Wednesday, 4th of May - Deadlift, Music

 04.05.2022

Great day so far. One of those rare days when I happen to not have work but I do have a workout! Woke up early, slept little, yesterday I had a rather massive supper and today I had a large breakfast. I actually watched the american CW channel to catch that new episode of Superman and Lois. Seeing all these commercials creates a pseudo-nostalgic feeling. Today, after breakfast, I managed to sleep some more. Woke up with an alarm, couldn't really sleep more.

Had coffee - 32 grams, double ground, 290 grams of water, poured over with hot water, put on fire until it rose. Taste = great, strength (i.e. density) - 7/10.

Tried adding cream and sugar - I happen to have some rather thick cream right now. Taste = worse, brought out more acidity. When I think about it, you really want to add sugar to coffee only when it's still hot. More importantly, I'm really craving calories witht this coffee right now, so it's just not useful. Normally - for many years, that is - I'd train in a "partially starved" state - i.e. small breakfast in the morning, then nothing for a long time, then a workout in the evening. Itworked out okay for me, whether I was trying to bulk or not. The best bulking comes from "heavy bodybuilding" style workouts - i.e. heavy enough weight (and I mean actually heavy) for 10-15 reps. Chasing some moderate pump. I talked about it before, recently as well. Pump isn't that great, you know, it's a sign of fatigue, it shows an inability of your muscle to get rid of process blood quickly. Forgive me if I might be scientifically incorrect, to a degree or more.

The coffee has gotten cold already. It's almost 7 PM. Luckily, the sun is still high. I wish to not be "distracted" today. The best way to avoid it is to distract yourself with music, mostly by playing it.

I'm such an impulsive buyer. Not sure if I got better or worse at it. If I had more money - it'd definitely be worse. Ever heard of a guy who took a senile lady's credit card and bought 11 Les Pauls? He was taking care of her and tried to commit this kind of theft. Kind of hilarious. This video popped up in my youtube feed not long ago.

I want to repaing my Epiphone G 310. Cause it's used, all blemished and stuff. That'll make it "mine". All I really need is different types of sandpaper and paint. And a soldering iron, perhaps? Well, I do want to replace one of the pickups. I'd love to replace the pickguard too, but it's actually okay.

Rebuffing the neck might be harder then the body. Maybe not. The guitar makes occasional clicking noises, as if something is moving. The neck pickup is just weak. And I took one of the strings off. Perhaps it'll sound better with thick strings.

Yesterday I devoted some attention to music. Recorded something on the harp! And then I jammed up my most succesful jazzy track so far. Listening to it on loop. When I remember it in my head, though, the solo always changes. I'm really not the best soloist. I have to be accidentally bending strings occasionally. Just like Tony Iommy, except my excuse is weaker. (I don't have a cut off finger, just formerly injured).

I oughta make more coffee. Probably not going to double grind it again.

Had roughly the same coffee, but once-ground. Tastes stronger. Feels good.

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Today we're supposed to go from 230 to 255 in 5 sets of 2. Then a "clean" single with 270 - which is a number. I expect this number to not feel too heavy - if I do everything right, like I have before.

Made a rebrew one the last batch - poured atiny bit of water to get one more cup and satisfy the lasting desire without having to use up more beans.

It's almost 9 PM. So far I've managed to avoid "distraction", but I sure am taking a lot of time once again. I'm confident it's for the better.

I think I am not going to resell my G 310 after all. I am going to manually repaint it and install a different neck pickup. Exciting! It's going to be quite a spending article, I presume. 😁 🏜

What else? The rebrewed coffee isn't that bad. Strong enough.

Workout

Deadlift

Quick warmup, opening up joints, low reps - trying to preserve more energy

Low reps means "slower" warmup, if you will. Ancient wisdom dictates that a "hard" warmup does indicate that the working weight will be hard. That's the whole point of a warmup.

60 - 110 

160 for 2

200 for 2 - that was the final warmup set

230 for 2 kinda hard

240 for 2 much easier

250 for 2 not too bad. RPE 7. Not fully concentrated.

255 for 2 not too bad either. I realised that I've only done 4 working sets. Well, that oughta make 90% clean single more powerful.

270 for 1 nice. A small PR! It's my "minimum maximum" - i.e. smallest maximum I aimed for. I think I'm going to change my program to teach myself to do singles better.

255 for 2 with a long pause in between - first my player glitched, I deadlifted, felt a little off, reset the player, and did another rep. Was hard, going from 270 😀

Unloaded the plates. Played Minecraft with the junior acolyte. He wants to try and develop one of the villages. That's a lot of fun, of course. Kinda makes Minecraft into an economy game of sorts.

What else? Well, it's already the new day (thursday). I haven't hyad my post workout meal. It's okay. Am I busy tomorrow? A little. One thing in the morning, one in the evening, and a workout. Maybe I'd be able to finish my workout before 8 PM. I'd love to do something nice. Maybe I could go heavy in PPs tomorrow, since I only really did DLs today? What am I supposed to lift? Let me see... 4 sets of 8 with 70%. That means going from... No, wait a second. I think I've already done this, last saturday. Then it's 5 sets of 4 with 80%... That means going from roughly 100 to 120. Reasonable? I think so. I think I could do it tomorrow, if I can discipline myself properly. Or go light and leave it for saturday - also an option.

And yes, here's the couple tracks that turned out better than the track I made two weeks ago.

Spire - Respite (Harp instrtumental)

Scroll of a Champion - Feign Extraction (jazzy jam)

Random pic of the day - Die Friedrich-List-Schule ist ein Wirtschaftsgymnasium in Mannheim.

A raw video of my 270 kgs DL