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Last night I slept okay. Not great, but better than I have been recently. My anxiety is continuing. It did not seem as bad last night. If it wasn’t from outside factors, I’d be wondering if I had a pheochromocytoma, but I know the root cause.

I felt pretty decent this morning and enjoyed my morning coffee. I browsed online a bit while drinking that.

Fairly early this morning, I headed out to the garage to do the vault WOD. It was not a great WOD by any means, but I didn’t feel like searching for one. I went with the SHIFT version for lower reps and more simplicity. I wish the powers that be at SP would take notes. The air squats really felt slow today, along with the rowing and even the weighted squats. My legs felt as if they just didn’t want to go. That happens every so often.

The rower display wouldn’t even show anything. Thankfully, I didn’t need it. The batteries must be completely dead, or at least too low to run the PM5. It has been complaining about a little while now, but we kept forgetting to grab batteries. We don’t have anything else that takes the D cells, so don’t have spares lying around. I ordered some.

The WOD felt pretty good, even though a bit slow.

I enjoyed a bit of XBOX after the WOD and relaxed a little while doing that. I was reading Reddit a bit early this afternoon and thought I would head back out into the gym to do my deadlifts. Those are heavy this week, and my squats will be near a PR, so I want to keep them well separated.

The warm-ups felt good. My knee didn’t bug me with them like it did a bit during the WOD, so I kept moving up. The earlier sets felt a bit heavier than they really should have, but as I moved up in weight, they felt better.

As I said earlier, today was the heavy day. The final AMRAP called for one plus reps at 290 pounds. I rounded up for simplicity to 295 pounds, so I didn’t have to deal with the change plates. What’s five extra pounds when it’s this heavy, right? I actually used my belt today for something different. I never really feel like I need it, but I do throw it on every so often to keep a feel for it should the time come that I need it. Being overly cautious like always, I only attempted and made one rep at that 295 pounds.

The lift felt great. It also felt moderately light. The most surprising aspect of it is that it did not even feel tough for my grip. That’s always been my failing point. This is up towards where I expect my one rep max to be. Another thing to keep in mind is that with my dropping all my weight this summer, it’s the first time I have been up to this heavy of a weight in I don’t know, how long.

Music for today was Cryptopsy