Nov 02-03, Thu-Fri - Very light and medium-light workout

 02.11.2023

Nice day. Slept well, ate moderately. Feeling messy. Almost done something no-so-good (to myself).

Had one moka, tasted nice. Decided it was too late to have more. Gonna do PPs - maybe medium-light ones - and squats, perhaps heavy-medium ones tomorrow. Today I'll just do some very light and simple work.

Workout

Rubber pulls

3 sets of 15 light rubber

2 sets of 15 one arm

2 sets of 15 one arm, heavy rubber. Might be lighter than double folded light rubber.

Curls

6+6 kg dumbbells - 3 sets of 15

Squats

4 sets of 10

Surprisingly nice feeling after second set of squats. My mobility is improving, no longer as painful to move my ankles way past knees with feet all the way on the floor. I can feel muscle around my shin and outer ankles flexing in a way I didn't feel before. Just a little deep dive on a very small detail.

03.11.2023

Yesterday was one of the worst days in my life. Perhaps I should put a disclaimer or something, but, well, I'd rather speak very vaguely, it's obvious enough. Before yesterday, on my nice deadlift Wednesday, I came to conclude that I've been forgetting about my faith. Whatever I thought I'd accomplish by doing something not so good I should definitely be able to accomplish with God's help. It didn't stop yesterday from happening, but I think it helped. Helped me refocus. There were two peak moments. I actually took the implement in my hands during the second moment. If it wasn't for a short sequence of apparent mental coincidences I wouldn't have stopped. It's trying to fight back. That's good. Pray for me, please. So vain of me to imagine someone's reading it from the future, but if you believe God is God then your prayers matter to me, even postfactum.

Nice day today. Nice sleep and dreams, moderate nutrition. Haven't been feeling very hungry. Had some soup and a pair of eggs with a little bit of bread today. You don't need too much if you're not a professional strongman. "Maingaining", that's what they call it - at least when your appetite or eating habits are good enough.

Re-read some of the comments I've left on youtube in the last decade. Cringe! So cringe it's funny. I'm just not a smart person. You have to make peace with it. Why shut up? Just let yourself be who you are.

I'm feeling much better after one coffee. My negativity is depleted since yesterday, so nothing to worry about really. Gonna enjoy my time and my writing and my workout. I'd like to do a lot of stuff. It was easier to do cleans during Summer, when it was warm. Now I don't care about them as much. I'd like to do a moderate amount of presses, pushpresses and squats.

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So, I've talked about it before, I'm currently aligning all my pressing exercises - OHP, bench, pushpress - as one, sort of. Programmed, but intuitive. In August-September I was sort of doing three sessions in roughly the same range, or at least trying to. Obviously, something has to take priority in volume and intensity. Before I got my little elbow tweak (dealt with, thankfully) it was pushpress. I'd like it to be pushpress again, but I've haven't done it since October 9th? Wow, it's been almost a month. Hmm. Thankfully, my shoulders and legs are in a good shape. It's gonna be about adjusting yourself to PP again.

And today it's gonna be sort of Week 9, Session 0. Hmm. 70% for sets of 8 again. Why 0? Cause we're prolonging this new - and final in the program - microcycle. Maybe not final, but we'll see.

I think I will straight up only do cleans with 50, maybe 70 kgs, as I have been doing. And presses alongside them. If we focus on cleans it shouldn't take us too much time to be able to have a full OHP workout without needing racks. Not that it's something you should do, but it is a nice high standart to try and accomplish.

Workout

Warmup - flys, front rack holds, lower body moves, dressing up, finishing coffee. Strange how two mokas today felt like a very large volume of coffee.

Clean and press (full clean)

50 - 3 cleans, 3 presses

Overhead press from rack

50 for 5

70 for 5 darn, kinda weak. CNS empty. Well, we're gonna be recovering it today.

Push press

50 for 8 a little stiff in my knees

70 for 8 nice, better, after some additional leg warmup

100 for 8 nice enough, but I have to stop. I was just recently remiscing on the time when I worked out with drained CNS and it didn't help. We're cutting it down today. Should be back to nice on Monday or around that time.