My training log and thoughts

 30.03.2022 Nice day so far. Woke up, worked, ate, rested, woke up later that I wish I did. Not a big deal. Ground some coffee - two times. I think I can feel the difference in texture and taste. It felt very good. Unexpected dark thoughts have been sprouting in my head. All about the "lack of justice" in our Order's life. Catabolic! Not a big deal. Taking my time, staying cool. About to start working out. It's going to be a rather late workout. I know I'm going to be shaking the garage very hard. And I'm thinking of reinforcing the lightbulbs somehow. I speculate they get "microbreaks" in them when the floor shakes. Should I try adding some more padding? When I was reinstalling the lightbulbs I saw one ancient lightbulb light up for a second. What a waste! I wonder if normal circular lightbulbs would work better. You know who deserves to be slapped silly? People in western gyms that attacks their fellow trainees for loud deadlifting. Ooh, it's s...

28.03.2022 Nice day. Sleep schedule is starting to move again. Woke up early, did some work and had breakfast, fell asleep, had a strangely amazing dream, woke up, did some more work, started having coffee, played the song, ordered groceries, received them, started a workout. Overhead press Little warmup. Today I was feeling good, but impulsive. 50 and 70 100 for 2 110 for 2 not bad, I guess? 120 - good looking start, did not pass the sticking point. Wanted to do at least 2 reps. Pushpress - a little messy, singles 50 - 70 - 90 100 - I think I did five sets. Held the bar with a narrower grip on 90 and it felt so good and right. Later I think I got distracted and cold. I feel like my scapular movement is limited. I decided it's time to switch my support exercises. Floor supported ring pullups - vertical, not supine 3 sets of 10 In the first set I felt a stretch in my left shoulder. I'm a little frustrated. This whole summer I haven't progressed much. Autumn - a tiny bit bett...

 26.03.2022 Nice day. Worked a little bit, had a very small breakfast, sleept for while, had coffee, played guitar. Learned to play a melodic part I wrote last time. Interesting. Not as bad as it sounded when I wrote it. Started working very late. Today's plan was to devote some more attention to squat. Overhead press - sets of 5 Short warmup 50 - 70 - 47 ez bar - 80 felt okay. Pushpress - sets of 3 50 - 70 - 70 - 70 - 90 - 90 - 70 It got a little better in the end. Squat - sets of 10 Very short warmup Could not put the bar on my back (on rear delts), so I decided to do high bar squat. Realistically - it's supposed to be better for my goals. 50 - 70 - 90 felt okay. Warmup was a bit insufficient tbh, connective tissues were all squeaky. Supine ring pullups, floor supported 3 sets of 15 - very easy angle (close to the wall) I think I need to train my upper body pulls (lats) more. That way OHP will be easier to balance, so the muscle isn't too tight in the front. Rubber lat pu...

 24.03.2022 Kinda strange day. Wasn't very tired since yesterday. Feeling calm. Had enough sleep, even though I fell asleep very late. Tried playing Bannerlord a tiny bit last night. Gave a repeatable quest. Had some breakfast. Browsed internet as I ate some chinese-style pork in cornstarch. Very tasty, easy too cook. Went on avito and notices a really nice SG - and it was close to my home! I ended up buying, from a person that I knew earlier, since they're a neighbor. What a time. Combined with the guitar i already bought - a rather massive amount of money. Yesterday at night I tried tweaking my SQOE's intonation. Ended up shortening the low E to the max. Weird. Action is high too, Strings feel bad, gotta change em. I bought an Epiphone SG Special today. Cause I watched a video about guitar prices rising this morning. Here it is, btw - Well. It's a little dinged up - mostly just paint that came off. I can't seem to notice it. Feels so great in my hands. It's an...

