19th of October 2022, Wednesday - getting back into heavy compound lifts, overhand DL PRs

 19.10.2022

Nice day. Slept for a while. Nice dreams. Full of action. Places I've never been to, people I've never met, actions I've never done. All my dreams, feeling like a reality. I saw a random clip of Joe Rogan talking about how weed removes dreams - he's an avid pothead, so he took a break and had real dreams for the first time in a while. That's why I could never be a dopesmoker. I love my wacky dreams too much. Drugs don't give you anything, they just reallocate your brain resources (hormones) - i.e. waste them inappropriately at a wrong time. And weed really ruins kids' brains.

Anyway, I had decent sleep, appetite very moderate cause I ate a lot of random snacks yesterday. Was feeling unnecessarily sad, so i impulsively ordeded some snacky groceries. My little brother was at em very quickly. I bought ice creams, chocolates, noodles and a few other things. I keep feeling worried about sugar. I feel like it's really going to diminish my natural anabolism if I let myself have too much.

Having my second coffee. The secret is not to screw the top of the moka pot on too tightly. Then it's less bitter. I wonder if I'll end up buying a coffee machine at some point. It'd probably be more of a waste of time.

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Almost 9 PM. I sure am taking my time. Having my third coffee for the first time in a long while. Brain getting jumbled. It's not a bad thing when it's jumbled, but it's not necessarily good. So much for me talking about drugs being bad, ha ha. Well, it's caffeine.

Workout

All around warmup

27 for a few reps

20-50-90-130 for 8 relatively quickly

180 for 8 overhand - pretty hard. Might be a grip PR?.. That'd be great. Overhand DL is really different from other types of DL.

180 for 8 overhand - it was much easier, so I did it faster, which made it harder 😁 Not sure if I wanna go full volume today. Volume is the hardest thing to reach, but if you like to cut the volume on your DLs - that's a big mistake. Volume is very important for DL. 3 sets of 8 is so much easier than 5 sets of 8, it's not a joke.

180 for 8 overhand - nice. Definitely a volume PR at this point. Having a lot of acid in my stomach. Consumed some activated charcoal. Didn't help much.

180 for 8 overhand - very ncie. An even bigger volume PR. Fingertips turning purple, came to conclude that this is enough, coming out of the illness.

Eager to do some grip stuff though. Don't wanna waste all that chalk on my hands.

Vulcan gripper 1-1 for warmup for two sets. Managed to do 90-91 kgs on the dynamometer with the right hand, and 78-79 with the left. Very nice after DL like that. Remembered I still have to unload the barbell, ha ha.

Two more sets with 1-1 on Vulcan - a few reps, widening the range until it's roughly a card set. Unloaded the plates, all pinched, one side left, one side right.



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