My training log and thoughts

 30.08.2021 Nice day. Been very sleepy. So sleepy. Have been having decent nutrition though. Well, decent enough - not great, almost good, just okay. Wrist still hurts - a lot of things hurt, actually. I'm thinking of telling myself this might be a sigh to finally change my activities a bit more radically - i.e. different main exercises. This is a workout blog, after all. Kettlebell swings, 16 kgs - 2 sets of 15 for warmup Squat Air... The air in the garage is so bad. I shoudn't have seen that picture of a cancerous lung. The air has really been an issue for me for a while now. I often - not always - feel like I'm suffocation, but I think it's a psychological thing most of the time. Cleaned up some stuff in the garage - now the second car can finally fit in. Squat 20*10 70*10 90*10 120*10 nice and easy, great stuff. I'm on my way to develop very nice energy levels. I do think I have to change my training approach. I love heavy training in the autumn. Maybe it will b...

 28.08.2021 Nice day. A little messy. Abused coffee - today it actually amped me up after a second portion. First one made me sleepy, second one almped me up, especially after I listened so some music. But I took too long. Way too long. I was thinking of doing heavy bench today, and technically i could have done that, but it was too early. My joints and other connective tissue hurted less that on thursday during bench. Bench press Warmup 70*10 100*5 120*5 a little too hard and painful 100 - 2 sets of 5 70*10 Rubber pulls for bicep - one arm, couple sets, a-la front bicep posing Seated one arm curl from the floor - 31 kgs, 10 reps each hand - not too strictly Seated kettlebell curls, grip bu the body, both hands 16 for 20 32 for 20 - felt pretty hard, perhaps it's a small PR? :D Side-leaning ring curls - strange stuff, hard to explain, but fun. A ring is on the bar, I take it and lean to one side, keeping my body up with the curl of the opposite hand - 2 sets of roughly 10 --- Psalm...

 26.08.2021 Nice day. CNS isn't amped up. A lot of hidden crankiness within my old glands. But overall feeling super calm. I even wished for more days to be so calm - it's like I was a child again. It's like I forgot a lot of things that happened. That's how I felt today when I woke up. Had sum covfefe. Dug a hole cus my mom axed me 2 do dat. After my second portion of cofffe - ariund 8 o clobnke - felt like lying down. Still though, I gopt uip and wemt dowsteers. Squat 20*10 70*10 90*10 100*10 120*10 nice and easy, not exhaling - kinda cool in a way 160 for 3 easy 170 for 3 same Drummed a bit. Nothing too interesting, except for a pattern where hihats go 1 - 2&3&4 and bass drum goes 1& 3e&. There, finally somnething inventive. Heaved a bush/tree around int eh streets - chokeberry tree, that had to be removed from somehwere, that's ewhat the hole was for. It didn't fit too well, doesn't matter. Bench press 20*10 painful 40*10 less 70*10 uneve...

 21.08.2021 Nice day. Feeling good in the morning. Energy seemed okay. Had coffee, felt some effect from it. When the time came to train I felt tired and I was condemning my experiments with training days. And my wrist hurted, since in my uncollected state I didn't use proper technique. But i felt something - I felt that there is a spark inside. And drums helped. I almost didn't use my right hand on drums at all today - only a few bars. And it hurted, slightly. Playing good old bass drum grooves. Felt nice. Overhead press 70*5 90*3 100*3 107,8 - 4 sets of 3 - I brought out the player and finally rocked to some old tunes, and some of my tunes in the end there. Felt good. Not perfect, but I'm not completely out of shape. And after today I'm in a better shape. Bench 70 - 2 sets of 20 - moderate pump, felt good Important note - I didn't wake up at 3AM tonight, so I didn't play any games until early morning. I think that's a correct thing, to not play any games a...

 20.08.2021 Nice day. Did some work. Slept for 5 hours during the night and roughly 1.5 hours during the day. A little weird. Well, my physical culture hypothetisations were slightly incorrect - I came to conclude that a 6 day cycle is not for me. Training every day - not for me, because, given the opportunity, I'll train harder than I should - like yesterday. Yesterday still was a light day, but i ended uphaving a bodybuilding sort of session rather than an actual light session. Good enough though. Finding out more about myself. Training more often is great, but amping up your CNS isn't. Today I'm actually going to have a light day and do some accesory works. Romanian deadlifts 1 set of 20 - no weight 7 kg for 20 reps - 3 sets One leg high kicks/swings 3 sets of 20 reps Prone leg raises - 1 set of 20, 2 sets of 10 Squats - 4 sets of 10 - makes me feel so good every time, how funny And that's about it. Still have a lot to learn about my energy management. A six day ...

