My training log and thoughts

 29.11.2025 Nice day. Technically the 30th already. I woke up at 1AM. I thought that was gonna be enough, I felt fairly energized but I ended up falling asleep during the day again and woke up late, just four hours of sleep and no new food - but I did eat a great lot earlier, some really stinky, nasty meat and cheap pasta smeared in lukewarm butter, just a bit of salt 😁 IK ate and ate til I could no longer; my body felt the threat. Still, after my first coffee I fell asleep. Woke up, did some reading, another batch of ffocee, one cup of moka; my brewer is so bad, I think it unscrewed itself in the middle of the process. However, moka turned out alright! Deadlift 20 for 20 70 for 8 120 for 8 160 for 5 OHG 200 for 3 mixed grip - break here 230 for 3 260,5 for 3 - very little break here 😮 260,5 for 3 260,5 for 3 - easy, that was another short break 😮 260,5 for 3 260,5 for 3 - same 😮 260,5 for 3 - feels good! 260 felt like a fairly light weight today, although I did ended having a ...

 26.11.2025 Reminder to myself: I gotta keep going stiff leg DLs, keeping doing the "spread" thing with my programming (maybe I'll remind/explain later ⬇) and do some bent over rows cause I think they're fun and cool. Ed Coan put accessory things onto a program. He progressed with them. That's how he was strong. He wasn't just a "powerlifter". What an ugly word it is in the year of our Lord 2025. Didn't use to be! 27.11.2025 Thursday Woke up at 2 AM, have not slept since then. Now it's almost midnight. Good for me. I did not feel good yesterday. Did not eat well. Today I felt good. Enjoyed reading Suttree, delved in deeper into his other works. Wrote too! Crazy things I wrote, chapter 15 of Michigander Marco (that is the current title, so it does not need a numerical one), praying constantly. What else... Ate little since morning. Had a small but well-rounded meal after my warmup sets lol. Silly but made me feel good. I used to be very hunger...

 25.11.2025 Rewatching old videos before 2016, before my conscript service - man, I was explosive as heck. I will get it back. How? In everything. Try doing every little thing fast af. Might be contradicting some of my ideas regarding acceleration - at first. Maybe this explosiveness is a little overrated... Maybe not. All I know is I want it back. This is the video that made me think it. 11 years ago.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpzK8L9uMfY I still have my training logs from the old forum in a txt file buried on my old laptop... Gotta try and fish it out. I really, really wanted to press a big weight back then. Prove myself. Now I want slightly different things. Slightly. *** You know what I realized? I really just never do actual heavy singles anymore. And no, do not confuse that with maxing out. I'm talking about heavy singles. I mean, I sort of end up doign them sometimes when I wanna do doubles lol. But I never intentionally work on single-rep lifts. Cause I can usua...

 23.11.2025 God help me. Please help me. Please pray for me. You, all of you, everyone. Just pray for me, please, please, please, please. I need help. Please help me. Please pray for me. God, please help me. Please, God, save me and help me. Please save me, God. Please help me. Please save me. Anyway, today's a nice day so far. Ate okay, above average, decent carbs. Started the workout at a designated time - well, twenty minutes later after the call as I wrote and changed. Deadlift 20 for 20 70 for 10 120 for 5 160 for 5 hard for grip, it kept opening my fingers That was the quick warmup. It took less than ten minutes. 203 for 5 - two reps semi-decent overhand, one hurried third rep FAIL, really WHIPPED the skin on my fingers - I pulled way faster than my hands were gripping, see, so my well-lubed bar straight up WHIPPED my palms. Shocking! Not painful, but I think it takes a toll on your connective tissue. Then I did three more reps with a mixed grip. 233 for 4 - messy, not *warme...

