Saturday, 30th - Nice push press, squat

 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 to be in a somewhat nice shape today. I expect really good outcomes, despite taking quite some nice time before the workout.

Workout

Some light moves, one arm presses, moving my torso to the side.

20 and 60 - a few presses and stretches. I can feel the tension in my shoulder joints. Gotta let em accumulate.

80 - 3 presses, then 3 pushpresses

115 for 2 - kinda awful, all arms, almost no legs

120 for 2 - music on, way better!
I just realised today's gonna feel like a short workout, cause I'm doing such low reps.

125 for 2 - not perfect, but nice. All working.

Now the singles

125 for 1 nice

130 for 1 even better, no music

Important - I realised that my attempts to squat deeped into my pelvis (i.e. backwards) are nto quite correct. Squatting forward would be squatting "into your knees". This time I kept it balanced BUT I put more mental effort into my calves, into getting high on my tiptoes.

Maybe this little cue isn't perfect, but i don't see a way it can be logically contradicted.

135 for 1 - pretty great. Made me wanna upload the vid!

125 for 1 nice and easy

Quick unloading of the plates

Squat! - You thought I forgot about it, didn't you? 😄 Big ol' discipline coming into play!

60 for 10 high bar, no shirt - feels pretty smooth. Never wanna interruprt the succesion of energy accumulation. That means you need to squat frequently!

90 for 10

110 for 10

Decided not to go upstairs for a break and instead I sanded the final part of the guitar. NGL it's not perfect. But next think I'll be screwing a faux handle in place of the nexk and painting it! Hopefully, alongside my brother, who really wanted to see this.

130 for 10 really nice, pauses in the bottom. Seeing how I still have titanium in my left ankle I made sure to put a bit more weight on my heels and spread my legs as well. I felt my feet sliding inside of the weightlifting shoes. Thankfully, they were stable enough and the whole move felt very confident.

After sanding I'm sneezing a lot. Unpleasant. Even with the mask.

Well, that's it for now.


Heh apparently there's a brand like this


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