Wednesday, April 9th - Deadlift 4 sets of 8 medium-light, bench 5x5 light-medium

 09.04.2025

Lovely day. Woke up way too early. Last two days have been sort of a mess, but at least I've managed to do some important stuff. Thank God! And thank you if you prayed for me. Please keep praying :)

Been having weird stomach pain. I suspect it's not actually stomach but connective tissue in my ribcage. As expected, it went away during warmup, but it's not conclusive. My sleep has been weird, I've been feeling borderline ill, not great. That's what you get when you take yourself out of your comfort zone quickly. Happens often. Happened last year, sort of. But I actually had a lot of time to adjust there, I just made mistakes.

Workout

Warmup - actually doing warmup for DL? Basic hip stretches

Deadlift

20 for 20

70 for 15

120 for 8

160 for 8 overhand, trying to do 'full hand' rather than fingertipping

190 for 8 - decided this was gonna be first 'working set'

210 for 8 - good

220 for 8 - same

230 for 8 - lovely, cardio really good, no extensive pauses between reps. I'm sort of slacking with this kind of a workout, heh. But my CNS and my immune system/other organs really got out of shape, as did CNS. So, going back in shape. Pondering if DLs are better done in jumps - not steps, but back and forth. Could try, cool idea - volume session, strong session, slightly heavier volume session, strong session and so on.

Bench press

Warmup - some very moderate wrist and pec/pushups stretches, this time not doing the 'dip' thingy, not putting the elbow too low - to avoid parts of right pec separating

70 for 20

100 for 20

133 for 5 - not bad,actually bending back wrists - I haven't done that in ages

133 for 4 sets of 5 - not bad, all easy, pec stain close to minimum 😀



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