Monday, 20th

 20.09.2021

Nice day. Not much to say. Slept well. Rather moderate breakfast. Received my arabica coffee, as well as a couple of chocolates and a battery for the scales. Apparently I lost some, and now I'm 109 kgs in clothing. I think I was above 111 in late august. Not sure.

Had some coffee. First I had 60 beans, like I wanted. Then I did some rather shameful rationalizing - since robusta has, like, twice the caffeine, and I was gonna have 60 beans of robusta that means I was privy to three times that, for some reason. So I had more. It felt like a tiny bit too much. Anyway, I didn't getr amped too hard, but I concluded that I was, indeed, amped. Amping = roughly 3/10.

Squat

Warmup

Then sets of 10

20 - 50 - 70 - 100 - 120 - 140

Today I put a tiny bit more effort into squatting deeper. I thing I succeded.

High bar squat - 50 for 10 - unusual, but not too bad.

I felt like that have to have been enough. I didn't want to give in to endorphin temptation and do any more heavy lifting - I have more important things to do later this week.

Wrist curls, over and under, 6 kg dumbbells

5 sets of 20 - I think I got much stronger! I'm barely getting pumped, and the weight feels much lighter. I might have to start doing it with heavier weights some time in the future.

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Some time later

I came up with an idea to make a "clip" for the songs in my EP - just quiet and soft stock footage, differently themed. I have a couple ideas. Make sure to switch clips exactly when the parts change, and maybe add some flashy effect to accentuate some beats. For As Yggdrasil I mostly have "dark green plains" and hills - already downloaded a lot, for "Prayer" I should pick up some ominous movements in the night, as well as fire, for "March" - mostly darkness and night, and for "Final Stand" - sea. Actually, Final Stand already has a clip. Have I ever posted it here? Surely, I must have. "Final Stand" and As Yggdrasil were the only songs "released" before the EP. I just feel out of ideas. I mean, why am I releasing it? Who's gonna listen to it? Sure, people who browse Bandcamp are gonna pick it up and spread it among some social sites. What if I released it with the frikkin Distrokid? I'm not so sure. They mistreated Dan Vasc, but overall they were endorsed by everyone - well, americans and canadians, not everyone. If I am actually going to go through with more of Youtube stuff I foresee a lot of struggle with Google's policies of all sorts. Well, I believe I myself am not that NSFW at all. Sopme stuff that I talk about was sort of bad, but me myself - me was not. Ha ha. Me be illiterate for funnies. Doesn't matter.

You know that feeling of "freedom of movement" you experience when you play videogames? Well, you can feel it in real life too! You see, the reason you feel it is because you can move around without expending any energy. But if your body pumps itself full of endorphins the effect is gonna be the same! That's what people who run marathons feel, and people who work out intensively without actually getting tired, like I did today. Some work, but I preserved a lot of energy.