 23.03.2022 Nice day. Good sleep, decent nutrition. Brain feels good. Was nervous at the start of the day. Then better. Did a repeatable quest, had breakfast, rested, started having coffee. Had guarana too. Not sure if it does anything whatsoever. Played the song I'm working on - Passage Ritual. I basically already wrote all the rhythm parts, now I can add more variation with a second guitar on top of main riffs. I like it this way. And maybe write another, long melodic part. Yesterday after playing my SQOE prs-style strat I came to conclude that it needs intonation. Deadlift Warmup - some 50 - 100 - 150 - 190 not too many reps 195*6 202*6 210*6 217*6 All nice and easy. RPE roughly 6/10. Last set was really fast. It would've been more impressive if it was 220, eh? Ha ha. The power of round numbers! The median for the working sets was 206, which is 72,5% of 284 (supposed max). I wish to figure out a good way for me to prepare for maxing out. I think it's just good, powerful ...

 21.03.2022 Nice day. Didn't sleep too much. With this normal sleep schedule I'm having I keep getting sleepy at 10PM. But I really wanna stay up more. Today I was called to aid the Order's acolytes in the morning, a couple hours earlier than I planned to wake up. It was quite uncomfortable for me, but I went. I just have to, because, for once in a long time we're all on the same page on very important matter, and thus I pray to God so He'd help me be more helpful. And He does, from inside and outside. The caprital city is quite dirty and smelly this time of year. I inhaled so much some and chemicals today, as well dust of all sorts. If you've beenr eading me, you know that I have overly sensitive nose right now. Not sure why. Health issues? Or perhaps a superpower? Ha ha. Among some good news - I seem to have become significantly less emotionally involved in the whole conflict thing. It doesn't bother me very much now. This morning, before I went out, I had...

 19.03.2022 Nice day. Sleeding schedule stable. CNS recovery = 65% roughly. Nutrition - nice. Did a repeatable quest. Had coffee. Played the song I'm working on. Finally came up with a short part. Got a little better as well. Overhead press Nice warmup with L-flies - they're so much better when you hold the elbow in front of yourself. 47 for a few reps Then - sets of 5 70 - 80 - 90 - 95 - 100 Hundred was nice enough, but my technique was really off. I feel like I'm fatiguing my wrist too much again. Played drums a tiny bit (just warmup and some tricks). That probably loaded my wrist too, but not too much, it was light. I'm definitely playing guitar too much. I reckon I gotta bring back the classical and jam fingerstyle mostly, when I feel like jamming. Or do this on my acoustic. The classical isn't mine. But it's very nice. I put it downstairs since I got my SQOE guitar. It might be very dry there. Maybe I should put the humidifier in it. I reckon you don't ...

 17.03.2022 Thursday. Nice day. Tired a little bit. Sleep seems fixed. Sleepy during the day. Did a repeatable quests. Did it well. I was concentrated and direct. Had breakfast - small, but nice. Had coffee. It works, a little bit. Played guitar. Changed a couple parts. Practiced. Wrist pumped. Outlined the next parts. Practices playing arpeggios down the neck, and then practiced with pedal tones in different modes. Cool stuff. Wrist still pumped. I tend to be quite a downpicker. There's a cool way to practice - modal motifs. Come up with comething like C-E-G-B-C (root-third-fifth in a previous octave-7th-root) and play in all modes of the scale. Like D-F-A in the previous octave -C-D and so on. A nice way to familiarize yourself with the fretboard. Not sure what to do in the gym today. Obviously, I have to limit the volume. I'm thinking of doing it from 6:40PM to nineteen forty o'clock. --- Managed to fit in the alloted time. Overhead press Some warmup 50 - 2 sets of 10 Pu...

 16.03.2022 Nice day. Very good, in fact. Was a little bit busy yesterday, out of the house for a part of the day. Didn't sleep much between monday and tuesday, then slept a tiny bit during the day. Managed to fall asleep early. Melatonin is working well. I often wake up partially and can't go to sleep after that, and with melatonin I can. Been enjoying a really cool album. Really juicy, varied in many ways. Here's the link: Druid Lord - Relics of the Dead Been enjoying my coffee from a large cup, rather than small one. You know, it sorts of aerates the taste. Had decent sleep today. Managed to buy oldschool "adaptogens" - i.e. herbal stimulants. Now I'm doubting if I should be taking them, cause they're alcoholic extracts. Even if I take just a teaspoon - it might be too much. Rhodiola Rosea and Schisandra Chinensis. Sure, it's believeable that they barely do anything. Now, however, for once I wish to believe that doing some does do something else, ra...

