Saturday 13th, August - Nice PP and squat

 13.08.2022

Nice day. Accidentally slept for a very long time - cause I somehow managed to go to be relatively early. Playing GTA Online and it's getting quite boring. There's still some fun stuff, of course.

Bought arabica. Tastes nice, although acidic in the end. Definitely feels less "strong", taste wise.

Tried connecting the old large boombox to the PC. It works as a clean amp on its own. Really great with bass, shakes the whole room. With PC, however, the sound was pretty bad. For the guitar anyway. It's tucked in a place where it defeinitely steals a lot of frequencies. Ultimately, it is still not monitors. So nothing to worry about.

I'm realising that amidst all the experimentation I'm dirnking my coffee very slowly. And it's suppsoed to have less cafeeine that robusta. What if I'm desenetized? I can feel it, but I am not jumbled. Well, the "jumble" mostly comes from stored stress, if I can make a hypothesis. And seeing how my recovery is quite great today, the stress level is low. I might have even experienced something very "triggering" earlier today and did not feel anything. Might have.

Replaced the strings on my SQOE PRS to Ernie Ball 2245 Power Slinky 11-48. Wiped it up and oiled the neck. Really enjoying the new strings. Decided to put them into D Standard. I just today realised that it['s got 25.5 inches scale. No wonder those previous cheap strings were insanely tight. And these ones feel a little tight as well, but they're super easy to bend, so that's great. And action automatically seems okay. Intonation - some strings need it. Actually, all of them, ha ha. Some more than others, however.

I sure am taking quite some time before my workout. It's almost 10 PM. I shall start around 10:15. What do we have today?

Today we have a set of 5 at 72,5% and 4 sets of 3 with 82,5%, and then a single at 87,5%.

So... Let's be gentle with the max. It's 105 for 5,
Then 117-120-125-127 (4 sets) of 3.
And 135 for a single again.

Finishing my third coffee - this time I made a mix of new arabica and old robusta.

Workout

No upstairs warmup initially.

Overhead press

20 and 50 for a few reps - I can feel the connective tussie in my left pec strained. The pact that connects it to the shoulder. That's what you get for benching 40 kilos on thursday, I guess? The fact that I have to pull the bar with my lats in the bottom poisiton should make you think. Okay.

70 for 5 - a little better. I should do OHP more often.

90 for 5 okay. Pressing forward. Doesn't feel nice

Push press

50 for a few

70 for like 5

105 for 5 nice. I can really feel my legs working, exploding the weight upwards.

117 for 3 nice.

Something - or someone - starting giving me a little bit of a bother. Fucking memories.

120 for 3 better

I was feeling something correct. How weird. My animal brain can tell sounds apart. Normal from abnormal. I am... getting more tense.

125 for 3 great

127 for 3 even better

135 for 1 nice

Did not go upstairs. Drew a Mothman with pencils. Strange, all around the house. Thick strangeness, like jelly.

Squat - moving away from always doing sets of 10 only

10 BW

50 for 10

90 for 8

130 for 8

150 for 8 really nice. Used my abs, felt my abs. Hard breathing. Keeping the weight on the heels.

Unloaded plates

Managed to pinch 25+25 plates, lifting them a tiny bit off the floor (right hand). Then did 20+20 left - full lift, then put it in my right and did a touch-and-go lift 😁

I remember when they voted to remove smiley faces from ragethunder forum. I was very little. Many years ago. I keep forgetting that dinopower is saved on internet archives. But the forum isn't afaik. Or is it?..

I didn't come up for over an hour. It's a good habit to redevelop, cause internet can be distracting.

That's about it. Made some frozen veggies - but did it well, with extra tomatoes first. Did not eat it, but left it downstairs for later. Got some tea and juice for my after workout meal, ha ha. Becuase if you force your digestion right away - brain doesn't feel right. I wanna stay in the sky for a while, he he. It's a rare feeling. But easy to get if you workout right.

Curious Dall-E Mini collage - you're gonna have to guess the prompt, he he.


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