Week 17, 2021

May 3, 2021 Categories: Weekly Notes

Work

This week was off to a great start. I was given a documentation assignment. While completing the assignment, I learned all I can about a Smart Home management protocol called Echonet Lite. It was fun to read about it. Got involved in a couple more interesting ## projects in the company.

Books

Practical Programming for Strength Training | Mark Rippertoe and Andy Baker I finished this book over this week. Read close to 200 pages. The book mostly talks about different training methods adopted by different trainers all over the world in the last century. These include the Texas Method, Dynamic Effort Method, The Split Routine among others. I don’t know which one I’ll end up adopting in my training routine. I like the Texas method the best so far. Splitting the week between 3 training days. One day is high intensity day, next is high volume day, and the last is light day with low volume and low intensity. I’ll use this technique for the next few months. Deep Learning with PyTorch | Eli Stevens, Luca Antiga, and Thomas Viehman Read around 20 pages of this book. The book is now walking me through image classification using deep learning. Interesting stuff.

Fitness

Gym: Thanks to the strength training book that I am reading, I started logging my training. Weights, sets, and repetitions etc. Now I eagerly look forward to my training days. I missed one workout day this week. Training Logs Week 1 (Week 17 of the year) Biking: A splendid week for biking. I have set a personal record of over 30 miles during the week in the last 7 months. The injury was an impediment to biking for so long. The great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius said “What stands in the way, becomes the way”. Biking is now an integral part of my life. When I rode back from ## work on Thursday, the shattered window glasses on the streets of San Francisco cause a flat tire. Without that, I could have crosses 50 miles this week. This time I bought a tube to replace if it happens again. Always learning something new. Swimming: No swimming this week.