My training log and thoughts

 30.03.2021 Not a training day. Received my cheap new crash cymbal - also a Paiste 101, it sounds almost exactly like the ride. How curious. I plan to use it as a top hihat as well. Also received my new portable headphones, they nor that great, but they should be nice for the garage. I decided that I don't care too much for any kind of earbuds since they can't transmit any bass frequencies. Maybe this one doesn't either, I actally haven't listened to music in it much yet. My back hurts a bit since yesterday. Maybe it's my poor overhead technique - unlikely, maybe it's my new drum pedal - not sure, maybe it's from sleeping in the wrong position. Or maybe it was me sitting with the rounded back yesterday. Somehow I forgot how back it can be for a washed up meathead like yours truly, and now it hurts a it. Did bodyweight squats - two sets of thirty, pumped up some blood in them, made sure that it's a back squat, and the pain went away mostly. Pretty great. ...

29.03.2021 Nice day. Didn't sleep much, couldn't sleep during the day. Wanted to get screwed up on coffee. Did it. Felt both unpleasant and nice. Remember, to get an extraordinary effect from coffee all you need is to drink it from small cups! And you much consider having a lighter breakfast. And, after some time, your hormones will get drained, so you could consider having it with cream or sugar - but then, the caffeine will take much longer to metabolize, so you'll be more likely to stay awake for too long. Probably a nice solution for nighttime guards and truck drivers. I wonder what they have! Not quite a pleasant job, isn't it? But you gotta be grateful to those almost literal human robots. Let's hope one day we'll be able to have a decent robotic delivery system. But before we get there we gotta dislodge a thousand ships from canals, ha ha. That's just me rambling and ejoying myself. Finally, after such a long time, I managed to fit in all the things I...

 27.03.2021 Exquisite day. Had a lot of work in the first half of the day - on fact, more than ever in a long time. Fell asleep at 3AM yesterday, woke up at 10AM today, so that means I'm somewhat back at the start of another "normal" sleep schedule cycle, but, of course, after I was done I fell asleep and slept til 19:00, and only had coffee then. Practiced drums a tiny bit - I'm really far from being able to do anything decent with a double pedal yet. The best I can do is have a lot of fun. Also I tuned it a bit - really tightened the springs, made sure the right one is slightly less tight, but then I had to keep loosening the left one. I think I really need to train my left leg more. After I tightened the springs, sitting on my tiny drum throne became much easier. Played a bit. Then I poured some more water in coffee, re-boiled it (yuck lol haha), had some more coffee with all the caffeine pretty much squeezed out of it. Went downstairs and started obsessively playi...

 Rare word of the day: conflate /kənˈfleɪt/ verb: conflate; 3rd person present: conflates; past tense: conflated; past participle: conflated; gerund or present participle: conflating  - to combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one. "the urban crisis conflates a number of different economic, political, and social issues" 24.03.2021 Nice day. Weird. Unusual, in some way. Had so many dreams. I dreamt of finding a Rickenbacker bass on the street and bringing it into my house. It was dusty. Many other dreams that were sort of a continuation of the dreams I've been having lately. Me doing some kind of a quest while something unfolds around me, some people that are either friends or betrayers interacting with me, me, plotting to do something to someone rather faceless... Nice stuff. I bet it'd make much more sense if I could actually remember anything. Overhead press Warmup 90*5 100*5 100*2+3 - had to fix my headphones 100*5 A couple of reps push...

 22.03.2021 Nice day. Sleep schedule is still a bit off, but it's better. If I'm gonna start waking up too early it's not going to be preferable either, ha ha. Had coffee. Today I once again got jumbled up in the head and could not concentrate on anything at some point. How does this happen? I think I know how. Today I had a very long break between my breakfast - which consisted of some rice with soy sauce - and my coffee intake. I had it in small cups, and a rather large amount as well. And I had some pieces of chocolate, as opposed to a single teaspoon of sugar to bind with all of the coffee, which would drastically change the taste and acidity of the drink, of course. The "tunnel"... I've been doing something that has been making me avoid entering that condition. Maybe it's healthier for me. But, well, today I'm in "the tunnel", and I feel different. My workout has been quite hard as well, to be honest. Let's write it down. Deadlift 70...

 20.03.2021 Nice day. Significantly less depressing. After doing some work, I could help myself but fal asleep til the evening. Had some coffee - about 160 beans from the small cups, much less sugar, then about the same wihtout sugar. Sugar does definitely dampen the effect of caffeine - like it envelops it, prevents it from being absorbed first. I'm not a scientist, so I might be wrong. But that's how it feels. Should you really give into the aesthetic pleasure from coffee and have it with all sorts of candy and cream? I don't think so. Only once in a while something like that can be permissible. Which reminds me - I wanna buy some candy, or maybe dark chocolate. Could buy it in russian amazon - ozon dot com. It's a nice place, can be annoying though. They got way too much money from me, just because they're the least stressful delivery company and I can return stuff easily. I decided to finally buy a double pedal. I'll have a miniscule amount of coin left if I...

 18.03.2021 Emotionally exhausting day. I am being chased around by suicidal thoughts, and that drains me physically. Thankfully, late at night it got better, after two large cups of coffee. I concluded that a wiser decision would be for me to have a lighter session. Deadlift - stiff legged 70 - 2 sets of 15 A couple sets of messy pushups - I got really tight limbs. Squat 70 - 2 sets of 10 A couple sets practicing different modes of the pentatonic scale on my cheap classical guitar (ha ha). Well, that's about it. Although I would love to share some of my creations on Artbreeder - recent St. Patrick's day event in AI Dungeon got me all interested in AI Dungeon avatars, which were all created on that Artbreeder site. Perhaps I'll just post them without any connotations, at least for now. And something for the even more random picture of the day I just went on diddly dot com and that was the second picture that really attracted my attention - ESP J-Four Custom Made in Japan $5...

