My training log and thoughts

 30.07.2022 Nice day. Feeling relax. Sleep - good. Nutrition - pretty nice. Having my first coffee. Enjoying AID, possible getting "distracted", but not too much. Possibly, I said. Finally started watching that trendy show - "Better Call Saul". I enjoyed Breaking bad so many years ago. This show is a lot of fun too. Same tropes, same narration style, etc. Takes you away. I was so hesitant to start watching a new show. But of course, it's nice enough. Finished my first coffee. Today we're doing pushpress again. 80% for 2 sets of 3, 87,5% for 3 sets of 1, and one more clean single at 85%. So, let's try figure out approximate numbers... That'll be 115 to 125, and then 125 to 135. And then 125 again. Sounds quite reasonable. Coffee's tasting great today. I must have finally got it. It's almost 9 PM. I believe doing one arm presses will really help me "unlock" my shoulders for better mobility. And, more improtantly, my legs are supposed ...

 28.07.2022 Not much to say. Feeling confused about everything. Had long sleep. Tired of this weather woke up late, hoping to not experience this heat. It's still hot. Had coffee. First two coffeees were great and brought me in a decent mood. The third one - not so much. Well, at least I can feel that the weather is definitely not as bad as yesterday. Ever since I staryted drinking coffee from a Moka pot my caffeine habits have changed slightly. I think it might be a good time to stop having so much of it. I need a nice long workout. Not like yesterday. I need to wash my brain with endorphins and enter the tunnel state. That shall happen. Feeling pretty grrovy while noodling. That's a good sign for my CNS. Workout Deadlift 20-60-100-150 for 8 - my quick initial warmup that I came to love. Now I realise I'm not sure what to do. I started with 130 in june, I think? Well, right now we're still having a super light period, except for PP, but I want to have a nice long work...

 27.07.2022 Nice day overall. Good nutrition. Confusing sleep. I actually had normal nighttime sleep last night, but felt not too great. The weather is hot and humid. I experience occasional bursts of hatred towards this weather, but realise how silly it is and calm down. I'm having my second coffee now. The first one took a while to get ingested. Played guitar. Rerecorded 4 bars on bass, and two bars on guitar. The strings are grimy on the guitar. So I had to make a choice to not continue recording, injstead I wiped up the strings with a cleaner all around. I know they won't feel grimy next time. I need to give em some time. Once I'm done with this song I'll carefully take off these strings and put them on my SQOE. And put the new 12-56 Ernie Balls on the SG. They're probably going to feel really soft. I realise now that Ernie Balls are softer somehow, compared to other string brans. Well, I still haven't tried D'Addario and some other popular brand I can...

 25.07.2022 Nice day. On saturday, even though I had a much earlier workout, I still stayed up quite late and felt fatigued, and thus slept most of sunday, which was yesterday. Went to bed not as late, slept not too much, but enough, hopefully. Today feels clear. The weather doesn't seem to be as oppressive. Nice breakfast. Appetite lower compared to spring and june. BW around 112 with food inside. Had one coffee. Finally recorded the last melodic part in the song. Once again, prioritizing quantity over quality. In this case, quantity being anything above zero 😁 d It was a lot of fun. I have a habit of writing long chordy passages that you can't have smooth transitions in, unless you either use a delay or just record every small part separately. I probably should've tried using delay. Right now it doesn't matter. I'll need to mix it a bit better, to even out the guitars. I think if I'm even going to be done with my two guitar projects I shall buy another Epipho...

 23.07.2022 Nice day so far. Almost decent nutrition. Definitely getting enough. Sleep - confusing. I think I got enough. Yesterday - not enough. Slept a lot tonight. Actually during the night. The weather has gotten rather warm. Thankfully not scalding. I think I'm inspired to improve my discipline. I've been wanting to do this for a long while, and now I'm actually inspired. All I really need is to have an earlier workout. Going for something lighter. Mopst importantly - I gotta not get "distracted". I used to listen to music before my workouts back in the day. It was sort of a designated time for it. And after, too. What else, what else... Hmmm. Having my first coffee now. Haven't played FO76 in two days. Might miss out on one of the weekly challenges xd Not that it's a big deal. I got all the appealing goodies from the scoreboard already. It's funny how you don't lose out on almost anything at all without the subscription. It costs more but giv...

 21.07.2022 My discipline is lacking again. Yesterday, that is. Stayed up too long, didn't I? Literally "stayed", as in "stood". If I just spent more time lying down I'd have more energy. Nice day today. I feel like the "diversified summer" is really going to be accoplished in these next few days. DL is gonna be easy, intentionally, so nothing is hindered while we accumulate as much energy as we ccan under these specific conditions. That means just enough volume. More than you normally want, but less than you'd want once you get into it. Hard balance. When I think about it - yesterday was a really nice workout. Mostly cause of 100 for 8 done easily. Could've stopped there honestly xd BUT in the old days. I used to lack volume, disciplined volume. I always used to cut it down. Now I don't. That's something I have. Something good. So, I loaded up my shoulders pretty heavily and loaded them even more with these pushpresses. Today I...