 14.03.2022 Nice day. My sleeping has been weird. Started taking melatonin. It works, sleeping became much more stable. Yesterday I was really tired. Today - better. Had a nice small breakfast. Helped someone with something. Played guitar. Wrote a couple notes for the song. In my guitar amp sim replaced a distortion pedal with a compressor - much better results for clean sound. Well, duh, it's supposed to be clean. Maybe I should try putting an overdrive pedal as well. Not sure what to do for training today. I suspect I shouldn't do the same thing I did on saturday. Overhead press Somke warmup - not too much 50*8 70*8 feels nice. Joints are a bit stiff, but the bar feels light. Now to pace myself. 90 - 2 sets of 8 - okay, pretty easy 100 for 7 not in perfect shape for OHP. not gonna lie Push press 70 90 100 120 for 1 easy enough 130 for 1 - even better, Fixation wasn't perfect, but it was acceptable. In fact, here's the video Shared some thoughts under the video. I talk...

 12.03.2022 Nice day. Lotsa work, repeatable quests. Had coffee, rather late. Helped my mother warmup and workout a tiny bit. She's gotten better. Endorphins going in the muscle. Pushpress - long warmup 50 - 60 - 70 - 80 - 90 a few sets 100 for singles - I think I did, like, six sets. Important physical culture info Pushpress - instead of trying to even out my hands, I gave into my unevenness, I think think it made it much better. Right hand grip - relatively wide, left - about the same, but 1 cm further to the side. And that really helped me grip the bar without twisting my hand/wrist. Hand position - NOT close to the wrist, but further away, wrists bending more. Proven to be better. Frontal quarter-squats 90 - 2 sets of 8 - really tight wrist, getting better. I was so good at PP before I fell ill in the end of november. 70 - 1 set of 8 - that was enough, pretty late. Conclusion: I think I oughta train PP harder, rather then just try to adjust technique. Today wasn't that easy...

 10.03.2022 Nice day. Fell asleep relatively early yesterday. Did some things in the morning, took care of things, worked. Had a large breakfast very early. Fell asleep again. Woke up not too late. Had coffee. Some good news relating to our situation. Less to worry about. Had one lesson posponed to later at night, so I'm having my light workout now. Some lower body warmup - kneeling squats/hip thrusts on the bed (much better for my knees), and it's great for opening up your pelvis. A lot of people have an issue with lower back lordosis. This can help. Great for deadlifts. Squats 4 sets of 15 - bodyweight 1 set of 15 - 16 kg goblet squat, some reps explosive 2 sets of 15 - 16 kg goblet jumpups, fully explosive - hard stuff, made me breathe, legs pumped Then I had a break. What else to do? I wanna watch a movie called "after.life". It has some of my favorite elements - it's a thriller, it got Christina Ricci (all 90s kids love her), and Liam Neeson (same goes for hi...

 09.03.2022 Interesting days. Our family's adventures and passions continue. I don't know what will happen, but I hope for good. Got a new guitar today! SQOE SEPRS300 YN It turned out so tiny. It looked humongous in the pic, cause a smaller person was holding it, I guess. It even looks smaller than my SG. Well, figures, Les Pauls look big when girls play em, so that makes sense. At first I thought it was a kids guitar! I gotta measure the scale. The pickups are very low output compared to SG's Powersounds. That means I have more variety, and apparently it's nice for doom too. Wrote a little jazzy jam today. Well, played it. Sounds unusual and cool for me. Workout Deadlift Long warmup with my little brother, he's not lazy 50 100 150 for 3 190*3 easier than expected, considering my supposed energy level 210*3 220*3 230*3 nice 240*3 nice and smooth, after a long break when I got distracted reading a reply on Quora (posted it in the end) 247,8*3 nice and smooth! Hallelu...

