Saturday, Dec 6
06.12.2020
Very nice day. Had a run in with an overly playful dog in the afternoon - it was trying to eat / was playing with a wild kitten near my door. I kicked it out, but I also felt the urge to play with it. Curious.
Deadlift
Decided to warm up only with fours
70*4
110*4
150*4
180*4 decided to not bother myself with locking out - I mean, I deadlift in a conventional stance, and when the bar is way above my knees my torso is straight, so locking it out would be just a waste of energy and it'd be putting a lot of additional vertical pressure on my spine. I think I saw a video where Eddie Hall explained that he does the same, basically.
208 - 4 sets of 4 - super easy, second and fourth set were done touch and go, the pest paused on the floor. I made sure to be very slow on the negative portion of the lift when I was doing it touch n' go. Well, these notes are mostly for myself. I suspect that it might have become way too easy to DL due to the fact that I put the barbell on the rubber pads. I'm trying to compensate it by not deadlifting with my fingertips in straps, also, my bar doesn't really bend on DLs. We'll see if it's a good approach - I suspect that it is. All long range exercises need an easier starting movement, that's why "powerlifters" love to deadlift on flexible bars so much.
Squats
Some BW squats, and 90 - 3 sets of 10. Then I was done.
Did some bass playing - I had an immensely stupid blunder with it, because when i tried to record it in a new track in Cakewalk I forgot to route it into the master bus, and because of that I really struggled to boost the sound for a while, until I noticed the output on the track.
Random thing of the day - I went on wikisource and pressed the "random work" link a couple times, and ended up here - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Character_(Schopenhauer) - Going to try and read it now.
Well, I read some of it. Sounds very much like me, if I took one more step towards materialism. I was provided an outside perspective on a man like me - definitely curious:
"If a man feels inclined to commit a bad action and refrains, he is kept back either (1) by fear of punishment or vengeance; or (2) by superstition in other words, fear of punishment in a future life; or (3) by the feeling of sympathy, including general charity; or (4) by the feeling of honour, in other words, the fear of shame; or (5) by the feeling of justice, that is, an objective attachment to fidelity and good-faith, coupled with a resolve to hold them sacred, because they are the foundation of all free intercourse between man and man, and therefore often of advantage to himself as well. This last thought, not indeed as a thought, but as a mere feeling, influences people very frequently. It is this that often compels a man of honour, when some great but unjust advantage is offered him, to reject it with contempt and proudly exclaim: _I am an honourable man_! For otherwise how should a poor man, confronted with the property which chance or even some worse agency has bestowed on the rich, whose very existence it is that makes him poor, feel so much sincere respect for this property, that he refuses to touch it even in his need; and although he has a prospect of escaping punishment, what other thought is it that can be at the bottom of such a man's honesty? He is resolved not to separate himself from the great community of honourable people who have the earth in possession, and whose laws are recognised everywhere. He knows that a single dishonest act will ostracise and proscribe him from that society for ever. No! a man will spend money on any soil that yields him good fruit, and he will make sacrifices for it."
Well, enough for now. Here's an image to serve as a thumbnail for my "random thing of the day" - an excerpt from Shopenhauer's wikipedia page.
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