[windowcleaninginessex.co.uk]

Question for those of you that have converted from traditional window cleaning to the wfp.

Has any of you put on weight, as most of you all state it is better than using ladders and definately less exercise.

Darren

[LWC]

nope...iv always been fat 

[Dean Aspects]

I thought about that when i first started wfp but as i do three nights a week of martial arts training thought i wouldnt put weight on guess what i did put weight on one stone 

Dean

[AJ]

I get the 'boy' to do all the pole work and I haven't noticed any change in him.

[mark dew]

I get the 'boy' to do all the pole work and I haven't noticed any change in him.

oh my god!! 

where's the pin?

[LWC]

he defiantly needs a SL2 

[windowcleaninginessex.co.uk]

I get the 'boy' to do all the pole work and I haven't noticed any change in him.

Hi AJ
I don't remember giving you permission to use my picture, i think i will have to sue you

Hahaha
Darren

[Alex Gardiner]

Weight gain, but it's all muscle I keep telling everyone 

[LWC]

Weight gain, but it's all muscle I keep telling everyone 

hehe, i always say that!

[steve m]

so I'm not the only one building muscle round the waistline then

[Sir Squeaky]

Same here.
It's annoying, I've got to do other exercise as well now, but I'm still filling out around the middle.

My shoulders, chest and arms are ripped, but I'm getting a beer belly.

[drakestar!]

stop drinking the beer

[windowwashers]

I thought about that when i first started wfp but as i do three nights a week of martial arts training thought i wouldnt put weight on guess what i did put weight on one stone 

Dean

depends how quick you move with the magic water pole I guess, I have not really lost any weight or gained any, maybe a little fat reduction but thats about it 

[Bobs Window Cleaning]

Beer gut for me nowadays..............trying to sort tho

[windowwashers]

Beer gut for me nowadays..............trying to sort tho

if you have a beer gut, all you have to do is put weight on the others parts grow some moobs sorted   

[Bobs Window Cleaning]

Moods............i like it

[Paul Coleman]

nope...iv always been fat 

Ditto.
Can't even see my errrrrrrrrrrrm toes these days.

[Wayne Thomas]

I call it winter reserves (like animals that hibernate for the winter), however it all comes back off again for the summer, lol

[windowwashers]

I call it winter reserves (like animals that hibernate for the winter), however it all comes back off again for the summer, lol

You hope 

[groundhog]

No fat on me!! I think it comes down to how you go about your work, I really go for it everyday, running from window to window!!! and scrubbing away like a man possessed!!! I love it, and I'm as fit as a fiddle!!!!!!!  I time every job, and then try to break my previous time everytime I clean, keeps me motivated and in shape, not to mention richer!!! 

[Wayne Thomas]

I'm on a lot of medication everyday. I spend ages trying to put on some weight and it only takes one bad day of being continually sick (24hours)and I've lost half a stone. It's taking me 5 years to put on a stone and stabilise at a constant weight. I'm eating like a horse, I wish I could get fat.

[windowwashers]

I'm on a lot of medication everyday. I spend ages trying to put on some weight and it only takes one bad day of being continually sick (24hours)and I've lost half a stone. It's taking me 5 years to put on a stone and stabilise at a constant weight. I'm eating like a horse, I wish I could get fat.

I understand where you are coming from there, I have to take tablets everyday, make me moody in the morning, dont want to eat, cant fall asleep  thats life for me,


Lifes like that sometimes.

Many others have it worse than me and I repect them.
I just have to deal with it 

[Wayne Thomas]

I'm on a lot of medication everyday. I spend ages trying to put on some weight and it only takes one bad day of being continually sick (24hours)and I've lost half a stone. It's taking me 5 years to put on a stone and stabilise at a constant weight. I'm eating like a horse, I wish I could get fat.

I understand where you are coming from there, I have to take tablets everyday, make me moody in the morning, dont want to eat, cant fall asleep  thats life for me,


Lifes like that sometimes.

Many others have it worse than me and I repect them.
I just have to deal with it 

Ian,
is that why you work on websites then go bed at 6am, out at 9ish for a full day, back on the forum whilst building your website empire 24/7
No time to sleep, lol

[windowwashers]

I'm on a lot of medication everyday. I spend ages trying to put on some weight and it only takes one bad day of being continually sick (24hours)and I've lost half a stone. It's taking me 5 years to put on a stone and stabilise at a constant weight. I'm eating like a horse, I wish I could get fat.

I understand where you are coming from there, I have to take tablets everyday, make me moody in the morning, dont want to eat, cant fall asleep  thats life for me,


Lifes like that sometimes.

Many others have it worse than me and I repect them.
I just have to deal with it 

Ian,
is that why you work on websites then go bed at 6am, out at 9ish for a full day, back on the forum whilst building your website empire 24/7
No time to sleep, lol

sort of, I dont get tired I just shut down every now and again, is highly annoying.

