Deadlift coming back

 07.08.2024

Lovely day, honestly. Yesterday was even better. Yesterday I felt like I had coffee even without having it. And then I had a couple cups of instant coffee. Today I finished my black ethiopian Jardin and ended up purchasing the blue Colombian jardin that I bought many times before already. It's lovely.

Been writing a little bit. Played a lot of FNV and Red Dead Online last night. RDO is pretty annoying with all the silly grinding. It's my own fault for choosing to grind, of course, but it was at least a little bit fun. Grinding collections. Jean Roepke's map has become partially inaccurate - some stuff is wrong. They changed something about collectable item cycles. I had fun little in-my-head adventures as I did, that's why it was fun. There are events there all the time. Like having to shoot up a bandit camp in order to be able to collect one of the items safely, or a lost traveler asking for a hitch turning out to be an ambush, or another lost traveler being dragged around by me into a variety of different spots before I delivered her (a spanish woman) to her place, which was a watchtower for some curious reason.

Now it's time. I might be halfway there in my working sets before the clock strikes midnight. But today we are sort of earlier than normal. Lovely.

Workout

Deadlift

20 for 20

70 for 10

120 for 8 (or 10? can't remember)

160 for 6

Weird thing - I discovered that I now love red color a lot more than various shades of pink I used to enjoy before my departure. Just like when I was much younger. Curious.

190 for 5 straps, okay.

Should have done at least some warmup, muscles all pretty strained from immediate load. It was my "quick warmup" up to 120.

210 for 5 nice

210 for 5 a little better

213 for 5 pretty nice. Loose belt fells better. I probably said it before, but it's supposed to be loose before your brace and tight when you brace - so, not very tight in the end.

215,5 for 5 nice, hard of breathing in the end as my airways started closing up. But it's not as bad as when I had a high belt

218 for 5 - 3 reps, done a-la Brian Shaw with the X stance, they were decent, but I got lazy and felt like I needed a break after these first three reps. I put the belt high and did two more powerfully enough. But it's still an issue than mars the overall workout slightly. However, this is a defacto post-return pr 😁 Yeah, feel free to shoot me 😂 I'm very happy things are getting better and numbers are jumping up.

Enjoyed listening to Dominus on my player today, the one I think I purchased in summer 2022.

Wondering if I should do extra stuff, but it makes sense that my Thursday session exists to allow me to focus on them.