July 27th, Thursday - Light workout, clean and bench

 27.07.2023

Nice day. Slept little. Ate a medium amount, but decent variety of food.

Wanna do overhead today. And squats? Could try. Then Saturday and Monday will be way too free, hehe.

Perhaps just overhead? Could I try? Do I have enough? Today I doubt, but not much. Let's see first...

Week 11, Session 2 - 85% for 3, and 90% for 3 sets of 2... So, around 130 and 140? Feasible? I don't know. I'd feel wrong not lifting heavy. But can I? Do I feel fresh enough?

No, sadly, I will have to admit that I simply do not feel fresh. My frontal lobes are full of stale blood. Today we shall have a light workout. And on Saturday we will go nice and heavy.

Workout

Warmup - very long and extensive, front rack and overhead holds, squat variations, a lot of calf raise varations for mobility

Clean and three presses

50 - I was too lazy to take the bar and load it on the floor, so I loaded it to 50 while it on the rack and moved it to the floor, where I first did a couple high pulls. Then I did the set - one clean and three presses.

60 - 70 - 80 - nice, but my front rack left a lot to be desired as I held the bar in my arms during the whole process, often very unevenly

90 - fixed the mistake despite some fear for my connective tissue, but knowledge of my earlier succesful warmup during which I was convinced I definitely have improved my flexibility has allowed me to perform a much more appropriate clean as I did not hold the bar in my arms, but was able to get it into a somewhat of a decent front rack and even make a small pause in the bottom of the squat. I pressed from the front rack, but subsequent two reps I did conventionally, from my arms.

90 - one more set, done well, roughly the same way. But I have to admit, there is still much to work on when I get under the bar in clean.

Bench

90 - 2 sets of 10

Here, I did not need warmup. I was dubious, but I conveyed my worries to my subconscious and together we managed to avoid any kind discomfort in our connective tissue, even though the weight is somewhat serious for my current shape

50 for 10 - JM style press, pumped up my forearms and tris, and pecs got the extra bit of pump as well. Look good and blown up!

Now back to re-reading and re-editing Marco, he he.