I would give anything to have a normal nights sleep, but till then I will keep working better than getting stressed.

Ian

[mark dew]

said this before ian, but dabbling with yoga will allow you sleep well and to relax. And many other benefits as well.

[windowwashers]

said this before ian, but dabbling with yoga will allow you sleep well and to relax. And many other benefits as well.

Mark, I know you are tryiong to help with tha comment, I am under physio private (costing a fortune) and am being refered to some brian thing guy that does nerves ect.


something is not right I know that , yoga cant fix and damaged nerve system, I have asked about every thing and was toild not to do anything like this as I could do my self damage. So for now, I just get needles in the wrong places every week (getting p'eed off with it now) till I get to see the right person to hopefully sort it out.

Thanmkls for trying to help I mean that 

Ian

[geefree]

personally i think wfp makes you  fitter.... walking up ladders is hardly energetic... nor is popping it on your shoulder... the hardest part is getting them on a high van....

water fed pole, .. arms are bigger... shoulders too..... reeling hose in fast is another form of exercise too.... we all tend to go like the clappers..... and using a wfp ... is a lot better exercise for the body... than pulling a squeegy round a pane of glass....

i am much fitter now.

 

[Sir Squeaky]

personally i think wfp makes you  fitter.... walking up ladders is hardly energetic... nor is popping it on your shoulder... the hardest part is getting them on a high van....

water fed pole, .. arms are bigger... shoulders too..... reeling hose in fast is another form of exercise too.... we all tend to go like the clappers..... and using a wfp ... is a lot better exercise for the body... than pulling a squeegy round a pane of glass....

i am much fitter now.

 

You're kidding yourself Gazza.
Never in a million years.

Yes, my arms and shoulders get a workout, but it's never like carrying ladders about and going up and down all day.

Why do you think people do step-aerobics?
I was nowhere near as fit as when I was on ladders. Fact.
I work out 3 times a week now and go on walks, just to be as healthy as I was.

I got repetitive strain from washing and squeegeeing, that's why I had to change my method.

Wfp is a piece of piddle. :

[alanwilson]

I got repetitive strain from washing and squeegeeing, that's why I had to change my method.

yes squeeky, so we've been told!

[geefree]

nope not kidding myself... humping ladders about all day... or walking up them .. cos i never ran up them... made my life miserable lol... and i did not like it one bit... but i wanted to succeed..

but i was not getting fit doing that... i was uncomfortable...

now i go like the clappers, happy and getting fitter every day....

wfp being a piddle ,, yes it is... but  with pound signs in my eyes , you can race around and get fitter , without all the pains of the ladders.

thats just my opinion squeaky... you have your own.

 

[windowwashers]

I got repetitive strain from washing and squeegeeing, that's why I had to change my method.

yes squeeky, so we've been told!

loooooool

[mark dew]

I've never felt like i've done a workout with wfp compared to working trad. Racing up and down ladders with my arms flying around like a windmill got my heart pumping like a madman.
I agree with squeaks that wfp is almost leisurely in comparison. I work fast with wfp but unless i'm overdressed i don't often get a sweat on nowadays.

[windowwashers]

I've never felt like i've done a workout with wfp compared to working trad. Racing up and down ladders with my arms flying around like a windmill got my heart pumping like a madman.
I agree with squeaks that wfp is almost leisurely in comparison. I work fast with wfp but unless i'm overdressed i don't often get a sweat on nowadays.

then work faster, I am dripping with sweat even when it is cold if I am on a mission for the day

[mark dew]

then work faster, I am dripping with sweat even when it is cold if I am on a mission for the day

I am fast. I'm also strong now i've worked those little previously unused muscles for a couple of years now. Up down, side to side isn't extremely hard work on 2 or 3 story jobs once you're strong enough and use a technique that works for you.

[mark dew]

learning to breathe properly will help with relaxing and sleeping.

h t t p ://yoga.about.com/od/breathing/a/nadisodhana.htm

[groundhog]

personally i think wfp makes you  fitter.... walking up ladders is hardly energetic... nor is popping it on your shoulder... the hardest part is getting them on a high van....

water fed pole, .. arms are bigger... shoulders too..... reeling hose in fast is another form of exercise too.... we all tend to go like the clappers..... and using a wfp ... is a lot better exercise for the body... than pulling a squeegy round a pane of glass....

i am much fitter now.

 

I agree!!!

[groundhog]

personally i think wfp makes you  fitter.... walking up ladders is hardly energetic... nor is popping it on your shoulder... the hardest part is getting them on a high van....

water fed pole, .. arms are bigger... shoulders too..... reeling hose in fast is another form of exercise too.... we all tend to go like the clappers..... and using a wfp ... is a lot better exercise for the body... than pulling a squeegy round a pane of glass....

i am much fitter now.

