31/07/2026
On 9 January 2026 I pulled 170kg. Best lift of my life.
A month later 157.5 wouldn’t move. Then my back popped on 140, a weight I’d pulled for a year.
The lift that beat me came after my best one, not before it. It was never the weight. It was how I was lifting it.
I started lifting at 40. No trainer, no coach, self taught the whole way, which is exactly why this happened.
What changed was the form. Breathing, bracing, a position I can hold. If I can’t get there in my head, I stop. The bar’s still there tomorrow.
Got back to 162.5 clean. Then I ended up in hospital for something unrelated, colitis, four days on a drip. Back in now, light and slow.
No target date. Just rebuilding the thing that broke.
Stack: Hevy, Cal AI, Zepp Life, SnoreLab. That’s it.
Next post is the sleep fix.