23 nov

 23.11.2020

Nice day. Good old vicious cycle of coffee. Had too much, in a bad way. It released a lot of cortisol or something in my head, I became very irritable and frustrated even before the session.

Well, first - after a first batch of coffee - I was all nice and inspired. I remastered my last "improv" track and wanted to upload it, but my "free version" of a video editor from 10 years ago is, apparently, quite bad and distorted the song by adding a humming sound. I tried finding workarounds, including uploading straight to youtube music, but, apparently, it's only good for your own personal playlist, if you ever want to have it online.

My joints were acting up real bad yesterday, one hip and one knee, didn't get much sleep, but in the end, it was all okay. Made a decision to move my DLs to wednesday, instead do my forgotten bench on monday (today).

Bench

50*60 

70*30

102,8 for 22 reps - really ugly, but it is a mini PR - +2 reps, +2.5 kgs

102,8 for 20 even uglier tbh, I gotta learn to press a tiny bit more vertically. But at least my technique helps me to move the bar off my chest easily (supposedly 😁)

90*20 muscle felt all empty, especially the triceps

Curious observation - I (and many other people) refer to the triceps in a singular form, even though we're talking about both arms. I guess that's the mental difference between languages - english puts more attention on the muscle itself, while russian puts more on the bodyparts.

Then I did some light pumping supersets

Overhand curl - a la rectangular fix

20*20, then 30 - 3 sets of 15

Squats

BW for 30

30 - 2 sets of 15

Goodmornings

30 - 2 sets of 15 - one with a Zarcher grip (harder), another normal.

Then I was done. Drummed a tiny bit. Gotta get around to it and finally record something.

Took a couple pills of nitroglycerin today - I was sort of just curious about it, but I do have to day that it is, indeed, most likely unsafe to consume unprescribed medicine. I used to take some other vasodilator in 2014 for a couple months, it was nice, but it led to headaches, occasionally (only in I took two pills, which I stopped doing and just enjoyed the supposed benefits, which, even if they were real, were mostly placebo). My sudden and sharp irritability was one thing that prompted me to take it, and this consession to my impulse helped me a bit, I think. I hypothecise that a man's inhibition bar runs out eventually if it's bombared with forbidden impulses. I wrote about it before. Not sure if I should trust myself - I think it's quite possible to hold yourself under control indefinitely, even though it does gets harder - until a certain point. I do feel quite superior for being able to control myself. That says something about me, doesn't it? Ha ha. 

Well, here's a track I wrote last wednesday and finished recording last saturday. It was fun to make.