 21.11.2025 Light workout Rubber lat pulls - 1 sets, light Curls and then Overhead press - 5 sets with 6+6 kg dbs; all sorts of variations of curls as well as presses, testing the tissues Calf raises and stretches, rehab - 5 sets, focusing mostly on right ankle - it's close to functional. Interesting variation - calf in a static pose, heel raised, standing on the balls of your foot, leaning against the wall and turning torso and hips, pushing side to side. I think it's giving me just what I need in terms of ankle rolling resistance. Another idea I had - you gotta actually roll the ankle gently to stretch it to avoid it getting rolled. Done some of that too, although right is still really tight. What's important is not to overdo it, especially if you put the weight on pinky-toe rather than on heel. Calf raises ended up pretty brutal, real burn, pushing past it. Can't get up on the balls of my right foot vertically. Lame, literally. My toe-raising muscles are coming back....

 20.11.2025 Technically 21st, lol! I fiddled around too much. Coffee's hitting just right. I have half a cup left over and I don't wanna drink it now. And I woke up *not* too late. Just spent some time reading! Writing some, just a bit. Sharp stuff. 4th of July chapter. It doesn't have much to do with 4th of July itself, but it's fun. Maybe I should put more stuff about Independence Day - but I have before, on my previous rewrites which have now ended up chronologically AHEAD of what I'm writing. All my mini-stories back in 2021 and 2022 I had in my head, they started on Summer; same as this one but on the first three variats the summer just got skipped after an intro! What I'm writing now is more like a prequel. And yeah, I'm a darnable graphomanical. Hundreds of pages of things very similar to a diary. Not to be confused with dairy. Workout Warmup - a lot of wall pushups and variations Bench press 20 - 40 - 70 - 90 120 for 8 143 for 8 kinda hard, enjoying ...

  17.11.2025 Technically 18th. Just a light workout. Rubber pulls - 2 sets light, 3 sets heavier Ring pulls, feet on floor - 2 sets of 10 Curls, heaving with extra force - 6+6 kg dbs for 3 sets of 30 Horseman stance, variations - 5 sets, not very long - just to have something. Leg warmups, ankle stretches - some throughout. Right ankle is way better! Thank God. 18.11.2025 Very nice day. Writing a lot. Coffee - too. Thinking, reading out loud. Got my throat sore from all that speaking. I randomly wanted to add some warmup. So I did kettlebell swings - 2 sets of 10 with 16 kg and a set of 20 with a 32. Deadlift 20 for 10 70 for 10 120 for 5 163 for 5 203 for 6 OHG - not bad but kinda messy, had to keep adding chalk 233 for 5 - one mixed grip, one reverse mixed, two straps - kinda hard 238 for 5 - three reverse mixed grip, two straps - kinda lame, gotta word through it all 243 for 5 - nice, finally starting to feel warmed up. Five breaths, five lifts! 248 for 5 - nice, very similar bu...

 14.11.2025 Nice day. I've been consolidating my ideas for the next chapter. It's the chapter 14 of what I dubbed "RW3" - "rewrite 3" - OF the first draft, lol. It's just the first draft! And I'm enjoying it. I wrote one and half scenes, 1100 words; as I mentioned many times before I'm a massive graphomaniac. I read today for the first time in a few days, really enjoyed it too. And now it's 10 PM. My warmup got disrupted a little, earlier. Now it's a second warmup! I got hungry and ordered food impulsively and ate. Cause I didn't eat enough in the morning. Also I had one moka today, it turned out real nice, it's been months. It turned out nice EVEN THOUGH it was sputtering all the way, but all the water went through and made a whole nice-tasting cup. Strange! It didn't look or sound nice, but the coffee was nice. Warmup First one was mostly wall pushups and static holds, kneeling on the floor, pressing arms straight against fl...

 12.11.2025 Been a little off. Sleeping too much. Damage recovering. Feeling real mediocre. Body feeling way better though, but mind not so. Super late, gone over dark waves, splashing up and down. Nothing drastic, thank God. But please pray for me. Workout 20 and 40 before any kind of warmup, testing Some warmup upstairs, arms and belly, holding the kettlebell, rotating around I gotta admit I don't feel like lifting heavy today, or anything number-wise. All numbers feel wrong. 70 - 2 sets of 5 nice, not warmed up yet 90 - 2 sets of 5 not sure if warmed up. Feels good to simply exert yourself, I gotta tell you. 110 for 4 kinda nice lol. Not feeling in the groove yet though. Feel wobbly, especially with my injury. There's plenty of people who try to take my God away from me. Vile, but most of them don't even know what they're doing. 110 for 5 not bad, groovy. Manowar came on 😁 Black Label Society whining about war and then the embodiment of war came. I like BLS though, ...

