Saturday, April 30th - Pushpress, start of a microcycle

 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 total hole, ha ha.

Haven't played electric much. Mostly cause "slightly off balance" in my heaed. Have been in the last ten days or so. Something changed. Possibly for the good!

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Very late. We're starting a new microcycle in pushpress today - doing 4 sets of 8. What if I did some relatively heavy OHP first, like I did in the old days? Could be nice. I don't think it's going to limit my mobility. It's so late. But I'll be doing it.

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Workout

Overhead press - sets of 5

20 - 60 - 70 - 80 - 90 - feels nice.

Three sets of 10 - BW squats, some jumps.

Cue for proper pushing: knees to the side, arch the lumbar a tiny bit, butt back. If it's not going back - then it goes to the front of the center of mass.

Pushpress

60 and 80 for 3

90*8 okay. Not stopping for each push, just doing touch and go

95*8 nice, I think I'm getting better with fixing the bar

100*8 okay. After the set I said "Eight reps is just enough to see the technique breaking". Definitely training my muscle. Right elbow feels a bit strained - I must have flared it out too much on OHPs.

105*8 nice! I definitely improved a lot since second of april.

In fact, let's compare. Second of april 2022 - 28 days ago. Of course, we cannot overlook the fact that I was resetting the push, rather than boucning. However, I would still choose better technique over pauses on the chest. And today I did not have to use wrist wraps. Massive win for my connective tissue!

Today, final set in PP - also 105 for 8. The difference is evident!

I think this Monday I shall have a "summertime" style training session. The key = exercise variety! Achieve more all-around development without giving yourself an oversized stimulus, ha ha!

But, of course, the deadlift is still in priority! That's I have to be selective with my exercises. I definitely can load my pecs, shoulders and legs. Should be fun!

Squats

1 set of 10 bodyweight

60 kgs - 2 sets of 10 - high bar

And that's about it.

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Some time later

A few weeks ago I was watching Youtube shorts and came across a video of a TV series with a somewhat familiar Superman having a family. I was intrigued a little bit. I've been yearning for a good TV show to watch. I remembered where I've seen this Superman - in one of the crossover episodes of "Legends of Tomorrow". Can you believe I actually paid for Netflix back then? Oh, how the times have changed!

And I've really been enjoying this show - "Superman and Lois". Superman is a total family guy, really believeable as a good guy. It has a few TV stereotypes, such as cutting some scenes short. A lot about family and such. Somewhat entertaining as well! I can say I'm pretty much in love with this show now. And now I'm watching the last available episode of it. The final episode of the second season should come out next tuesday. Just wanted to share this. If I ever were a friend with someone I'd love them to tell be about the TV shows they enjoyed. And I do have friends, most of them forgotten.