June 22nd, Thursday - Clean technique work, light bench

 22.06.2023

Nice day. Slept well, ate okay. Worked unexpectedly, but then had some lessons cancelled. Had two coffees. My little brother is ill with tonsillitis and mother is telling him to massage his throat and brush it with a toothbrush. I argued with her that it is not the right approach. She is stubborn, but I think she was convinced. Her mind is suffering from a helplessness fallacy - she has to do something or anything at all when faced with an obstacle, even if meaningless.

And now it's 23:31. I am planning to have my technical workout soon.

Played a little jam in Lydian #2. Not harmonic minor! Sounded cool. I wish to create, I have that liquid in my brain.

Workout

Warmup - a tiny bit

Clean

20 - a variety of movements, also I did nice horizontal l-flys with the rubber

40 for 4 singles; Press for 8 reps (on the last clean)

70 for 5 singles; Press - 2 sets of 5 reps (last two cleans)

Feels nice.

Bench press

20 - 50 - 70 for 5 reps

Doing it fast - including lowering. Not sure how to do it right. I think it's preferable to lower slowly, but not mega slow. You should be able to lower quickly, but smoothly. And press - fast, either with a short pause or no pause. Long pauses are a wrong choice for me - that's what I think nowadays (cause I've been too used to them in the past and then I had fragile pecs).

100 - 2 sets of 5 it felt a tiny bit wrong

70 for 5 okay, that's it for now.

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RPotD

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