Yam Uncle's Thoughts

It's a beautiful Saturday morning.  I'm inside, and most likely will stay inside for the rest of this day because of coronavirus.  I've felt a little sick since I think like 2 days ago.  I'm not sure it's coronavirus, but I'm also not not sure it is.  Symptoms actually seem to match, I've just been feeling woozy, maybe a little fever but nothing major, and I've coughed like 10 times over the course of 3 days.  So maybe it matches a little bit.  Either way, I had to miss a lot of gym time because of it.  I was supposed to go do leg day yesterday, and cardio today.  Yesterday I really didn't feel like I could do a workout, especially something as taxing as my Friday deadlift/ beltless squat day.  So I didn't go and I slept all day, hoping I would feel better by today so that I could just do deadlifts today.  But I woke up, and I felt better, but something was off.  I decided to stay home and just do home leg exercises instead, whi...

I've been meaning to do a write-up on my lifting progress, and things I've changed since I was lifting in college.  It'll mostly be structured around the three main lifts: the squat, deadlift, and bench.  For each of these lifts, I'll list what I've changed when doing them, and then for each point I'll go into detail about it. I'm mostly looking for this post to be a place for me to reflect back on what has changed, but I'm also hoping whoever runs into this can learn from what I've learned. For context, I weigh about 85kg, and my lifts are about 145kg-150kg-90kg for squat, deadlift and bench respectively.  I feel like an early novice lifter, since I've just entered the point where strength gains are considerably slower. Squat I have the most fun doing squats, out of all the 3 lifts.  It's such a fun movement.  But that being said, my squat is still a huge work in progress.  It's a really difficult movement, and it's actually ...