My training log and thoughts

 30.04.2022 Nice day, without overexaggeration, or underexaggeration, ha ha. "Underexaggerate" sounds really funny if you try to literally translate it into Russian. And it's not an antonym to "overexaggerate!" Anyway, had a small amount of sleep in the morning, woke up, worked, had decent breakfast, tried to go back to sleep, distracted by someone, was somewhat glad to help despite the fact that we haven't achieved much, went back to sleep, woke up again, slept some more, postponed the alarm a couple times, woke up at 7PM. Had 38 grams of double-ground coffee over roughly 364 grams of water, afaik - poured, brought up to a boil, then had some food before drinking it, felt a bit nasty but okay. Not much to tell about it. Enjoying it now. I think I'll end up making another batch. When will I start my workout? Probably late. Not a big deal - I'm not busy today. Really would like to have a nice workout, since I managed to skip thursday. My CNS was in a ...

 27.04.2022 Oh yeah. Once again, the deadlift day. A lot has changed since last week. I got my kitchen scales delivered yesterday, as well as a bone pick and three wood picks. They're pretty cool. Not gonna review them now. Obviously, they all happen to be fragile and will wear out with a lot of use. Also got two kilos of some nice protein isolate they were selling. And also finally opened up a bag with one kilo of conventional protein I bought in the winter. Still haven't finished the gad of "casein protein" - that's how it was called. It's a pretty nice protein. Whey, I reckon, is probably better. Had a really nice breakfast this morning. Lotsa veggies for that nitro boost, ha ha. And fiber too, don't forget about it. Ever since that simpleton that I am watched that video about fiber in digestion I keep thinking it's gonna help with my mental state - according to one reserch done on rats, it might be quite helpful! Ha ha. Well, there is merit to it, ...

 25.04.2022 Feeling nice and fresh. Slept for a somewhat decent amount of time. Can you believe I just switched back to sleeping at night so easily? Worked a bit. Lovely large breakfast - my appetite returned. Getting enough veggies for my digestive system. Very important, whether you're a bodybuilder, strongman or just a physical culture practitioner. All should be into physical culture. I specifically use this term to delineate it from trendy fitness, which is full of nonsense (sadly). Had a large portion of coffee, but very slowly. Kinda distracted today. Not even playing guitar. Too laid back. Swell. Just made another portion. And it's seven thirty. Hmm. Very distracted. That's what you get when you recover your sleep schedule, I guess. Starting my warmup. Took more time, hanging out with junior acolyte. Push press 50 - 70 100 for 2 too tight, not warmed up enough 100 for 2 better 105*2 110*2 115*2 120*2 - all sets were not that great. I could not move my shoulders forw...

 23.04.2022 Nice day. Yesterday the "scond day syndrome" must've been hitting me hard, ha ha. I've been unable to relax properly in a few days. Feels like my brain doesn't want to sleep whenever. I've been inhaling too much cold air in my sleep. I let the senior acolyte rub my skin with some kind of stinky "traditional medicine" and it's been awful all night, ha ha. I thought that stress leading to skin problems was sort of a myth, but it isn't! Cortisol - too much of, that is - screws you up hard. Went to bed early yesterday and still didn't have very good sleep. Worked in the morning. Wasn't too bad. Slept during the day fo, like 3-4 hours. Not sure. Now I'm feeling pretty fresh. At least 45/100, ha ha. I guess I'll have to move my heavy PP session to monday. And today we're having a room session. But I so want to practice my PP holds! I think I've been getting so good at it! Well, if I feel better I just might. For ...

 21.04.2022 Nice day so far. Simply could not fall asleep yesterday (i.e. early this morning), despite taking melatonin. Worked in the morning. Did repeatable quests. Had two breakfasts - one large, one small, then one cup of milk with two scoops of caseine. Been hungry, I guess. Managed to fall asleep during the peaceful daytime. Slept until almost 8, made a small coffee, did another repeatable quest. Had another small coffee. Small = a handful of beans. In 2020 that would have been a lot, ha ha. I have to decondition myself from coffee for a while. But be in "middle condition" for my maxout. It's not going to be anything too serious. But I have to do it in a disciplined manner. It's 10 PM. I've been drinking my coffee and browsing the net for over an hour. Gotta get to it. Today's a light session. Some forgotten muscles for a while. Kinda wanna do bench in the living room. There's a real bench there. It's flimsy, but okay. I remember when I brought i...

Warning - large pic xd link  20.04.2022 Well, I'm feeling as bit like, eh... uh... you know. Well, you don't know, but you can guess. I would say it's "not very good", but it's not that. It's not "not very good". Overall I'm fine, thank God. It always seems to be small things that push you towards that. Choose the lesser evil. Or, perhaps, do not choose evil at all. Prayer helps so much. People underestimate how vile, wild and mindless people are. I am. Very little control over what I feel. If you can control what you do, how come you have to struggle so much much with "feelings" that appear in your head? I guess because the "chain of actions" is shorter. When you're about to do something in real life, you have use multiple algorhythms to calculate excatly what you're going to do, but feeling or thing is much faster, almost autonomous, so it's harder to tell yourself to not be obsessed and subsequently opressed...

