Thursday, May 4th - Nice PP around 85%

 04.05.2023

Nice day. Sleep 7/10, nutrition 6/10. Woke up, worked. Yesterday was quite a binge! I played RDR2 and online, and AID too, and with GPT3.5 too.

Now I'm having my second coffee. Boiled my index finger with steam two times in a row. Have to learn. And even though it's already 10 PM, I'm gonna do some OHPs and PPs once I'm done with this coffee. Today's workout is Week 6, Session 2. 85%, 5 sets of 2. Minimax is either 120 or 140 (130?), and supermax can be 155. So, from 110 to 131 ?.. Can be done, perhaps.

And I have been forgetting to do "strict singles" afterwards. They take up a lot of time and effort. I find it to be more convenient to add strict singles when they're closer to the working weight - i.e. in the second half of the program. One thirty... That might be a big weight. It's not normal to have a "tweaking" knee, cause it ain't got muscle inside itself. I reckon the thing that doctors attached down there just misplaces itself a little sometimes when I overextend my leg. Not really an issue, thankfully.

10 PM. Last sip of coffee. And I'm gonna start warming up.

Workout

Warmup - light, bodyweight moves. Posterior chain is quite lactic. A long warmup. The EZ bar is still loaded to 47 kgs, so I can lift a few times and start with 70 downstairs.

Push press

Stick and light dumbbells for warmup - making sure to move the weight closer to the center of mass along the horisontal plane (i.e. into the neck!)

47 for 15 just press

47 for 5 push press

Now downstairs

70 feels good

103 for 3 - okay, not perfectly stable, but okay. Leaning back the head, the bar is in the neck.

113 for 2

118 for 2 - not exacly sure if I have actually done this set, but I do have vague memories. Confusion. In the end, I came to conclude that I haven't, and then I did do this set. There were signs.

123 for 2 nice, shooting up

128 for 2 even better, cause I finally put on music. Manowar - Annihilation. Continuing yesterday's album.

You know, I should just take any lyrics whatsoever, that sound at least in the sligthest good or meaningful, and then fit them into music. Manowar does it well. Or maybe they're in on the joke, he he.

130.5 for 2 - feels very good :D When I think about it, I'm not sure if i've ever done this weight for a double. Must have. If I haven't, it might be a small PR 😁 The difference in technique between today and last time is astonishing. I changed my grip and moved the bar into my neck. That is important.

And I'm not done.

Rubber lat pulls

10 reps light

10 reps harder, one arm - 2 sets

Rubber supported pullups, narrow overhand grip

2 sets of 8 - lats and other muscles feel pretty creaky, but it's very easy, so that's good.

p.s. Later I made a shorts little video with a snippet of the songs I like



RPotD



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