Only 8 months left… hello treadmill

As you know the primary goal of this ?project? was to prepare for the big hike in September. However, in the process I discovered that I like powerlifting and I got a bit… carried away. It’s time to get serious, though, because there’s now a bit more than 8 months to go and I need to be able to walk 70km. I hate running in the winter so treadmill is the only option for me. So last week I went to my local gym in Strzelin to do a ‚trial jog’ , a silly 1.5km; then today I did 3km quite easily so it’s not bad considering that I still weigh close to 150kg.
The plan is to jog twice a week on top of all the powerlifting stuff that I’m doing now, increasing the distance 1km per week: initially 3km on Wednesday, 4km on Saturday, and then i’m going to make the Saturday run longer and longer until I get to 16-18km. This should help me lose weight, on the other hand I expect some negative impact on powerlifting. I thought long and hard about this and I decided that losing weight is my top priority now.
Other news is that I’m making some serious progress with my squats. While on a business trip in Beckum I went to a local gym, did my bench+squat training and finished with a nice squat of 1x155kg to show the locals who’s the boss 😉 Jokes aside, 155kg is not that much but it definitely shows the potential because i’ve only started doing squats quite recently after a superlong break.
I’ve added a few kg to my best benchpress, too, but because there is a serious imbalance between my left and right arm I need to work on this before I attempt 135kg. If the ‚rehab’ exercises work, i’ll try 135 around end of January.