Saturday, October 20, 2007

New Max Lifts

Today was Saturday, and I went to the gym to play around. I normally do very high-intensity workouts on Monday to Friday, keeping them at about an hour. I really miss the two and a half hour workouts I used to have in Thailand.

Anyway, I will sometimes train on Saturday and take my sweet time. I generally do whatever feels good or strikes my fancy on those days, trying out new exercises or routines. Today I decided (thirty minutes in) to test some max lifts.

Since I didn't have a spotter, I couldn't test the more dangerous ones like bench press and squat, so I did deadlifts, decline hammer presses, and leg presses. The results of my lifts were:
Decline Hammer Press: 160kg (+rack ~10kg) x 4 reps
Deadlift: 153kg x 1 rep (It took me two tries to get it)
Leg press: 330kg (+equipment ~25kg) x 6 reps

I was really excited about the totals earlier, but now I'm just in pain.