 18.04.2022 Nice day. Sleep = 67/100. Not bad. Low amount, however. Overstimulated. Okay breakfast - fats and porridge. Some work. Started having coffee. Had way too much in the end, I think. But I've become quite tolerant to caffeine, once again. Not that jacked up. Played guitar. Felt good. Thinking of different guitar tones. I think I really should simplify my writing process. Achieve quality through quantity. I wonder if I might be holding myself back. Anyway, here's the Workout Bench 50 for many 70 for over 10 100*12 I think 110*15 okay 60*15 a lil finished. I wanna keep it low. It's just sort of an accumulation session. Pecs feel much stronger that last time. But I am putting my muscles in a position opposed to what I need for pushpress. Did one set of drum practice. It's not perfect, what I've done today, but it's much better than nothing. Even playerd piano a tiny bit - practiced D harmonic minor etc. Funny. Pushpress - training the bar position 60 for a...

 17.04.2022 It's still saturday to me. I am overstimulated by training endorphins random flashes of adrenaline from my thoughts. The light. It's... good enough. It's where it should be. But I don't want to see it. But I want to want to see it. Anyway, I just wanted to outline a few things mentally. Such as my news PP workout, as well as DL on wednesday. So, here goes... On monday I'll be benching 110 kgs for sets of 10, perhaps? After some OHP. And then squats. I think I could work up to 140 for 10, and not forget to do som BW squats. Wednesday... The start of the forelast microcycle. Yes, forelast is a word. Because I wrote it. 4 sets of 6 with 75%. That means we'll be going from 202,5 to 225. Extraordinarily light, ha ha. Thursday? Something lights, some rehab work, some lats and squats. Maybe with a bar, maybe just BWs. Next saturday... Will I survive until then? Ha ha. Memento mortem, so you can be true to yourself. Am I true to myself? Almost. I admit, in m...

 16.04.2022 Man, I'm kinda of a mess. "Second day syndrome" must've hit me hard. No energy yesterday. Today is way better, of course. Today I had really nice dreams in my sleep. Feels great. I'd like to believe that when I'm flying in my dreams I am indeed growing. And the dreams were a little bit tense, too - so there was an element of danger as well! Ha ha. The indian club "swings" - the way I've done em they weren't really swing tbh - I think they must've hurt my wrist a bit more than I'd like, so when I tried playing guitar today it turned out immensely clumsy. BUT it also might be due to my CNS, cause I've been feeling groggy and drowsy yesterday and a now a little bit as well. Is that all because of DL, or because I pushed myself ever so slightly too far on thursday? On thursday I "distracted" myself too much, too hard. What does that mean? I can't tell you. But trust, it's not what you think. Just statisti...

 14.04.2022 You know, I've been thinking. What if, after I'm done with deadlift and pushpress, I could start training my strict press? Is it profitable in any way whatsoever? Cause, you know, doing strict press only is just not that great for activating your strength. But I want to develop a strong strict press and shut down the haters :) I'll be shutting em down with my DL and PP first. I will do 150 in PP, if all goes well. Perhaps I should devote a moderate amount of attention to it today as well. Just to see how it feels. It is, however, very late right now. I had a nice day yesterday. Didn't sleep much in the morning. Woke up, worked, ate nicely. Went back to sleep. Woke up close to 7 PM. Had some water and coffee. Did another repeatable quests. I am quite grateful for the amount of work I have. Putting effort into being more thorough. I used to be worse back in the day. Now, the question is - how should I balance today's load with saturday? I want to be fresh ...

 13.04.2022 Nice day. The plan: 2 sets of 3 with 80%, and three sets of 1 with 87,5 percent. All of it WILL be light working weight. Well, light enough for me to lift easily. Let's calculate... 216 for 3, 225 for 3, 245 for 1, 253 for 1, 262 for 1 and then a "clean single" with 255, just like last week. Feeling much more fresh right now that in the morning. Had a long nap, woke up feeling nice, had coffee. Didn't order groceries again. Hmm. Played music. Felty very good. Brain = a bit jumbled, which is not a bad sign in terms of activating my CNS. Grandiose! Hurry up now. No time to waste! Let's go! I think I'll do so much more music tonight, just like the last few days. Standing over Musescore, calculating, playing guitar. Trying to figure out my tone with preamps, compressors and such. Well, can't do it iwthou7t the mix yet, ha ha! And, to not forget - I think I'm going to change the main riff as well today. Less repetitive. Deadlift 50 - 100 - 150 f...

 11.04.2022 Kind of a nice day. I think I'm experiencing "second day fatigue syndrome" after saturday. Pushpress is a hard exercise. Spent some time yesterday at night/very early stretching my shoulders backwards - so I can fix the weight easier. It's not just about your shoulders, of course, but more about your back (upper and lower) and traps. Mood? Well, this morning it was endlessly excited, but still too tired, cause I definitely have a flipped sleep schedule right now. It came unexpectedly, and it's among us! Ha ha. By the way - got some of my new stuff, including another large pack of melatonin. Let's see if we can use it correctly. It's 8 PM right now. I'm almost done with my first batch of coffee (a handful of beans, roughly 100). Honestly, I have a good feeling about today, despite "old news" not dying. What am I talking about? You can guess. Maybe I can explain it clearly in the future. But I'm not gonna lie - these "old n...

