October 08-09, Sunday and Monday - Bench, PP, small PR, nice Olympic style Squat

 08.10.2023

Great day, feeling great. Woke up earlier than normal, worked more that usual. Feeling extra energy. The night was cold. I kept seeing dreams about (spoiler) The Emperor from BG3, hehehe 😉 Cause I watched one of his cutscenes, even though I ain't been playing yesterday. Yesterday, I was drained. I was drained on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at night, to a varying degree. Today I feel much more fresh than I have been in a long time. Like, a part of my brain is extra creative. Also, I have been eating rather little - a couple eggs swallowed hastily, a few bananas, a few glasses of milk. Two mokas and one small conventional brew.

I'm thinking of doing bench today, and PP + Squat tomorrow. Reasonable? Yes, on the surface it is reasonable. Light-medium-light bench, sets of 5, around 120. 4 sets of 5, maximum velocity, no pauses whatsoever. When you've got the same muscle strength composition as me it sort of feels easier to bench with a pause, and bumping the bar on your chest feels strange and unnatural. Let's test it, perhaps, bench is thankfully one of those exercises I don't need a great amount of warmup for. (Unlike PP and squat and honestly DL)

Workout

Warmup - l-flys

Bench

20 for many reps

50

100 for 5

120 - 5 sets of 5 - tendons in my pecs were a little squeaky, I admit, so I kept narrowing the grip. It was all very light effort, keeping up my energy

A set of many OHPs, and presses from behing the neck with the bar - got a light pump. I think I can do pressed from behind the neck with the bigger weights if I wanted, but I don't really have a reason except for curiosity and exploration.

Wall pushups, elbows low, all for pecs - 3 sets of 30 reps. Pecs are so squeaky... I promise, I'll make sure to have a much longer warmup next time. Then again, maybe it's cause of my squats yesterday. I put my hands extra close, really stretching the pecs and shoulders, but it felt so good on squat. Yesterday was a good session, all accounted.

Pec flys with light rubber - 3 sets of 40

09.10.2023

Nice day. Slept less than normal. Woke up, had one caffeine pill, gave lessons, had a mini-breakfast, now I'm having my first coffee - I went nostalgic and made a conventional pot brew.

Writing. Writing a lot of strange stuff, I admit. A lot of it doesn't make sense to me, or makes too much sense. Maybe you'll know what I'm talking about if I ever bother to publish any more. I know there are people who are looking for that undefinable something, I believe that can find it in my stories, just like I am searching for it myself when I'm writing. A part of this something is ability to understand oneself, my own soul. A better look at it - not fully fidelitous, but a much, much wider field of view that uncovers the parts of you that you now know about, but you'll likely never get to know closer. It a feeling of nostalgia for something that never happened, or happened in a parallel existence, in pure potential. Just so we're clear, I'm not trying to include any "basic" hidden meaning - I am indeed talking about human soul.

Almost 7 PM. You, know I'd like to force just a tad of discipline on myself. I promise you, I will suceed in it today!

Workout

Warmup - thorough! 47 kg ez bar front rack holds and presses. Now I'm holding my shoulders inside. not outside, although it does matter.

Clean

70 - 5 reps overall. All a little funbly, but it felt good. I knew I could start with 70 since I've done some work with the heavier ez bar upstairs.

Push press

70

100 for 4

120 - 3 good reps and one I couldn't bother to lockout - once again, I lazily did not rest for long enough! Must wait between sets!

Focusing on exploding in the sky, this little failed having helped me gather my balls a little better

120,3 for 4

123 for 4

125,5 for 4 - feels good, technique still solid, although the weight is heavy

128 for 4 alright. Listening to music, banging around til my frontal lobes hurt, haha.

Squat

100 for 1 for a gentle stretch - I put myself down in the whole and twerked around a little, that felt nice. But I had to change my belt to a big one, although I do keep it loose.\

100 for 3

150 for 3 nice how easy feels down in the hole nowadays

173 for 3 nice, all rather easy, but felt strangely strenuous afterwards

173 for 3, underknee wraps, after a longer break - feels much better

173 for 3 nice

173 for 3 also nice, once again I'm shortening the breaks in the end of the session

183 for 1 good, super fast cause I wasn't trying to do a paused squat. Up and down, high speed. FUnny how paused squats sort of became my default. In a way, they're pretty natural, cause you're in a powerful position in the hole, provided you got the angles and muscle.

We ended up with an oldschoolio today, doing so much. If I was more diligent I'd have more of these.

RPotD