Fitness

• My current goals are to feel healthier and build more muscle.

• I go to the gym 3-4 times a week, walk almost everywhere, and occasionally hike on weekends. I have periods when I do more and when I do less. This I don’t monitor because my goals are for my own general wellbeing and not strict or competitive.

• Making a routine has been helpful and so has getting dedicated workout clothes that are flattering.

• Main setbacks are a hectic schedule and getting enough protein and calories. A large part of fitness is nutrition and while I eat a balanced diet, well, I can’t be arsed to track macros. Maybe I’ll look into personalized meal plans or supplementation.

How about you, how are your goals coming along? :)

I recently set a powerlifting total of 1100 lbs (499 kg, just shy of 500 kg) between squat, bench, deadlift. In September, I decided to de-emphasize the powerlifting main lifts (dropping to 2 sessions per week) and just try to maintain those the best I could while I pursued other goals:

• Get under 200 lbs (90.7 kg) in body weight
• Do 10 pull ups in a single unbroken set
• Run 5k in under 25 minutes
• Olympic lifting total (Clean and Jerk, Snatch) of at least 300 lbs/135 kg

Now, 2 months in, I've made some slight progress:

• No perceptible loss of strength on powerlifting, but I've cut my weight from 215 lbs to 210 lbs.
• Pull ups are up from 4 to 7 in the last 6 weeks. Probably not a strength/endurance improvement but just a consequence of getting slightly lighter in weight.
• Ran 2.5 miles in 25 minutes, a very slight improvement from being able to run 2 miles in 20 minutes
• Learning the fundamental movements on snatch, refining some bad habits on clean and jerk. Haven't tested 1RM yet but have gotten comfortable with the basic movements by snatching 95 lbs (43 kg) and cleaning and jerking 135 lbs (60 kg).

Later this winter I might try to focus in a bit more on one of these specific goals, but it's nice to try to be a bit more well rounded instead of just lifting for strength.

Pretty good. Only 120km left to run to reach the 2000km of running goal by the end of the year. I should reach it in less than 3 weeks

Not great :(

• Run for 2 hours, drop some fat/weight
• This past summer
• Crap, the only time I can really work out is from 7am-8am and I want sleep
• not much tbh
• I dont get enough sleep and I dont like working out in the morning.

NOT GOOD

Pretty bad. The whole summer I was pretty depressed from job searching and at the same time trying to get as far as possible on a big renovation that I only ran like 1x per week max.

Now I started a new job, but the weather was bad so I only got through the first week and a half of my fitness schedule goal then got violently ill. Now I haven't run or lifted for another 3 weeks.

Every time I start back up, I get sick immediately, right now my throat has had razor blades in it for 4.5 days such that all I can eat is soup.

Now that I go to work when it is dark and come home when it is dark, there is even less motivation and I have to find my headlamp or it is just dangerous.

I set a goal to lose about 75lbs but only lost 50. That’s about 15 months ago. I’d say it’s a good try.

Next goal is strength. So I’m starting at the very bottom which feels embarrassing. Have only moved up in reps very slowly.

The one thing I learned about setbacks from dieting is that if you have a very emotional reaction to failure, you will have to train yourself out of self destructive behaviour to get anywhere. It has to be nothing but a speed bump from a mental resilience point of view.

First half of the year was great. I ran a marathon and was just 2 minutes off my goal time - that's both awesome and annoying.

However, I've lost some fitness and endurance over the last 5 months.... Trying to get it back. Running a half marathon in December, but my training suggests I'm nowhere near my PR. Baby steps... It'll come back if I can keep up on the training.