December 28th, Sunday - Another rare daytime workout, Bench, new microcycle

 28.12.2025

Now, even with my daytime schedule, I sleep weird. Fell asleep early yesterday, right after coffee! Woke up today at 5 again, but this time slept for longer.

A little "distracted", for the lack of the better word. Ate some meat and potatoes - decent. Pork and chicken.

Another *extremely rare* daytime workout! Cut myself out an hour before a lesson; then there'll be another hour before a second lesson.

Workout

Warmup - some, wall pushups, plank

Bench press

20 and 50

103 - 3 sets of 12 - believe it or not, those are the working sets 😁 Need some volume.

120 for 3

130 for 3

140 for 1

153 for 1

153 for 1

153 for 5 and a half - almost managed 6th rep past the sticking point 😁 I should be able to press this weight for more than 5 on a different day. I was sort of hurrying!

Rubber pulls / Squats and its variations, superset - 3 sets - each set was getting more fun; in the third one I was doing sort of an arm-over-arm with the rubber, shifting weight between legs - hips extenders still a little sore since Friday; then fun squats - a couple jumping squats then a couple hip-extending bent over squats, and then a bunch of these fours until my quads were burning.