Thursday, 18th of May - Pushpress 4 sets of 3 (W8S1)

 18.05.2023

Another day. Lovely, quiet. Sleep - very good, at least 75/100, I even woke up earlier than exepcted. Food - nice enough, also around 7/10. Mostly finishing pasta. We have a variety of cereals and porridges, I oughta eat that more. I like pasta with sauce from the can. Should make my own sauce too. Not too hard. Sprinkle some MSG in it, hehe. It's the same as salt, let's be real.

Was - and still am - quite dehydrated. Muscles not tired. Pecs keep asking me to work on them at least a little. I might, today. CNS is a little fatigued. Hard lifts yesterday. My writing style could be better. You're getting some very raw thoughts of mine. I get what I mean, you do too, no need to involve additional grammar. Hehe. I'm so annoying to read sometimes. I've been rereading February-March and I realised things are way better now. I feel way better and calmer, and I am way stronger and free of all the noticeable illnesses and pains. Thank God again and always and forever! Halleluja, let it be so.

Finishing my first moka. This cheaper coffee is way more dry and hard, so you can really pack more of it on accident. So, now I stuffed less grounds in it. Gonna have another one, give a lesson, have a workout, have fun and do some learning.

Can you believe I bought Sims 3 on Steam? I reckon it oughta fix my problems with the EA laucher. Oh yeah, I forgot to write about it on Monday. I played Sims 3 a lot, but realsied one the DLC that was given to me for free is missing and EA are doing nothing to fix this bug. EA is insanely horrible in that sense. Subpar products for unnecessarily high prices. Very bad. Maxis was good, and they're gone. EA was good back in the day, when things were (arguably) simpler. And they were a smaller company. They sort of pioneered the idea of DLCs. Oh well. Strange how there isn't an online sims game that'd drain your money same way those other online games do. You actually have to buy content to give them money, or stay subscribed to whatever nonsense they have. All the ripoffs. And I bought the Sims 3 collection on Steam cause it was discounted. Planned to buy, transferred the money, and then realised the collection does not include the base game. Had to trasfer extra money and buy. Less expensive than it was when I last checked.

And it's gonna take some time to download these 32 gbs. Hey, at least it's not 100+, like with modern games. Should be done in a few hours. I'll have to pause it during the lesson, of course. A good reminder.

Let's figure out my pushpress today. First, we check the last session on 4n09.blogspot.com. And it was on Saturday. It was week 7, session 2. So today we're having Week 8, Session 1. That already sounds heavy. Hmm. I didn't expect to be lifting heavy so soon.

82,5% for 4 sets of 3. Minimax is 145, supermax is 155. So, from 123 to 131. Reasonable? Can be. We'll see. I know I can under very good circustances, or maybe even under not that great o' circumstances.

And also, I'm supposed to do a clean single with 85%. Let's say it's 135. We'll consider it. There's gonna be some time until I'm doing it. I'm so used to lifting when it's dark outside. It's become sort of a condition.

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Okay. I've given a fun lesson, that's progress, that's what I've been aiming towards. And soon we'll start our workout session. Session. There has to be an alternative word, cause I don't sit. Standion? Hehehe. Stance, station. Well, the meanings are not fitting. It is not my job to change the language in such a major way.

Starfield is coming out on 6th of September. Poor kids! Hehe. It's not a summer game. I don't have great expectations, but I know it'll have what it needs to have to make me spend hundreds of hours in it.

Third coffee. Thank God, coffee isn't bad for me now. That's good.

WorkouT

Finally, I think it's warm enough to wear shorts.

Warmup - some, bw squats, calf raises, ez bar presses and pushpresses, stick stretching. Heart beating loud, pretty intense accidentally.

I often forget to warm up my legs well. That's why pushing has been lacking, I reckon.

Push press

20 - 73 - 93

113 for 3 - laid back, chill, didn't wear a belt, connective tissue not too uncomfortable

123 for 2 and a half - kinda awful, but it's just technical issue so far. I'm not "in the groove" yet. Need my time, need effort to concentrate.

123 for 3 - way better, not overconcentrating on small things, normal stance. Might have been the issue last time

128 for 3 - very nice, but awkward, one side fell off and I had to curl it back up.

131 for 2 and one not locked out. Didn't give up, added another one - also a fail, cause my stabilizers have started giving out 😁 Today, I've gotten my CNS excited before the trsining session, so I'm jumping around etc. Well, I ain't giving up. I'll cement the final rep, Relax and recover, so my stabilizers and CNS work better. And it can be sort like the "clean single" too. And don't forget what I've done yesteday 😁

131 for one more fail - close again. Right arm just gave out. Oh well! We'll work on that later.

A long break

Wall pushups - easy, just feeling pecs - 3 sets. It doesn't hurt in the problematic area, so that's good.

RPotD