January 10th - low intensity Heavy DL 5 sets of 2

 10.01.2025

Lovely day, an interesting day. I think I managed to turn three days into two very successfully and now I should have a daytime schedule again. I woke up between 2 and 3 and felt really fresh after yesterday, cause I showered and flipped the mattress and thus had an actual good evening/night of sleep. I figured I was gonna go ahead and have a nice meal and a coffee and get to DLing. Well, I did have a nice meal, I made a really nice pasta cause I spent a fuckton of money on groceries - pre-made sauce which I put into my own vegetable base cause we got a lot of rotting vegetables, tomatoes. I again utilized the in-and-out technique - normally you could use a lot of different pans. I started with tomatoes, fried and softened them, added some water to keep it from charring, then a nice braised thinly chopped onion with remaining bits of eggplant (also had to cut a lot of rot from it), had to hurry and spray it with water as well cause it started charring, used mostly olive oil. Then I gave the meat a gentle fry, just enough to give it a tiny bit if texture, them supplemented with with hand-minced beef diaphragm muscle - it's medium-fatty, mostly a lot of springy, layered tissues. So, I finally dumped it all together and by that I realized I overcooked the pasta, the bow-tie shaped pasta again but it was good enough, just a tiny bit soft for my taste. Washed it, cooled it, wanted to salt and oil it just a little bit but forgot too. In the sauce by that time I added the pre-made sauce base, as well as some yesterday's ketchup scraped off the plate and a couple spoonfuls of tomato paste for added zestiness - cause tomato is naturally zesty before it gets cooked, softened. And there it was. I got myself a bit portion and enjoyed it at night/early morning. Strangely enough I felt sort of excited as I kept drinking my tea and watching fun online videos (a lot of videogaming content rn, I admit) but then I made a decision to lie down and rest and digest after all, and so I ended up falling asleep and sleeping at a very normal time of night. I had very active dreams, a lot meeting people and talking to people and even playing some really quick drum grooves in my mind, a real uncomfortable drumming setup I had in my dream lol. Then I woke up and ate again, and rested again and then I finally had my first coffee - conventional 37/444, again with the washing machine coffee. But this one was labeled "milk" as opposed to my previous "espresso". It does taste smoother I think. DeLonghi milk selection blend - that's why it's washing machine coffee, cause DeLonghi makes appliances usually - and the sauce was Barilla Bolognese base. I just forgot the words "Bolognese" and "DeLonghi" so I had to look it up. Sometimes I have an interesting phenomenon when I try to remember, let's say, an actor's name and I know I know his name but I just can't remember it. Interesting stuff, those nerve entanglements. Then of course I do remember it, either randomly or by struggling up a chain of associations.

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A while later. Read, enjoyed reading. Going a tiny bit insane, mild flareups. Had a second coffee, an instant one, and now I'm about to finish the second conventional one I made.

My left hip is hurting a little. Somehow I've been putting too much weight on it. Haven't started writing... Been reading and recording a little. Not keeping anything, just practicing.

Wrote. Not enough, entered a groove, started feeling like I'm overwriting again, but then I finally started the workout

Workout

Deadlift

20 - 70 - 120 - 160

203 for 3 - mixed grip. Been multitasking and shoveling snow outside, that got my hands all swollen even though I eventually put on gloves. I almost completely ran out of hard chalk. I'd still have a lot if the brick hadn't fallen apart (when I dropped it). Cause you're supposed to rub it, not pinch it or spread it. Somehow I forgot I did 160 and didn't notice 4 plates and I was really upset when I failed to OHG it properly but then I noticed it's 203 after all, lol. Let's hope I don't have Alzheimer and such 😁

233 for 3 - nice, feels pretty light. As it's been happening - first rep I pulled easy but slow, then I remember I can force-speed it and pulled it much faster!

253 for 2 nice and easy.

We're doing 2s. We're going from 4's to 2's in this microcycle. These 2's are a variation of 3's. It's hard to understand what I mean by it, isn't it? Basically it's a substitution of one range for another to favor a different set of lifting qualities.

263 for 2 ez

273 for 2 love it, really fast. Kinda taking too long cause the writing is flowing, ten words per minute of in-book time 😁🔨🖊

273 for 2 lovely, pretty casual

273 for 2 not bad

273 for 2 - nice, caught a lovely moment in the song and totally felt like I can do more 😁 Well, I can, but I'm doing heavy doubles today!

273 for 2 nice 😀

Pinching - three sets of lifting a pair of blue plates, trying to do a one-hand hold, lifting it up with 7 fingers (right side focus); during that I did shrugs.

Shrugs - underhand grip for extra fun

160 for 10 in straps

120 for 10 no straps

70 for 10

That's it. I wrote a lot. Enjoying, vibing. I kinda wish I'd worked out harder 😁😁😁 That would have released a lot more pleasure! Isn't that amazing that 273 for 5 sets of 2 (and warmup!) leave me feeling so light? 😏

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