Thursday, 2022 AD, November Seventeenth - Getting back into squat, life bureaucracy

 17.11.2022

Nice day. The bureaucracy is showing it's ugly side, wasting my time unreasonably. But I managed to do a couple things I wouldn't have otherwise done. I've done something I had in my plans for over a year. That's a win. Learned a few things about life.

Gonna do some squats. I can already feel the strength increase from getting into shape. My hip doesn't bother me almost at all anymore. Funny how I just forget about those small ailments.

Had a nap late in the day, had a lesson cancelled.

Workout

Short specialized squat warmup - shoulders included

Squat

20 for 10

50 for 10

70 for 10 nice. Not doing the lordosis thing with the back, doing the opposite and squatting down very deep. Never allow yourself to relax in the hole though, I don't believe it to be productive for most movements.

90 for 10

100 for 10 nice, hard for abs, all reps had nice velocity. Quickly unloaded the bar. Feels really good to able able to perform a decent looking squat at a good pace.

What else to do? Hmm. Not gonna be too busy tomorrow.

Curls

2+2 for 15

6+6 for 15

12+12 - 2 sets of 15 (three dumbbells - 6, 6 and 12 loadable)

27 - 2 sets of 15 (ez bar). If your EZ bar is small and narrow and you feel tension in your "tennis elbow" - move your elbows to the front, so they're perpendicular to the floor. There's no unneeded tension that way. I've wasted a lot of effort on doing ridiculous curls in the past. I reckon you gotta treat the bar like an object you need to move, rather than an implement for a specific exercise. That way it'll be easier to find natural paths for a more powerful kind of lifting. Not exactly bodybuilding. Strength matters more. That's why I always explode (accelerate) the curls on the concentric part - and I slwo it down under contrl on the the descent. More like things you need to do in real life. Of course, sometimes you need straight up bicep endurance in real life, like when you carry something. The best way to train that is to do exactly that same thing.

Cool random pic - a 1922 ruble. Found it here https://coins.lave.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1834708

Another, more generic random pic



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