April 15th - OHP, PP, bringing back the SQUAT - a rare 'light-heavy' workout

 14.04.2026

Before I fell asleep I wanted to watch Family Guy and I ended up watching it my dream. It dissolved, all I remember is a couple of images that sort of looked like an Aztec map from Counter Strike and I must have been Peter pursuing Lois romantically. Makes you wonder what's going on in my head.

15.04.2026

Nice day. Energy moderate. I think my stomach issue is a little better. Ate rather little, but wholly nutritional - pork, beef, fried potato. I rarely have fried potato these days.

I ate about twelve hours ago. Couple coffees, couple snacks, some writing - feels good. Some reading - after writing, it's weird like that today.

Workout

Warmup - rather long and thorough, wall pushups, floor planks, overhead stretches, pulling on the rubber with the back of my knee, leg extensions with no weight.

Overhead press

20 for 20

40 for 10

50 - 60

74 for 4

83 - 3 sets of 4 - feels good. I had different ideas about what I was gonna do today. I thought and wondered if I could press 120 for reps. But I ended up setting on this - just three sets of 4 with a weight I can lift with complete comfort. Although out of the groove...

Push press

I focused on making sure not to do "bump and go", to avoid recreating my injury a couple weeks ago. I visualized myself as a column that grows into a stick. Column stiff and straight when the bar is on my chest, and a stick long and also stiff when I'm locking out.

43 for 10

63 for 10

73 for 10

Feels good. Shoulders were kinda not very explosive. Legs did not hurt, but they weren't super active either, the best I can put it. Not very lively. TBH I did pull 300 and bench 180 very recently lol! Heh, being able to casually drop "I pulled three hundred" is so mind blowing it makes my teeth itch on the inside.

SQUAT

I promised myself I was gonna do something. Before PP I did some step-ups.

73 for 10 - really messy and uneven, but I am managing it! Keeping myself stiff and controlled, not always allowing myself to relax in the hole or even reach, drop into, rest in the hole for example.

Here I did some typical squat/hip stretch/static holds, trying to land my testicles on the floor hehe.

73 for 10 - a little better! Less uneven, muscle more lively.

73 for 10 - I had my Inzer Red Devils with me and I was wearing leggings and shorts for that reason. I wanted to do SOMETHING with SQUAT! I thought, perhaps, I would wear them on (heavier) PPs. BUT I just put them on, typical two wraps under and two wraps above knee. Very loose. But the way squat felt was so much better! It was a jarring kind of shock, how much better it felt, how nice and bouncy and painless. It truly inspired me that I can go back to squats!

Also, it is very clear to me - the only way you can ready your tissues for SQUAT is to SQUAT. If you really are in a crippled state you could try variations of different kinds, such as BW. BUT the thought is simple -

the ONLY way to get ready to squat is to SQUAT!

To get in shape, to stretch your tissues, to pump up the energy reserve in cells in the right muscles.

Also I'm decently mobile with my legs. I can be a good little froggie with my stretches - somehow it never went away! But I am mobile rather than flexible. Flexibility comes from movement rather than just stretching.

That's it. SQUAT today inspired me. I will be back to it! Perhaps I won't be DLing after tomorrow, but do something else.

To note - push press also felt good! No pain. Good front rack.

And yeah, I pondered about how today was a rare "light-heavy" workout, cause it was a heavy variation of a light workout, according to my own categorization.

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