June 4th, 2022 AD - Heavy push press 82%

 04.06.2022

Nice day. Had very little sleep. Almost forgot I had a lesson. Woke up, worked, had breakfast, fell back asleep. Shouldn't have had that one instant coffee late at night yesterday. Woke up in the evening. Going to do pushpresses today.

Had coffee - decided to limit myself and just go with a handful, 16 grams over 207 grams of water. Tastes fine, not too thin.

Had another batch with 30 grams times roughly ten. You know, I think not all types of coffee benefit from a tight ratio. Or maybe it's just how I feel today. Perhaps this one happens to be too bitter.

You know, I might have become a shopaholic of some kind. Standing here, looking at guitars, fantacizing. Sometimes other instruments, like mandolins. Or, I've been eyesing this cool bass balalaika. I taked about it before. It's cheaper than any acousic bass guitar. Acoustic bass guitars aren't that great, sadly. But i think they can be cool too. Harps. They're not that expensive. Basically a better sounding piano. Oh yeah, it does sound better than a piano. Piano is a massively selfish instrument. Using all of your fingers to play bass and solo? Selfish. 😂 I'm half-kidding. Obviously it's cool. It's more cool when two people are playing together so they can play more complex bass/treble parts. You only got one hand to play the high notes on piano! Sure, there are tricks.

Piano is okay, or less than okay, because it's overrated and too prevalent, and thus is annoying to listen to. There's just too much piano music anywhere you go. Imagine you were never able to eat nuts. The only form of nuts would be snickers bars. That's the problem with music sometimes. You can't find good simple things to enjoy. You gotta have em shoved down your throat with a lot of extra sugary garbage.

Sounds like a rant? Pretty obscure, ha ha. Nuts 😁 

Don't be immature, my friend. "Nuts" doesn't always mean "testicles" 😉 Somebody's got a dirty mind! (you do 😚)

Damn, I'm more corny than anyone. Ha ha... Nuts. *continues to laugh* *nuzzles you owo*

Hehe... Cocktus 

What else, what else... Oh yeah, I still have a workout to do. It's 8 PM o'clock twenty hundred military time in the evening. Hmm... I was thinking about something. I saw a dream. Really wild one, in fact. Trippy! Headspinning! I went to space and out of boundaries of our universe. Almost got lost there. And when I came back - a thousand years had passed. I talked to the image of my friend in the window, who explained what happened in a thousand years. But he was mere a hologram of controlling government, who took it upon themselves to shape the perceived reality a bit more directly (through some kind of technology).

Hmm. Cool dream. No, I don't take drugs. I despise those who do, even if I understand them. Alcohol is the worst drug. You are despicable and filthy if you allow yourself to dim your mind with it. Go on, get butthurt, druggie! You're worse than a weedsucker. Weedsuckers are lame, weak and stupid. I ain't not being serious! They are. Unless they got a condition of some kind. If they take oils it probably is less damaging than frickin bongs and shit.

What I'm saying is - there are healthier ways to "dim your mind" than drugs. And that's coming from a person who does enjoy stoner metal music a plenty. I like the grooving. Realistically, it's stoner metal that's supposed to be called groove metal. And groove metal, sadly, is much closes to pop music. (Pantera were original, and followers made groove metal worse). Same with fucking djent. Meshuggah were original. Other djenters suck cokc. Sad but true! I reckon some people think that of death metal too, ha ha. At least death metal remained mostly expressive. Death (the band) were original, then they (death metal genre) either turned into pig music or mindless shredding.

Neoclassical metal sucks balls too. Mostly cause it's so fucking mindless and isn't going anywhere. Kids might like it. A blend of a minimal amount of edginess and beauty. Same goes with flower metal. Manowar are pretty much the only real power metal band (although I do like early american power metal, like Manilla Road),  and flower metal sucks fucking balls! The way they play is just different, so fucking polished. And Manwoar sold out a tiny fucking bit when they released a CD version of The Lord of Steel. Hammer Edition was awesome! Polished reamped power metal version sucked fucking balls.

If you polish anything too much and remove all the blemished it just becomes so unnaturally ugly. So fucking ugly. Why do I feel like that? Am I attrected to ugly things? Probably not. Most definitely not. The word "ugly" has a meaning.

Just tell me, you, tell me - do you think open grain guitars look better than solid color guitars? Just tell me, do not lie. Maybe I should provide a picture.

Well, what do you think? If you are like me - you like complex looking things more. If you're not - well, sorry for you, my child.

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I forgot... I'm overdoing my pushpress. I was supposed to do 5 sets of 4 and I did 5 o' 5. And I'm supposed to do 4 sets of 3 today. With 82,5% of my max... That weight being between 115 and 127, roughly. 127 for a three? Sounds quite feasible. Let's start the warmup. The clock tells me it's 8:30, but the sun tells me it's 6 PM. Funny. I like to workout when it's dark. What a strange habit.

Workout

Overhead press - sets of 5

Warmup - not too much, just right. Did the rubber band thing for the rotator cuff (static holds). Felt great immediately!

60 - 80 - 90

110 for 5 - feels like it's gotta be some kind of PR 😁 Just a casual press, done very strictly, and no belt too 🤔

Drummed for one set, did one warmup.

Push press

60 for 3

90 for 3

115 for 3

120 for 3 - nice, properly controlled

125 for 3 - great

128 - for 3, and that was 2 plus 1 - did the first attempt, danced around too much, held the air in instead of inhaling it, made the belt tighter than before, had to balance the weight after the second rep and that drained my torso power so I couldn't push properly. Waited a bit, loosened the belt and did one more good rep, although I was wobbling around a lot.

When I think about, that might have been RPE 8. Although it is a more dynamic movement, so gaging effort is harder.

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Well, that's it. My back feels rather stiff from it. Perhaps I could do some BW squats to loosen it.

Quite some time later

Squats

5 sets of 20 with reverse rubber - makes my back feel better