December 1st, 2022, Thursday - Reminiscing on DL, gymnastic ring pullups, continued jogging

 01.12.2022

Nice day. It's funny how easily my sleeping habits shifted back into night life. It was pretty awesome for a while, having to wake up early and go somewhere to deal with bureaucracy. Now I just have to wait. And naturally my sleeping habits shifted again. Surprising. But I know now that they can be changed more than easily. And what else was awesome is for once not caring about my strength progress and eating/sleeping in all my free time. I have so much more energy. Yesterday, however, I had a haviest workout in quite a while. When's the last time I casually deadlifted 250? Let me check...

Surpringly hard to find stuff. Memories don't corellate that great. I remember DLing 240 in september, that must have been the hardest DL I've done. Home come I've not been working my DL for so long? Oh yeah, I remember, I was ill a little bit. Okay.

Apparently I casually DLed 240 for 5 on aug 31st. Funny. It seemed nice. I remember it being a powerful time. 

And yesterday I was doing 240 for doubles. That was nice too.

I am noing going to be doing any heavy lifting today. I don't feel much like running, and that is why I simply must run. Hmm. That one time I ran past midnight was pretty serene. No one disturbing me. Perhaps it's alright if I do my cardio later. Is there a way to adjust my breathing and body temperature faster? No idea. Perhaps I should work out in my clothes but with an open window. Or maybe i should just take less time between weights and running. Sounds somewhat reasonable. Today I wish to train my pullups. I think I might want to do it downstairs. 

Workout

Light upper body warmup

Rubber pulls

3 sets of 15 light

1 sets of 15 medium

Ring pullups, floor supported, gymnastic wrist grip - I figured out you're supposed to your fingers a little bit as well. Was always a mystery to me.

4 sets of 15 - even with my legs it's pretty hard. My rings are small and metal. Not exactly gymnastic.

Tried hanging on my wrists on the bar with my full weight - did 2 sets for slightly more than a second. Then I put the rings back on and tried hanging on them. A little better. Funny how this aspect of training just slipped by me. Something that gymnasts do a lot and it seems rather important for being able to do muscle ups and such. And somehow no one else does it. In the end I managed to hang a bit longer. Really seems to load some of my connective tissue. Gotta train it carefully and persistently.

Squats

50 reps BW, 2 sets - pretty nice, barefoot. Started with heels raising, then feet flat on the floor. Breathing medium.

It's gonna take quite some effort to force myself to run properly. Should be fun. 11 PM. Serene.

Ran a kilometer. Time = 7:32. Two second improvement 😁 Well, I was able to almost do 500 meters without stopping, and then I switched to steps/jogs algorhythm. Great thing - my shins didn't get overpumped, and I had no difficulty breathing. Yet I was still slowing down voluntarily. Will I run tomorrow? It's gonna be an even less busy day than today, realistically. It's a rest day. Will I be able to bring myself to run on my rest day? What if I should run for more than one kilometer if I want to actually improve my one kilometer speed? Hmm.

Random pic of the day - Vue depuis Chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore 4.jpg



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