 15.03.2021 Nice day. Less stressful than average. Had a lot of fun. Deadlift 200*2 230*2 235*2 238,8 - 2 sets of 2 Squat BW 2 sets of 10 70 - 2 sets of 10 Floor supported ring pullups 15 20 with getting my legs off the floor - that's harder Some light bicep curls. And that was it. Played guitar a tiny bit, played Bannerlord for quite a while.  16.03.2021 Rest day. Thankfully, I wan't too busy today. Ended up sleeping too much, just like on sunday. Played drums a tiny bit. Played Bannerlord a tiny bit as well. Basically, on monday I got so overcharged I just had to sleep all day today.  17.03.2021 Another training day, and a wednesday too! There's something so magical about wednesdays. To me, wednesdays have been associated with training, foir a very long time, so it's a ubiquitously exciting day. It's 15:26 right now. I'm reminiscing about the old days - 2012, when I was really deep into doom metal. I'm listening to the band Pilgrim, which I enjoyed back in...

 Some of my favorite art that I came across when I was exploring the internet. It's scaled down, and the pics are links straight to wikimedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rocky_Landscape_in_the_Elbe_Sandstone_Mountains_-_Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustav_Barbarini_-_Das_Wetterhorn.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adalbert_Waagen_-_Motif_of_the_Alps.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_van_Valckenborch_-_Mountainous_landscape.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisque_Millet_-_mountain_landscape_with_lightning.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sierra_Nevada_Albert_Bierstadt_circa_1871.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cole_Thomas_Landscape_the_Seat_of_Mr._Featherstonhaugh_in_the_Distance_1826.jpg

 13.03.2021 Nice day overall, so far, at least. Sponaneous moments of mental pain - nothing too severe, thankfully. It feels like having a burn on my ass and forgetting I can't sit down. It doesn't hurt as long as I don't allow myself to sit down, ha ha. What an allegory. Not sure if good or bad. Not sure if I deserve any compassion for having that "mysterious pain" - well, obviously, I can't tell everything on the internet. (Unless you count my song lyrics, ha ha). On a slightly more cheerful note - I just finished the instrumental part for the third song of my new album, work title "greasy_march" - I posted a bit of it a couple of days ago. And why not post it here and now? It might become sort of a mostly music blog one day. So far, the most interesting thing about this blog is my training. Spire - "greasy_march" (work title) File: The Greasy Pole (La cucaña) por Francisco de Goya ↖ I mean, it's merely a work title, but I suddenly l...

 10.03.2021 Nice enough day. Good recovery. Overhead press Warmup 100*2 110*2 kinda ugly 110 - 2*2 - much better 40*15 40*20 Bent over rows 25 kg plate - two sets of about 35 reps - surprisingly hard, maybe it's cause I'm squeezing my muscles as much as possible, trying to pull the weight right inside of myself on every rep. It's strange how lats similar pulling muscles are so easily susceptible to cramps. Spent most of the day working on a song.  11.03.2021 Nice day - better than yesterday, in fact. Spent a lot of my time working on the song again, then deleted everything, because the beat was bad. Did a couple of other things, had some coffee late at night, about to go deadlift very soon. I might make it lighter than the program requires, since I had issues last week. My OHP and Dl programs caught up to each other - since they're basically the same program, but with a lot of tweaks. That means I might have to go easy after all today. It's a nice opportunity to sav...

 Overall - nice day. Getting a little annoyed at some minor issues, which, hopefully, can be solved at some point. 08.03.2021 Back feeling better, but CNS is still sort of drained since yesterday. Yesterday I was just unnecessarily strained for some reason. Maybe residual fatigue from saturday. I really entranced myself playing guitar for too long. Recorced 20 bars for the song, but I gotta rerecord the last 4 and continue. I want more inspiration for my music. I'm wondering what the theme of my next soing is going to be. At first it was me trying to write doom, ending up with my good old epic/heavy, then succesful doom - you'll see it, then - a banging rockn'roll jam - what I'm working on right now, what I posted last time. What's next? Epic angry inspiring banging tune? Also I wanna rerecord my first two songs - Steel Of My Spear and Brothers Of War. I'm ready to do better drums. Much more simple and straightforward. I think I'll definitely wait before sta...

I wanna share a pretty awesome doom metal album I found. Here it is - I even bought it. Heir to the Cosmic Throne by Old Tomb 06.03.2021 Ah, so much to write, so late at night. Actually interesting things - such as my discovery of the Super Locrian Scale, and me playing with different modes of the harmonic minor scale - which I confused for the melodic minor. The day started out quite normally - I'm still riding out my "even energy" normal sleep schedule. Did some things, done some stuff, rice for breakfast, some tea. Had some stuff canceled, so I was happy about it. As I mentioned before, I ran out of normal coffee, so I drank 3 cups - 6 teaspoons - of instant coffee. Over a cuple hours, or something like that. That's when I was scouring the internet for information about aforementioned scales. And I asked a question about it on Quora - propbably quite a silly one - https://qr.ae/pNdLNt Is Super Locrian scale basically "mixolydian harmonic"? So far, I got t...