Fitness Bucket List for Women

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  • CoffeeNBooze
    CoffeeNBooze Posts: 966 Member
    I have a few, come to think of it. Great topic :)

    I want to be able to run 10 miles, currently at 6. I know it's possible!
    I want to perfect my yoga poses. In classes I'm usually being corrected in some way and I want to do them perfectly!
    I want to get more involved with strength training, legs, arms, and core. Right now I do none of that.
    Take a cycling class to see if I like it...pretty intimidated by them actually
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,641 Member
    I can do #1 and 3, workin on a 5 k so no for #2 and never tried #4. My goal right now is to run a 5k not stopping and then a 10k May 4th. Other than that I am working on getting better at pushups. Don't have any other goals right now.
  • Lalouse
    Lalouse Posts: 221 Member
    Recently MSN printed an article on the 4 Fitness Goals that every woman should try to reach :
    1. Hold a plank pose for 60 seconds
    2. Run a half-marathon
    3. Pull off 10 push-ups
    4. Hold the yoga tree pose for 60 seconds

    This seems ridiculous. Run 21 miles (1/2 marathon) or hold a plank for 60 seconds? Are these even comparable? Do you know how many hours a day you need to run to train for a half marathon? I love jogging, but I don't have that kind of time.

    1. Be a healthy weight
    2. Run a 5k
    3. Have a stronger core
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,641 Member
    Oooh, maybe the tough mudder at some point. and the color run and other fun runs.
  • berlys
    berlys Posts: 27
    I have been exercising about 3-4 days a week for the past couple months. Not eating right though. I've been really tired of being tired and lazy but couldn't seem to get out of the funk. I went to my brother's house last weekend and he showed me some really awesome videos. It's called a Spartan Race. OMG, it looks so fun and hard!! So, starting this past week, I am training for the spartan race. That is one thing that is on my bucket list...for now. I have 5 months to train for it and haven't stuck with healthy eating and exercise like that for about 4 or 5 years. Wish me luck!
  • RobynLB
    RobynLB Posts: 617 Member
    I saw this article. C'mon 10 pushups and 60 seconds tree pose and plank as "bucket list material?" That's like basic grade school PE... if you can't do it... you fail... type stuff. A half marathon is a good goal. My current bucket list... which I'll admit I have not been really working on outside of boxing: 1) box an amateur match (gotta do this before I'm thirtieth next November, 2) 10 pull ups, and 3) a 6 minute mile. Maybe work on all three at once -- since they are pretty interrelated -- with a goal of doing the match next fall?
  • mlwatts2
    mlwatts2 Posts: 244 Member
    First I agree with many others the list seems quite contradictory. Matching together items of a wide array there. However my goals started small and no seem larger than life though I will achieve them...

    2013-
    Run a marathon
    Do an Olympic Distance Triathlon

    Before 2020-
    I WILL be an Ironman!!
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    I have been exercising about 3-4 days a week for the past couple months. Not eating right though. I've been really tired of being tired and lazy but couldn't seem to get out of the funk. I went to my brother's house last weekend and he showed me some really awesome videos. It's called a Spartan Race. OMG, it looks so fun and hard!! So, starting this past week, I am training for the spartan race. That is one thing that is on my bucket list...for now. I have 5 months to train for it and haven't stuck with healthy eating and exercise like that for about 4 or 5 years. Wish me luck!

    Im doing my first spartan on June 1 :D
  • mightybooshmoon
    mightybooshmoon Posts: 14 Member
    I would like to be small enough to sit in a bucket.

    Other than that, I would like to:

    *Run a 10K
    *Take regular fitness classes (I'm horribly shy, so this really is a major goal)
    *Backpack my pug on a 60 minute hike
  • RobynLB
    RobynLB Posts: 617 Member
    Recently MSN printed an article on the 4 Fitness Goals that every woman should try to reach :
    1. Hold a plank pose for 60 seconds
    2. Run a half-marathon
    3. Pull off 10 push-ups
    4. Hold the yoga tree pose for 60 seconds

    This seems ridiculous. Run 21 miles (1/2 marathon) or hold a plank for 60 seconds? Are these even comparable? Do you know how many hours a day you need to run to train for a half marathon? I love jogging, but I don't have that kind of time.

    1. Be a healthy weight
    2. Run a 5k
    3. Have a stronger core

    You can train for a half marathon with only about 4-5 hours a week. A half marathon is only 10 point something miles.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member
    Deadlift 2x body weight
    Squat 1.5x body weight
    Bench 1x body weight
    Pull Ups/Chin Ups w/weights
  • RobynLB
    RobynLB Posts: 617 Member
    Recently MSN printed an article on the 4 Fitness Goals that every woman should try to reach :
    1. Hold a plank pose for 60 seconds
    2. Run a half-marathon
    3. Pull off 10 push-ups
    4. Hold the yoga tree pose for 60 seconds

    Previously, my fitness goals included wanting to learn how to swim, completing a 5K and running a 10 minute mile.....but nothing really beyond that. However, after reading the article, I realize that I should really challenge myself to set longer term fitness goals...but I gotta start somewhere, right? lol~

    So ladies.........what's on YOUR fitness bucket list????

