October 28-29, Saturday and Sunday - Light workout, heavy squat 4 sets of 3

 28.10.2023

Nice day. Been "tunneling". Slept little, ate moderate. Been having some kind of issue, some kind of irritation in my head. Don't know what it is. Something's a little off. Need help. It's all about pacing yourself, perhaps. I'm not sure how I feel and when I should work out. I feel like it might be a good day for a little break. Make my light sessions even lighter. See how I feel tomorrow. Cause I sort of woke up earlier today, that's good. Also, it only took me one night to redownload GTAV - that's great. Just a few hours!

Workout

Flys, full range - sets of 15 only

2+2 kg dumbbells - 1 set

6+6 - 1 set

8+8 - 2 sets, nice, surprisingly hard

Pushups, sort of a hollow body - more like when you push something or when you learn to do planche, rather than when you bench

3 sets of 20 - cool, hard, technique uneven, unusual muscles loaded, very easy pump. I even had to hake a break after 15, cause I moved my arms way too low. Good news - my right arm is extending much better. It's gotten similar to "cricket" style pushups that way, expect I'm flexing my pecs and shoulders forward - the opposite of what you do in bench.

Squat

2 sets of 10 - learning to keep my feet full on the floor. I guess we've ended up not squatting heavy today, might wanna do it tomorrow.

29.10.2023

Nice day. I actually felt good and calm yesterday, breaking that streak of tension that's been lasting this whole week. Just took some time to lie down and relax and clear my thoughts. Played GTA Online - the simple driving around and listening to music gives way to a calmer stream of thoughts and imagination.

My stomach's been hurting. Don't know why, probably the old reasons - lesions etc. Small ones, they told at the hospital. Also it might be the fact that I've been drinking way too much coffee. I might wanna not have it on days when I don't work out in the garage.

Yesterday's pushups loaded my serratus anterior - nice. I think I might end up doing nice medium-heavy-(medium) squats. You know, like north-west-north. North-west is one eight of the compass, and north-west-north is one sixteenth, a half of that part that's closer to north. So, medium heavy is halfway to heavy, and medium-heavy-medium is half of that halfway back to medium, hehe.

And tricep is loaded too, how curious. Gotta think a bit, concentrate... Week 9 Session 2? I did not realise I was this far down. 4 sets of 3 with 82,5%. So, according to our earlier logic, medium-heavy-medium max that we could use would be 215-220. And that would actually be kind of easy, ever for high bar. I remember how much I had to force myself last Monday for some reason. It's a bit of a spell.

So, it's gonna be around 180-185 for 4 sets of 3. Actually sounds very easy, since it's only three reps per set. Kind of an awkward range. Just 12 working reps. May wanna warm up well for it. Actually, the fact that I don't struggle with warmup in squat suggests I might be doing it all too easy. Hm.

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I'm really enjoying myself even before this first sip of coffee. I've written so much, and I'm delighted at the realisation I've gotten yesterday at the fact that a lot of stuff I've wrtten is actually somewhat good. In fact, it's pretty good - exactly the stuff I wanna read and I never really get to read, cause there are no people out there publishin writing about the stuff that I like. Maybe I oughta just go and publish that stuff on wattpad or whatever.

Randomly got some nice music turned on in the background. It's helping the vibe now. I'll post it in the bottom of the page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROsqr8rhv0E

Workout

Warmup - long, thorough

Squat (high bar, as it's been for a long time now)

20

50 for 6

100 for 5 long pause in the end

140 for 5 - did not wait long

183 for 3 nice, no wraps

183 for 3 nice, smooth, underknee wraps. I wonder if I might try full tight wraps at some point.

193 for 3 very nice, arguably better that previous. I put wraps with two tight coils and the rest just on top.

193 for 3 very nice too. Had a long pause on second rep, rose okay, then some superstitious fear set in me for a moment, so I just hardened myself and did another confident rep. It's great to have power in reserve! But still, we are getting heavier.

Next squat will be Thursday or Friday. And I gotta stop having coffee on my non-garage training days, heh.