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Nice, one more rep with your old PR while weighing 5 kg less and being older.

I went and saw the cardiologist, he wasn't too impressed with my issues, said that a heart rate down to 40 is normal during sleep, although it's not typical for me. Also said that the high heart rate during playing is not that unusual but that I could do an effort test to be sure, since I also have some chest pain when running.

The thing that bothers me is this feeling in my body of something not right that I can't communicate. There are no words to describe it - it's like a "tickling" in the body, a "weakness" whose description fits with no words that I can think of. It's like a "magnetic" feeling, if you will, like you'd be metallic and some magnet would interact with you. It could be some compressed nerve in the back or something else, I don't know what it is.

Well, one thing that would definitely be beneficial is to lose weight - less weight, less effort moving that lower weight around. I'm pretty sure if I were ~85 kg right now I would see a difference.

I find these values super high. People on the court doing similar effort as me (moving around at the same pace and so on) are barely at 100 or so. How could this be?

Glute/landmine focus day 4:

Hip thrust:

60x5
60x15
100x8
120x6
60x10

Landmine one-leg deadlift:

bar x 10
bar + 20 kg x 8 (side deadlift)
bar + 20 kg x 8L, 5R (front deadlift)

Seated cable rows:

40x10
80x8
80x8 (felt great)

Triceps cable pulldowns:

30x10
30x10 (felt great)

Bodyweight: 93.0 kg
Sleep rating: 5/5
Exhaustion level: 8.5/10

Comments: Felt strong again, although I didn't warm up too much when I started doing the hip thrusts and they were pretty exhausting. Still, in the hip thrust, most likely, I don't remember ever doing 120x6, although I could be wrong.

1 @ 130kg , recent years  , last time i lifted 130 was May2018

Damn nice!

Bench focus day 16:

Bench press:

20x8
20x8
50x5
60x3
70x3 (weak)
65x4 (weak)
60x5 (weak)
50x5 (explosive, weak)

High bar full squat:

20x8
60x8
80x7 (weak)
80x7 (weak)

Single arm overhead pulls to chest:

32x10
32x10

Leg curls + leg extensions:

56x12+56x12

Bodyweight: 93.1 kg
Sleep rating: 4/5 (see comments below)
Exhaustion level: 10/10

Comments:

For some reason felt super weak and exhausted. It was hot in the gym and I had a weird event trying to sleep last night: at some point, something made a loud noise, like a "bang". I went looking for what happened and couldn't find anything obvious, I initially thought my crows pushed a pack of liver from their place down and that made the noise, but I checked and it was still there. No obvious explanation for the loud noise.

But then I found something weird: a necklace on the table, in the living room. How did that end up there? Next thing I know, I find some weird circular "thing" on the floor that I can't figure out what it is.

Looking around, I find a few batteries on the table. One of them didn't have a bottom anymore - it actually exploded. That's what made the noise - the circular thing was the bottom of the exploded battery and the necklace was in the same spot as the battery so it was thrown up and landed there.

These phantoms have too much free time on their hands!

Squat focus day 15:

Low bar squat:

20x5
20x5
60x5
80x5
100x5 (felt strong)
100x3 (stopped intentionally at 3 reps)
60x5 (paused, super explosive)

Bench press:

20x5
20x5
50x10
50x10

Landmine single leg deadlift:

barx8
bar + 20 kg x 8

Single leg curl:

64x3++56x3++48x3++40x3++32x3 (a continuous superset)

Bodyweight: 93.2 kg
Exhaustion level: 8/10

Comments:

Incredibly strong today. Bar was flying. in the bench press, never did two consecutive sets of 10 reps with 50 kg. Squat was very explosive, no idea why. Neck pain is also minimal after physical exercise, it gets worse if I stay in bed.

Thanks, these are good suggestions. I hate water, I have a water phobia and dislike being near it, anything wrong goes on in it, you're dead. So I'm not exactly looking forward to any water stuff.

One of things that bothers me, though, is my pain in the left clavicle and left shoulder. That's been there for the last two+ months. I'm thinking of thoracic outlet syndrome, maybe caused by me doing kettlebell overhead presses for quite a while. But I don't know the term in Romanian and to whichever doctors I mentioned this they looked at me like I was crazy. It super pisses me off that you can't have an actual conversation with a doctor these days, they all think that their patients are stupid and that they are so much smarter.