November 18th - Medium-light OHP (small PR!), more PP inclusion, One-third squats

 18.11.2024

Nice day. Slept well, ate slightly above average - my own chicken soup that I lowkey went overboard with again. Way too much spice, caramelized onions, a great amount of borth that I kept pouring in... At some point I decided to remove all bones from the chicken, but realized it'd be excessive. Still ended up doing it (most of the bones) in the end. To be fair, my method of removing bones was to just cut off large chunks and eat the meat off of the hard-to-reach places. Then I put the meat back in the soup. Somehow, I felt like I was overfilling... A random black cat started meowing outside. I decided to feed it the wing, with a large part of breast meat on it. I walked out and it ran away, no matter how much I tsk-tsked it. I had to drop the piece there, but I only decided to leave the top part of the wing. Later I gate it more bones, like the backbone and I think pelvis. Do birds have a pelvis?

I enjoyed writing yesterday... You just have to make sure you stop at the right time. I've been expending way more points on Poe than I have before, in a long time. Mostly because reckless image and video generations that I don't really keep.

By the way, today's OHP again... Feels so soon, doesn't it? Somehow the fact that it's been so little feels good rather than bad. Usually you're like 'oh no, time is going by too quickly!' but today it's strangely different. Not even today, for a while now. I'm happier than I have been in a long, long time. Really calm and content. "Blue Skies" keeps playing in my head. I listened to the recently released rendition by Seth Macfarlane. It's nice too. Mostly I have Al Jarreau's version stuck in my head. You know, the one from the credits of "Glengarry Glen Ross" movie.

Before yesterday, I reinstalled Sims 3 and redownloaded all of my saves and mods... Could not play it whatsoever. Had to delete it immediately.

I made one conventional large brew. About to run out of coffee... Well, next time I need it, realistically speaking, will be on Wednesday.

OHP session 21 - 5 sets of 3 with 77,5% and one strict rep with 90%... Should be nice.

Workout

Warmup - some, a lot of L-fly variations

Overhead press

20 downstairs without lifting shoes and 27 ez bar upstairs

70 for 5 awkward

90 for 3 easy but not warmed up enough

90 for 3 better, elbow and forearm tweak a little sensitive

90 for 3 nice, very easy... Let's see what happens next, hehe. Drinking some water finally... Also I took a much narrower grip on this one again.

90 for 13 lovely, not too easy, not too difficult. I stumbled across Grave - Into The Grave song... Good ol Scandinavian DM. Probably Swedish? My CNS got properly piled up as I was preparing - I was imagining I was gonna do 20. Lowkey lazy of me to stop at 13 hehe... I mean, I was cheating-heaving a lot, trying my best to avoid direct pushing. But it's still press. Small PR? 😁

110 for 1 lovely. Not too easy, the lockout was slow, but overall the movement was much more velocious than last time.

Push press

70 for 2 sets of 4 - some of the reps ended up being a variation of pushjerk... I'm doing my best to rack the bar properly on my chest. Wrists pretty stiff!

70 for 2 sets of 4 - here, I was focusing on forcing myself into a better weightlifting rack, with the bar between my shoulders and clavicle rather than past clavicle. The kind of grip that most weightlifters have on the bar only when they catch it in the clean, but with a full grip on the bar - cause I know I can do it. A lot of pain... But not the bad kind of pain.

Squat - this time I ended up with sort of a 1/3 squat rather than a quarter squat cause I placed the racks one hole lower. As I keep mentioning, this exercise is intended to help me re-develop the pushing power that I think I used to have...

70 for 20 - it's quite probable I did more than 20 reps on this first one cause I lost count... Enjoyed the oiled up rack support joints. Put some cloth where the bar is supposed to touch them to dampen the sound, put an old pillowcase on my traps cause I'm wearing an expensive 5'11 top... Although I got this one for free. Well, for service. Strong pump in quads and lower back after this set... Especially left quad. Hip joints felt a little awkward - I think I'm doing a little too much thigh-spreading... I gotta do some more of these, of course. I'm certain this helped my PP already, although the wight on PP was still too low to feel the difference. Soon, my dear PP, soon we shall be together in a serious manner...

70 for 20 - it's possible I have done two sets here... I was very deep in thought as I unloaded the plates and came to senses in my room. Also I've done two sets of front rack stretches, this time with loose fingers (how weightlifters do it in the clean). I thought of doing there one-third squats as front squats, but as I unracked the bar in this super stretched position and walked out I realized it might be too painful... Anyway, lovely workout today. Hallelujah forever!