 18.08.2021 Nice day. Low energy, high agitation. Small amound of sleep, earlier workout, a lot of drumming that might have been too loud for me. Squat Warmup 70 - 90 - 100 - 110 - 120 for 10 reps - well, aren't I out of shape. Not too long ago i'd juist have something like this at the end of every workout, light or heavy. Well, it's good that I can easily get back in shape. Overhead press - 20 - 3 sets of 20 19.08.2021 Keeping it super easy, all according to plan. A set of all-around warmup with 2 kg dumbbells Rubber pulls - 2 sets of 15, then the same with one arm - nice pump Prone floor-supported ring pulls - 3 sets of 15 - nice, not too easy, strong pump Weird how on my "heavy days" I almost never get pumped. Some weird one-arm bicep pumping - you know, like I'm posing - wth ring, using some of my bodyweight - pretty hard stuff, but you can regulate how much weight you're using with just your legs - two or three sets Seated kettlebell curls, gripping b...

 16.08.2021 Woke up at 2AM after roughly 13 hours of sleep. Played FO76. I assumed I was already in "monday mode", but I could avoid negaqtive effects from gaming if I slept a bit. Slept from 1 to 5 PM. Woke up hazy. Got some caffeine, felt good and didn't go overboard with negativity. Eyes hurted, felt like there was pressure in them. Played around with my mic - tried plugging it into my phone. I'm not sure, but I think it worked. Later Overhead press Warmup 70*5 90*5 felt very weak 100 - 2 sets of 5 - felt weak Played drums a bit, got negative due to some other things. Later at night did a few sets of dummbell flys (not flies) with 6 kg for 15 resp, quick breaks. --- Important thing - your energy goes away all the time. So it's way better to work out right after sleeping. Cause when you sleep you gain some energy overall. My sleeping got broken. It's like I had 4 hour long sleep after playing FO76 for too long. Can't play it during the day - connection b...

 14.08.2021 Relatively nice day. The bird's chirping, he ain't talking. Dammit, I forgot that birds can talk. --- I stand before my PC with a pot of coffee - only about 3 small cups, only about 3/4 of a fistful of beans. Pray for me so I don't enter into a... not very good condition. --- Roughly 30 minutes later Well, I'm not depressed, only a little bit antagonistic towards a lot of things I'm looking at. Not sure what to do today. I keep speculating that I might be out of energy so I don't want to lift heavy. Well, who would have energy after beating their CNS with the power of consciousness? I think I've no idea what I want to lift today. Bench, perhaps? I'd love to drum for a while. --- Kinda want to get my workout over with. Well, I think I gotta keep in mind that I might have a maxout some time soon. Another cool idea I came up with So, I was watching this video with Dr. Austin Baraki and another slick-haired short powerlifter doctor, can't rem...

 12.08.2021 Caffeine... What a thing. Am I myself anymore? It doesn't feel bad to believe it uninhibits me if it's just me that it uninhibits, if it doesn't make me do something I wouldn't have thought of. I only had a half of a fistful of beans - not a lot, and immediately got quite cranky. Overall, I've been feeling well today. I reckon caffeine might be wasting my energy more than my actual working out. Felt tired and fell asleep during the day today. Very relaxed day. Played FO76 a lot and enjoyed a lot. Isn't that surprising? I completely didn't care about playing a few weeks ago. What did I care about? Not exactly sure. Actually, I'm starting to remember. I've been cranking the shaft a little too much at the time. Can make you depressed if you do it too much. It just depletes hormones in your brain. And now those hormones get to please me when I'm making music, working out and playing videogames. Gotta have good discipline and habits when d...

 11.08.2021 Okay, I'll come clean. https://randomwordgenerator.com/ is how I generate my post titles! You got me. We're both laughing :D - xD Overhead press Warmup 70*5 90*5 97,8 - 5 sets of 5 - pretty easy, some reps are rather strict, still got the power, but now completely in shape. Made a video of me drumming - just to showcase what I'm practising at the moment. Coffee been doing me a lil too hard, but not extremely. Kinda wanna buy a new camera with a better microphone. Shouldn't be too expensive, right? Floor-supported ring pullups (easy) 4 sets of 10 Oxygen squats + two 6 kg dumbbells 15 - 20 - 15 - 20 Pictures of the day - but only some of them are random. Can you guess which one? Maybe I'll reveal the answer in the future post! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha!  

