May 22-24 - Light session, writing, DL 250 for 5 sets of 4 - messy but serviceable

 22.05.2025

Nice day. Slept nicely; side pain is not present. Got really tired yesterday! Legs sore. Ate well - some bird meat and made really thick pancakes! I got really lucky portioning ingredients, for the first time in a while I managed to cook solid pancaked. Really fluffy, too. Ate them with some old banana syrup.

Yesterday I worked out in time but didn't manage to write anything. Today it's the opposite. I started writing, felt my language lacking; took a pause, went downstairs to read some Blood Meridian, got pumped with fancy vocabulary. Made a second coffee, another couple pancakes. Wrote a very important scene, feeling satisfied.

Workout

An easy one today! Some fairly minimal shoulder warmup.

Superset - kettlebell swings and one arm press

16 kg - 4 sets

Squat - some hip stretching/horseman stance.

23.05.2025

My Winamp was working weird on my PC - it'd never open the playlist files, I had to drag them over into the window! It'd open itself first, whatever was last. But yesterday I noticed how if you choose "open using..." it'd open! And now I just fixed it - in Windows 10, I went into properties of the playlist file and set "winamp.exe" in Program Files whatever as the executable and it now works! Wow! What a win. A winamp, you could say 😁

24.05.2025

Nice day so far. Slept nicely - but possibly not very much; another thing I managed to solve - apparently I turned off the boiler earlier by accident when I tried to restart it; I learned a normal way of starting it that gets the water hot immediately.

Ate well, before and after sleep; I **really** enjoyed writing yesterday, I had a lot of fun, even an oxytocin burst - rare. Had carbs - rice, enough meat too - beef&pork. No veggies though.

Today we're doin 5 sets of 4 with mere 250. Keep it easy - no amping too hard. Got a relatively heavy one on Wednesday!

Workout

Deadlift

20 - 70

120 for 5

160 for 5

200 for 5

230 for 5 - still warming up, kinda hard

250 for 4

250 for 4 - kinda harder than I wish it was... Let's see.

250 for 4 - kinda better, I was doing too much random shit on the previous sets, still hard though, not taking it seriously I'm afraid...

250 for 4 - not bad, but kinda lame, suffering from acid reflux again - took me a long time to start

250 for 4 - alright, it wasn't great, I lost the thread; it was hard to maintain consistency due to me still working on incorporating more of a back flexion/closer to the bar technique tweak - the reps were okay, arguably better than the earlier ones since I finally took a longer break - first one was mixed grip, then two messy ones, a really messy micro-pull - but I managed to gather myself and even though I didn't do all of them right I did a really good, fast and powerful final reps and racked it. Then I put away the plates, focusing more on left hand with the pinching. Feels good! Doing deadlifts 3 times in two weeks is working out so far...




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