Books and Fitness: First week of September

Analysis at bottom

 

Here’s the stats for this week.

Monday

• Didn’t go to gym. Got busy making dinner. My bad.

Tuesday

• Bench Day
  • New max 225lbs
• Rode bike
• Started reading ‘The Great Transformation’ by Karen Armstrong
  • Reread.
  • It’s a decent nonfiction-ish book about the origins of earth’s religions
  • It’s best described as edu-tainment. It’s not a hard nonfiction book which a person can use as a resource to write a journal article, but for a member of the public who wants to know more about religion it’s a fun read.

Wednesday

• New schedule has me not exercising on Wednesdays. Was nice taking a day off.

Thursday

• Bench day 2
• Finishing up Full Fathom Five. Nearly done.

Friday

• Deadlift day
  • New Max of 290lbs

Saturday

• New scheule has me not exercising on Saturday. Was nice taking a day off (again).

 

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Analysis

Here are my theoretical 1RMs from last week:

• Bench: 220lbs
• Squats: 249lbs
• Deads: 299lbs
• Overheads: 145lbs

Here are this weeks’s 1RMs:

• Bench: 225lbs
• Squats: 249lbs
• Deads: 299lbs
• Overheads: 145lbs

I am enjoying exercising less. I feel like I am gradually recovering, even though my hands still hurt like hell.

Here are my theoretical all-time max 1RM from last year:

• Bench Press: 260 lbs (118kg)
• Squat: 316lbs (143kg)
• Deadlift: 366lbs (165 kg)
• Overhead Press: 171lbs (78kg)

I have a while to go before I get back my lost gains.