 20.07.2022 Nice day. Not too much sleep. Yesterday was a really great day. Out of nowhere (or, perhaps, form giving an exciting lesson?) I was in a great mood. Yesterday I had coffee and really enjoyed playing FO76. Today I woke up relatively early, gave a lesson, had a moderately-sized breakfast, helped around, rested, had one coffee, helped with some other small tasks, and now I'm having a second coffee. It's 18:18. Coffee is getting me massively cranky. I'm overreacting to small things, but holding myself under control. It is largely believed that if you need to exert your will over yourself that you might "run out of energy" and give in to the impulse. Ad I like to say, men with the strongest wills are capable of ignoring the impulse, rather than effortfully battling it. That's one of the reasons why staying alone is easier, not stressful, in fact. Today I have pushpress. 5 sets of 4 with 80%. From 115 to 125. Hmm. That's the ideal numbers. I may want...

 18.07.2022 Nice day so far. Saturday was really crazy. I really exhausted myself. My prime movers - legs and gluteus maximus (ass). And they're connected to the upper body by the back, specifically lumbar region. My legs and ass are really not too tired, but my back is. So, I wonder - is there a way to bring up this "medium" link of the chain to make it tougher? Well, of course, there is! I reckon forgetting about deadlift - I think, at this point, my most developed movement - and just doing squats for a while will help me a plenty. Sure, the prime movers won't be loded too heavily, but it'll definitely feel heavier. Not sure what I wanna do with DL moving forweard from now. I definitely feel like I could work up to an easy 220 for 10 in the next two weeks. And yeah, it will be easy. I'm convinced. As long as I stay disciplined enough. Not sure what to do today. Thinking of bench. Pretty sure my bench would stay up semi-decent of better if I did it once a wee...

 16.07.2022 Nice day. Decent nutrition, okay sleep. CNS was a little strained initially, and now I'm getting a little stressed and phased out of my mind cause of something small happened. Something that triggered something in me. Right now, for some reason, I'm assuming that you (the reader) are trying to gaslight me and tell me how insignificant what's happening to me is. That's why I'm not liking you. If you think something else - that's better. Maybe than I do like your compassion. But I can't help myself but imagine fucking demons in human skin around me, trying to convince me to kill myself. Shit. And when I say "demons in human skin", I, of course, mean normal people. Normal people with good intentions. Ha ha ha. Today's plan is DL. 180 and 200 as working sets, then a couple easy singles. For a moment I was tempted to postpone it, but it's kinda meaningless. It's not the exercise itself that defines that amount of stress induced d...

 14.07.2022 Yesterday's workout was more fatiguing than I thought. Slept less than I could have. Got distracted. My CNS activates easily. Played FO76 just a little too much last night xD As well as AID. I've gotten further in the scoreboard than I've ever been. Cause I've been grinding XP for it. But it's not fun past the first few times. Cause you're too much in a hurry. And, more importnantly, there aren't as many goodies left. I got the most desired item in the scoreboard, that being armor paints, and then the double barrel shotgun skin - even though this particular weapon isn't that great. But it can be really nice. I mamanged to find a legendary Quad double barrel shotgun. That means it got 8 shells - by magic, he he. Anyway, I slept for a long time during the day today. It wouldn't have been the case if I wasn't disturbed at night, but someone like me believes it to bee good to be able to sacrifice a tiny bit of their time for some kind of ...

 13.07.2022 Nice day. Slept for at least 5 hours, and at night too! Worked, had a nice breakfast, appetite less than normal but okay, rested for some more. Feeling a little sleepy, ngl. I can feel that I didn't have 12 hours of sleep or more. Or perhaps it's just that my body is used to sleeping during the day. But I am enhancing the grip on my sleeping culture. I'm over there. Having my third coffee. I colnculded that it's in my interests to make coffee less bitter, even if it's unsatisfying to a degree - because I just want as much as I can get, pound for pound. But since I'm not choosing to eat coffee beans raw, it only makes sense for me to make nice coffee, rather than " very strong" one. Today i wish to cut my "main" PP volume in favor of doing some axle floor-to-overhead lifts outside. Haven't done this in ages. I'll love it. And I have dumbbell collars now, that'll make everything easier. Workout Nice all around warmup in ...

 12.07.2022 Doing stuff to enhance my sleep discipline. Didn't sleep much today. Felt a little sleepy after giving a nice lesson. Had two cups of instant coffee. Decided to give myself a general micro-workout. Squat 1-2-3-4-5-6- 8 -8-9-10-11- 15 - 15 -14-15-5-5-5 At some points I got distracted 😁 Early this morning I got inspired by some of the final Mothman Equinoxes in FO76 and recorded another part in the song. Only one more verse and chorus left. Then it'll be the lyrics, or perhaps the drums? It'd make sense if it was drums first, that's how I've always done it. Or, perhaps, write another song. I have plenty of riffs. I really want to drum more he he. I should try to upgrade my old laptop so I can easily load up the same projects. Shouldn't be that complicated. Or, arguably, a better choice might be to record the drums in my room xD It would honestly be pretty easy to carry them up here. I'd like to get my hands on a "washy" China cymbal, but...

