Great To Be Back To My Lifting

I know it has been a while, and when I am lifting, I post about it a lot. I do that because I enjoy lifting.

After about half a year off, I feel like I am finally getting my consistency back with it. I really have missed it, but life has been so hectic I just didn’t have the focus.

I did my squats two days ago, and that was nice. Yesterday I got my bench press in, and those felt better than they have in a long time. Yes, the weight was light, but that is just a lift I am really not into. Today I did my deadlifts, and those felt outstanding.

The deadlifts this morning felt like I had good form. I was really focusing on that, but then again, I do focus on technique ninety-nine percent of the time.

I took my good old-time working through the warm-up set and the working sets.

One thing I have to admit though is I did the math wrong at one point for one of the middle sets. I caught it before I did the lifts but went and put the 15-pound plates on instead of the 25-pound ones. I don’t know really how that happened apart from just going by memory. Typically I don’t even really have to think about adding up the weight that I am supposed to use. I guess it has been long enough that my brain is a little rusty. I caught it just before doing the 5 reps at 145 pounds instead of 165. It would have felt too easy and thrown me off.

It is not uncommon for me to round up or down a bit with my working sets and while warming up. I do that to keep the number cleaner so I don’t have to mess with the change plates or pulling plates off to switch them. I glance at the programmed weights and figure out in my head the best way to minimize switching.

All this time I have been definitely doing WODs and a lot of the times I have been bumping the weights or speed. That felt pretty good to me, but lifting is my big motivator. Lifting heavy is what makes me feel good and want to push myself. Of course I am not lifting heavy this first cycle, but in time that will come. Even the moderately weighted sets feel oh so rewarding to me. I feel like a big part of it is that the lifting takes my poor eyesight out of the equation mostly. It is just me versus gravity and my own mental toughness. Lifting really calms my chaotic thoughts.

Music was Illogicist.