April 25th - Impulsive OHP and Squat, 10 rep PR

 25.04.2025

Lovely day. Ate and slept okay. Gave a lesson, had three coffees with some desserts. Wrote! I'm finishing my current rewrite of tome 3. I kinda had an idea I could finish it today, but we're close. I spent over an hour for one double-length scene, and now I'm editing it. It's a very expansive rewrite to my earlier version.

Workout

Warmup - thorough, very, in fact - shoulders, wrists, L-flys, strange movements, lat stretches

Overhead press

20 - 50 - 70

100 for 3

113 for 2 and one stumble - not a big deal

118 for 1 pretty easy

123 for 1 lovely, not too hard - but there was a pronounced sticking point and a pressout, proper 180 degrees lockout too. That's close to 95% of my old max.

128 for 0 - a good push, a good fail, a fairly confident one - just a smidge away from doing a decent rep, it feels

128 for 0 - roughly the same lift, maybe better, maybe worse. I got nervous on the previous set. That kinda nervous is different from normal lifting excitement. Got my hands shaking just from knowing how heavy it is. Isn't that weird?

Squat

128 for 5

140 for 5

185 for 10 - not bad, feels good, nice cardio 😀 Also it's a dfacto PR - either +5 kgs or +4 reps 😁 Got some liver colics after I was done unloading plates. Pumped my right side of the body a lot. Wore wraps, semi-tight two under and two over loops.

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