July 9, 2025 ~655pm (I’d napped for not quite two hours)
I took an evening nap, in it I was in a gym (a place I’ve real world been) but with the 300lb weight set and replacement barbell I grew up lifting, and still have.
A 300lb weight set only loads to 300lbs, and I was asked how many reps I could do with it by someone who’d seen me warning up with light snatch grip deadlifts.
I was my present build, 6′ 290ish, not in condition.
Real world it was about nine years ago that I no warm up pulled 20x315lbs in a gym, and almost ten years back when in between gym memberships (but with the 300lb weight set) I built up to 30x275lbs as a goal to “earn” rejoining a gym with more weight.
In the dream, the bar loaded I started to pull reps.
I had realistic self talk, thinking of how “hard” high rep deadlifts are on the wind, but around 25 reps in…I half understood this to be a dream as my weights wouldn’t be in that gym (though it was an otherwise realistic setting).
It turned somewhat lucid dream and I kept going, well past my 20 to 30 rep expectation.
Like in reality with high rep kettlebell swings I miscounted severely.
The count was “officially” 100x300lbs, but likely was between x125 and x150 due to many, many, many miscounts.
Just like with kettlebell swings.
Snatch grip. No straps. A few people (the manager from the gym where this took place real world, a buddy who I train with real world, a handful of other real world have met at some gym or other faces) tried to talk to me during the set.
Groaning out “when the sets over” in reply.
An impressive feat. Just a dream.
In it, I worked myself into a rather girevoy sport like controlled breathing pattern…
I woke up. Finishing off that breathing pattern for about two more cycles as my eyes opened and I came from asleep to half awake to fully awake.
Seemed I was breathing that girevoy sport pattern as adapted to very high rep deadlifts in reality as I was doing so in a semi-lucid/lucid dream.
Interestingly my quads were sore.
Like they were firing in activation patterns rather like they’d be doing were I doing snatch grip deadlifts in reality.
Over the years I’ve had many dreams where in them I do super human feats of strength-endurance.
I take this as a sign to, like in fall 2015 real world, get back on the high rep outdoor deadlifts train.
I don’t train hard enough at home, strength training mostly is easy to moderate efforts, and I almost entirely to entirely skip cardio.
Relatedly ; after leaving the psuedo-powerlifting gym in fall 2018, on the 4th of July I rowed a 2k on a concept2 rower.
About seven years since I used one last.
My dwarf like proportions scales up to 6′ mean I am built to be a bench press specialist…I take the dream, my mood, the vibes, and the feeling in the air (look at me talking all hippie)…
It’s time for ;
Fitness & Pulls
Persistence & Tenacity