Monday, 17th of October 2022 - Nice bench, some more squat

 17.10.2022

Nice day. The "feeling" is still here. Slept, worked, ate a little bit. Now it's late. Played guitar. Played my SQOE. Played my old songs. Played the doomstick. Tried to fix it with my brother. Bent one of the connectors after disassembling the switch. Didn't help. Ordered another switch, as well as a couple of bulding clamps - for the next guitar. Since I'm buying the pieces separately I can claim it's not a kit, ha ha. First glue the neck, then a lot of sanding. Hope I won't need to buy more sandpaper. Then the finishing. Should be much easier than re-finishing. Then some drilling, buying a lot of parts, and then it'll be ready.

It's 9 PM. I'm having my second coffee. As usual, it's late. Today I'm benching lightly. Been coughing a little bit, but healthy overall. I realised why coffee tastes bad when I squeeze it too hard - first of all, cause it's cheap coffee, then cause it's too hard for the water to pass through.

Workout

Small warmup, some pushups - very important

Bench press

20

50 for 15

70 for 10

90 for 10

110 for 8 kinda way too easy. I forgot I did this for 20 reps. Although my reps are super short NGL. Maybe I wanna try and fix it? It's just that locking out my elbows feels so wrong.

110 for 8

120 for 8 - made sure to lock out more. Easy enough. RPE 6.5 I'd say.

120 for 8 nice

120 for 8 as easy as before. Could I do 5 o 8 with 130? Perhaps. Maybe it's finally time to pay attention to my bench. Coming out of this little illness.

Sleep is really the most important thing you could do to be strong.

Okay, I'm not done. Now some squats.

Squat

2 sets of 15 - BW

16 kg kettlebell goblet squat - 15

32 kg kettlebell goblet squat - 15 nice and easy

48 kg (32+16) front squat for 15 - easy for muscle, hard for breathing. Could really feel my abs.

And that's it. Almost midnight. I think I'm gonna try and improve my "upstairs" squat.





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