good points there and yeah I do HIIT/Crossfit wods ranging from the 'Girls' to things like Filthy 50 etc  , heart rate at rest is about 46bpm most days even with a little 'herb'  , meditate yes a little but find it hard to completely 'empty' my head. Will check out the book ...Cheers

Michael Peterson good point with the nutrition... currently eat KETO so eat very little carbs anyway and eat fat by the bucket load 

Again cheers to everyone for the tips and input...

[dazmond]

up the carbs and give yourself a bit more rest and you ll be fine dave.

low carb is not good for you long term mate esp if your into endurance training

[Dave Anderson]

Daz I'm keto at this time in order to be able to  train for a 200km Ultra in september without being keto I will never be able to do it...  ps carbs are over-rated anyhow.... more than likely why the modern world is plagued with so many ailments due to obesity and or high amounts of carbs.... But cheers fir taking the time with the advice 
 

[duncan h]

Your doing way too much. Cut your working hours down.
I am 51. run with the dog s for 2 mins every day
Eat nothing but full English and curry's.
Go to bed at 1 am with a skin full of ale
Have 1 hour sleep every afternoon before kids get home

[Michael Peterson]

in my opinion, i have eaten keto before over a year as well as the vince geronda steak and eggs diet, i truly prefer a more primal approach including plenty of non carby veg (to go in and out of ketosis) this wont deprive yourself of some of the most nutritional foods on the planet, but good on you man, anyone who hasnt gone keto wont understand the will power it can take at times.
the other way you could ensure your get all of your vitamins, (and i would suppliment some if you are on keto) is to eat the whole animal, insides and all. keep that meat red and keep it fatty bro !

[dazmond]

Daz I'm keto at this time in order to be able to  train for a 200km Ultra in september without being keto I will never be able to do it...  ps carbs are over-rated anyhow.... more than likely why the modern world is plagued with so many ailments due to obesity and or high amounts of carbs.... But cheers fir taking the time with the advice 
 

your bound to feel tired if your doing all that training on a low carb diet at your age plus your daily window cleaning work.ive got a mate whos trying to get me to do a tough mudder event but im not interested.i really dont understand why people push their bodies to the limit.he loves it though!.

[davids3511]

I feel your pain, literally. My neck is never right!
I started with no customers and built up a good round from scratch. This gave my body time to adjust to the demands which is helpful. I ended up flat out five days a week, training four days too.
Got two franchisees now and another business which is not manual work. I spread my own window cleaning out over the whole week and never do more than two full days on the bounce. I do my commercial jobs either at the crack of dawn or early on a Sunday. I take at least one full day off during the week and try not to do too much any single day. I am 51.
The young guys who work six full days a week will eventually feel the strain but you know how it is. You can't tell kids anything and we were all the same.

and never do more than two full days on the bounce

Fixed that for you Tom!

[TomCrowther]

I feel your pain, literally. My neck is never right!
I started with no customers and built up a good round from scratch. This gave my body time to adjust to the demands which is helpful. I ended up flat out five days a week, training four days too.
Got two franchisees now and another business which is not manual work. I spread my own window cleaning out over the whole week and never do more than two full days on the bounce. I do my commercial jobs either at the crack of dawn or early on a Sunday. I take at least one full day off during the week and try not to do too much any single day. I am 51.
The young guys who work six full days a week will eventually feel the strain but you know how it is. You can't tell kids anything and we were all the same.

and never do more than two full days on the bounce

Fixed that for you Tom!

Cheers  David :-)

[paul alan]

To add to this........i read somewhere on the wca about long term neck injuries that people can get from this kind of work.
People in other poorer countries have being doing something similar using poles to pick fruit from trees for years and have been studied with regards to neck injuries, not good!

Its got something to do with the spine at base of the neck being compressed and we can degenorate our bones in this area, also reducing the bloodflow can cause brain damage according to what i read. Drastic sounding i know but something to be aware of.

I now try to keep my head down whilst working at height but its a constant battle as everytime im not concentrating on my neck i find im in pain again. I also suffer with the muscles at the front of neck they have been in constant pain for years.

Anyone got any good tips or advice for this??

[paul alan]

Some awesome tips peeps..Thanks ! 

Shrek/Dazmond.... Yeah you might be right i.e body not getting rested/recovered enough :-)

Paul Alan some good points there and yeah I do HIIT/Crossfit wods ranging from the 'Girls' to things like Filthy 50 etc  , heart rate at rest is about 46bpm most days even with a little 'herb'  , meditate yes a little but find it hard to completely 'empty' my head. Will check out the book ...Cheers

Michael Peterson good point with the nutrition... currently eat KETO so eat very little carbs anyway and eat fat by the bucket load 

Again cheers to everyone for the tips and input...

