Assessment

So after a summer of practically no lifting and listening to my doctor, I took that last two days to do a strength test. These are all one-rep maxes taking 5 sets to reach and calculating the averages using the Epley and Brzycki formulas. So depressing, but I'll suck it up and throw the numbers here. Hate myself right now.


Squat: 220 [inset swear word]
Deadlift: 225 [insert swear word]
Military: 105
Bench: 185 [Don't care 'bout this lift, but still. Not impressed.]


With the squat, I did some RDLs afterwards. Surprisingly, my knee feels great. Wonderful. Goes back to that posterior chain balance philosophy I had. Hmm....pretty sure I wrote something about that here somewhere. Anyhow, the journey begins. I'd like to be able to 1RM the bench at 1.5x my bodyweight, squat and pull 2x my bodyweight, and press my bodyweight. That's a good starting point as any, but!

One pound at a time.