What’s your New Years Resolution?

sofchak
sofchak Posts: 862 Member
edited November 23 in Goal: Maintaining Weight
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?
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  • aemsley05
    aemsley05 Posts: 151 Member
    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!
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    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.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    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.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    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.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    nowine4me wrote: »
    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!
  • pogiguy05
    pogiguy05 Posts: 1,583 Member
    Mine....NONE
  • rianneonamission
    rianneonamission Posts: 854 Member
    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.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    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.
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    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...
  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,075 Member
    I'm not at maintenance at the moment, but have been in the past (or close enough where losing was far from a priority).

    I don't really set NYR.

    My goals I've already started on, they tend to be more on the timeline of my race season than the annual calendar. As a season wraps up I analyze what happened that year, successes and failures, what I want my next season to look like, and what I can do now to make that happen.

    So, my current goals are:
    1) Continue with my "regular" gym routine (limitations with my leg being a factor) and increase it as the current plan becomes easy.
    2) Cut myself some slack where my leg is concerned - do what I can, don't sweat what I can't.
    3) Build my bike so I feel confident on it because it's doing what it should, when it should.
    4) Don't eat dinner out alone (or ordered out) more than 1x/week - cook at home/leftovers
    5) Phone gets put away when I'm in bed - no reading/looking at phone once I'm in my bed
    6) Continue to train the hand/eye/brain coordination (yay for an excuse to play more video games!)
    7) Continue with active rehabilitation and rebuilding of my leg

    This one I haven't made a priority yet, but is on the list:
    8) Meditate, even for just a minute, daily
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,187 Member
    rianneonamission wrote: »
    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.

    Well said and exactly the way I feel! Life is too unpredictable and always changing. I change goals and resolutions as needed.
  • richardgavel
    richardgavel Posts: 1,001 Member
    Sub 1:45 half marathon
    Sub 4:00 marathon
    Increase lifts (don't have specifics set yet)
    Continue to be able to control weight (gain/lose/maintakn depending on need)
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    OHammykins wrote: »
    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!

    After I read this I gave it a try. There’s one of those outdoor circuit things on my walking route. Pull-up, nope. But I’ll keep trying!
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    edited December 2017
    I'm at the top end of my goal weight but still recomping, will probably be satisfied another ten pounds down but my goals now are more measurement and performance based.

    I made several fitness related goals for 2017 and achieved them: normal weight, waist under 35', normal A1c, can do twenty real push-ups in a row, can do 100 crunches and 200 bodyweight squats in a row, can squat and deadlift my body weight, can run a sub ten minute mile and sub 36 minute 5k.

    This year's fitness goals:
    I want to have a 30 inch waist by my birthday in June (currently 32).
    Run a sub 30 minute 5k before my birthday
    Be competitive in my age group at 5k by the time of St Jude's Marathon weekend next December (doing the sub 30 would have put me in the top 20 this year)
    I still want to do a pull-up! This is not yet an immediate goal as much as a distant one
    Continue to exercise regularly, eat appropriately, and maintain my A1c at healthy numbers
    Learn to balance my life better - currently I am doing well on the exercise and diet front, but at the cost of the rest of my life. I need to learn to manage my time better, so that good habits become automatic and easy, for long term change to be sustainable.

    As they used to say, "God willin' and the creek don't rise," since fate, illness, and unforeseen circumstances can make any goal go out the window!
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    No resolutions here. But as always I will keep consistently exercising and watching my intake (loosely) as that's what keeps me trim and fit.
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,745 Member
    My current resolution/goal is to get more flexible. I saw a thread about a 30 day yoga challenge, but the video turned me off the instructor, so I would like to just do it on my own. If I can do a little every day, in a month I should see some improvement.
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