Tuesday, 26th of December - Lightened bench

26.12.2023

Nice day. Slept little but well. Went and worked, it was decent today, performance-wise. Actually, it was better than before. But there were no high standarts, since it's the new year week. Went home, snacked a little, slept a little. I could have stayed sleeping at 6 PM, but I htink if I did it would have been my body thinking it's already nighttime, so I got up. Had two conventional brews. And also, I had a caffeine pill in the morning. It wasn't very strong. Now I've just finished my second little pot. It's nice, 65/100 taste and effect wise. I'm going to do bench press. So much pressing in just a few days, eh? Well, the intensity is going to be lowered, but the frequency will lead to even more energy accumulation. And it's been a week and one day. A little too long, but understandable since we're shifting priorities to OHP again.

We did sets of 5 last time. I'm lax with the bench programming. I think we can do a good enough volume with sets of 3. Working from 135 to 140. It will be very easy, RPE 5 to put it in RPE terms which are rather silly, but they do have some surface-level merit. For a long time I assumed RPE wasn't as dumb as it turned out to be. So, I guess I'm appropriating this term and just changing to very rough "perceived intensity/effort". So, 5 is just 5, as in almost very easy. Hmm. My brain has gotta be in a bit of less precise state. Dumb, in other words. But it's only temporary. Caffeine is contributing, in a way.

Workout

Warmup - minimal

Bench

20 for 20

50 for 10

100 for 10 nice how I can do it so readily today

120 for 5 easy but unevern grip

130 for 3 medium grip

133 for 3

133,5 for 3 sharp sting on the lower ridge of upper right pec on the second rep. Wretched exercise. I'll have to get good at it. It's fighting back. Anyways, I'm done.



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