My training log and thoughts

 28.02.2022 I almost bought a Checter C-6 Deluxe. I ordered it, but they returned the money. Someone else got it first. I don't like stingthroughs from an aesthetic point of view. But tuning stability on them is so good, I heard. And I want a 25.5 inch scale guitar. I heard an opinion that 24.75 scale has intonation problems. Not a big deal though. I like my SG a lot. Maybe I should buy monitors after all. That would be better. I wonder if I'd be able to use my monitors as normal entertainment speakers. Ordered another guitar. A PRS homage. It's cheaper and has cashback as well. And I'll have to wait for a while, which sort of offsets my spending. I mean, what's the big deal? You know, I bought cause I'm hoping it'll help me stop spending money on things that don't last, like takeouts, for example. Takeouts provide a nice psychological relief, and when I think about it - it doesn't sound that healthy. Similar to stress eating and stress spending. It ...

 24.02.2022 Cool day. Interesting stuff happening. Super light workout, very late at night. Rubber pulls / squat with rubber support 15 / 15 - 5 sets Some olympic stretching with a stick. Nice workout yesterday. I gotta get more discipline though. 26.02.2022 Nice day. Did a repeatable quest, moderately sized, but satisfying breakfast. Then I fell asleep again, and slept uptil relatively late, as seems to be the case per usual. I hung around my PC last night for too long, unsatisfied with news and entertainment. I got in a real musical mood yesterday - that was good. Spent so much time noodling, a small amount of time learning something, and some time late at night recording a somewhat cool riff that played in my head. Maybe it can be the start of the new album. I've been feeling a slight desire to travel somewhere. Maybe visit a random music shop and touch everything. I'll most likely end buying something. Mustn't buy pedals, anything drumset related, or anything I don'...

 23.02.2022 Let's write about life. What has this blog been about? Workouts, of course, casual things in life, my experiences and an occasional droplet of something actually philosophical. Which, of course, drowns and dissolves in this ocean of casuality. That's why if you wanna be a thinker you must actually write books. Not some random sprinkles of your barely founded thoughts. Well, let's talk about last week. Stress isn't really a bad thing. The worst thing about "stress" - in our case, we almost always mean "nervous stress" - is the fact that it fatigues your nervous system. Oh, it used to be worse. I'd lie at nights listening to my fricking heartbeat as adrenaline kept pushing all over me. Recently, I've been experiencing similar things. And I came to conclude that no one around me is actually understanding it. To be fair, I only cared about one person understanding it, and they were never willing to try to comprehend my experiences. Ma...

 21.02.2022 Shoishe day. Huh. Strange. Unpredictable. Reverting to "former" states. Hoping for contradicting things. Did a couple repeatable quests. Not feeling that great. Like 49/100 overall. But I do feel strong and powerful, which is grandiose. I am, in fact, in a very good shape and in a nice musical shape too, ha ha. I must preserve energy today, and also accumulate it. Which is why I'm not sure what I'm gonna do for a workout today. It's already very late. One of those days. On wednesday I have the exercise that I happen to be specializing in - 5 sets of 8 in DL. Maybe I'll vary it. Nervous. I'm about to say a strange thing. But I think I started loving being nervous. I'm somewhat more in control. I just love that shaky pointless adrenaline feeling, that feels like someone is grating the inside of your chest. Hmm. And I'm not joking, believe me. I started liking pain as a kid. I'm not twisted enough to inflict it intentionally, so I gues...

 17.02.2022 You know, the feeling of that "tunnel vision" that I like to mention is definitely connected to music. And it's the best. It's more "pure" of all the "altered states" I tend to enter. Brain must have been restructured recently. I think I've moved closer to creativity. Just like in the last few weeks, DL moves my sleep a bit. Tunneled the internets for a long time, then took some more time to fall asleep. Just fathom this - my workout ended aroun 9PM, so I stood in front of my PC for, like six hours. How strange. That's the power you get without a chair. And, as I might have mentioned before, it's good for deadlifters - so their body doesn't get stuck in a seated positions, like normal people's bodies. Squat 6 sets of 15 Later I did some shoulder stretching - rather minimal, three sets. My arms feel stiff. Must fix. You know, I realised I can't fake a smile. How funny. I can't make a convincing expression. I g...

 16.02.2022 Really nice day. Sleep - 7/10, nutrition - 65/100 (not enough diversity, but good), overall CNS - 66/100. Woke up, did a repeatable quest, had a breakfast, had some rest, managed to find a hidden package with coffee that I stashed somewhere, it turned out really good. Stlightly more "aggressive" taste than the one I had. Let me show you. I had Egoiste for a while, and opened up Lavazza today. Great stuff. I was just glad. Managed to avoid "distraction" before the start. Took a while to have my coffee though, regardless of distractions. Played AID again. Funny stuff - I resubbed, realising that I've been playing with JAX (watch Sparkfinger channel for explanation, if you really care), and it was quite coherent. The "secret beta dragon" was a little weird today, but better, I think. Having vicarious text world adventures. A lot of fun. Deadlift Long warmup, paying attention to "opening up my hips" - i.e. being able to fully flex my ...

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 14.02.2022 Nice day. Had not too much sleep, but wasn't sleepy. Woke up, gave a lesson  ehm... did a repeatable quest (I have to maintain the aura of fantasy, you know, cause it's not a serious blog - aside for physical culture stuff), then did some random stuff, did another quest - I get so excited with the language, you know, it stimulated my brain, so I felt really nice. Started having coffee. I think today I had better discipline, so I only took two hours to drink my coffee and surf the web. Overhead press - I was not sure how much i wanted to do. But the barbell felt so light, despite a rather prolonged gymnasticesque warmup! 20*6 50*5 70*5 90 - 3 sets of 10 - first was easy, second harder and unbalanced, third more balanced but even harder. Really good for me, I reckon. My shoulders are in good shape, but my upper back is really tight after not pressing often enough. DL made it tighter, more musclebound. So my technique was ugly as heck. Still nice though. Well, you'...

