September in Review:
* 167 lbs bodyweight
-> dropped to 161.4 lbs. Lower priority than work goal. Will resume in November.
* 290 lb DL
-> achieved on the 16th. Other DL news is I increased my 2 rep max to 255lb and tried 5x5 (but did 5x3) of 225lb on the 28th.
-> More crucially, I am lower back pain free! I started using the posture corrector but it was messing up my elbow so I stopped using it and my elbow is pain free again. Planning on not switching things up too much now that I have things pretty well set up.
* 185 lb Squat
-> 195 lb squat on the 2nd
* 177.5 lb Bench
-> hit 180 lb on my 3rd attempt on the 28th. Continued bench progress may be difficult. It seems like the "cheat" code is to bench after deadlift (after some time to recover) and to do minimal warmups so I don't get fatigued.
* Submit article C
-> didn't happen. However, I did perform 63 new simulations (generating 78 TB of new data), and developed 96 new scripts. Crucially, I revolutionized my work framework: automated job creation and analysis (I already had restarting a while ago). The realization that I could perform incremental analysis (rather than the all-or-nothing paradigm I was stuck in before) was groundbreaking. That and I finally started using jupyter notebooks to make tweaking plots more efficient (previously using vim). Cf. month in projection on finishing this.
* SLEEP (no more days of < 6 hours AND at least 1 day of >= 8 hours)
-> I had slightly more than 8 hours on of the first days of September. I think I achieved no days of < 6 hours but I'm not going to check now. (And not 100% sure I wrote my checklist every day).
October in Projection:
* #1 goal is submit article C. If I don't finish the next 9 steps I have by Saturday I'll go into ALL-IN mode (non 24 hour sleep schedule. Eat, sleep, breath this goal - the one goal - the only goal. I'd have at most ~10 days in that state before the 12th October deadline so hopefully won't damage myself too bad.
Post October 15th goals (I'll give myself 13th and 14th October to do whatever I want)
* 295 lb DL
-> to achieve, I'll do a sub-max day on 15th October to regain strength. 22nd October I'll try increasing 2 rep max as high as I can go (265lb or 275lb). And on 29th October I'll go for the new max.
* 200 lb Squat
-> Similarly, regain strength on 17th October, 24th October I'll increase my 2 rep max (wasn't previously tracked but at least 135lb), 31st October I'll hit 200 lbs if not earlier.
* 182.5 lb Bench
-> I'll bench days I deadlift. If I'm struggling I'll bench with my coach the last week.
* 7 pull-ups
-> do 100 pull-ups on 16 Oct, again on 18th; try for one set max on the 22nd. If needed, 100 pull-ups on 23rd and 25th.
* 20 push-ups (since I have done zero in the past month+; goal is to add 4-10 per month).
Rest of 2020 in Projection (Tentative)
* I'm thinking I'll go moderately "all" out lifting 15 - 31st October (still working 40-50 hours per week)
* Go moderately "all" out with photos 1 - 15 November (still working 40 - 50 hours per week)
-> I'm going to do a paid photoshoot to get a studio hockey shot I've been wanting a long time - and to try to guarantee a knock out for the 9.0+ photofeeler goal.
* 15 - 30 November: while still need 9.0+ photofeeler photo, go all out on photos. After, rest of year goal is to submit one more paper. The reward then would be gunning for 315+ lbs deadlift / going all out with gym goals.
* 180 lbs bodyweight***
-> likely only possible if I pig bulk.
* DL: 305 lbs minimum, 315 lbs would be nice.
* Squat: 200 lbs minimum; NO INJURIES would be nice (and I'm almost there!)
* Bench: 185 lbs minimum; 200 lbs stretch goal.
* Two articles and 20-40 job applications submitted.
* Photos: minimum one 9.0+ photofeeler photo; six 9.0+ photofeeler photos (one of them with hockey, one of them with professor/scientist vibe) would be nice.
