August 28th, Monday - Bench press 4x10

 28.08.2023

Nice day. At night, played BG3 for a long time, slept little, woke up and worked, slept a lot, woke up late. Had a moderate-sized breakfast - ground pork, egg, tomato, onion, bread. Tomato paste as sauce. Now I shall have my single pot of moka. The taste is exquisite, but a little different from what I'm used to. I put in 17 grams of expensive arabica and 3 grams of a nice enough robusta. The one from the stash. That way I will finally empty it.

I enjoy having a bit of soda in between coffee cups. It sorts of cleanses the palate, but also makes you refocus on different aspects of the taste. Not sure exactly how it works, but if you have something bitter the coffee tastes sweeter and vice versa. This is the bitter type of soda, tonic stuff.

Ever since I reintroduced pullups I've been having issues with, I think, fascia around my left oblique muscle. Not the muscle itself, but soft connective tissue on top of it. It hurts a little when I stretch this side. The scissors exercise I devised seem to help a little bit. I think I will try one-handed farmer's walks to see if it helps strengthen the tissues in that region. And, of course, more regular hangs and pullups.

Today I'm thinking of doing bench. With bench, we're sort of doing intuitive microcycles. I wonder if I'll be good enough for a slightly heavier weights today... We shall start soon, as I have finished my one pot of coffee.

Workout

Warmup - a variety of bench-oriented moves, lats and back and l-flys

Bench

20

50 for 15

70 for 12

100 for 10 pretty easy, nice immediate pump in my pecs. Grip is roughly the same as on my OHP, so it's medium-narrow.

105 for 10 nice, same

110 for 10 nice, roughly as easy. Gone a bit past midnight, heh.

115 for 10 nice, not as easy, the last rep had a slow lockout as I felt my pectorals contract. Close to muscular failure, but still satisfyingly smooth.

Well, that's it for downstairs. What else would I like to do? What about tomorrow?

I may want not to engage in anything lower-body tomorrow. So, perhaps I could do arms and such.

What do I need? What am I lacking? A lot of things, but I'd like to balance my efforts around Deadlift on Wednesday.

Some flexibility work for weightlifting. That is it.

Dumbbell presses

6+6 kg - 2 sets of 20 reps, all nice and bloodflowy. Proper movement, not in front of myself but above, arms and torso at 180 degrees.

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