December 13th, Wednesday - Lightened DL 240 5 sets of 2

 13.12.2023

Nice day. My little ailment isn't completely gone. Slept way too much, nose and throat sore. Regardless, I am planning to do deadlift. I am considering moving it to tomorrow, however.

It's supposed to be Week 10, Session 1 - 5 sets of 2, 85%.

I am emotionally disturbed. My mother is disturbing me by beating my brother. Who, in turn, seems to have been behaving poorly at school. Hmm. Should I allow this to disrupt my workout? Well, at least I'm not suicidal today. Yes, I am using this exact word. Actually, I have not been suicidal since that day in early November. I might have been close to being suicidal. But I have not been close to "doing it". And I am not close to it today. Just perturbed.

I have my doubts about deadlifting big weights today. I have not been recovering very well. And I have to wake up in 10 hours. Hmm.

Curious idea. I've been working with high effort. Maybe is the time to reduce it. Save a bit of my CNS. Just do 240 for 5 sets of 2. Hmm.

The plan is to lift 300. A fairly achievable number, judging by what I've been lifting recently. Fairly easy 3 singles with 280 three weeks ago. There's some derpasses in the comments there. Nostalgic of the days when I was one of them and knew nothing about lifting.

240 would be sooo easy. Maybe that's exactly what I need. Just a CNS boost while maintaining my energy levels high.

I went to have a third coffee. Might be too much. Was losing my shit after, but just for a minute. Oh well. I'll get better at it.

Workout

Warmup - putting on clothes, trying not to continue my freakout

Deadlift

20 - 70 - 120 - 160

200 for 2 with straps - I forgot to mention last week, the base of my index finger on the right was hurting quite consistently. The middle finger is hugging deep, so the index is forced to stretrch and adjust. I'm not sure how strong of a grip I'm developing on this kinda stuff anyway. Well, at least my bar has very soft knurling, it doesn't really bend and it's one the thicker side, unlike some bars I've seen in commercial gyms. Remembering my old bar I've had before Autumn 2019, it was quite horrible from all the funtime abuse 😂

240 for 2 not bad, very casual, uncomfortable strain around my hips as I poisitioned my legs conventionally narrow - for me. Hips feel like they wanna pop outside.

240 for 2

240 for 2 getting decent

240 for 2 very easy, felt like I could do ten reps. Under different circumstances I'd have been lifting a much bigger weight. But I have to adjust to other things in life.

240 for 2 alright, also easy. It straight up jumped off the floor on the first rep (figuratively speaking, as the barbell is an inanimate object and thus cannot jump on it's own).



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