 09.08.2021 Coffee - a unique drink, a unique addiction. Pretty deadly if you got bad stuff in your conscious and your subconscious. Overall it's great though. Just great. You gotta learn to feel good without it though, of course. Although I clearly don't feel good, ha ha. Decided to keep it light today. Might keep it light until some time in september. Deadlift 70 - 120 for 5 160 - 3 sets of 5 all overhand Quite some drumming in between sets - first the warmup (from 10 to one with just hands on beats), then some diddling, them some conventional quarted beats, then some double bass - nothing too complicated, then the beat for the song (Homage to RotW (Manowar song)). I have vague ideas what the song is gonna be about. Tried to record. I'm there, but I can't play fills very well. I think I got better today. I figured out that it's seven hertas + two 16th notes to make a fill over two bars. I gotta practice it. Or just go with the "bass drum + crashes+ fill - muc...

 07.08.2021 Have I ever mentioned before how I call coffee "suicide juice"? He he. All the little mistakes. Yet I do. Just gotta not let it get too deep, he he he. Well, here's a funny thing I asked on quora: "What is your relationship with caffeine? Does it affect you in different ways under different circumstances? What are some of your personal habits involving caffeine?" And someone answered: "I completely avoid caffeine and theobromine, a related compound found in chocolate. It took me 25 years to discover that it was caffeine that was chiefly responsible for me experiencing Bipolar II like symptoms of depression and hypomania. Once I figured that relationship out I’ve never touched the stuff, aside from a one coffee test I did a couple of years ago that turned out really badly. My relatives are addicted to coffee and the male ones drink, no exaggeration, 5–6 cups a day every day, without apparent issue a day. My bad luck to have some weird mutation th...

 05.08.2021 As I mentioned before, the titles of my posts are a secret and a joke. But they're not a metaphor. Some stressful things happened - not too stressful. But you gotta train your nerves as well sometimes. People with nerves of steel don't just out of nowhere, you know! Bench + some drumming, got amped up a lot 70*10 90*10 Distracted for a long time 90*5 Full range flys (not flies) 10 reps with 6 kg dumbbells + squats with them, 10 reps each - 4 sets Feels good. Thursday has been a day when I expect to have lots of energy, but I don't. Gotta consider this and plan around it correctly. Maybe not always, especially if wednesdays are easy enough. Random picture of the day

 02.08.2021 I hope you can understand the joke behind my post titles. It's rather simple, but it's one of those things that both fascinates me and makes me laugh. Monday... What did I do? Had a really nice day, if I recall correctly. Bench press 110 - 5 sets of 8 while drumming a lot I think my quick footwork is getting better.  Footwork in terms of drumming means, of course, mostly bass drum. But you could use other pedals. I'm not that great wityh hihat. My Paiste 101 crash actually sounds really nice when it's shut tight as a top of my hihats. And here on top is one of the variations of beats that I'm training right now. I'm getting better. I relocated some recording equipment downstairs. I hope I don't regret it. What else did I do? Some light overhead presses, some jumping around with a pair of 6 kg dumbbells. Great form of cardio! If only my current little headphones weren't falling off all the time. I haven't used little "tablet"-st...

 31.07.2021 "how to get over impulsive suicidal thoughts" How? I've no idea. Why does it happen? Must be brain chemistry or something. One day you have good hormones, another day you have nothing. Thank God I don't have a gun! Also I've been... making mistakes with my choices in life. Small mistakes that no one else can see or guess. But crossing this boundary meant I got close to another one, and that one was quite shocking. I'm not one person. I have two wills that have to fight. More wills than two, in fact. But, as I mentioned before, I just... Now that's just cringe. If you want, you can re-read some stuff from april or something, I think I detailed it there as well. It has nothing to do with people that were previously mentioned, this time it's mostly just me. Sometimes just being is quite an active act. Well, I hope I'm I'm letting out all the bullshit from my brain. Coffee time soon. --- Coffee time. Brain flooded with bad memories - wh...