 

You're kidding yourself Gazza.
Never in a million years.

Yes, my arms and shoulders get a workout, but it's never like carrying ladders about and going up and down all day.

Why do you think people do step-aerobics?
I was nowhere near as fit as when I was on ladders. Fact.
I work out 3 times a week now and go on walks, just to be as healthy as I was.

I got repetitive strain from washing and squeegeeing, that's why I had to change my method.

Wfp is a piece of piddle. :

I think this explains why you are so slow with wfp squeaky, and are only managing to do 15-20% more than with trad!!!!! Put a bit more effort in and you will be doing 50%+ more and get a work out at the same time!! 

[Sir Squeaky]

I think this explains why you are so slow with wfp squeaky, and are only managing to do 15-20% more than with trad!!!!! Put a bit more effort in and you will be doing 50%+ more and get a work out at the same time!! 

You're full of rubbish mate. :

I'm not slow with wfp at all, you're slow trad.

Do you sleep with your wfp?
Do you caress it on lonely evenings?

It's all you ever rave about, and everything else is rubbish. :
You want to open your eyes and stop having this wfp tunnel vision.

As soon as something better comes along you'll divorce it anyway.
It'll all end in tears...

[elite mike]

here we go


lol

[NWH]

I got a ganglion on my wrist from squeeggeeing all the time,since WFP and not using it as much the ganglion has gone completley.

[xxmattyxx]

I got a ganglion on my wrist from squeeggeeing all the time,since WFP and not using it as much the ganglion has gone completley.

Arent they meant to be in your scrotum?

[NWH]

You can get them anywhere with RSI,i`m surprised i havn`t got 1 in my scrotum lol.

[groundhog]

I think this explains why you are so slow with wfp squeaky, and are only managing to do 15-20% more than with trad!!!!! Put a bit more effort in and you will be doing 50%+ more and get a work out at the same time!! 

You're full of rubbish mate. :

I'm not slow with wfp at all, you're slow trad.

Do you sleep with your wfp?
Do you caress it on lonely evenings?

It's all you ever rave about, and everything else is rubbish. :
You want to open your eyes and stop having this wfp tunnel vision.

As soon as something better comes along you'll divorce it anyway.
It'll all end in tears...

Oh dear squeaker has to resort to insults once again!!! I am actually trying to help you as I was in the same position as you once when I started out with wfp and thought that it wasn't any quicker than trad,  in fact I went back to trad a few months after getting my first wfp because I hated it so much, but I listened to advice from other window cleaners and others on this site so decided to give it another bash and after a few more months I started to get quicker and quicker and I think that I have now perfected my technique and am now cleaning houses quicker than I ever thought possible!!!! This has taken approx 2.5 years to get to the stage I am at now with wfp. If you say that you have to work out in the evenings because wfp is not strenuous enough for you, then you certainly don't use it in the way that I do!!! But your obviously not interested in listening to any advice from me so carry on the way you are, its up to you.
As for who I sleep with, I sleep with my very beautiful and younger wife!! I don't have any lonely evenings thankyou!!!    and as for divorcing wfp, well yes of course I would if something better and quicker came along, but I don't think thats likely to happen for a long time if at all!!!

[brett walker]

nope...iv always been fat 

and me 

[pingu]

Groundhog...I would'nt waste your bandwidth mate....Squeaks very rarely has anything constructive to throw into the ring...

Dave.

[Sir Squeaky]

Groundhog...I would'nt waste your bandwidth mate....Squeaks very rarely has anything constructive to throw into the ring...

Dave.

Oh sorry, my fault for being honest and realistic.
I should be on here overinflating my figures, times, and dreams. :

More fool you Pingu for believing the wafflers.

[Clive McDonald]

Squeaky,
I've been dying to know a few things about your signwriting. I kept hoping you'd put it up for someone else. So assuming you don't want to show a picture how about a brief description? and has it brought you any work?

[Sir Squeaky]

A get a few calls, but mainly it's people asking me while I'm out.

Thing is with the calls, you don't know if it's from the van or not, it may have just been a recommendation.

[Clive McDonald]

Fair enough.

I've lost weight because I don't have time to eat.

[nat]

don't you ask how they got your number squeaky? its pretty much the first thing i ask! you have to know what media is working surely??

[groundhog]

Groundhog...I would'nt waste your bandwidth mate....Squeaks very rarely has anything constructive to throw into the ring...

Dave.

Cheers Dave, and totally agree with you!!!

[Wayne Thomas]

I got a ganglion on my wrist from squeeggeeing all the time,since WFP and not using it as much the ganglion has gone completley.

That's because you were twisting your ligaments around your tenons because of Repetitive Strain Injury, looks painful and slowly does become very painful. IMO reducing trad work has saved you the need to go into hospital for an operation to have it removed. You've been lucky and wise NWH.