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Took my Frontier X out for a test ,yesterdayTotal weight with Vapour peak ,ground sheet pegs ect in the bag came in at 16.6 Kg.It fits a Nash SS3 Wide with around 6 inches clearance at both ends .and plenty of room inside .Clipping the arms in is relatively straightforward , taking apart does make you feel like you may bend them , but i didnt, how long the boss will last clipping them in and out (wear and tear) ,who knows .All in all, id say well made and an excellent bivvy

Every journey starts with a first step mate. When I left the army, I wasn’t in a good place, wracked with PTSD, several physical wounds/injuries that caused issues, I was smoking 30-40 a day, drinking 6-8 pints + a hip flask sized bottle of vodka a day and taking far too many prescription painkillers a day, I ate maybe one meal every other day and dropped to 7 stone. I ended up in hospital with repeated pancreatitis, I got taken on by SSAFA, underwent CBT, was told by my therapist to start going carp fishing again! I then met my now wife, I gave up smoking, switched to vape, (which I still do) gave up alcohol, (last drink 2016) went to drug rehab and kicked the painkillers (I took more opiates daily then a long term heroin addict) which took 18 months, put on 5+ stone and sorted my life out. In fact, during lockdown, I went up to 14stone, I’m back at 12.5st which is ideal. I started walking everywhere and doing light workouts, the increased weight and muscle-mass supports the physical injuries to the point I can cope without any painkillers whatsoever. Now planning to cut the vape down, then drop it all together, but baby steps! I wish you much luck guys, just take it a day at a time!

Well done I haven’t run since this lockdown and I was only up to 5k anyway but I hadn’t done any exercise since school I bought some resistance bands about a month ago just to keep the upper body going lol

I gave up smoking a good few years ago, I gave up because I was too unfit to bmx race lol, I had got back into that and lung power was too short,I did that for a while and actually did some racing but one final I crashed and ballsed up my rotator cuff, I lost my bottle and quit I also moved onto vaping later on (still do that) Before the kids came I was also a bit of a fitness freak I had time and would go to the gym 3 times a week and once a week PT, I trained up to run 3 half marathons in 3 months, and was the fittest I had ever been after that I wanted to lift weights really got into that more and then kids happened, and whereas before I was eating lots for training I was eating lots and not training 😁 soon catches you up and I've never found the desire or time to be that person, and even though I know he is there, I'm so far away from him it's unreal, that was me 2012, living my best life the mowhawk was my last ever hairstyle before baldness took hold 😲 I can imagine how you must be missing the gym, it takes a while of going and hating it but one day you just break through and start loving it and needing it, hopefully it will get back to normal soon for you, I don't want to run anymore tbh, I did a lot of it and have grown to hate it though, I have done it again since but I think knowing i can't do what I did makes it hard to be motivated, I do like walking though when I can tbh I will have to start off just doing that, I have a lot of niggles and old injuries that will flare up if I start too hard, I'm taking the first steps today though so not bad 👍 Cheers guys

I used to have a fairly easy job that involved sitting in front of a computer most of the time running a Chemical Plant. It was 12 hour day and night shifts and I found I was eating rubbish and at the wrong time of day. Typically I was having a breakfast before I went to bed after working nights otherwise hunger woke me up. I went from a comfortable 12.5 stone up to 14.5 before my job disappeared to India. After that, the next job I got involved a lot of walking and crucially it was close enough to cycle to work (12 mile round trip.) It killed me for the first month as the way home was a relentless climb and the first week I had to have 4 stops to get my breathe back but within a month I could do it without stopping and the weight started to drop off and settled at about 13 stone. Not long after I got a dog and we would go for long walks in the Countryside and that helped as well. Good luck Elmo, take it easy and look at is a marathon not a sprint. Clear your cupboards of chocolate and biscuits as they are always too tempting.

I gave up smoking in 2013 and went to vaping I gave up vaping in 2017 and went up to 90kg I joined a gym and went down to 70kg going twice a week even had a 6 pack lol and I’m over 50 started doing stretching yoga it all made a massive difference. lock down is killing that all however I walk over 10000 steps a day even on a work day this week I have managed over 100k steps and do so most weeks come rain or snow lol i can’t wait for the gyms to open again need to start doing the yoga again though as I do feel the joints stiffening up again since stopping. try the couch to 5 k app it’s good to motivate you you can choose your trainer I used Michael Johnson when I had it . the hardest part is the first session

I know where you're coming from regarding weight gain. I was always 15st 8lbs, that was until the first lockdown. I put on 3 stone and having been back to work since September I've not lost a pound and yet I'm a landscape gardener so I do a physical job. It's not helped by the fact that I drive past a certain fast food outlet every work day morning that has a drive thru, combine that with me being weak when it comes to food, I am in there most days. Not good. It's quite simple I guess, calories consumed far out weigh the calories I burn. I need to change something.

Fishing is different to all people some may use their time to get away from the stresses of life and just be there catching is a bonus some want to work as hard in their fishing as they do in every other thing in life that’s what makes fishing so unique it has something for everyone. no wrong and no right