December 1st - Bench, rehab, extremely rare daytime workout

 01.12.2025

Nice day. The raremost truly workout - daytime! At this point daytime workout is so much more rare than evening/nighttime LOL.

I woke up at 5 AM and felt GOOD and nice after an intentionally small breakfast; I don't know why but I wanted a small one! Just some meat and plain pasta.

Workout

Warmup - some, fairly small amount

Bench press

20 - 50 - 100

123 for 8 easy, the setup is so comfy with all the new ideas

128 for 8

133 for 8

138 for 8 all easy!

143 for 2 sets of 3 - easy, quick; there's even some inclination towards doing paused reps in there. Well, I did do paused reps, not to overdo my verbiage, to be clearer.

148 for 3 nice and easy, all too easy, everything, borderline feeling lazy lol. Well, if bench was easy today that means I shall put and/or allow additional effort in my OHP session ahead. I've ended up doing a sequence of DL / Bench / OHP in my program spread. Squat has disappeared, and after such gains back in September! Speaking of -

Squat

5 kg plates under heels, in my crocs

50 kg - long warmup movement, micro-squats on the way down; statodynamic. Then some additional squat-dancing on the side of the frame (power rack) with heels off the floor to give it a gentle stretch.

50 for 3 okay

103 for 3 okay as well. Not too bad, angle-wise. Some tension in left knee but it's already in better shape from our efforts last week. Gotta do just a bit more.

103 for 2 sets of 3 - a little better. My damaged outer calf / outer shin has been healing. Foot still not great, but almost not swollen anymore.

An hour later

Curls / flys (not flies!)

2 kg dbs - 2 sets

Olympic stretching / tricep extensions in various positions with light rubber

Thumb presses / squeezes with an industrial clothespin - just some, gotta have fun with it.

Neck harness - some neck extensions/rotations, 3 sets just pulling on the chain, not adding weight. Remember - something is infinitely better that nothing 😁

Now it's seven PM and I'm feeling pretty tired, sleepy. And I haven't been awake for very long. I barely managed to write a couple paragraphs that were decently inspired. It's like I started to warm up for an exercise that I've been planning and just abandoned it. To be fair, I am writing through a part that could benefit from additional internal webbing and general inspiration.

Random picture of the day - Kolobrzeg Basilica in Poland



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