Can you get access to free weights, bench, and squat rack? Avoid machines if possible.
To gain about 20lbs.
Once I have access to a kitchen and refrigerator (probably in January), I am planning to start eating a greater variety of fruits & vegetables, and maybe even some meat from time to time, and making meals to take with me to work that are more involved than a sandwich, banana and can of V8.
Also starting in January, I’m hoping to acquire some health benefits when I hopefully change employers, and at that point I’ll head back to the dojo and start studying Shotokan karate again. In the meantime, I’ve bought a few training DVDs from my sensei in St. Paul so I can get at least a little into shape, and remember where to put my feet.
I want pull-ups so badly I can taste them. My CrossFit guy has promised I will have them, but I firmly believe if I was in as good of shape as HE says I am, I would be doing GREAT.
If he tries to get you to do kipping pull ups, be careful, a lot of ex-CrossFitters that post on fito blame them for rotator cuff injuries.
My general goal most every year is to be fit enough to do 10-15 mile day hikes in the Sierras.
By the end of 2013, I will be able to walk to the beach and back, or at least the equivalent distance on flat ground. I expect to lose, from the start of my diet last month, 200 pounds. One-fifty to go…
This is my goal, too. Optimistically, I’d like to hit between 60k and 70k but that’ll be a serious challenge.
Well you’ve always given me sound fitness advice so I do want to say I appreciate that.
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Get under 200 pounds. (Currently at 214. Used to be ~280.)
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Compete in at least two 5K races and begin running 10K on my own.
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Some more upper body mass, although I’m not sure how to quantify that.
Sadly this will largely depend on whether I can afford to take more conditioning classes. But I really want to get to the point where I can pull myself into an upside-down straddle on the aerial apparatus (spanish web or silks) from above the floor. This is the ONE thing that’s preventing me from advancing, and I’ve been stuck here for years.
I probably can’t get there unless I can do aerial conditioning more than once a week, but as things stand I’ve only got my one class on scholarship, and can’t afford to pay for another.
Bonus if I can figure out the cross-back straddle. I just can NOT get over. Sigh.
Do you do them with a band now? It’s good to practice without as much resistance so you are able to experience the full range of motion. I started on the stiffest band and worked my way up to the more slack bands until no band at all.
I do 45 minutes 4 times a week on the treadmill, gradually increasing my HR as my leg muscles can tolerate.
got it out of a book called Younger Next Year.
it’s very inspirational & meant for those over 50.
This is so great to see!
My goals in order:
20-mile trail race in February
Trail marathon in April.
Trail 50k some time in the summer.
Go back and improve on my time from the 25k I did in September.
- I’ve signed up for an Ironman next year, which is a goal that’s eluded me in the past - so that’s the big one.
- I need to figure out nutrition and how to not make eating healthily tolerable enough to do it.
I am not focused on achieving these short term goals that I will give up any variety in my mix to accomplish them, but I really would love to able to do an unsupported handstand push up, a true planche, and a front lever on the rings. My main goal these last two years has been to maintain a program without a specific goal as my target though. Sounds nutty, but it was one thing to me to put in the miles knowing I was aiming for a marathon in the Fall, or to do a half Ironman … to consistently put in the time without an event hanging over my head has been another sort of task.
And another voice of props to runner pat for his excellent contributions to fitness threads! RP so your goal is to keep up what your doing without getting hit by a car?
Is this what you meant?
Pretty much, yeah. Once is enough. 
Thanks runner pat I’ll keep that in mind. I hadn’t considered that it wouldn’t translate. Long walks I’m less likely to quit on too 
That’s awesome amarinth, I was training for a triathlon in 2010 before a knee injury sidelined me. Running was always my weakness of the 3 events but I am enjoying it this time around more than ever. Good luck!