What is your best fitness achievement to date?

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

Which fitness achievement are you most proud of?

Best lift, best run, hike, climb, ride, going from not being able to walk upstairs but can now run them.
Post them all, and if you have pics please post them

Meganthedogmom

When I ran 8 miles straight. May not be big to many but for someone who never ran a day n my life until i was 27, pretty good.

lilawolf

5 hour martial art belt test with no breaks longer than 15 seconds. By far.

135 squat, 95 bench...so far to go just to get back to "big girl" plates.

14 mile hike a couple weekends ago with 25lbs on my back. I'm ready to go solo camping!

Climbing a volcano in Bali to watch the sunrise.... Really wanna go climb Kilimanjaro this summer.

need2belean

The fact that I am soooo close to being able to do a pullup on my own and I can now do 42 pushups... real pushups!

PhedraJD

Running for 25 minutes strait.

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

Great achievements

quiksylver296

330.7 lb deadlift in my first powerlifting meet last month.

Currently can do eight pull-ups on my quest to ten.

leanjogreen18

Doing a 6 mile trail walk.

Madwife2009

Going on my first group ride - I decided that if I was going to do it, then it was going to be a decent one - of 30 miles and keeping up with the rest of the group (who'd done the ride several times before and regularly did other rides, plus they had "professional" road bikes whereas mine is a basic hybrid).

sijomial

Mine would be doing a London to Bath charity cycle ride in memory of my Mum.

Trained like a madman in the weeks following her death from heart disease and entered a British Heart Foundation event.
Icing on the cake was finishing in the top 20, partly due to an incredibly supportive friend encouraging me all the way including lending me a bike.

Whatever your level there's enormous personal satisfaction in knowing you did your best on the day.

Distance - 109.54 miles
Avg Speed - 16.1 mph
Calories - 3,061
Time - 6:47:20
Elev Gain - 4,364 ft

noobletmcnugget

Trekked 200K in the Alps last year in 30 degree heat and with a backpack weighing about a third of my bodyweight... with next to no training beforehand haha.

Ademann1

Love hearing all the hiking stories. Living in Houson away from my native Utah I miss mountains

FitOldMomma

I had two fitness goals last year and both were equally important to me.

#1 Last August I joined a team of swimmers who swim across and back the Willamette River. Mostly it was to overcome my fear of open-water swimming. But it was also an endurance swim for me as well.

#2 In September I hiked 15 miles with my youngest son. It was along an abandoned railway in the Tillamook forest and we crossed over a 167ft high open trestle bridge. It was AWESOME!

Three years ago I couldn't walk around my block without stopping to catch my breath! Being fit and healthy is incredible!

TavistockToad

My first half marathon... I'm hoping this will be superseded in a few weeks by PBing my next half in a few weeks!

FitOldMomma

need2belean wrote: »

The fact that I am soooo close to being able to do a pullup on my own and I can now do 42 pushups... real pushups!

Doing a pull up is my #1 fitness goal. Getting closer, but still not there. Wow...42 push ups is AWESOME!

moreclan9

I can walk around Target without needing to lean on a cart.

It's not much compared to your feats of strength and endurance, but it's a start! (And it's been a LONG time since I've been able to walk without pain)

zdyb23456

Running a 5k in 24 minutes - it's the fastest I've ever run and probably ever will.

Running a 9.87miles trail run with a decent pace of 9.25 min/mi.

Climbing to the rope to the top at the crossfit gym I do a beginner crossfit class sporadically and was so pleased that I could do it!

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

moreclan9 wrote: »

I can walk around Target without needing to lean on a cart.

It's not much compared to your feats of strength and endurance, but it's a start! (And it's been a LONG time since I've been able to walk without pain)

That is just as awesome as the others. That's what is great about it, every ones proudest moment is different

leanjogreen18

moreclan9 wrote: »

I can walk around Target without needing to lean on a cart.

It's not much compared to your feats of strength and endurance, but it's a start! (And it's been a LONG time since I've been able to walk without pain)

This is how it started for me. Just keep at it!
Best!!

sijomial

moreclan9 wrote: »

I can walk around Target without needing to lean on a cart.

It's not much compared to your feats of strength and endurance, but it's a start! (And it's been a LONG time since I've been able to walk without pain)

@moreclan9

Disagree - it's just the same. Someone doing their best and challenging themselves to make progress.
Well done you. :flowerforyou:

Leenizi129

Cycling over 35 miles with.some of the best! My first big ride and I made it.

deputy_randolph

Benched 135lbs at body weight of 135lbs (for 4 singles)...that was a good day.

FeelsLikeAwesome

Strict pull ups! From barely able to do bent over rows to doing 5 sets of 2 strict pull ups. Next goal: sets of 3.

My mile time is down from 14+ mins to single digit mins.

JstTheWayIam

Ummm probably 24 pull ups without rest... Pull ups, not chin ups...

FatPorkyChop

My two Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fights when I was 30. I was terrified but I did it and I did not compete in the senior category.

AnnPT77

Favorite post-MFP fitness achievements?

One was discovering that at goal weight I was already strong enough to get 1 chin-up without actually training to do it (at 60 years old, for heaven's sake!).

Another was placing third in the first international World Rowing Indoor Sprints in my new age/weight class, women's 60-69 lightweight. It turned out that my new weight class was not as difficult (competitive) as my old one!

phrobbert

I've been doing workouts with British Military Fitness for nearly 2 years now and I've made pretty big improvements across the board. I can now sprint like a panicking gazelle, squat like a kangaroo with IBS and perform diamond pushups without immediately faceplanting. Doing burpees when I'm out of breath still makes me want to die however. This year has definitely been an improvement, possibly because I stopped dropping a 4-pack of beer every night.

AFGP11

Running for 45 minutes straight. Also I am now lifting heavy which has reduced the pain from my curved spine by building up the muscles around it.

Picoides

I've got 3:

1) Running 5K without stopping (could barely run 1 minute straight 6 months ago)
2) Deadlifting 100 lbs, 7 reps
3) Bench-pressing 60 lbs, 4 reps

Not huge lifts but huge for me!

richardgavel

Breaking the 2 hour barrier in the half marathon last November!

snowyne

Started running at the age of 44 in Nov. Yesterday, I ran my furthest distance yet -- 7 miles! I never thought my body was capable of doing such a thing. I've never been athletic but I just stuck with it and slowly, but surely, made progress.