October 29th, Saturday - Crawling out of the hole, finally doing some OHP and squat

 29.10.2022

Nice day. Woke up very early, worked, went back to sleep, woke up later, gave another lesson, went back to sleep, woke up close to 7 PM, not feeling great. My sneezing has returned. Ate a little bit. Ended up helping my little brother with his homework and then palying guitar as he drew something. Now it's late again. 10 PM. I'm halfway through my second coffee. My shoulder is better, I think. Very light workout today, however.

If the bench really was my injurer then I'm surpised it hasn't gotten much worse since last workout. It's been less than great, but overall not too bad. Only a little bit of pain. I think it might be in my interests to to train my back as well today. And let's be real - you can't have lower body strength if you don't do squat regularly. I would so love to do some today.

Been playing Skyrim. Yesterday was a really low day, energy wise. I was forced to cancel everything. Very low energy. Didn't even want to play Skyrim, but I lowekey forced myself, cause if I'm playing games that means I have energy. Switching cause and effect, ha ha.

Workout - upstairs

Minimal upper body warmup

Overhead press

27 kg EZ bar - a few sets of around 10-20 reps, left shoulder feels more or less okay. After some time I felt a desire to try and press more on a barbell downstairs. But I have to stop myself. Find an alternative.

One arm press

16 kg kettlebell for 5 each

32 for 5

48 for 5 right - pretty hard, mostly cause of balance

48 for 5 left - a little harder, but I managed to control the weight well, and the pressing itself was very easy.

One arm press is one of those exercises that really require getting used to over time. At least a couple weeks of regular lifting, and I never manage to do that. I love two hand press more.

Overhead press

Did more high-rep sets with 27 kg ez bar. I've done enough to start feeling fatigue.

23:37 And I wanna do squats. Barbell squats.

Squat

Some very moderate pained stretching, the best way I reckon is to just sit in the deep squat. I gotta do it while using PC

20 for 10 wide grip. It hurts me too apparently.

50 for 10 fighting my hips

70 for 5

80 for 5

85 for 5 - Reogranized my core, it's getting better, squatting deep and bouncing out easily, hips not hurting

90 for 5 okay.

Pretty late. Really wanna play Skyrim now, ha ha. Caffeine.

Rubber lat pulls, one arm

3 sets - medium hard, feeling my joints, fighting cramps. Pray for me and my joints! And my mind and soul.



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