    Btw, here is the link to the article: http://innovationforendurance.msn.com/articles/detail/fitness/253236719

    Well, I can definitely hold a plank for 60 seconds, and I think I could hold a Tree pose for 60 seconds. And I can walk a full marathon, and have no interest in running a half (I got achilles tendinitis when I tried endurance running last year).

    But here's my question about pushups. For me, it means military style. Hands on the floor, and on your toes, not your knees. I wonder how many women who say they can do 10 pushups are doing "girl" pushups on their knees instead of toes? I can do 10 on my toes, but only if my hands are on an elevated surface (around knee-height, but working my way down to the floor).

    Anyway, my additional list would include:

    Squat body weight
    Deadlift 1.5x body weight
    Unassisted pull-up and/or chin-up

    I can do about 50 military pushups... and then do about 5 more sets. They are not hard if you do them regularly.
  • campi_mama
    campi_mama Posts: 350 Member
    Cool! I've done/can do all of these! My current bucket list goal is unassisted pull ups.
    Me TOO!!
  • campi_mama
    campi_mama Posts: 350 Member
    Recently MSN printed an article on the 4 Fitness Goals that every woman should try to reach :
    1. Hold a plank pose for 60 seconds
    2. Run a half-marathon
    3. Pull off 10 push-ups
    4. Hold the yoga tree pose for 60 seconds

    This seems ridiculous. Run 21 miles (1/2 marathon) or hold a plank for 60 seconds? Are these even comparable? Do you know how many hours a day you need to run to train for a half marathon? I love jogging, but I don't have that kind of time.

    1. Be a healthy weight
    2. Run a 5k
    3. Have a stronger core

    You can train for a half marathon with only about 4-5 hours a week. A half marathon is only 10 point something miles.
    A Half Marathon is 13.1 miles. A Full Marathon is 26.2. And yes, you can train with about 4-5 hours a week. marathonrookie.com has a great 1/2 training program.
  • mlwatts2
    mlwatts2 Posts: 244 Member
    Recently MSN printed an article on the 4 Fitness Goals that every woman should try to reach :
    1. Hold a plank pose for 60 seconds
    2. Run a half-marathon
    3. Pull off 10 push-ups
    4. Hold the yoga tree pose for 60 seconds

    This seems ridiculous. Run 21 miles (1/2 marathon) or hold a plank for 60 seconds? Are these even comparable? Do you know how many hours a day you need to run to train for a half marathon? I love jogging, but I don't have that kind of time.

    1. Be a healthy weight
    2. Run a 5k
    3. Have a stronger core

    You can train for a half marathon with only about 4-5 hours a week. A half marathon is only 10 point something miles.


    I don't know who's marathon and half marathon's you are running but a full is 26.2 and a half is 13.1. To adequately train for a full it defnitely takes more than 4-5 hours per week if you plan to complete is running.
  • RobynLB
    RobynLB Posts: 617 Member
    Half marathons - I did one in jr. high. It's not a big deal. Kid stuff. I trained 5 hrs a week and got first in my division (of like 12 people). And I know people who have gone out and done marathons with no extra training.
  • sarahrbraun
    sarahrbraun Posts: 2,261 Member
    I have done all those.

    Mine -
    Bench my body weight (another 40 to go)
    Squat and deadlift same. I just started squatting and deads.

    The real one for me is - Ironman. Still can't wrap my head around it though.

    Eta - oh and pull ups.

    yeah, IM!! I've done one half-IM and one half-marathon. definitely going for the top! :)

    more of my list, besides the IM:

    1) a marathon by itself, not as part of the IM (Boston or NYC, prob love to do one in Philly- my home city <3)
    2) like everyone else posting, unassisted pullups!!!
    3) some real all-the-way-down pushups
    4) get into dead lifting, squats, bench pressing

    not running a marathon...

    I wanna do unassisted pull ups too! In August I started on the assisted machine with 165# of assist--I am currently at 105#

    I can do a few push ups, but I prefer to do them on my knees...

    I started deadlifting last week...wanna start bench pressing...started barbell squats a month ago. Yesterday I did a few 100# squats...it was so overwhelming that I almost cried when I was done.
  • caseythirteen
    caseythirteen Posts: 956 Member
    Coming up with fitness goals is not something I've done yet so this topic has forced me to think about it some more. For the near future my goals are:

    - Squat body weight (15 pounds away)
    - Deadlift body weight (20 pounds away, started deads after squats)
    - Chest press 80 pounds (15 pounds away but this is sooooo much harder for me)
    - 30 pushups in a row (currently at 15 but doing the 100 pushup program and test again this weekend .. and yes, real pushups)
    - One full chin-up (currently working at it with the assisted machine)
    - One full handstand pushup (been a while since I tried so not sure where I stand with this)
  • oameyers
    oameyers Posts: 76 Member
    Very inspiring ladies...

    I guess my bucket list would be...

    100 push-ups in 3mins
    Be able to lift my body weight period in any form lol

    It's a weak list to start with but just picked up the New rules for lifting from the library and look foward to setting some more lifting goals :-)
  • RobynLB
    RobynLB Posts: 617 Member
    For anyone who wants to do pull-ups - get a door jam pull-up bar. Starting standing is about half as hard had as starting hanging, but you can progress from standing to hanging. If you just stick it up and leave it up, and do a few of whatever variation you can do (start with a hop and hold at top / come down slowly; start from standing; or start from hanging), you will nail a full unassisted pull-up within a week or so.

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