January 31st, Friday - Genuine bench PR, some heavier low volume Squat

 31.01.2025

It's Friday. Thursday plans got skewed since the extremely pleasurable DL exhausted me completely, like it tends to. Exhausted my CNS, not so much muscles, although back does tend to cramp.

Workout

Warmup - long, pretty thorough, having started a little earlier - rear flys, pushup variations, L-flys.

Bench press

20 for 20

40 for 20

50 for 15

70 for 10

100 for 5

120 for 5 not bad

130 for 5 super easy. Something is going right...

140 for 5 - lovely, same

148 for 5 - a most genuine rep PR 😀 I've only ever done 150 for 2 in this weight range!

110 for 5 lovely, just in the mood to add a tiny bit of extra work.

Squat

20 for 5

70 for 5 dealing with difficult heartbeat, cause I'm secretly hiding sleep issues and I've been awake for 20 hours by now xD Yeah, I turned three days into two.

100 for 5

120 for 3

150 for 3 underknee light wraps

170 for 3 - I love it. The only thing I had to exert on was my breathing and bracing. I feel strong and ready to do a bigger squat! I really wanna work out tomorrow, do my renewedly intuitive OHP!

RPotD - Tathatso Wash during a Flash Flood Event - September 2002 - it's in Grand Canyon, Colorado!



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