September 29th - Some musing on Horizon music and DL 265 for 4 sets of 3 and very explicit "supertraining" rant

 So I was listening to Lost Horizon - Highlander and heard a familiar meme sound, the fancy flower metal singing! I love it. I've had this song in my playlist since 2014! Before it was cool 😏

Mercenary - Horizon

Lost Horizon - Highlander (The One)

Fatal Violence - 85 - 87 - Ashes Tell No Tales - Terror On The Horizon

Lost Horizon - Perfect Warrior

Dissection - Black Horizons

They all sound strangely similar, Dissection is the only one sticking out 😁 Actually, scratch that, even they got that flower power in them 🎤In the second half of the song, more so! I sure was quite the power metal fiend! That Mercenary band is more metalcore though, of course. When you look at it up closer, only Lost Horizon is power metal.

29.09.2025

That was yesterday. Enjoying self after that OHP and Squat. Now it's been less than 48 hours but we are doing it. Not gonna too much about how I've been feeling, but when I slept I slept well and ate well too. Enjoying writing, really chaotic and aimless but really me! 😁😂

Deadlift

20 for 20

70 for 5 and 3

120 for 3

160 for 3

200 for 3 - took some time but did three reps overhand

230 for 3 - one failed overhand grip attempt first

265 for 3 lovely, easy, casual - this, I assume, is the border between the warmup and working sets. Plan today is to do 265 for 4 sets of 3 and one or two sets of stiff-leggers. Intuitive stuff.

265 for 3 not bad but I admit I got too distracted, not quite as warm as I wish I was\

265 for 3 super easy. Another "rediscovery" as I didn't bother to "pull" the bar with my lats quite so much, possibly allowing myself to do it right for once, cutting the range and not getting stuck on my knees... Must ponder. Must check on the next set.

265 for 3 - nice, pretty confident. Walking back to rack it was hard, whole four steps all the while fighting the desire to drop it 😁

161,5 for 8 - stiff legged deficit paused deadlift - 1.5 on account of one forgotten collar lol. It's cold! And I did it right after 265. First three reps OHG, but I dropped it - since it's paused it's taking a lot of time under pressure. Cold, cold. Also I've been reading some good ol' John McCallum, thus the inclusion of "deficit". It didn't matter much; I need stiff-leggers for my hams, not back, and I don't need deficit, I need paused. Well, this minor change added to the fun factor.

120 for 10 - narrow OHG, taking it my the smooth middle part, and also making sure it's far away, cause it's painful to rub a scratch on my thumb

I squatted those 170 for 2x12 basically yesterday. I could barely walk up the stairs. And here I am, stronger than ever. Growing.

There's one thing I gotta say to my 20 year old self.

STOP BEING A PUSSY BITCH. STOP WORRYING ABOUT BEING "SORE". FUCK YOU FOR COMING UP WITH THE IDEA OF TRAINING THREE TIMES IN TWO WEEKS. THAT IS SOME PUSSY ASS BITCH SHIT FOR FUCKS SAKE. FUCK ARTHUR JONES, FUCK MIKE MENTZER, FUCK "SUPERTRAINING", FUCK "HARDGAINERS", FUCK SETS "TO FAILURE", FUCK TRAINING SELDOM. YOU'RE BURYING YOUR FUCKING TALENTS YOU FUCKING DUMBASS. YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET INJURED JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE SORE. YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE WEAKER BECAUSE YOU'RE SORE. AND YOU'RE NOT GENETICALLY GIFTED, YOU JUST HAVE WHAT IT TAKES AND YOU NEED NOT TO BURY IT! Aagh! IT'S SO STUPID I'M CRINGE-LAUGH-CRYING OVER HERE, TEN YEARS IN THE FUTURE. STOP BEING A FUCKING BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!

Feeling "SORE" just means you TRAINED. It means your MUSCLES have already started accumulating ENERGY. AAGH! 😂😭🤣

***

Good looking guys, aren't they? But hell, the shit they peddled cause it sounded sooooo good 😂 Ah, the gainz I could've had... 😂

(Mike Mentzer and Casey Viator, the trainee in Jones' "experiment"


RPotD - Primula nutans Simo, Finland 03.06.2013 img 2.jpg - something nice and simple to cleanse your palate after all of my highly necessary cussing 😏





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