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Bench focus day 7:

Bench press:

20x5x2
50x5
60x5
60x5
60x5
60x5
60x4

High bar full squat:

20x5x2
60x5
60x5
60x5

Dumbbell step-ups:

45x8

Leg curls:

40x10 (each leg)

Landmine push presses:

40x10
40x10 (difficult)

A bunch of really good stretching

Bodyweight: 92.1 kg
Exhaustion level: 7/10

Comments:

Good workout. The bench is still shaky so I'm going to use the same 60 kg the next one. I did some stretching and felt amazing afterwards, like I had 20 year old legs.

Really nice!

Pull focus day 6:

Pullups: 5
Chinups: 5
Neutral grip chinups: 3
Pullups: 3
Chinups: 3

Walked about 5 km.

Quote from: Raptor on November 02, 2023, 04:18:05 pm

My sister died on 30th February 2023. I have to take a break from everything, although I might go back to the gym just to take my mind off it. She had a food addiction, she basically lived to eat, so she got heavier and fatter week by week until she was 162 kg at 1.65m tall. Her oxygen levels went as low as 60 or even in the 50s and she refused to go to the hospital (she went there a few times, the ambulance also gave her oxygen a few times).

We found her dead after Sunday's night, she died in her sleep. She was 48 years old. I sometimes think I might be going crazy, soon, although I'm trying to keep it together.

Oh man, Raptor, I'm so sorry. My heart goes out to you. It's horrible to lose a sibling, even when you can see it coming. I lost my brother in January 2018, after watching him struggle for years with addiction (drugs, in his case) and mental illness. IME, the grief never goes away but time does help it recede.

I'm sorry to hear that. Yes, it's bad. You always wonder if you could have done something more to save him/her, but the truth is that nobody appointed you to be a superhero that always comes to save the day. The truth is that she did all these excesses "freely" (whether you can call that action "free" considering it's a mental illness is another discussion). She willingly and knowingly poured oil, salt (sometimes for 10 seconds straight she would put salt in her food) and refused to do any kind of physical activity. She didn't even want to put money to buy an oxygen machine!

She had borderline personality disorder and no psychiatrist cared enough to suggest a psychotherapist or an actual treatment scheme.

She also called about 120 ambulances in the last few years and none of them tried to convince her too much that an oxygen under 70 is bad enough to go to the hospital. They would ask and she would say "no" and they would just go their merry way, like nothing happened.

A pinnacle of incompetence, carelessness, lack of culture, you name it. It seemed the only way to save her was violence, but then you'd bump into other kinds of ethical issues.

average heart rate was 179 lol

...is it safe to stay there for long...?

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Upperbody day 4:

Paused Bench Press:

20x5x2
50x10
50x10
50x8

Pullups: 5, 4
Chinups: 5, 4

Landmine push press: 20x8, 20x8 (each arm) - good, will increase weight next workout
Wide grip pulls to chest + wide grip pulls to back of head: 72x8+72x6, 64x8+64x5 (difficult, for some reason)
Ab machine: 6pins x 10 reps x 2 - good, will increase weight the next workout

Bodyweight: 93.6 kg
Exhaustion level: 8/10

Comments:

in the bench press, was able to do 2 sets of 10 with 50 kg but at my last rep (also for my 8th rep in the last set) I have to immediately put the bar back because I feel like if I stay just one second more with it it will fall on me. So I will not increase the weight but instead want to improve the form and endurance with it, to have it be easier to do.