May 25th, 2022 AD, Wednesday - Almost decent DL day

 24.05.2022

I just wanted to remember today. I got so massively "distracted" yesterday, after I was done working out. Didn't even have my supper on time, that was dumb. Didn't get any sleep at night, stayed up until a lesson. Lesson went very well, then I slept a little until another one. Had a moderate breakfast that somehow filled me up a lot. I had to go somewhere to take care of a tiny business, so I thought of either taking a taxi or walking. Decided to walk, did now accompish what I had in mind, but at least I bought some juice, milk, coffee and chocolate (for all the members of the Order). Coffee is for me though. But I do share it!

When I don't get enough sleep I get "distracted" very easily. Something in the brain. Feeling like floating in warm water under scorching sun. Basically wanna sleep, but can't fall asleep yet. Tomorrow's a deadlift day. It's gonna be nice, one way or another!

25.05.2022

Nice day. Woke up early enough, but my repeatable quest got postponed, so I went back to sleep, deciding to have breakfast later in the day. Woke up during the day, made breakfast - some pork and porridge, eggs and tomato. Made a big bowl of dense soup - automatically I took too many tomatoes and onions, and then impulsively dumped a whole jar of tomato paste in. There was no space to add meat! And I didn't even add chili, cause I wanted to only add it in the end, but then I concluded that the soup is too thick for chili.

Took a break, made coffee from the new beans I bought yesterday.

29 grams of coffee, double ground, 281 grams of water. Accidentally poured more than x9.

Taste - nice, a little metallic. I think it's medium roast, can't remember right now. Yes, I looked it up - here's the brand.

Pretty boring, isn't is? Anyway, I made another batch. Didn't like the taste of the first one. Maybe it's cause I held it on the fire for too long.

33 grams of once ground coffee, 2/3 of it was the old bushido coffee I had, and 1/3 the new one. Over 254 grams of boiling water. Once ground. Didn't hold it for too long.

Hmm. Even more metallic, this time acidic even. But at least it's hot. The selection in the store was really limited. I should pick it better. Medium and dark roasts are not for me. I picked it cause it at least said 100% arabica.

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Playing the acoustic for a while. Finally learning the Lydian mode a bit better.

Ever since I became slightly different - five weeks ago - a significant amount of tension has left my body. I'm less "doom" and more "heavy" now, if not to say "power" or "death". The music I hear in my head also expresses the change. Well, of course I wouldn't be opposed to writing some straightforward doom songs. *sighs* I'm kinda slow. Since it's just creativity - there's no feeling of what do you call it... pros... frus... propo... There was a funny word that I forgot in both english and russian that means "postpone everything". I'm waiting for inspiration, for proper one, and it does come at times. I'm not treating my guitar practice in a creative enough way, don't I? Hmmm. Could be recording more stuff.

I'm heavy. I feel quite dangerous. More than before, that is. My music can signify that as well. Been enjoying a lot of death metal. Remember when parents used to blame music for violent behavior, rather than video games and internet? How funny. Parents will always want to blame something out of fear and frustration. A decade ago some parents were worried that their kids might be getting radicalized. Some were, most weren't.

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Starting to get jumbled by caffeine. Gettin cranky. Isn't that interesting. It's 7:30. Soon. Today's a pretty heavy day - it's a gonna be a powerful one.

85% for 2 reps, 3 sets of 2 reps with 90%, and one rep with 92,5%. Interesting. So we're gonna go do roughly 238 for 2, then 250 / 260 / 270 for 2, and then 277,5 for a "clean single". Sounds about right! I think I will have one more coffee. Big or small? Small, just to top it off.

Rebrewed the last batch. Nice enough. I oughta do that more, ha ha.

Workout

Deadlift

Some warmup - I concluded that when i do hip thrusts I shouldn't flex to a point of creating tension in the connective tissue. Less than that is enough to get it moving. Some squats etc.

60 - 110 - 160 - 200

Drummed a bit. Feels better. I think my brain's metronome got adjusted a bit better.

230 for 2 - cramped up my right hip extender again. Curious. And yeah, I did round it down from 238 lol. I thought it was 232 in my head.

250 for 2 - filmed it with my new phone, the first ever video I recorded on it. Easy enough, I guess. Never treat a light weight like a light weight, I say. And it's not light, isn't it? Ha ha.

260 for 2 - some connective tissue around my knee felt a little tense, somewhat painful even before the set. I had to take a break between reps again. On the second rep I tightened the belt and made sure to "squat down" a tiny bit more. That provided me with a smoother movement.

270 for 2 - nice, made sure to squat down deeper, took a break in between reps. 

277,8 two sets of 0. Got it off the floor, could not pass the knees, and I got a cramp in my pecs for some curious reason. I feel like I may want to put my belt a tiny bit lower, so I can potentially engage my lats more. And yeah, I will go for one more rep, cause "misses are just warmups!" That's what Jedd Johnson says. Cool dude, but he does do a lot of misses. An average stimulus addict, like me.

277,8 for one more fail. Okay. It's definitely been too long. And I knew that with this program something like this was bound to happen, considering I'm using something know as a "supermax". I got it to my knees, then it went down.

Some time later - did 3 sets of rubber lat pulls of 15 reps, light

Mistakes I've made:

1) Monday - squatted heavy, loaded up my hip joint, it hurt all the time
2) Did not sleep on monday
3) Slept little during tuesday
4) Got "distracted" on tuesday
5) Walked for an hour on tuesday
6) Did not put extra effort into saving energy on tuesday
7) Watched a stupid movie on tuesday night
8) Didn't eat properly
9) Made my monday workout too heavy. Was too affected by caffeine. Thus, I did not "undesensetize" myself for this wednesday.
10) Drank shitty coffee today. Hey, least at it had caffeine. I oughta order better coffee. Light roast, not that medium roast crap.
11) Inevitably took too long during whole workout - but hey, at least I got 270 for 2, which is a PR+1 rep
12) Did not do a "clean single" a week ago - didn't train my fast muscle fibers enough, I was supposed to do one more rep with 270.

I did get enough sleep today and I did get an okay breakfast. Well, after all this time of training my DL I have to say that maxing out is important, and in order to achieve that important task it is important to learn the actual skill of maxing out. Which is why I hope next week, avoiding all these issues, I should be able to prepare my fast muscle fibers better.

Okay, A proper disciplined man doesn't "distract" himself. Discipline, displine, thousand times more discipline. I shall achieve more of it! God help me. An thank God for improvements that I did make, suck as handling weights up to 270,3 for a doublet. Good.

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I oughta go and receive my fret file at the post office. Finally can finish filing the frets on my SQOE PRS, and I can restring it too. I got cheap thick strings, but I hope they'll be good. In fact, they're not that cheap, I bought their classical strings before and they were alright.

Random pic of the day - Revolution Square in Chelyabinsk. Put it first, not not make that mediocre coffee my thumbnail for a decent deadlift day.