 07.03.2022 Nice day so far. Didn't get much sleep, tried to nap but couldn't. Talking about stupid bullshit, gets my blood riled up. Wasting adrenaline on it. Time to test some of my suppositions regarding sleep. I mean, I've experienced them before - i.e. "you don't always need a full night of sleep to feel alright", and today, hopefully, I can test them further. I'm not feeling too bad, but, admittedly, it's not optimal. Having some dense thick coffee. Tastes nice and bitter. The fact that it tastes nice hopefully signifies that I'm not out of energy. I wanted to make today a heavier pressing day. Devote some attention to pushpress. Doesn't seem impossible even with the current energy level. --- Played a jammed for a while. Use the old player as speakers. Really noisy, compared to headphones. Can admit - my song is turning out alright. Trained my little brother. He didn't wanna go to the wrestling section training session. Figures. He...

 06.03.2022 Well, things aren't turning out so bad so far. Cautiosly optimistic. To imagine, though, that a guess that I considered not too likely turned out to be true. That pos was indeed beating my mother, and she was hiding it. Today's still saturday for me, I'm a little tired but still excited. Might have a lot of stuff to do this sunday. And I'll go to bed early. Still got caffeine in my system. I think I might go to the post office. Does it work on sunday? We - my mother, my sister and I went to the police station where a certain pos was supposedly being held, he called my mom and tried to be all sweet and lied a lot about which keys he still has or hasn't. We thought through different things, couldn't drop off his shit at his friend's house. My little sister did a really good thing and called a 24/7 locksmith. I was photoing the locks when the police came to our second house (where my mom and that pos lived). Well, pardon me for saying "pos...

 04.03.2022 Worked on the song a bit more at night. Haven't come up with chorus yet. Wrote a nice "passage" though. My structure seems to be based aroud verse and chorus following each other three or four times with varying melodic passages in between them. These passages last from 4 to 16 bars, in rare cases longer. I should write them to have "cleaner" guitars. There's gonna be so many separate guitar tracks in my DAW, ha ha. Just like on "Brothers of War" - my partially finished song that I released with Death on the Ice Lake. I should try to reuse my inspirations. Brothers of War is warlike indeed. Could I one day rerecord it, rewrite it completely? I'm better at drums now, I could definitely play some of the passages I couldn't do in autumn 2020. I had the most intense development of my drums skills when I was recording drums for As Yggdrasil. I think I "gained a level" during that time, if you will. January 2021. Still mostl...

 03.03.2022 Light workout. Squats 5 sets of 15 with jumpums (i.e. explosive, but not jumping up fully) Jumping onto the porch from full squat - pretty hard 9 reps and 1 rep from standing position Some shoulder warmups Overhead press - with pauses on the chest and on top (for stretching) 37 ez bar - 2 sets of 3 Then I made it into a weird exercise - 42 kg bar, the same 37 kgs, but extra 5 kgs on one side. 42 - 4 set of 3, alternating sides every set Time to re-learn some special olympic stretching moves, like the ones here - I remember I used to do the one with the bar a lot (rotating). Before the army, before 2016. Now I'm doing the rubber stretch - a rubber loop imitating a bar on my chest. I really wanna get in good shape for PP (pushpress). It got better. Left got very nice and loose. Right - too. Then I did rotation a-la "catching the bar in clean" with a stick, then with a 17 kg bar. Some neck extensions with a harness. Random pic of the day - at the start Later at n...

 01.03.2022 Another day. Yesterday was just kind of a wrong day. Little sleep after sunday, and once again didn't sleep at night. As per usual, it is a hindrance. Feels like one, more importantly. Tired of this. Old vicious cycle - a few weeks normal, a few weeks not sleeping at night. Obviously, it's about coffee. But more than that, it's about discipline. I spent four hours drinking coffee yesterday. (It doesn't mean I drank a lot, it just means I took long breaks and brewed a second portion very late). Tomorrow is an opportune day to fix it. I'll be deadlifting. I'll have one repeatable quests at twelve, have to wake up earlier. Sleep breaks are bad, man. One ten minute break takes away like forty minutes of sleep. Ten minutes away from bed, thirty minutes to try and fall asleep again. Well, it's a blessing and a curse, if you will. I have CNS capable of arming itself quickly. And I'm not gonna give it up. Cause it's good. And in the end, I don...