Hobbies - Medhat Abouzeid

Powerlifting

I competed in university and national powerlifting while studying at AUS. In 2023, I ranked as the strongest junior lifter in the UAE’s 105 kg class. My best recorded raw total is 590 kg: a 205 kg squat, 150 kg bench press and 235 kg deadlift.

I also captained the AUS powerlifting team and represented the university at the 2023 Asian University Powerlifting Cup. The appeal is fairly simple: progress is measurable, technique matters, and there is nowhere to hide from the result.

Competition record on OpenPowerlifting →

Medhat Abouzeid standing first on the podium at the 2023 AUS intercollegiate powerlifting competition — First place at the 2023 AUS intercollegiate powerlifting competition.

The AUS powerlifting team together at the 2023 Asian University Powerlifting Cup in Sharjah — With the AUS team at the 2023 Asian University Powerlifting Cup in Sharjah.

Training

Most of my training is still organised around strength. I track the work, manage fatigue and treat technique as something to practise rather than a cue to remember only when the weight gets heavy.

What keeps me interested is the feedback loop: plan, lift, measure, recover and adjust. Progress is slow enough that consistency matters more than any single session.

I am building that feedback loop into the intelligence layer ofSoul. It aggregates recovery and sleep from WHOOP, nutrition data from my nutrition app, sessions from my training-log app, and health signals from Apple Health. The aim is to turn those separate records into one daily view of readiness, training load, recovery and the next useful session.

Soul training intelligence view with front and back muscle maps and weekly training-volume status — The muscle view maps direct-set volume, recovery and strength signals across the body instead of leaving them in separate apps.

Padel

I play padel recreationally. It is a useful counterweight to lifting: faster, more social and built around reacting to another person rather than following a fixed plan.