My training log and thoughts

 29.04.2023 Nice day. Nutrition - 6/10, sleep feels like 75/100 or more, despite being fragmented once again. Had a few things to write about. Coffee. I want more intense coffee. The taste is better, but the effect isn't the same. 80/20 coffee wasn't too bad after all. Also I'm tempted to have an oldschool large coffee. Which is a handful of beans over roughly three large cups of water. Could be fun. It's OHP today. Thank God, my knee is good. Can do PP. 72% for 5 and 82% for 4 sets of 3. So, 100 for 5 and, perhaps, going from 115 to 122 on 4 sets of 3. Should not be too difficult? It's about time I reaccumulated some skill and energy. Yesterday I felt bad. Physically. I had a yearning for something like fruit or juice. Must be vitamins. Instead, I've had a few teas with honey. Got a strong lasting headache. In the end I gave up and took a couple of painkiller pills. Well, the basic ones, not the strong ones that we happen to have in our house now. Been playing ...

 27.04.2023 Nice day. Rekt after yesterday. Fell asleep without a proper supper, slept for quite a while and managed to wake up early, has a nice but medium sized breakfast, ended up falling very deeply asleep, woke up late, had coffee, had a lesson cancelled, helped my brother with his school solfege (music theory), practiced guitar for a while, I'm actually feeling as if I'm moving towards "advanced" fretboard level of familiarity, if that makes sense, coming up with so many curious funny exercises, having my second moka arabica. I've been thinking, and hopefully it is a nice idea - OHP days will be Monday, Saturday and Thursday, and alongside them squat days will be Thursday, Monday and Saturday.  Mon (OHP) / Wed (DL) / Thurs (Sq) / Sat (OHP) / Mon (Sq) / Wed (DL) / Thurs (OHP) / Sat (Sq) So that's a two week spread - not a microcycle! And, of course, we'd be doing not just squat on squat days. And today I kinda feel like having a light workout again, a...

 26.04.2023 Nice day. Nutrition - close to 9/10, sleep - not sure, confusing. Slept at night some and tried to sleep during the day, but couldn't. It's been different ever since I managed to cover my windows more effectively. Music. Fiddling around with Musescore and Cakewalk. Mostly remembering. *** Brain. It's gotten active again. Good times. Not normal. Tunnel. Eyesight. Music does that. Grooved up, and some caffeine on top of that. Gotta do more, but so confused. Wait. Know what's important. Might have been woven into my blood. It's the deadlift. The heavy lift. We're doing it today. We're doing a lot of stuff. So much stuff can be done so quickly. He he. Silly video game quotes. So much to do, so little time. Have you seen the elves? What else... Mudcrabs, patrolling the Mojave... What else? What are some of the best ones? Think of them right now and tell me in your mind, and we can laugh together (in your mind). I allow it, if you do. Conjoined minds. ...

 24.04.2023 Nice day. Sleep - 6/10, nutrition - 8/10. A tiny bit more disciplined, but far from perfect or even from what I planned. Not too much to worry about. Almost 8 PM now, but I've done my minimal pre-warmup. Coffee? One moka while giving a lesson, one over the next hour, and one traditional 60 bean brew. Going from 107 to 115, I think. 5 sets of 4, and before that a 100 for 5, as dictated by the program. 5o4 isn't the only working set portion. Workout Pre-warmup - a little bit, not very thorough Push press 20 and walking around the garage with a bar in the rack position - it's empty today. Realised that flipping the bar might be a solution to it seemingly being bent in an unusual direction (it must have gotten flipped). I put stickers "on top" of the bar, and one of them is a bit more uneven - that's supposed ot be the left one, I assume. 50 and 70 for 5 100 for 3 unusual. Rotators still feel strangely fatigued. Not a problem. 108 for 5 much better, so...

 22.04.2023 Nice day. Sleep - at least 7/10, food - I guess it's fair to say it's 8 out of 10. Really decent! Last night I learned. Was going over the seminars I've missed and to my massive surprise realised I missed out on one more than I thought. Things just go by my head sometimes. That's okay. Cause I managed to do everything much faster than before. And I couldn't stop learning and looking up various things. Such as geometry which I've studied many years ago and how to use github when you need to fix your mistakes. Git interface isn't the most intuitive sometimes, but it works on second attempt. All of the GPT, the many of them, are helping a lot too, especially when it comes to repeating things. I ask it to go over something step by step and it does so. So far without too many problems, cause I'm learning rather simple things. Me, a programmer? Believable, I guess. Since I was young I imagined myself as a philosopher and a teacher to the people. Th...

