20% Proposal (Semester 2)

Instead of continuing my baking project, I decided to pursue something that I am more interested in and have a bit more experience with, which is exercise. In particular, this semester I want to be able to increase my max bench press weight from 190 pounds to 215 if I am lucky enough to make it that far. I want to be able to do at least one repetition on the bench press with 215 pounds (or more) by the end of the semester. Along with exercising, I will be eating healthier (or trying to at the very least) and will be researching about different exercises and meals that I may utilize to maximize the amount of muscle that I will build throughout this relatively short time. I chose this for my next focus because I have delved slightly into the world of physical fitness before and have trained with friends to become stronger and to lose weight but until recently, I have neglected my fitness for quite sometime and I believe that along with learning new things, this will give me an opportunity to gain back my former (sort of) fit self. This project will be beneficial for me both physically and mentally because along with the strength gain, I will also obtain knowledge about how to work different parts of the body and will know various exercises to help me to become even stronger in the future.