November 9th - Nice strict OHP

 09.11.2024

OHP session 19 - 5 sets of 2 with 85%. 102 kgs. Hmm. It's kinda light, isn't it? Well, I gotta do it super strict then. And then one strict rep with 90%...

Had one nice conventional coffee. It felt good. I had a decent meal - a stew I made in a rice cooker - before I went to bed. It got potatoes, onions a lot of pork and a great amount of spice, some oil and water mixed in which ended up making it more soupy. I put six tomatoes on top of the mass to 'mix them in'; it was really hot when I ate it. Should have added more pepper. Today I got some honey toast and one conventional brew, took my sweet time to double grind it, it felt good, not irritating. My testosterone, subjectively speaking, feels surprisingly high. My mood is great, I'm smiling; the imagery in my mind is comedic more so than violent.

Workout

Warmup - long, mostly focusing on my stiff legs. I wore a really narrow rubber band on my legs and did some half-squats while maintaining relatively wide stance, that really made my hip feel light and warm. Some thigh-squeezes too, great for warmup.

Overhead press

20 - 50 - 70

90 for 3

103 - 5 sets of 2 - kinda too easy, not really struggling at all... Very curious.

110,5 for 1 after a short break - very easy, but a pronounced pause at the sticking point, cause I was pressing *upwards* - too vertical - again, rather than a bit to the front, which would have been smart. It's good that I'm making it this strict!

Tried dome some presses with 53 afterwards, but I realized I got a fairly common tweak in my forearm, connected to my palm. I think it's one of them funny bones, or at least it's something close to it. You know, the one where your elbow hurts a lot and goes really numb if you stub it. The tissue around there got stretched a little cause of the wide grip, heavily rotated elbow and a skew to one side. A common issue, usually nothing to worry about.


LOCKOUTS! OHP lockouts... Great idea! Bringing it back...


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