 20.04.2023 Nice day. Not much to day. Nutrition - 5/10, sleep - 65/100. Having my second coffee late. Going to do 4 sets of 8 with 105 kgs in PP. Shouldn't be too complicated. Also, I might have been reading my program a bit wrong. Yesterday, I was supposed to do 85% for 4 sets of 2, not 82. Not a big deal. Coffee's working a little weird. Can we celebrate the fact that it's been quite a while since I last thought about suicide? Today's the first time in a while. I hope to blame coffee. It distorts some things in your head, or maybe it just opens up old wounds, things we don't wanna see. So, if we don't count today, we can consider it a pretty long streak of staying positive. Workout Some upper and lower body warmup, very light stretches Push press 20 50 for 8 - 4 presses and 4 pushpresses 70 and 90 - same. Press feels pretty smooth, rotator cuffs (L-flys ones) feel pretty fatigued. I've done some of them on Monday, maybe even a lot, if I remember right. 10...

 19.04.2023 Nice day. Calm so far. On monday, I stayed up as usual. Before that, on sunday, I couldn't help myself but fall asleep around 10 PM and wake up at 5 in the morning. Same thing happened yesterday. I felt a little extra tired after my monday workout, but I kept going the way I do "normally". So, yesterday I was sleepy all the time. Might not have gotten too much sleep. Also I moved my melatonin jar to another spot where I'm less likely to eat it too early, and I guess that lead to me not eating it at all, which might be extranatory as to why my sleep is different, not to come to any early conclusions. I don't feel bad. I know coffee will work on me. This sleep change feels somewhat natural. I feel sleepy, but I don't feel like I can fall asleep. It's like there's two different types of liquids in your brain which get restored during sleep, and now their restoration is out of sync. One is full, another one - not so much. Seemingly complex biol...

 17.04.2023 Nice day. Sleep - weird, 5/10, nutrition - 6/10, not sure. Not enjoying coffee that way I prefer. I slet too much yesterday and woke up early today. Slept for a couple hours during the day and worked. Basically, I spent quite some time gaming today already. Hmmm. Not a smart choice that was. Alright. I have a few other things to take care of. I believe I have just the right attenuation to my goals in order to achieve them. A few different points... Today we'll be doing PP, 4 sets of 2, going from 120 to 127. Should not be too difficult! We, however, don't have such a great amount of time. I had two mokas. One during a lesson, one just now. Tastes good. Now I'll make a traditional small brew. After all, this coffee has less caffeine than the one I had previously. *** Alright. I haven't got much time at all. W o r k o u t Some warmup Push press 50 - 2 presses and 2 pushpresses 100 - the same Measured my weight. It's 113 in all equipment. How silly yet ente...

 15.04.2022 Nice day. Sleep - uncertain, maybe 6/10. Nutrition - at least 65/100, above average. Worked succesfully yesterday and today. Played RDR2 and online. Online was upsetting. Modders and griefers. But in the end it was okay. Too much of a waste of time. You just spend way too much time riding around. And it's okay when you're on a horse, but not when you're on a wagon. Better when you got a nice album to listen to. Wanna play the other game I tried recently. Maybe I will tonight. It's 5:41 PM. Early for me. Gotta do some stuff. Gotta watch a lecture or two. Finish the homework I've started on thursday. Not too much time has passed since then. It's been quite a few days since I've done something "distracting" succefully. Disproves some of my materialistic views on the human brain. There are more factors at play. What am I talking about? Well, it's obvious, my dear! *walks away* Wanna play and record. Just haven't really got an idea w...

 13.04.2023 Nice day. Sleep 7/10 again. Nutrition 6/10, not bad either. Slept too long. Somehow I avoided crashing into a displeasing state yesterday after workout and gaming for a long time. And also learning. Spending over three hours to watch and consume a 40 minute lecture. And I have something similar planned for tonight, but it'll be possibly more annoying, cause it'll be a seminar and there's gonna be a lot of blank video space and the teacher helping student solve their specific problems, which might be helpful, but most of the time it isn't. As for my workout... I'm not sure what to do. Accidentally it got aligned with my DL, so intensity might be high (80% for 4 sets of 4). However, there is an easy answer - change the intensity! But also keep it. Weird, isn't it? As much effort as you can and as much as you need - no more, no less. Sounds a little confusing, because "as much effort as you can" doesn't apply to specifically putting as muc...

 12.04.2023 Very nice day. Sleep 7/10. I wish I knew how it happened. Food - at least 65/100. Good as well. Ate a lot of carbs yesterday on top of normal food. Finally got groceries and coffee in advance. Some of it was being sold with a "discount", so I opened the one I had before. So it's gonna be a while before I open the second one. It's Lavazza Qualita Oro, 100% arabica, finally. The second one is a mix of arabica from Africa and South America. First one was tightly packed double-ground moka, second one was about 10 grams on basic brew over 130 grams of water. First one tasted great, intense, a lot like cacao. Second one a bit more papery, wafery, if you know. I didn't overboil, I think. Anyway, got busy helping my little brother with him homework, but also trying to teach him rather than just provide the answers. That's how 1 hour 40 minutes went by way too quickly somehow. And now it's 9:30 PM. Hmm. And I have heavy stuff planned. Workout No warmup ...