Crickey dave..... heres me trying to give you advice ha!
Sounds to me like your pretty well dialled in.
I too have tried keto diets, do you ever worry about eating all that fat and your arteries?

[Dave Anderson]

>> Paul Alan... Eating fat...narh were designed to eat loads of fats..... its the carbs were not so used to... Worried narh.... going to be a long time dead so a little fat is not going to do me any harm...given that I kinda wrecked my body for about 40 years smoking drinking, whoring 

[Shrek]

>> Paul Alan... Eating fat...narh were designed to eat loads of fats..... its the carbs were not so used to... Worried narh.... going to be a long time dead so a little fat is not going to do me any harm...given that I kinda wrecked my body for about 40 years smoking drinking, whoring 

The joys of living in Amsterdam

[Marc Stock]

You don't really need to scrub if your prepared.

For bird poos and organic matter that would normally be difficult I simply pop a dash of bio washing powder on the bristles, apply a little water and brush on leave it and carry on with the other windows. Come back and it melts away.

Second thing to do is go for a pole that's not necessarily the lightest on the market. I found that whilst light poles are easy to use, if you need to scrub you have to apply more weight behind the bristles which requires more effort. With a slightly  heavier pole, you can use the poles own weight to your advantage.  And lastly when scrubbing, try not to splay the bristles as all your doing is rubbing along the edges of the bristles as they splay out. Try to keep pressure on the ends of the bristles.

[dazmond]

You don't really need to scrub if your prepared.

For bird poos and organic matter that would normally be difficult I simply pop a dash of bio washing powder on the bristles, apply a little water and brush on leave it and carry on with the other windows. Come back and it melts away.

Second thing to do is go for a pole that's not necessarily the lightest on the market. I found that whilst light poles are easy to use, if you need to scrub you have to apply more weight behind the bristles which requires more effort. With a slightly  heavier pole, you can use the poles own weight to your advantage.  And lastly when scrubbing, try not to splay the bristles as all your doing is rubbing along the edges of the bristles as they splay out. Try to keep pressure on the ends of the bristles.

best thing to do with birdmuck is give it a soak as soon as your aware that theres some on a window.this is what i do as soon as arrive at a property.most come off after a few scrubs.any that dont then i simply turn my brush around and use my gardiner scraper.easier/quicker than messing about with washing powder!

as for poles.SLXs or xtremes.i wouldnt use anything heavier than these poles.its not just weight but rigidity too.

[paul alan]

>> Paul Alan... Eating fat...narh were designed to eat loads of fats..... its the carbs were not so used to... Worried narh.... going to be a long time dead so a little fat is not going to do me any harm...given that I kinda wrecked my body for about 40 years smoking drinking, whoring 

Know what you mean except the whoring haha! I think its mixing carbs and fats that do the harm.

[dazmond]

>> Paul Alan... Eating fat...narh were designed to eat loads of fats..... its the carbs were not so used to... Worried narh.... going to be a long time dead so a little fat is not going to do me any harm...given that I kinda wrecked my body for about 40 years smoking drinking, whoring 

Know what you mean except the whoring haha! I think its mixing carbs and fats that do the harm.

what harm is that then?

[paul alan]

>> Paul Alan... Eating fat...narh were designed to eat loads of fats..... its the carbs were not so used to... Worried narh.... going to be a long time dead so a little fat is not going to do me any harm...given that I kinda wrecked my body for about 40 years smoking drinking, whoring 

Know what you mean except the whoring haha! I think its mixing carbs and fats that do the harm.

what harm is that then?

If you want specifics as to what happens on the biochemical level when you combine the two I'd recommend Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, he explains it pretty comprehensively I think. but the jist of the story is that your body stores fat by making and storing triglycerides. Triglycerides are made up of three fatty acid components and a glycerol component that binds them together. The glycerol component is made from glucose, so the idea is that if you restrict glucose intake you can restrict glycerol production which restricts triglyceride production. Eating carbohydrates triggers the insulin response that signals your body to use the incoming glucose to make triglycerides. If you eat both fat and carbohydrate you are giving your body everything it needs to make and store fat, including the hormonal signals to do just that.

Restricting fat works in a similar way, but replacing fat with carbohydrate leads to all sorts of health problems, which also get discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories, and in paleo/primal blogs.