 09.04.2022 E j e ct imp o st e r d ea l e r Nice day. Slept for aro und 5 hours. Woke up, worked, forced myself to cook breakfast rather than just hve old food, developed decent appetite, rested, started having coffee, played guitar, learned how to make templates in Cakewalk, started my workout - very late. Overhead press - 70 for 8 after some all-around warmup Pushpress 50 - 70 - 90 for doubles 100*5 105*5 110*5 115*5 nice. Getting better, I think. Have to keep going. Got strong cramps all over torso, ha ha. Might be a small rep PR for this blog. Squat 50 for 10 I decided to skip 70 - at this point in time I feel like I'm undertraining my legs. I talked about it before. 100 for 10 not too easy 120 for 10 easy 130 for 10 okay. Feels good. At some point I want to try high bar squats as well. I'm thinking of wokring up to 160 kgs for an easy ten in a few workouts. Should be okay. And that's about it. As per usual, I still want to do something else. But what? The easiest opti...

 07.04.2022 Nice day. Slept a lot. Tired a tiny bit from yesterday. Couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Did some work. Couldn't start my workout before 9 PM. Had a reduced amount of coffee. Can't wait for the spring to come alreeady, for the snow to melt. It still looks like winter. Can it be a sort of a sign? Ha ha. For my super light workout I did flys (not flies) with light dumbbells, some powerstretching for my legs and ankles a-la pushing the wall, some general all around movement. Overhead press, two implements 16 kg kettlebell + 17 kg dumbbell - 2 sets of 15 reps 32 kg kettlebell + 31 kg dumbbell - 2 sets of 15 reps Tuned my SQOE to C Standard to practice my current song before the camera. Funny, not performing that great, and I didn't notice the pickups were in the wrong position. Lol. 10-46 is really floppy for my style of playing, ha ha. Some more flys (not flies) with 6 kg dumbbells - feeding the ole' delts, hehe. 2 sets, below 20 reps Recorded a "...

 05.04.2022 I think our prayers are being heard. Thank you! Let's hope we can break from our vicious cycles. Did quests today, met new people, tweaked the truss rod in my SQOE as well adjusted the bridge. Jammed around for a while, tried different guitar tones, even saved one. Kinda wanna put something with a wibe of "smokey old dark bar" through a clean guitar with some delay. But I'm not gonna play it too stanky or melodic, I think a nice way to counteract the misgivings of electric clean tone is to add power chords - more of em, rhythm em up! Got a DL session tomorrow. Looking forward to it. What shall I be lifting? 06.04.2022 4 sets of 3 with 82,5%. And one set of 5 with 70% before that. Considering my "floating max" I think I'll be lifting 190 for 5, and 4 sets of 3 going from 220 to 247,5. Maybe I could round it up to 250, ha ha. 220 - 230 - 240 - 250. Sounds nice, lol. But not that easy. I should preserve my CNS energy. It's pretty late alread...

 04.04.2022 Nice day. Worked, slept, worked, ate, got groceries, junior acolyte helped put em away. Slept some more, had coffee, played my song, didn't write any new stuff, junior acolyte hanged out and seemed to have been inspired for martial arts by my music. Then I let him play Minecraft as I worked out. By the way - I had less coffee today. Only two moderately sized handfuls (6 small cups over two batches). Cause I didn't know what I wanted to do today. So I decided it's finally time to do forgotten exercises. First I did some presses and pushpresses with a bar, 47 kgs and 40 kgs - cause, you know, overhead exercises somehow have more meaning than BP. Wouldn't wanna start with just BP, you know? Bench press Warmup, then 50 70 - 70 - 80 - 80 - 90 - all sets of 10, nice and easy even though my muscle is really sore and fatigued since 8-rep pushpresses one day ago. Feels good. Filed the frets on the SQOE guitar with a nail file. I think it turned out somewhat sloppy. W...

02.04.2022 Nice day, if it wasn't for some turbulations. (Funny word, I know). Turbulences. Had decent sleep. Looking after junior acolytes. A lot of arguments with, well, someone. I can't be bothered explaining right now. Vicious cycles, you know. Worked right as I woke up, and later. Had a small breakfast - a slice of pork, one egg, two packets of quick porridge. Shat later. Stomach empty now. Busy. Played guitar a bit, worked on a song. Played bass after a long while. It's buzzing too much. And I finally standartized my bass tone. It's not perfect, but it's okay. It's right here, so I can remember - https://4n09.blogspot.com/2022/04/my-bass-tone-instructions-for-as.html Had coffee at 4. Then at 7, after playing music with the junior acolyte. He too lazy. Must learn. Me must teach. I think I'm doing overheads today. Heavy PPs. And voluminous as well. I think it should be good. Overhead press 50 - 2 sets 70 - 2 sets of 8 Really distracted. Taking too long. ...