Wednesday, November 03, 2021
Starting November 2021
So I got to 4 and 5 sets on my lifts. Mentally I was stressing about the 5 set workouts. They were hard yet not as bad as imagination led me to fear. That's a good thing to remember in workouts and for other parts of life.
Workouts for this cycle start at 3 sets, then 4, then 5. Below are the weights for each exercise. For those who are here for first time, or first recent time, I'm doing "A" then "B" and I repeat that. So if I workout 3 times I'll do A then B, then A that week. If I start with B then it will be B, A, and B. If I miss a day I just pick up there. This is what I'm proposing and I'll adjust if needed.
A -
Deads 170x5 with a hold at the end of each set for grip strength
Good Mornings 50x10+
Ham Curls 70x8
Seated Rows 110x8
Lat Pull Downs 85x10
Hammer Curls 20x8+
B -
Squats 140x8+
Lunges 10x5
Incline Bench 100x8+
Shoulder Press 50x10
Later Cable Raise 15x10
Tricep Pull-Down 45x10+
Let's see how that goes. An aside and I don't want to create a separate blog for it. Starting October 7, I decided to try and spend time studying music daily. So using a day counter I'm on 27 as of today. At about 15 days I realized my mood had improved. I ran across this video and realized that this would have been a great lesson to have had as a young person. I think it would have been cool to have heard of Oscar Peterson way back then too. So I'm going to see how far of a streak I can get. I'm primarily doing little bits of Oscar Peterson music. For those who know me it probably makes sense that the majority of my work is on Esteban Jordan songs on the accordion.
I checked out this video and it helped with a lot. Primarily changing between 3rds, 6ths, and octaves for melodies. It put together what people had told me about not always playing in 3rds. Just clicked in a different way. Profe Charly has helped a bit with some things that I was trying to figure out.
Besides the Open Studio people from the first video linked above I've also run across Aimee Nolte. That video and lots of it have been helpful. All of this really connects advice I had from different places. Mainly that "a good musician plays by ear," and "if you can sing it you can play it." Listening too good music is also repeated advice. I now feel better equipped to listen in a way to internalize the music. Let me know if you want to hear more about this here. I'll probably post total streak days here. Other than that I'll only write as much as is asked for here.
KEEP GRINDING AND GROOVING!!!
