August 17th, Thursday - Clean and press, push press

 17.08.2023

Nice enough day. Slept well, worked, one long time client seems to want to cancel lessons. Gives me pain. It's okay though, it's always been okay and it's normal. In summer 2020 I had no work whatsoever. (Well, I did, but was really really part time). Then I got new clients, that was good, that was a second step. I've taken too long of a break from learning coding, I'll be getting back into it some time before the start of September. Hopefully we'll get somewhere.

Anyway, today we press. I'm planning to lighten the overall load just a little. It's 75% for 5 sets of 5.

Week 1, Session 2 altered (split between OHP and PP). So I'll do 3 sets of OHP and 3 sets of PP.

93 kgs for OHP and between 100 and 110 for PP. And of course cleans.

Workout

Warmup - long, thorough, upper and lower body moves, front rack and overhead holds.

Clean and press

20

50 - 1 clean into thruster, and 4 more clean and presses

70 - 3 cleans, 5 presses (2+2+1)

93 - 3 sets of 5 - first set nice, smooth and aggressive. Second - about the same, nice.

Third set - first, two clean fails. On the first one I didn't fully extend, on the second I drew the bar onto myself too much, weight shifted on my heels. Third attempt - managed it, but my front rack was pretty ugly.

Push press

50 for 5

70 for 5 - I was debating whether I needed extra warmup like this, came to conclude that I do. This set made me feel strong.

I'm feeling conrtisol effects from caffeine in combination with negative thoughts. Prayer helps a lot. It's kind of the only thing that helps. Having nice people around may help too. Yesterday it felt nice.

100 for 5 nice. Short break

105 for 5 very nice. Almost even, grip width wise - making right arm feel uncomfortable.

Slightly longer break. I should film it...

110 for 5 nice. I realise now it's more of a press-push. Tangled a little with a headphone wire (fail). It's the only set I listened to music on.

And I made a smart decision to film it.




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