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What’s your New Years Resolution?
sofchak
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For those of you new to Maintenance, your New Years goal for 2017 was likely “to lose x lbs”. Now that you’ve accomplished your goal (assumption since you’re in Maintenance now), what’s your fitness/health goal for 2018? Aside from maintaining of course!
Mine are:
To compete in no less than one racing event every quarter
To continue progressing in my weight lifting program
To try something new at least for one month - kickboxing, jump rope, basketball... idk yet.
What are yours?
Mine are:
To compete in no less than one racing event every quarter
To continue progressing in my weight lifting program
To try something new at least for one month - kickboxing, jump rope, basketball... idk yet.
What are yours?
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Mine are:
To enter at least one race (5k or 10k)
To actually do things instead of just thinking about them - like getting the ladies in my family to run one of the women's cancer research 5ks together
To volunteer more frequently at my local parkrun
To finally make my goals of 50 parkruns and get a tshirt
And I'd really like to actually start Strong Curves instead of being too nervous to enter the weights room at the gym!2 -
Oooooh... I need to have a think properly but something along the lines of:
Try and PB my races - a half and a 10k
Do strength training at least twice a week
Do yoga at least once a week.5 -
Just started rowing daily again and have a goal of reaching 1 million lifetime meters on my Concept2 rower.
Concept2 gives participants a t-shirt, pin and certificate when this is accomplished.
Currently at about 725k lifetime meters rowed over the past 18 months and only have 275k meters to go.
At my present rate of rowing 10k meters/day (5 days/wk), I should easily reach this goal w/in 6 wks by mid-Jan 2018.4 -
2018 will be my first year retired so that gives me more time and opportunity to do the things I love.
Strength goal:
Hit body weight x 1.5 for bench press.
Cycing goals:
Improve my FTP and power to weight ratio.
Take part in a cycling event or training camp abroad for the first time.
Set a new PB for one hour time trial and century rides.
Do more rides and Audax events further away from home to explore more beautiful parts of the UK.
I may get take qualifications in personal training as a bit of a hobby job and also just to learn more but not committed to that yet.3 -
Gosh, I am really going to have to think about this one. I do have a goal to get my avg running pace under 10 min miles by my birthday in August (for a 5K distance) but other than that, it's been probably 40 years or more that I have stepped on the scale every Jan1 and made a secret vow to lose weight. How sad is that? So this will be the first year I will make a resolution to maintain my weight and also to try to unfocus a little bit - right now I will admit to being completely obsessed about the whole process, so if I can maintain and just relax a little bit, that will be a huge stride. I want to be right in the same position next year if possible.5
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That’s a really good question. My goal is to maintain my weight and pack on muscle, but I’m not really sure how to quantify that.
I’d love bench and squat my body weight by the end of the year, but that’s pretty unrealistic from where I am today.1 -
Maintain my weight range.
Continue a regular exercise schedule 4-5x week plus daily walking.
Hike a mountain with 3,000 ft vertical elevation gain.
There will probably be some more but these are the main ones now.1 -
That’s a really good question. My goal is to maintain my weight and pack on muscle, but I’m not really sure how to quantify that.
I’d love bench and squat my body weight by the end of the year, but that’s pretty unrealistic from where I am today.
I have found it really hard to set realistic and quantifiable goals for strength and BF%. So mostly it's frequency and type of workout, just keep progressing!2 -
Mine....NONE4
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I don't make New Year Resolutions.
However, I do know I am not going to do any 10km races in 2018.
I really didn't enjoy them this year, and the year before I didn't either come to think of it.
Time to ditch them until I get my 10km mojo back- plenty of other stuff to keep me moving.
Weights, no goal, but hoping life events will allow a bit more consistency next year.
Cheers, h.5 -
to just be happy and love myself. eat what I want, drink what I want.7
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- Lose the last 10kg
- Do Yoga once a week
- Do strength training three times a week
- Only buy second-hand clothing
- Donate 10% of what I make
- be kinder to people
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I have no resolutions, I will just carry on as I am and set goals as and when I want, not just because a new year has started.3
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I'm not at maintenance yet but my goal is to do a pull up :-)
I know it doesn't seem like much but I've never been able to do one before!5 -
I don't do resolutions but honestly I hope I can find the motivation to lose the 15 lbs I gained back in the last 2 years.3
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I don't generally do resolutions but I have a serious goal of no surgeries in 2018 (I've had 4 in the last 12 months) and just keep moving. Fingers crossed!6
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Mine is to stay away from the gym until February, when all the New Year's Resolution people have stopped going and I can have the place to myself again.9
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I'm not sure yet. I've reached all of my 2017 goals except reaching 10% body fat, and I have a Dexa scheduled on 12/30 to see where I am. The best information I have without Dexa is that I'm about 1.5-1.6 lbs. of fat from reaching that; so I'm going into maintenance to start 2018. I'll switch to maintenance regardless of whether Dexa shows I got to that 10% goal or not (unless it is way off, which is highly doubtful).
In 2018 while starting maintenance, my goals are probably going to be to improve marathon time. I need to come up with some specifics. While I'm not really a weight lifter, I've been doing some strength training over the last 2 months during the non-running season. My sets are all 3x8 and I typically do 135 lbs. bench press and 275 lbs. squat. My body weight is hovering around 140 lbs., so I'm not sure if I should use a factor of body weight as a goal as some of you have, or if I should just increase a certain percentage over what I'm doing today. My arms are obviously very weak, but since my interest is running; I'm not sure I see that as a problem that needs to be improved.
So I suppose my goals are:
1. Improve marathon time (need to think about what I want as a goal time).
2. Something with improved strength, but not sure what...
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I almost always make New Years resolutions and I usually keep them. It's no different than regular goal setting, in my opinion. It's just a little extra reminder that it's good to set goals.
- I'm currently maintaining, but I may give it one more try to lose that last 5-7.
- Finally complete the Great Columbia Crossing Bridge Run 10K. Canceled the last 2 years (once due to weather by the organizers and once due to my schedule).
- Organize my craft hoard and start being more creative and using some of the supplies.
- Keep working on my debt snowball (ala Dave Ramsey) and find some new recipes for rice and beans.
- Keep looking for my authentic self. She's in there somewhere!
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2018 goals
1. Participate in my first bikini competition
2. Be able to do a 15 sec handstand
3. Enjoy life to the fullest!7
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