Wednesday, October 4th - Deadlift, defeating laziness, not using straps!, curls

 04.10.2023

Nice day. Not much, very quiet. Sleep slightly above average, six hours, but woke up easily. Food about the same - not much variety, but I think enough nutrients overall. Had a caffeine pill. They actually taste nice, in a certain way. I just chew on them though, cause I think it absorbs easier this way. And then dilute it with some tea.

Been writing a lot. Yesterday I got a little "distracted" from the main storyline, and started writing a background story for a set of currently unimportant characters, set over a decade from the main storyline. In the early nineties. I put very few era-appropriate references, but when I do, I become overwhelmed with nostalgia. I wonder if there is a good place to share the stories somewhere. I'm pretty afraid of negative constructive comments, cause I'm a natural elitist, in a way. But you have to be pretty skilled to hand out those. Heh, like a deluded aspiring chef getting put down by Gordon Ramsey. That's I'm a little afraid if I do share this set of stories somewhere outside of this little blog. My stories are deeply psychological rather than narrative - they tell you more about me (and a few other people) rather than the plot. I might be overdoing the degree of apparent (non)uncoverable mystery, hehe. You really have to have a typological mindset to unlock some of the stuff I've hidden - in other words, not afraid to take connecting leaps.

Well, there's also a chance I might never share anything at all, and even remove what I've already shared. Now back to it... I'll have my coffee soon.

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The first moka today is nice. Played my "Lone Star" little acoustic tune I never bothered to record or inscribe. It's just chords jumping in thirds, the into in D harmonic minor and the rest in the very simple A harmonic minor. Some basic embellishments.

I have three types of coffee at my disposal. Cheap and dry, overroasted one. Cheap (slightly more expensive) nice one I've been enjoying this September. The more than twice expensive Julius Meinl. Funny, how the enjoyment level is roughly the same, but the price can be different. And the overroasted is just bad, sadly. People rate it highly in the store, but let's be real, every 5 star review is, like 10% worth of a 4 star review. Cause a person who gave it 4 stars probably took at least some time to rate it. Just cut off high and low reviews (unless they're excessive) and look at the middle ones - that's, hypothetically, more of a propely opinionated outlook. Just a hypothesis!

Today's DL is Week 5, Session 1. 4 sets of 8 with 70%... Kinda easy. So, from 210 to 225? Feasible.

Workout

Warmup - a few lifts of the EZ bar

Deadlift

20 - 70 - 160

160 for 8 overhand - feels kinda harder than it should be. Well, maybe it's cause I've been hurrying up too much again...

210 for 8 really bad set cause I was feeling so, so lazy, it's kinda funny. I might have made a few mistakes recovering yesterday - should have done fewer reps, had less coffee, and been generally calmer hehe. And I skipped 190 warmup, hoho. Anyway, I decided to work on my effort generation and awaken my spirit of perseverance as I bopped through 8 easy, but such lazy reps. I tried doing overhand and was simply struck by lack of generatable energy; I put on the straps and felt too lazt to use the straps, so I did mixed grip for the remaining seven reps with these 70%. And yeah, today it an opportune day to count only off teh minimax, so I think we're just gonna stick to 210,3 kgs.

210 for 8 better, some reps with changed mixed grip

Shaved my face, now I love doing that during my DLs

210 for 8 nice, easy, all with changed mixed grip - right hand palm up, which forced the bar to keep drifting away from me on the right side. But it was really easy and I clearly warmed up, as evident from easy lifts and very unpleasant sudden dark thoughts (down to 92, I guess). But believe it or not, it is an indicator of my CNS's readiness and not just a joke. Also, nice to note that despite the twisting barbell drift I didn't feel too much screwing movement with my torso.

210 for 8 even better. This time with normal mixed grip - this time the left one was floating, proving that it's probably the forearm rather than my back. I reckon it'd be easier to control it on lower reps.

Well, let's celebrate the fact that our job today was done well enough, no overstepping or underdoing, my only real guilt is skipping 190 and that really sloppy first set 😂😭

What else? Kinda wanted to do curls. I had an idea for doing strength curls - but weight, but leaving a lot of energy left, like powerlifting. Like, for me it's maybe 45-55 kgs for sets of no more than 10, keeping the proper velocity and acceleration. Easy to do here. Let's see...

Curls, EZ bar

27 and 37 for 10

47 for 2 sets of 10 - as expected, somewhat hard but a lot of energy left, not much pump but a smooth powerful move. I find it to be a good choice for today.