November 12th, Sunday - Light pull workout, time to reduce coffee intake

 12.11.2023

Nice day. Not much happening. Woke up, worked. Getting neutral, moving there. I've agreed I need to sort of go back to working out 4 days a week, but every day training experiment has proved succesful - I'm better in almost every way except for my CNS. My training evens itself out automatically. The only real problem, I suspect, is my caffeine consumption level. So, today I've only had a small 10 gram oldschoow brew. It was moderately okay, 4/10, a little too thin but it was nice while it was hot.

Ever since Wednesday some of my natural liquid humors have taken a step back, one more reason to suspect above average stress level. Yes, because I had I generate additional effort on Wednesday to crawl out of a CNS hole I fell in on November 2nd. So, not much is changing, except some caffeine abstinence. Also I took a caffeine pill today when I woke up. They've been proving to be sort of weak and quick-acting compared to liquid coffee. After all, your body is fighting them, closing off pathways for it. So, if you take caffeine with food, especially long-digesting, it's gonna affect you more - or at least I hypothesize that.

Workout

Warmup - some basic rubber pulls, 3 sets with light, 2 sets with hard rubber, 2 sets of one-arm static bicep leans to the side.

Floor-supported ring pullups

2 sets of 10, easy load at first, heavier in the second

Underhand pullups / chinups

2 sets of 10 - one hard, one easy. I was really feeling my pec tendons on the first set, then they got limber.

Ordered some groceries along some  indulgent produce - it all arrived very quickly. Thinking about going there again. Clearly, there's still stuff that needs doing there. I just gotta either not think, or, I dunno, not make that choice. I don't feel like I got much agency. Oh, silly me, I should have agreed to an incorrect contract.

Maybe not. 50/50. Not that much of a desperado.

Curls

6+6 kg dumbbells - 2 sets of 20

Really gorged myself on the indulgent snacks I permitted myself to buy - noodles, frozen lasagen. Tried curling 21 kg dumbbell and felt somewhat weakened. I figured it wouldn't be smart to make my stomach compete with muscle for blood, so I decided to just wait for food to at least settle.

21 kg dumbbell - 2 sets of 10, each arm, trying to keep my palm supine. Found a nice stable poisiton where I can sort of stand relaxed, but I wonder if it's right. What it's better to engage obliques more? I'm all for complexity. Not just a bodybuilding exercise, but rehab and accessory.

1 set of 15 - nice pump

1 set of 20 - nice too, had to take a few breaks. Sweating from it.

I gotta try to go again, man. No ideology stuff, no yearning for glory. Just a bit of money, a form of independence and a nice change of scenery. I gotta try. No brass pipes and steel balls for me. Just something new, a way to break out of that humdrummery. Do something, feel accomplished. Don't make any judgements until you're sure. Might not be easy to not make judgements.



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