Personal Fitness Goals
So I thought it'd be interesting to start a thread about personal fitness goals. By this I mean your big time goals (TACP, PJ, those goals) but also specific fitness goals, like "I want to get my mile under 6 minutes" or "I want to get to at least ___ pullups" etc.
For the past several weeks I have been working hard on my overhead squats. Frankly, I didn't do them before. Because I couldn't do them well. But I've been doing them 3x per week, starting small and adding a little weight every day. Soon enough, if I keep on track, it'll be a respectable amount, and I will have developed a lot of whole-body strength, not to mention flexibility, inter and intramuscular coordination, all without adding much bulk. And that increased strength should help me have better capacities for speed and work capacity.
What are some of your specific goals and why?
For the past several weeks I have been working hard on my overhead squats. Frankly, I didn't do them before. Because I couldn't do them well. But I've been doing them 3x per week, starting small and adding a little weight every day. Soon enough, if I keep on track, it'll be a respectable amount, and I will have developed a lot of whole-body strength, not to mention flexibility, inter and intramuscular coordination, all without adding much bulk. And that increased strength should help me have better capacities for speed and work capacity.
What are some of your specific goals and why?
Tags: fitness, goals, motivation, personal
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Permalink Reply by Gary Dean Eyster Jr. on -
Big time goals in my life: Make it 8 more years and retire as a SMSgt or MSgt either one works for me. Do the best I can for my kids and make sure they grow up right and treat others right. Pre-ranger is still in my sights even though I am getting older and rank wise I couldn't do anything with the Ranger SEI but personally it's been my goal since I came in. Me and a buddy of mine wanted to go to Ranger school and Raven school that was 12 years ago. I only have one down.
Fitness goals: Long term just be in the best overall shape of my life. I want to be able to deadlift 450lbs with my own weight no higher than 158. I want to be able to actaully do a decent overhead squat. Squat clean 225, squat 350, bench 335, Push press 260, 101 reasons under 5 min, 1.5 mile run under 9:30 and complete a marathon. These are just some things I would like to do and I would like to do it all under 158lbs. I don't want to be huge just strong and fast. Oh and because of Mike I now want to be able to do handstand pushups without the wall for support! I also want to be a FF instructor so I can motivate and help people the way the program has remotivated me.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Powell on -
Ultimate goal is making it through the schoolhouse and become a TACP. Smaller goals include improving my pushups, 1.5 mile, and pullups to improve my PAST scores. Currently training through the STE program. Patience and consistancy is hard to maintain.
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Permalink Reply by Douglas L. on -
Overhead Squats sound really good...
I can't say I've got any goals that I work specifically towards... I have some things I'd like to be able to do, like being able to bench 300: I'm 25 pounds away from that. Maybe Front Squat 325, or 350. Getting good at the Olympic lifts, like Snatch and Clean and Jerk. Being able to do 101 Reasons in under 15 minutes sounds good, too. I'd really like (and need) to get better at sprinting, and even fast running, since, while a jog is easy, anything over that just takes it outta me; I'm guessing my legs' muscle types are mainly high output, high fuel consumption, low fuel reserves. But, I need to run first. And I'm not sure how I'm going to get that done.
Mainly I just do the DC's as they come along, and tackle my fitness on a day-to-day basis. Wish I could focus on it more, but, for now, that's about what I can do.
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Permalink Reply by Gary Dean Eyster Jr. on
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Is it Doug or Douglas? Anyway how much do you weight?
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Permalink Reply by Douglas L. on
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Whichever you feel like, hehe.
Anyways, I weigh 185 at around 6'1" tall. I've got some excess weight on my frame, though I'm not sure how much. Running would probably get rid of it. If I ran. Sheesh.
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Permalink Reply by Gary Dean Eyster Jr. on
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haha running helps. I weight about 156 but I am only about 5'8 and a half! haha.. I used to be 5'9. I could use some more weight on me.
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Permalink Reply by Rick Deckard Wannabe on
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Gary, you sound like my size, target size that is.
I'm 5'8" ish, and weigh between 160-165. I actually think I could lose a bit of weight, though it's not really a goal. Anyway you're used to be 5'9" comment reminded me, since I picked up FF and these styles of workouts (over the year, dabbled with Crossfit, completed a few Stew Smith training programs a couple of times, and discovered FF and have become an adherent in the past month), my feet have shrunk. Used to wear size 10 1/2, but now I need a 10. Not sure what's up with that. Maybe my socks are thinning out....
As for goals, honestly I think my real fitness need right now involves seriously improving my squat forms, and relatedly forms for all lower body emphasizing power lifts. Basically, I need to work on my hip lower body flexibility, psoas, piriwhatever they're called etc. It's definitely an impasse for me. Take these bench and front squat DCs. I'm benching double or more than my front squats. Basically, my pelvis tilts forward when I squat, if I try to retain a straight seat back, I lock up about 1/4 to 1/3 the way down. It can be overcome, just going to take time. Might even sub working on form and getting my rear and hams down there while using a dowel and then return to the bar and weight.
"Fun" goal: I'd like to run a 1.5 in under 9:00. It means shedding a minute and a half from my mile, but I went from a 9:00 mile to a 7:00 without too much difficulty, no real speed drills. I think closing in on 6:00 is doable, but will take focused speedwork. Once I get my speed down to I think my peak potential, I'll gradually start adding distance on again, eventually run a marathon with the hopes of a Boston qual time.
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Permalink Reply by Gary Dean Eyster Jr. on
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Sounds like you know what you have to do. That really is key, knowing what you need to improve on and working on it. Mike is working on his Overhead Squats, which I did for awhile and still have to work on. I am horrible at those. My shoulder flexibility is awful. Most of my issues come from injuries. Shoulder, back, wrist etc.. The whole used to be 5'9 came about in 04 during a HMMWV incident. My lower back is smushed hahah. Not funny really but it is when I go to the doc and they say my height. I thought they were kidding the first time.
Front squats are tough the thing that helped me out was the two finger method. I usaully warm up by doing low weight for about 10-12 deep reps. This usually helps me out.
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