yesterday
- warm up run x 2 km
- mobilizations
- squat 110 x 5,4,4
will repeat once more. missing one rep is okay but not two.
- DL 120 x 4
mix of touch and go and dead stop. right pec felt a little strained after the fourth rep so i stopped.
- bench 75 x 5,4,3
pec totally fine. kind of odd, wonder what that feeling was if not a strain.
- pull up x 7,2
hands hurt. i think pull ups after DL just doesn't work somehow.
- cable row x 10,10
dunno what the weight settings mean on that machine so i just picked one that felt challenging but didn't pull me forward.
too crowded again to do core work or stretch. i'm gonna run today and will do core after that.
also, a lot of these barbell club kids are just not that strong. a couple of them are a lot bigger than me but they're throwing around weights way below what i was capable of back in the dunking days. like i'm 74 kg right now and squatting 110 for reps and it's baby weights, i feel bad about it. meanwhile, this big spanish dude who has all the cocky oly weightlifter mannerisms down pat was squatting 115 for sets of 4-5. another guy, a ripped crossfit bro with a shaved head, was DLing 140 for sets of 5 with veins popping out all over his head. that's not weak, but it's so much less than he looks like he should be able to lift, or than i could lift if i were even a little bit heavier and more muscular than i am now, much less as muscular as he is. i used to be able to squat that for sets of 5! then again, there's also that guy i mentioned the other day and a shredded japanese dude who reps 180+ squats, so they're not all hopeless.
it almost makes me want to commit more fully to lifting again. if would be fun to be able to squat 160+ again, bench 110+, and get my DL up to a quasi-respectable level (i was never good at DL). i won't, because i don't want to lose sight of the real goal of 18:xx. but it'd be fun.
