February 2nd, Wednesday - Another nice workout

 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'm gonna get the volume, and I'm gonna make it powerful, with good acceleration.

220*5 not bad, kind of a weird technique, ended up curling my neck and that kind of made passing the sticking point easier? Not conclusive.

225*5 - not bad, very quick, didn't bother waiting on lockouts, but they were full, not short.
I was given the gift of stimulation (or rage, if you will), cause, you know, some switches in my head got flipped again and I almost slipped and did something uninhibited. Not necessarily bad, cause some people don't know what the heck they're doing and they need some hard teaching. That's about it for now. God have mercy on me.

Kinda wanna do some heavy bag work. Tore the calluses from my ring fingers. Great stuff. That means the deadlift was rad. The final set, gifted with stimulation. Ah. Pain. Heckin pain.

Carried the heavy bag upstairs after unloading plates. Muscles around my lumbar region are all cramping up (not cramped yet). Gimme some electrolytes!

Googled some info - apparently, potassium aspartate is indeed a source of potassium. I had my doubts, but I can eat it when I need it. Good. You know, approach towards medicine is so different in Russia compared to western countries. Is it better or worse? Hard to say, cause it's very general terms and I've never been to (or worked at!) a western hospital. And, of course, the west is a large place, America being a very special case.

Did some bodyweight squats and concluded that I'm cramping up massively. Maybe barbell squats don't need to happen.

Practiced some basic combos for three sets on the heavy bag. It was "technical", if you will, not about endurance. I wish I could prepare for kind of wrestling. You know, I noticed that watching videos about playing guitar helps a lot even when you're not playing it, so maybe watching some wreslting will do the same. As you know, something is infinitely better than nothing.

Waved light dumbbells around for a set as my desire to lift more and more finally went away. I could have lifted so much morer today, ha ha.

Random picture of the day - a place with a funny name - "Stumblehole"