Yukon squats

400 x 5, 5, 5

Bench press

280 x 5, 5, 5 

Close-grip bench press

225 x 9, 5 - finished off with 8 close grip push-ups

Super-set with rear delt flyes

35s x 12, 12

Keg curls

165 x 10 

Stomach felt awful all day. Had a donut at a work meeting and paired with a fatty grass-fed beef sausage with protein shake for breakfast my gut was just pissed. Was also in an off mood and had to drag myself into training.

Got to squatting 400 once and re-racked it because my quads hurt and I was iffy about my back. Just as I was about to give up I sat down at my bench and summoned a Jon Andersen portal. If I just walked through it then I could get this workout done, and after that I tore through this.

I haven't been commenting about this and I'm not even doing Deep Water since I'm getting my weight down, but the whole concept of it and the portal training has really stuck with me. I find myself inventing narratives during my workouts and employing imagery training. I even imagine what the dimension on the other side of a portal looks like and how the portal is a pool of untapped energy but it will only last for 3 minutes at a time (my current rest times) before it's gone.

Timing my rests is entirely new for me and I feel like I'm benefitting so much by pressuring myself with time. The loads I'm working with may not be breaking any PRs for me by themselves but I've NEVER squatted or benched like this with 3 minute rests, as sad as that is. Getting the top-set was always king, 2.5-hour workouts and all. I finished this session in 1 hour and it still feels so weird to do that.