CONGRATS!!!
Looks like all the hard work paid off!
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Dude, you f*king killed it!
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@anna_5588 @Cyrrex thank you!
Two days later and I still feel like I’ve been run over by a truck. Had a 13 hour work day yesterday and I was so exhausted from sleep deprivation (couldn’t sleep after comp either), stress and the comp that I literally walked into a wall at one point. No joke. Coworkers gave me some strange looks.
Not feeling well today either. Also everything is very sore, especially hammie. Kinda feel like I need a new body.
Aaah the funs of being young and vibrant and doing sports.
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Great job on the comp mate and good videos on IG. Looked like a bundle of fun.
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Awesome. Be honest, the press is the best event, and you crushed it!
What a great group of competitors/friends too.
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@simo74 thanks matey it surely was a lot of fun and I loved the relaxed atmosphere.
@jdm135 hehe isn’t the press always the best? Yeah, come to think of it, this was the first time ever winning any kind of event in my strongman career
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Wow what the fuck man you’re a beast! Great effort during this competition mate
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Wow. That’s nasty in 60 seconds. I like to think my squat is pretty good. But I couldn’t do this.
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22.09.
I’m on my own with planning this week because I am too tired still from the weekend and Paul is on vacation so we agreed I just do light/ fun stuff.
1 deadlift
5 x 3 @ 150 kg
2 squat
3 x 5 @ 100 kg - long pause on the last.
3 btn power jerk
5 @ 70 kg
2 @ 90 kg
2 @ 110 kg
2 @ 120 kg
I don’t know how people press more from the back than the front. Awkward as hell.
4 snatch grip high pull
5 x 3 @ 70 kg
Notes:
- if I don’t sleep soon, I will be able to hear colors.
- yeah this was enough.
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I’m only just now catching up. That looked like such an awesome comp and day for you.
The way you pushed to your limit on the squats is brutally awesome. And you made the viking press look easy.
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24.09.
1 squat
1 @ 170 kg
1 @ 200 kg - fairly easy, 10 kg under PR. Didn’t feel good enough to go for 220 today though.
Suit on 
1 @ 180 kg
1 @ 220 kg
0 @ 240 kg
2 strict press
1 @ 90 kg
2 @ 100 kg - PR
1 @ 102 kg - PR
1 @ 105 kg - PR
I thrust my hips forward and lean back but keep my knees straight. If you disagree about that being a strict press, that’s fine.
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It’s been a wild weekend/ week/ couple of weeks. Full of stress, sleep issues but also experiences - some good, some bad, some ugly.
This weekend I threw a party for my birthday. It was great and I ended up in one of the local pubs with two of my old mates, where we called it a night at 6 am. Confusingly I felt absolutely fine physically today.
Half an hour before my party I got a text message that hit me way harder than it should have. I have been seeing a girl recently. Getting to know her has been the best dating experience of my pathetic pool of experiences, including the start up to a long lasting relationship. Things really clicked. There was no anxiety involved… Just how I would ideally like dating to be. Then she texted me that she’s not over her last relationship yet and that seeing me brought up old feelings … She said some nice things about me in that text and all… But the quintessence was that she no longer wants to see me.
Now it might seem laughable because we weren’t in a relationship yet and I have been seeing her for such a short time (shorter than the last two girls I started dating), but wow, did that hurt.
I usually try to not let myself get carried away in these kind of situations, so I don’t get too disappointed. But things felt so different this time and I realize now I was already very engaged emotionally in the idea that we might build a relationship together.
I received that message half an hour before my party started, so that made things difficult but I put on a brave face and mostly enjoyed myself still.
Still it felt like something was growing inside me (emotionally speaking) and that got grabbed and ripped out by an icy hand.
I guess it’s an interesting (and from an outside perspective possibly positive) observation that I’m capable of these developments still.
Anyway I messaged her and said that I would like to meet and talk about these things personally.
Since this stressful phase, my sleep deprivation and so on have been going on for so long, my therapist is quite concerned that I’m sooner or later going to have to pay for managing this pace right now. So managing that is currently a hot topic in therapy.
A few weeks ago, he asked me to tell him when I feel really relaxed and in the moment. I didn’t have an answer for him, so he tasked me with observing myself and trying to identify such a moment.
