Saturday, November 8th - Bench and some Squats, old small injuries persistent

 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! 😀

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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 acceleration curves on the way down and up; I didn't just accelerate up but I fought against the de-celeration, that's the way I thought about it, heh! Feels good.

A pretty long break here, I gave a lesson. A few hours. Got my ankle tweaked again. When I cut it last month I put a damn rubber tourniquet on the way to the hospital and I really damaged the muscle that raises the toe. Well, it's possible I somehow damaged something adjacent to that spot when I cut it and then I made it worse with the tourniquet. But hey, I was afraid to lose blood. It kept going. It was a deep one. Just from a kick to glass, how silly.

Squat

1 set bw and 2 sets of 30 bw, heels on plates - feels nice. First set was hard but I soon warmed up my cardio.

16 kg kettlebell - 2 sets of 10 goblet squat

32 kg kettlebell - 2 sets of 10 goblet squat. Starting to feel a little fatigued. The sun hasn't set yet but I've been awake for 14 hours. I admit I didn't actually too well yesterday.

I'm planning to DL on Monday and then I'll definitely have Wednesday and Thursday for a little trip somewhere I've been needing and wanting to go. Maybe even Tuesday.

Squat, barbell

20 and 50

From here, it's set of 2 only

100 - 110 - 120 - 130 pretty quickly. Due to twisted ankle leg is cramping. Eating olives - it's helped me before with electrolytes, as I believe. I know it's not very reasonable.

140 - 150 - 160 - 170

Really strained my left ham and the muscle that rotates the thigh inwards. There is something really weird about squatting on plates that I do.

On the 14th I also did the same thing and then I took a walk. After squatting and 9 days after that injury. I didn't sleep that day, I just went and I had the same thing I now have. Also I walked some more today, had to be in a couple places. Again doing that weird limp. But I feel like I had my ankle twisted like that even before I twisted it noticeably. I think the stuff I've done on Wednesday, all the weird squats - it might have been too much. But if I live through this lol I should be better.