Wednesday, May 11th - Deadlift

 11.05.2022

Nice day. Slept nicely. Worked, had breakfast - pork sandwich with onion, tomatoes, ketchup and seared bun, some cucumbers, some bacon, some lettuce and feta cheese. Oats with raisins and cherry jam, some green tea. Relaxed for a while. Got a call from a potential client and realised I do indeed like tutoring, cause I kept imagining the stuff I could teach them, all the new themes imagination-involving techniques etc.

Had coffee. Well, started having it. It's 17:57 right now. I had 35 grams of double ground arabica over 300 grams of water. Very nice. Still have a lot.

With God's grace I'm way less "distracted" and I came to conclude that some problems I imagined I had didn't actually exist. God pried my eyes open and let me see reality for a second. Gratias Deo!

I wanna use latin cause it feels more expressive, in a way. More people should learn and use more languages in their everyday speech.

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Almost an hour later. Did some mini quests around the castle grounds. Nice weather already. Feels like it was winter just a month ago. Wanna get to sanding my G310. Picked out a handle to install in place of the neck, as well as an oversized sanding block. Might want to cut it smaller.

Made another batch of coffee. Stronger than 1/9. Roughlt the same size.

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Feeling strangely calm. Perhaps my body knows what's about to happen and is trying to preserve energy. Perhaps I know it. Today's work is going to be 235 for 3 and going from 245 to 262 in 5 sets of 2. Should be nice! And I'll start work on the guitar body.

Had even more coffee. I oughta start my warmup - it's 8 o'clock already.

Workout

Deadlift

Some small warmup

20 - 70 - Started getting angrier. Lovely, ha ha ðŸĪŠðŸ”Ŧ

120 - 160

200 for 3 - Went to start work on my abstract pencil drawing. I'm enjoying it.

235 for 3 pretty easy

245 for 2 nice

Started hand sanding the guitar. It will take a lot effort, as it would seem. I think it's my duty to try the paint thinner, either on both sides or just on the back. What's the worst that can happen? You're supposed to wipe the body down with the white spirit anyway once you're down to the wood.
And, secondarily, I just feel like I might not sand it down to the wood. Just enough to apply different paint. I'm learning, after all.

250 for 2 pretty easy as well

Just read that PRS guitars get sanded for a very long time before being made. I like PRSs, maybe I'll even buy one some day. I could have bought one buy if I hadn't bought the chinese PRS and G310. But that way I'd have way less fun. I guess I should consider dedicating more time to sanding the G310? At least the front.

255 for 2 okay. Belt - kinda loose, right hip flexor - cramping. Spent too much time picking a song right before a set (mistake)

260 for 2 - first rep really nice, then I started donkey kicking to un-cramp my right hip extender, and on the second rep I got really slow going through the knees. I think I need to teach myself to spread my thighs to the sides after each rep.

And also I ordered a heat gun. SMH my head 😂 At least it only cost me 200 rubles, cause I used bonus points. And yeah, instead of using the sandpaper I just bought I used a few pieces of really old sandpaper. It got covered with paint very quickly, so I'm not sure if it's even good at all.

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Wait a sec... The program said to do 4 sets of 2, not 5 sets of 2. Lol. So should I do 262 now? 260,3 is 87,5% of roughly 2,97. Let's consider it good enough 😁 It is a round number, after all.

270,3 for 1 - God Bless 😀 Easier than last week! Really nice. Garage is so sticky now. White Spirit isn't exactly a proper paint remover for my cause. Oh man. I hope all these tools will be really useful. Apparently, I bought one extra jug of grounder. I could return it, realistically speaking. There's, in fact, quite a few items I could return. Let's hope I'm not gonna be a hoarder hehe.

I think, comapred to the last time I went through this program, my strength endurance has definitely improved. And my strength overall!

Eleven o'clock. Pretty late. Definitely no more deadlift. But I wanna do some kind, any kind of exercising.

I think I should be able to do PPs tomorrow. I wish to wake up earlier. And I will, actually, I got a quest.

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Almost midnight. I have reached the "tunnel". Rare and nice state. I think it's because I started having my coffee at 5, rather than later.

Rubber lat pulls

2 sets of 15 - light




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