I finally found one last week. It was incredible. I could distinctively tell that I identified the feeling he was describing to me correctly. It doesn’t belong to my repertoire of emotions, I am usually going through, which made it so special.
Now unfortunately you can probably guess where this is heading. I experienced this state when I was with her, laying side by side. Although I have met girls here and there, this hasn’t happened with any of them. I think that’s why I let myself hope and why I got crushed this bad.
[Quick note here: It’s certainly pathological to not be able to fully relaxed and I’m well aware that I need to find ways to have this that aren’t dependant on other beings.]
Now, before we get all melodramatic here: You know me. I’m like one of those inflatable clowns, I don’t stay down, I’ll always pop up again (at some point).
I just wanted to write this out because it is cathartic.
Back to the regularly scheduled content: I have my new training plan. We are looking at 3 x deadlifts (2x volume, 1 x weight) and a whole bunch of accessories. The log is also making a comeback.
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which translates in Koestrizer world to…
Seriously great work!! 
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It is hard when you make yourself vulnerable. Or you think you are getting on with someone and they say they are no longer interested.
If there were anything I could say to help - I would.
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Sorry to read what you’re going through but glad that it seems you’re working through it. Keep moving forward
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Yesterday I felt restless and like shit. One of those moods where you hope someone throws a punch at you, so you can justify engaging in violence.
Then we agreed to meet in person on Wednesday to discuss things and I felt a tiny bit better. Today at lunch she wrote me she didn’t want to hurt me “unnecessary much”, so she decided to tell me that she didn’t “feel chemistry and there’s nothing she could do about that” ahead of our meeting.
That’s obviously a fair point, if she feels that way but it’s a stark contrast to what she made me believe the last time we met. Even an idiot like me could see that.
So I’m trying not to blame her. Well, actually that’s not difficult. I blame me.
That message hurt a bit extra today. Also I’m hella confused as to how far off I must have been with my assessment of “chemistry” or if she’s not telling me the truth. Well, nothing I can do about that. Dating is as frustrating as it gets for me.
28.09.
Trained with a guy from my class. It actually was a fun distraction.
Deadlift peak starts now.
1 oh squat
4 x 6 @ 60 kg
2 deadlift
4 x 6 @ 155 kg
3 log lift (clean each)
3 x 5 @ 91 kg
Boy these were nasty after such a long time off.
4 seated cable row (narrow, heavy)
4 x 12
5 db windmill
3 x 8 @ 10 kg per side
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300+kg here we come!!!
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Haha that would be great but it’s gonna take more than a peak to get there.
If you’re talking about the peak strength I may be able to achieve in general, you’re probably closer.
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29.09.
1 3ct pause squat
4 x 5 @ 115 kg (belt on last set)
2 bench press
5 x 5 @ 100 kg
3 seated box jumps
5 x 3
4 negative GHR (down as slow as possible)
4 x 3
HOLY SHIT!
5 pull ups
3 x “5”
Notes:
- pretty shit training. Everything felt heavy and off technique wise.
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01.10
The DOMS from benching are just insane. Those 5 little sets wrecked me and 100 kg was frustratingly challenging. Also glutes are sore from last training.
1 deadlift
2 x ? @ 70 kg
5 @ 110 kg
3 @ 150 kg
1 @ 190 kg
1 x 3 @ 205 kg - failed 4th
1 x 2 @ 205 kg - didn’t try a third.
2 log lift (clean once)
6 x 2 @ 101 kg
Log got better with each set. Right pec was tightening up here.
3 bent over row
3 x 12 @ 80 kg
4 cyclist squats
3 x 15 @ 60 kg
Holy quad pump! This was evil.
5 hanging leg raises
3 x 8 @ 2,5 kg
Notes:
- I switched gears with the food intake. I’m going to go big in order to make this peak count! Diet is for afterwards. I need that 250 pull!
- this was a shit show of a training session like I haven’t had one in a long time. Deadlifts were absolute shit! I’m mad. I know there were a lot of things wrong going into today and I won’t make the same mistake next time.
- my deadlift is still so far off from what it has been over the winter! I don’t know what’s wrong exactly.
- lately I’ve been half arseing things. That ends now! The lack of results makes me sad, so I have to put in the effort to produce better results.
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