No for the insurance policy as you get older.
15 mins 3 times a week would give you better benefits than one 30 min session I suspect and you can always choose movements which focus more on strength than out and out flexibility.
I really should give yoga it a go at some point now in a bit.
Found this about Wim Hof. Interesting watch.
How dare you re-inflict (commentator) Darryl Eastlake on the World. He disappeared years ago probably by being consumed by his own mouth.
P.S. I canāt see a connection between V8 Supercars racing in Adelaide and Wim Hof.
Me either. Link was ok when I posted, but mysterious forces have intervened. Spookyā¦ And no idea who Eastlake is.
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The vice one is good too:
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Iāve never liked bench press as never been good at it but today a got a good position with incline bench and it felt better than usual. I could feel my pecs working nicely and it all just felt better. Iāll keep this position for a few weeks and see how it goes.
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Are you using a bar or dumbbells?
Iām very aware of how easy it is for bad BP technique to bugger your shoulders.
Iāve been working on form at home for the last couple of months. Jeremyās Built with Science channel on YT is good for BP form guidelines.
I much prefer it with dumbbells, but donāt have heavy ones at home so I risk Labrum tears with a bar - so far so good with an up and back bar path - feels much more natural to me now.
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Using a barbell. I do have dumbbells I could use just canāt be arsed to change the weight on them to be honest. But yeah my right shoulder was hurt years ago and so I can feel that most of the time. I got my shoulders back and right into the bench before unracking the weight and I think I did this much better than previously, maybe it was the seat position that helped but maybe not.
Iāll take a look at that channel.
My bar path was very different to you. Was straight up and down and I was pressing from quite low down, around the bottom of the sternum.
Yes, that helps. I found it hard to maintain that position and press to start with, but improving alot now.
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Yeah, I press my arms out without the bar first with shoulders tight and back so I know how far out I can go before starting, or I tend to overextend.
I know Fred Hatfield taught an arched bar path like what you are doing, at least on a video I saw from years ago.
At least I think thatās what youāre talking about.
This is what Iām trying to master.
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Ok, so I was doing much of this with my focus being on shoulders, hand width and elbows being under the bar though I just pressed straight.
I think the incline height I had today was good as it was a good height for unracking plus having my arms extended and pressed back at the same time. This probably tells me that when I move to flat bench I need to experiment more with the height of the bar hooks.
Good chat 
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This is it. Not as much teaching as I remember haha
Does say to do it in a C motion though.
Covid got heavily in the way of this, but smashed the test today. Who knew getting addicted to long runs would make it easy 
My heart rate at the end of the test was 110 
it literally felt like a warmup
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This is some good stuff. Consider the original Hack Squat would have knees over toes:
And that Tom Platz would do it on the Hack Squat Machine on his toes with knees right out:
Plus also Sissy Squats:
Tom says heās never had a knee problem and he has performed many high reps squats over the years.
My coach used to make me do Nordics and Sissy Squats. Hated the cunt!
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Good man!
He only made me do it because I could, heād not taught me the movement and no other bugger of his trainees could do Nordics in particular. I think it took me a few months to do reps with weight. Now at 50 Iāve just done a few eccentrics but reckon Iād rip every string in my hammies if I tried to power back up! 
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