August 15th, Tuesday once again - Bench

 15.08.2023

Nice day. Struggled with sleepiness a little, but it was fine. Worked some, gave a physical culture lesson, then finally a decent meal, then a lesson cancelled. Been browsing reddit, leaving a lot of random comments. I'd be pretty bored if I did have a workout to go through yet. Today's some bench, and tomorrow some deadlift. Not gonna be too heavy, but also definitely not light!

Today we'll be working in sets of 6, and seeing how it's still a first "microcycle" in my head that means the intensity shouldn't be much higher than around 70% of my minimax. And i actually don't know my minimax... I assume it's gotta be 160-170 kgs. So what's 70% of that? 112 to 119. Exactly what I had in mind! It's subconscious.

***

Having my third coffee - a cup with the cup dripper/brewer. I'm still not quite sure how to use it correctly... I got pretty thin coffee. Not intolerable, thankfully.

Workout

Warmup - upper body, a lot of stick moves, L-flys. Listening to Horseman by Pentagram on large speakers (quietly). I should have bought that album in 2011 or 2012.

Bench

20 - 50 - 70

100 for 6

110 for 6

113 for 6 nice, all smooth

115,5 for 6 only small break here

118 for 6 getting hard

120,5 for 6 nice. Hard, strict.

Kind of a big volume, when you think about it. Feels good.

Orange Crane Fly



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