I set a new 1RM PR today. Pretty thrilled

AndrewinStratford

Today was a great day a the gym.

If you’ve not heard of it, in weight lifting there is a concept called 1 Rep Max. That is the maximum amount of weight that a person can possibly lift for one repetition. I’ve been feeling like I’ve been lifting pretty light and my 1RM was estimated to be 78lbs in the app.

So I decided to pause my workout today I had a little fun. I kept slowly adding weights.
I stopped at 115 pounds that makes me pretty happy. I could go higher, but it wouldn’t be safe to do that without a spotter.

Happy camper.

Retroguy2000

Congrats.

It's important to know how many reps you can do before form breaks down. You don't need to train to failure all the time, but it's good to be 1-2 reps from there. And if you don't know where that level is, you could be going far too easy to get much out of it.

MindfulMisfitt

Great job! Yeah, definitely dont rely on the app to tell you where you should be! Now you can train just under that, track, and apply progressive overload and you will see some serious gains!

nossmf

Just remember that each exercise will have its own independent 1RM. Just because you can bench press 100# for instance, does not necessarily mean you can use 100# of dumbbells (50# each) and expect to do the same. You may, or you may lift lighter, or even heavier. Take each lift for itself. (Keeping a log book is essential to remember all these numbers.)

tomcustombuilder

1RM shouldn’t be done very often. And is only for compound exercises

Kotkoda005

Congrats! That's excellent.