 12.02.2022 I gotta tell you, man, i'm really wondering about the nature of recovery after heavy deadlifts. It's either my wednesday DLs made me really tired or I believed something like this. Well, it'd be reasonable to not have much energy on thursday, considering it's the next day. Friday? Wait, is today friday? Confusing, ha ha. I was already in saturday mindset. Well, I haven't been having very nice recovery, but also not too bad. Nutrition - 81/100, sleep - just no idea, like 60/100. Today - kinda messy, a lil nervous for good reasons. I've been fixated on being properly excited and awake for my lessons, so I have been. That lead to an inability to fall asleep at certain times. I wish I had an iron to even out my mind. So, I didn't have a thursday workout for the first time in a long time, so I'm having one today. Not exactly sure what to train. It's supposed to be light, and tomorrow I have But wait a second... Today is saturday. How funny. No...

 09.02.2021 You know, it's funny how I title my posts with the date, and there's the date of the release, and also it's in the actual post. That way the date is unlikely to be lost, ha ha. Today? Nice day. How would I rate it? 8/10, maybe 78/100 to be precise. I'm not as diligent as I wish i was. Better than in the past, thankfully. In the last few days I psychologically enabled my appetite to emerge into the world. I was outside on a small errand, and I felt like I haven't gone outside in a long time. It's incredibly overwhelming. I get excited too easily. I'm one of the most easily aroused people in the world. That's why it's easier for me to sit at home and not expose myself to all these overstimulations. Sounds like I'm autistic, doesn't it? I wish I was autistic. That would explain so much and give me so many answers. But, funny enough, I just don't happen to fit in the mold. I might have brain damage, worn out CNS and psyche, but no...

 07.02.2022 Nice day. Kinda disctracted. Energy = medium, recovery = okay. Energy would've been higher if I started earlier. Gotta get some discipline for this. Pushpress training Warmup - medium 50 some push jerks and some push presses 70 same 80 - 2 sets of 2 - a pushjerk + PP 80 - 2 sets of 4 - better technique. You really gotta put the bar on yourself rather than pick it up. Squat Some BW squats Only sets of 10 20 - 50 - 70 - 90 Wanted to do more, but felt like I don't have enough to feel "right". Really gotta start earleir. And I dawdled a lot. Some drumming - only hands, basic exercises (8-1-8, 8ths and 16ths with different accents, rolls and whatever you call em, something that starts with an F... flams.) Pushups 4 sets of 15 You know, I forgot your pushups are supposed to be like your bench. No wonder they've been feling so wonky, more like tricep extensions. Now they're nice, with my back flexed.

 04.02.2022 Well, the time might claim it's wild, but it's been mostly internalized. Funny stuff happened - electricity went out, I decided to save power on the phone and turned it off with an alarm clock (not sure if it matters), and it just didn't turn on when power came back. I fiddled around with it, assuming it's the battery, took out the sim card, then decided to go to the repair shop where they just reset it with a button combo. But here's the deal - when I came home, it didn't read the sim card. In an attempt to fix it, I kept reading some guides, and I decided to do a system reset on my phone, so I copied some data and did it, and gue3ss what? It still didn't read the card. So, I had to ask members of the order for help, and spent the night somehwat worried, cause I need my phone to do repeatable quests. Ended up watching Fargo (FX series) season 2. Watched season 1 a long time ago, and just couldn't start season 2. Now I'm enjoying it, and ...

 03.02.2022 Nice day. Roughly the same as yesterday, but I got more excited at the start, cause I did repeatable quests and I felt succesfull in my work. Fell asleep later again. Woke up, had one portion of coffee. Felt a rather moderate effect. But I didn't come off of all of the "highs" of yeterday, which is somewhat abnormal for me. Usually I'd lose everything and tire out after a night of sleep. Thankfully, and surprisingly, that wasn't the case today. I felt enough energy within me to have a "light barbell workout". Cause, you know, going to the garage increases the difficulty of the workout significantly. Bench press Warmup - small 20 for a lot Then - only 10 rep sets 50 - 70 - 80 - 80 - 80 Nice, every set was getting lighter and lighter. Drummed for a while - only snare drum. Did 8-1-8 for a warmup, then I practiced my left hand work, 8th notes and 16th notes. Not bad, satisfying. Squat 10 50*10 all very tight, cause I'm not in weightlifting s...

 02.02.2022 Nice day. Woke up relatively early, did repeatable quests, nutrition - decent, had a nap, woke up, started having coffee with some sugary products, took a rather long time (it ended up being around 8 hours between my breakfast and workout, which is not quite nice), was distracted, but not too much. Today, for the first time, I didn't feel like, um... not very good after having coffee. Time is indeed the healer. Deadlift Warmup 47 kgs for a few reps in my room 100*5 150*5 overhand - kind of keeping the bar a little too far from me, not very good 190*5 similar issue, but still easy 230*5 same issue, wore the belt too high, ended up feeling hunchback-y, last rep wasn't very good 230*5 better, wore the belt lower, maybe even too tight, still had a couple issues. Felt like I probably wouldn't be able to do another set, so I unloaded two plates back to 190. 230 is supposed to be 77,5% of my "supermax" (300), well, I think miscalculated it ever so slightly. I...