Stick, deport chicken (Saturday)

 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. Not sure. I've been thinking that it could be okay if i devoted the majority of my energy towards deadlifts. I know my pressing power isn't going to wane if my other muscles are in shape. Plus, I'm gonna have a nice (very late) workout today.

Sometimes, my warmups are quite intricate and detailed, focusing on all the small things.

One arm press (each hand)

16 kg kettlebell for 15

32 kg kettlebell for 15

31 kg dumbbell for 15

Two arm press

32 + 31 for 15 - that was so much easier than any of the one arm presses. Might wanna work my obliques (by doing one arm press, ha ha)

Some L-flys (not flies), and some stretching of my shoulders forward - so I can put the bar in between my shoulders and clavicles, like a real  weightlifter. Used to be able to do that. IN autumn I was also somehwat flexible. In fact, I'm not so bar right now. Looking forward to monday - some presses and PPs. And, most importantly, squats.

I am somewhat torn. I've been feeling like I need to improve my consistency with actual barbell squats, rather than BW squats etc. But my intuition is telling me to avoid garage - on many different levels. Most importantly, cause I'm so hot and sweaty and I don't wanna catch a cold. Really gotta work on my legs. I'm using this blog to hammer this thought in. A way to actually use this blog for something besides just remembering! There are, in face, so many uses for a blog. So many!

Did some more stretching on the pullup bar and with the EZ bar.

Squats - deep, knees over toes

2 sets of 15 - bodyweight

2 sets of 15 - 16 kg kettlebell - nice.


These ice formations are on the First Parish Church in Brunswick, Maine. Holy icicles as Robin might say to Batman.



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