 10.04.2023 Nice day. Not too bad. Sleep - 4/10, nutrition - 6/10. Ran out of coffee, used some of the robusta from the stash. Now having one, fighting the desire to lie down, cause if I lie down I'm just not gonna be able to sleep. Jammed. I figured back in the day I made a lot of these micro-songs that are guitar and bass and midi drums. So, that's one of the things that fuels creativity. You have to save them and listen to them. Then you get something. My old headphones are buzzing a lot. Might be time to buy new ones soon. *** Today's workout is 4 sets of 5 with 77,5 percent. A sixth session in the program which I've been using in defferent variations for everything. So, 77,5% of 150 would be 116. But I'm not perfectly sure if I can do that well in my current shape. So, I might want to get up to 115 starting from a lighter weight. Maybe from 110. Now that I think about it, it's actually quite doable and it's very late. I don't want to hurry. And I do...

 08.04.2023 Nice day. Sleep - 4/10, nutrition - 54/100. Somewhat okay. Enough calories. Been busy catching up to my programming lessons again. Messy. Distracted often. But I accomplished a lot this night. Sacrificing my actual money making work. Shame. Well, hope it'll be profitable at some point in the future. So distracted. But not too much. Workinf on some small issues. As I went through the lesson, I realized I still have an unsolved issue about the system on my PC. And I fixed it with the help of GPT3.5. It helped me after being able to understand the specifics on my problem. Maybe leter I'll write exactly what changed. Or maybe I'll just paste it here:  If you've already changed your  profile folder name  and updated the registry to match the new name, but the old profile name still appears in some places on your PC, it's possible that the old name is cached somewhere in Windows. To clear the cache and update the name to the new one, you can try the following ...

 06.04.2023 Nice day. Sleep - 6/10, nutrition - 55/100. Good enough. Some of my family came home. My little brother almost immediately asked me to let him play Minecraft. Later, I gave a lesson. Now I'm having my very late coffee. I am planning to have a proper OHP workout today, strangely enough. 5 sets of 8 with 67.5%. So, I'm thinking of going 90 - 95 and three sets of 100. A little too laid back, you could argue, but, well, I did heavy DLs yesterday. Coffee tastes magnificent today. 22 grams, double ground. I think I may wanna buy a different moka pot, however. I learned that you definitely don't wanna pour water above the steam release valve. In fact, I've been having great success with coffee that does not leak out. I might have succesfully learned how to screw it on. However, I still wanna buy another moka pot. So many things I wanna buy. Last night I played RDO a lot. There's the Collector role promotion this month - you're getting twice the modey for co...

 04.04.2023 On a day like today I still wanna write something down. It helps me, I think. Sleep - good, nutrition - no appetite for some reason. I might have eaten a lot yesterday. Received a bag of hot chocolate power, cause I always have been mystified by that drink, thinking I have never had it for some reason (while I definitely did). Especially after reading Doug Hepburn's biography where he recommended drinking hot chocolate instead of coffee for better sleep. As far as I understand, North Americans drink coffee very differently from how we and particularly I do it. For them coffee is like tea for us, and for us coffee is a special occasion, and we make strong, usually. My pecs are lactic after yesterday. If can make my pecs catch up to my shoulders and tricep I think I can have a big bench press. In october, pressing 140 for sets of 5 was rather easy, if I remember correctly. But my pec was snapping. I just have to load it as regularly and variably as possible. So, that mean...

 03.04.2023 Nice. Sleep and nutrition - both at least 6 out 10, maybe more. Been enjoying AI Dungeon in combination with various other GPTs and also playing RDR2. In that game, I saved up gold to join three professions - bounty hunter, collector trader (but actually it's more like hunter). As a trader, you have to hunt animals and your associate then desassembles them, I guess, and you have to maintain both materials and supplies, and once you get enough you're supposed to go on a sell mission, and either NPC bandits or other players might attack you. This game has a really unbalanced RPG-style progression and high level players are massively strong compared to beginners. Well, I did a sell mission which was unreasonably long and got attacked by one player, who, thankfully, wasn't overpowerpowered. Today's workout is somewhat heavy. We'll be doing pushpress, 4 sets of 3, working up from a 100 to 120. Also I think I will drum. It's time to dust it off a bit. Work...

 01.04.2023 Nice day. Sleep - very good, a lot of dreams, woke up very thirsty. Nutrition - good as well, couldn't even finish my breakfast. Quality of food not too great, but above average, I guess. On Thursday I managed to finish the main portion of my workout by 8 PM. Might not be the case today. Today we're doing big squat. I'm thinking of working up to a 3 rep set. Volume has to be a bit lower, but not too low. And on the next session - not next week, but on Monday, for example - we could start a new "intuitive miscrocycle", cause that's what I've been doing for a whole month now and more. First I did 150 for 8, then 170 for 5, and now today. It's been a long time. I'm really not training quite like a professional. Cause I'm not one, Thank God. So, it's 8 PM. I had one moka and now I'm having a second, much smaller oldschool coffee - 60 some beans (7 grams) over a 100 grams of water. Tastes good, a little papery. Can't believe ...