August 30th, 2023, Wednesday - Nice deadlift, physchological mistakes, some insights into my psyche

 30.08.2023

Nice enough day. Not much happening. Ate well yesterday, didn't have to eat much today. Sleep was okay. Dreams were a little disturbing (all that I remember), but in them I showed sufficient fortitude again evil and vice.

Now I'm having my first coffee.

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Coffee was nice enough. Mild effect. Made a second one. Ate some more food, a small amount, but I feel overfilled.

Now, let's talk about poop. It's an important topic to discuss if you want to do deadlift and brace correctly. If you go to the toilet in the middle of your deadlift session, in between sets - your bracing will be off. Your technique will change, and you might be thrown off. It's not recommended to have a thinned out waist if you wanna brace well. So, it's important you either take a dump before the session or after, not during. That has been my observation.

Week 2, Session 2 - 4 sets of 3 with 82,5%. So, I'm think we can go for 245-260. Sounds reasonable? I think so.

Workout

No upstairs warmup, except for some raging at the demons in this hell that we call our home.

Deadlift

70 - 120 - 160 for 5 overhand

200 for 3 overhand - not bad, took breaks so it might be considered three singles. The great thing is that every rep was more and more confident and powerrful. I even held the last rep for quite a while as I was racking the bar, meanwhile the first rep rolled into my fingertips. I really kicked my CNS velocity.

Now I think I wanna shave my face and see the deadlifter in the mirror.

230 for 3 hook grip - nice, the grip wasn't perfect, but the movement was smooth.

245,5 for 3 mixed grip - nice enough, I'm glad it's possible to do it, I'm getting better with my specific barbell grip ability. Although mixed grip is the one I'm used to the least, gave me a little strain around the spot where my left trap connects to the shoulder joint (I am speaking very roughly, just so we're clear), and around the place where the left lat connects to the torso (not to the bacbone). It takes time to readjust your body for a movement like that. Perhaps if I can be more regular and include mixed grip more often I should be able to achieve comfort with this grip. For the next set, however, we shall switch to our nice and conventional straps.

250,5 for 3 okay, had to take breaks between reps. Smooth enough. Had to fight doubt for a short while, but I realised I'm still not "barbell warmed up", believe it or not.

255,5 for 3 difficult, had to breathe, took breaks. Switched the belt position in for the final rep. It felt more comfortable.

I have to admit, I might have jumped up in my maxes a little too far for today. So, I'll be very satisfied if I can do this set well enough.

255,5 for 3 nice enough. The reps were okay. Belt was high. I was fixing my technique bit by bit. The last rep was the smoothest.

I made a mistake today when I read an incredibly disturbing news article right before I started my workout. Incredibly disturbing. Bad idea. Made me insanely angry. And I probably could have abstained from coffee yesterday, and been more humble with my weights. Well, we still did it and it was a good effort. I am happy, and I experienced a happy moment when I let go of the bar on the final rep today.

Right now I'm a little nostalgic. Sometimes I have an unpleasant bileful idea that the last girl I was in love with married an oppressive shauvinist man, but I have to remind myself that it's a sin. I did a chance to interact and talk with that man, and that's when I got that impression. But it's very sinful of me to assume that. But I still have that feeling, I for some reason I had to write it down. Cause I'm listening to "The Triumph of Steel" and "Master of the Wind" reminds me of her. Also a character from the story I'm writing is based on her - well, only partially.

Now I'm banging my head to "Shell Shock", hehe, to the 80s cowbelling. Cause it's the next folder in my playlist - Battle Hymns, the first album of the self-proclaimed but well deserving Kings of Metal.

Well, now is a time to play BG3. I only got a week before Starfield comes out, hehe. Honestly, though, BG3 is pretty amazing and it has so many features other RPGs should have.