14th of August, Monday - Squat

 14.08.2023

Nice day. Can't shake off a feeling that it's Tuesday - cause I worked out yesterday. But it's Monday.

CNS mildly fatigued. Well, very mildly, I imagine. It was difficult to wake up, but I had nice dreams. Didn't remember, but I remember having them. Nice breakfast, classical fatty, so needed for healthy hormones - two slices of bacon, two very small pork chops, a little of rice, one egg and tomato, some salt and soy sauces (normal on rice and teriyaki on meat). Very salty, now that I think about it. And it's already kinda late.

I'm growing tired of playing GTA, but it's still a mind-stimulating game for me. Makes me think and imagine, cause there are long stretches of the game where you're just driving and observing the modern-day world around you. Few games dare take place in the modern world, especially in the city. Expensive to model and simulate.

Starfield's gonna come out soon. I have mixed expectations. We're all worried, we're all coping and shilling for Bethesda. A new IP after all (intellectual property). A random ass space game, not the established worlds of Fallout and Elder Scrolls that we're so used to.

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Second coffee.

I'm clearly not the only one worrying about Bethesda. Well, at least you the response to this game won't be "mediocre".

Week 3, Session 1 - 5 sets of 8 with 67,5%. So, just 135... Haven't I done 140? I guess I could do more and see how it feels like. After all, 200 is my sub-mini-max. My factual max - the factual weight I've lifted - is 205 in this style of squat, in June. Powerlifting style squat was different. Bruh, imagine squatting 205 while DLing 280 hehe. But yeah, it's the difficult superstretching weightlifting squat.

Workout

Warmup - lower body, variations of squats, all sorts of moves.

Squat

20

50 for 8

70 for 8

100 for 8 feels nice enough, nothing too creaky

140 for 8 okay, superstitiously scary

143 for 8 - nicer, faster

145,5 for 8 - I relaxed too much and this was bad, lol. Not difficult, but tenchique went all over, making it difficult for my midsection rather than my legs. On the last I was going forward so much, I really had to flex my calves in order not to fall over. Time to concentrate a bit better...

148 for 8 alright, better. Had underknee wraps

Darn, didn't manage before midnight. Okay, no problem.

150,5 for 8 - very nice, smoother, decent balance. Filmed it too. Important idea - if you film it, the session is anchored in your mind every time you rewatch what you did, you have better understanding of what you did and what happened right or wrong and what you need to do.

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A bit later. Kinda wanna lift more. Perhaps a tiny bit of light dumbbell work?

Curls

6+6 kg dummbels - 3 sets of 10-20 reps. Pushing elbows back, there is much tension on the bicep in the upper portion.

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