One Year, One Million Pounds

Do you lift weights?

Have you ever wondered how much weight you lift in total?

Could you lift one million pounds in one year?

As I start a new year and made my first visit to the gym today, I asked myself this question, "I wonder how much weight I could lift in an entire year?"

I have always tracked my workouts in a notebook and so I decided that I would try and create a blog to track my exercising this year (2007) and set myself a challenge: one year, one million pounds.

I'm not sure if that is even a reasonable goal for a year. I did do the math, and if I worked out 5 days a week, and lifted on average about 10,000 pounds per day, it would come 2.6 million pounds. So, I'm figuring that I could possibly do 1 million pounds this year without too much problem. The trick will be staying consistent with my workouts.

I notate my workouts by listing Weight x Reps, sets separated by commas (ie. 20x10 = 20 pounds at 10 reps). If on a dumbbell exercise I do a different amount of reps between my two arms, I will notate the reps with an L for left arm and R for right arm after each rep number (ie. 30x5L6R = 30 pounds at 5 reps left arm, 6 reps right arm). If a workout uses dumbbells, the weight listed is for what I am holding in 1 arm. The total I add up will be for the entire weight lifted during the exercise from each arm combined.

Okay, so there's the deal.

Let's get it started.