June 23rd, Monday - Bench and Squat, medium

 23.06.2025

Nice day. Slept okay, too deep for my liking. Dreams a little strange. Ate well, very well. Arms - biceps and forearms - strangely aching for loading, like they used to when I was much younger. Feels like nerve endings are growing.

Some coffee, some reading and listening to music - no writing so far today, I have to admit, possibly on behalf of my "distractions".

Workout

Warmup - a lot of back warmup, some seal pushups - seal pushups are a pretty great movement for bench, emulates it closely. Very little discomfort today, and basically no pain, pec or shoulder!

Bench

20 - 2 sets

70 for 10

120 for 5

130 - 3 sets of 5 - nice and easy-medium

140 for 2 sets of 5 - nice, some shoulder tweaking. RPE around 70 brambletitties out of a 100.

Squat

Some hip and squat stretches first. Thinking about how full squat is a little counterproductive for anything except for highly technical newschool Olympic weightlifting. And I have been doing only very deep squat for a while. I just want my DL though, I gotta tell you. And I need squat that will accomodate the DL.

70 for 5

120 for 5

140 and 160 for 5 - very very short break in between these two; I did not take off my wraps. Wraps under and over knee, loose - but enough to swell my toe-raisers quite painfully.

180 for 5 - lovely, pretty easy. The bar felt like it's positioned super high - probably because it was, since I was unracking it from tall racks. I believe it's a good tactic to avoid it rolling down. It was nearly on my neck, heh.

Dear reader: please pray for me. In general, as well as my material struggles. Please do. Unite your faith with mine and offer a prayer, however short. God have mercy on us!

RPotD - Français : Semillac - Eglise Saint-Didier Mur Nord



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