September 8th, Monday - some nice OHP and light Bench

 08.09.2025

Nice day. A little tense. Slept I think okay. Nutrition about the same. A lot of garbage consumed, so maybe not that okay 😁 Otherwise feeling above average. Had that super disgusting robusta I bought; apparently it's relatively fresh in terms of when it was roasted. I guess that's believable - I definitely had worse. And today it felt okay. Acquiring that taste, lol. Then I had a cup of instant coffee.

Workout

Warmup - some

Overhead press

20 - 40

70 - 80 - 90 for 12 - feeling okay

100 for 12 - a small PR +2 reps 😁 I'm acting out after yesterday hehe 😏 And they were not very strict at all. I had some real adrenaline here. But I knew I can do it - all I gotta do is put in effort and avoid mistakes, and I did - but it wasn't very strict press of course 😁 It was a bouncy castle/70s style Olympic press. Real grind on the 12th rep! But it was a press, not a pushpress! So that's a PR 😁 Recently I was thinking of trying to do 100 for 10 with a "smooth enough" technique, but I guess we're having this 😁 Hallelujah! 🙏✝☦

I admit I might have a cheerful emoji-itis 😁 Hehe 😷💉🦈

I wanna focus on wide grip Bench press today as a secondary exercise. Feel my pecs. Cause I think I barely use my pecs when I bench with my OHP grip. When I was young I'd have considered it a pretty wide grip, especially for OHP!

Bench press

70 for 15 - strange how hard it felt afterwards. Not heavy, but hard. Feeling pecs though, that's good!

70 for 2 sets of 15 - I think I got better at it. Maybe I'll be benching much bigger weights with a wide grip soon enough! With a wide grip you actually can do the "lowering of the elbows" somewhat.

I'm happy I can work on those exercises like BP that often. These exercises that need better maintenance. An aspect of my discipline has improved!

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RPotD - The Collins-class Australian Submarine HMAS Sheean (SSG-&&) joins a flotilla off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, with numerous other international naval vessels.




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