 11.06.2022 Nice day. Doesn't mater what and how. Feeling somewhat okay. Gonna do PP. Having my first coffee. Wondering if I'll have two or three today. Overall, despite feeling not too great about some things - it's alright, even better than that. Somehow I have a convincing feeling that God is taking care of me. Isn't that great? If I just acted like I don't care I'd be manlier. But I don't *just* act like I don't care. I act like that because I believe in God. Today we're going 4 sets of 6, going from 108 to 116. I feel so lazy, ngl. Well, not lazy. Just a little distracted, as usual. Or as it used to be for a while at some point in the past. I wish the weather here was just a little bit cooler. Like, with the maximum of 25 degrees. Would that mean a much colder winter? Don't know. --- Feel fatigued today. I may not want to go heavy. It would make sense to not have two heavy sessions in a row. Workout Overhead press 20 Overly long break 60 - 3...

 09.07.2022 Weird day. Has been sleeping so much for the second day in a row. Before yesterday I impulsively took 4 pills of melatonin (as opposed to the maximum of 2). It probably stayed in my system for a while. Thankfully, all the repeatable quests I needed to do I did well. Last week was a pretty crazy week. God heard my prayers and helped get rid of something that has been bothering for a while. Sadly, those things tend to come back, but so far they haven't, or I haven't let em. It was an exhausing week. Only the days on which I did heavy DL and PP were alright. I pretty much forgot about recording my song. Well, I did stop after recording the hardest part. I didn't expect myself to take less than a hundred takes to record it, but I guess I did get better at guitar compared to 2021. Today I slept for a few hours - very deep sleep, worked some, had an okay breakfast, didn't really feel sleepy for an hour then I got knocked out again. Very, very deep sleep. Fathomle...

 07.07.2022 I need to get a bit of discipline back in my life. That's why I shall time my coffee drinking today. Then I'll go and do my benches, and them some accessory work. I feel stronger today than yesterday, despite hot and humid weather. I feel like in this weather a good choice of action could be to contrentrate on one thing, and minimize other things. I feel hot all the time today. Not even a gentle breeze. Workout Small upper body warmup. All the joints feel good. A little bit of lower body. The exercises I did yesterday felt unusual. Bench press 20 for 10 60 for 10 80 for 10 - it's important to set up your arms in a way that'd make your descent automatic 100 for 10 nice. I realised my lockout might have been wrong all these years, not perpendicular to the floor 110 for 10 nice. I keep thinking why I choose try train my bench in high reps. I used to be afraid of heavy weight due to my mini-tear in pecs. I think it's time I turn my bench into an actual acces...

 05.07.2022 Feeling so strangely good despite possibly fatiguing myself really hard yesterday. Something is right, I can feel it. Perhaps it's the sleep I had. Very calm. Food - decent, it's rate it at 7/10 overall. Putting some effort into it. It's important right now. Last week I fatigued myself really hard. I think I will not be deadlifting tomorrow, but instead I'll do some heavier squat. I'm thinking I could go sets of 8. Climb up to... I don't actually have a max weight in squat. I think it has to be above 220, seeing how I squatted 220 so easily many years ago. I like to make weights light. To be more specific - I like to make heavy weight light. I believe this statement represents a summary of the volume method. Positive reinforcement, moving light weights, and then you can put more effort into doing it, improving your technique, acceleration and overall speed. Very inpsiring, when you start a new program. 06.07.2022 Nice day. Nice times. Good times, you...

 03.07.2022 Nice day. Slept for a while, peacefully. Intense dreams. The only thing I rememebr about them is that they were intense. Back feeling rather fatigued. I, however, still feel like I can train moore often. It will take some time to adject my recovery capabilities and develop new pacing approach. Kinda wanna train today. In fact, I will. It'll be a short one. The question in - will I have coffee or not? Cause I really want to. There are two major ways to think of that: 1) Take breaks from coffee to have more intense stimulation 2) Don't take breaks because intense stimulation is too much I wonder. What if having coffee more often - rather than a lot of it every now and then - could lead to better sleep? Cause it'd be easier to fall asleep on the heavier training days. Hmm. That's the most of it. I think for now (this exact moment) I'll just have some tea. --- Made one batch. It's kind of a big deal if I'm gonna start drinking coffee and working out ...

 02.07.2022 Nice day. Very nice. I've been so looking forawrd to it. Did not sleep. Slept for around 5 hours during the day. Weird. Felt a little sleepy, but then it went away. Had an okay breakfast in the morning. I forgot what it's like to roast meat with spice. Today I randomly added some spice to meat it smelled pretty good. The taste was okay. I overcooked it. I like to flip porkchops multiple times. Solidifies the water inside. Too thick though. Hmm. Having a second coffee. Feels okay. Hopding to have a nice DL. It's already 8 PM 🤪 Played FO76 way too much. I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for the daily mission, whatever you call them. You're supposed to do them with a team, but I enjoy doing it on my own. ESO is a much more complex game than FO76, but it always feels like there is not enough challenging single player content. Only two silly arenas that you can grind and learn by heart. FO76 is simples, and canbe more unbalanced because of it. The fai...