 10.11.2025 Very nice day. I slept rather little. Very, very long time in between me waking up and lifting. I really enjoyed my first coffee; some thinking and doing. Pumped up the car tires, it took a lot of thinking and trying and checking online, I was really tempted to give up but I actually really wanted to accomplish something, anything; I managed to take my time and figure out how to connect a pump's hose correctly. It's got ball bearings, three of them, and you gotta pull back the "foreskin" on the hose and then dock it really hard with the pump itself, pardon me but that's really fitting; then the ball bearings connect. Mom found other pump, the little one, so that's good too. I'm taking too long. Some family drama, but it's resolved. Don't wanna dwell too much, it's somewhat personal and not just for me. All that ankle damage though, I have to tell you - I feel like I can't go until it heals. I'm convinced. But I really feel l...

 08.11.2025 Having fun. My sleep schedule has been rebuilding itself. Weird stuff. Some wilful input from me, otherwise stumbling. Woke up at 3 am today, well slept. Good enough! Had a nice meal, a lot of meat, some potato, some olives. Olives are nice for electrolytes, or so I think lol. I wanna bench. I only had funny sessions, haven't I? I think I'll be deadlifting on Monday. Also, thank you for your prayers. Step after step, we walk, you and I. I love you. Things are happening, maybe slowly but faster than before! 😀 *** Workout Warmup - wall pushups, kneeling wrist stretches. My right wrist warms up way faster now! Bench press 20 - 50 100 for 6 120 for 3 130 for 3 140 for 3 143 for 3 143 for 3 143 for 3 148 for 3 150,5 for 3 I gotta admit I'm not sure about specific progression, except that I did 6 sets of 3 and ended on 150,5. The bar moved really easy but not always decent because I wasn't always in control of it. However I did a few very nice reps, with perfect ...

 05.11.2025 Technically 6th, all of it. Wrote, enjoyed myself. One conventional 35/440, a couple cups of instant coffee. Workout Deadlift 20 for 10 73 for 20 hard lol - as in cause of no warmup 113 for 10 143 for 10 overhand 163 for 10 - done as 5 and 5, five overhand, a break and some warming in the other room - it's cold now, then back and done 5 more with straps. I decided this is enough for today. I feel pretty awkward DLing after midnight. I made sure to be real quiet. High trust society or some shit like that. I wanted to do a few sets of 10 with 180, but today's enough. Just felt strange, felt like I have to stop. Combination of factors I reckon. I've been leading a rather poorly disciplined life in the last few days. Some pressure, mental. Happy. Pumped my forearms nicely. Skin not damaged. Wanna do some weird stretching/flexing and holding. That develops your strength too. Your muscle fibers, they're like mountain climbers. They can have their arms and legs on ...

 01.11.2025 Very nice day. Slept hard yesterday. Erectors pretty stiff on the right side, still cramping but not hurting anymore. Fiddled around all day. Gave a lesson, been a long time. That keeps me calm. A nice heavy workout keeps you really calm. And I'm generally softened. Don't got that itch that forces me to write now. May scratch it up. Fiddled around too much and it's super late, and it's a good day to workout. Hmm. Workout Warmup - wall pushups, pushup plank, variations I wanted to bench today. Now I'm not sure. Lame! I can still do something. Pushups - 3 sets of 30, pecs not perfect, a little tight on first set. Second - much better. Third set - good too, although left pec isn't perfect. The plan so far is to take 130 and just do sets of 4, focus on power, technique and flex-tightness. Bench 50, 100 - kinda lame feeling 130 for 4 - nice, warmed up myself mentally, spoke with my own body - as cringe as it is it worked. Thank God! 130 - 2 more sets of 4...