I wish I had such specific goals. My quarterly goal goes like this: "Drink beer; become stronger; become leaner. Any one of the three will suffice".

Next 3 months

- Switch between a Strength cycle and Endurance cycle every 4 weeks and note changes in my 1RM and rep PRs.
- Lose another 20lbs of fat mass
- Add in some form of cardio to my workouts, especially during the Endurance cycles.
- Break into the 500s for my deadlifts, the 300s for my bench, and add 30lbs to my OHP.

By end of year

- Have lost 50lbs
- Attended a powerlifting meet so I can gauge myself versus others in the hopes to start training to compete
- Be able to sustain a mile jog

Wow Sara, I love your dead lift goal!


I have a surgery date, finally! August 19.
This month my goal is to maintain my weight between 142 and 145 pounds.
I need to drink less alcohol. I have also been smoking once in a while or when I drink. This stops tomorrow. (I need to have no bad habits that effect circulation and I need to move to increase circulation but not enough to promote inflammation.)

My goals for the six weeks after surgery are to focus on physiotherapy strengthening and stretching exercises daily.

And the best goal of all is that I hope to have a sound three month training plan by October.

Didn't make any specific goals for the quarter, did make some goals for 2013.

For 2013 (copied from my profile)
1) Run a 5k/mudrun (2 mudruns done, one 10k done)
2) 32 Mile hike
3) Increase strength
4) Run a 10k at under 8:00/mile (8:04 at my last race)
5) Decrease my body fat through cutting/bulking.

Ill add mine:

3 months:
-Reach 50% initial body weight lost (3.6 kilos/7.92 pounds)
-Get under 85 kilos (5.1 kilos/11.2 pounds)

By end of the year:
-Be under 82 kilos
-Be able to do just one lousy burpee properly
-By my at home scales to be down to 33% BF (altho they I dont think they are accurate as they put me currently at 41% and a dexa scan puts me at 27.6% and I suspect I am around 32%)

Hi everybody, new to the group. Nice topic, always a good idea to write down your goals.

Here are mine

Next 3 months:
Fully recover from my last ankle surgery
Drop to 10% BF and lose those damn love handles
Start training legs again (sadly no more heavy squat//leg press/hack sq or even DL... unless I want another surgery soon)

By the end of the year:
Lean bulk to 75kg, keeping BF at 10/12%
Increase my bench press 1RM by 5/10kg (130kg in May)

I'm new here. This is the one group that looks knowledgeable and helpful without all the BS and praise God you are not Beachbody coaches (they are like leaches around here)


My one goal is to figure out how many darn calories I need to eat to lose again. I was losing on 1600 and doing C25K. Been fighting the same 5 pounds for a couple months now. Up and down, Up and down.


I got serious July 5th and did 1,000 online calculators and am trying 1900 cals at 45/45/20 with 3 days of lifting and 3 days of walking. I am right on the edge of Onederland and its killing me to sit here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Log everyday and watch macros
2. Try 1900 cals with 3 days of lifting (NROL4W)
3. HIT ONDERLAND

You guys have such awesome goals, it gets me all pumped up reading them. Mine are a lot more basic.

Lose 15 pounds of fat

Keep doing Starting Strength but move towards intermediate programming.

OK, OK, I'll be more specific:

Deadlift bodyweight (185-ish)

Squat 75% of body weight (140-ish)

Bench 80

OHP 65

Did I mention losing 15 pounds of fat?

3 Months Goals
-break 200lbs (1.5x BW) on my deadlift (this was originally end of the year goal, but i'm only 15lbs away).
-first unassisted strict pull up (got my first few kipping last week)
-get back in the 130s (currently 144)

End of the Year
-Back squat 185 (currently 160)
-reach goal weight of 125-130lbs and start eating at maintenance cals
-increase all lifts

Next 3 months

- Finally be able to comfortably get into size 12...if not 10
- lose 3 inches...or whenever I figure out my actual bf% - lose 5% bf
- continue to get more consistent with workouts and increase workout days from 3 to at least 5. Also have at least one active rest day instead of just a completely lazy day
- be consistent in completing monthly goals
- get the set of adjustable cap dumbbells I want and max the weight out so I can buy bigger plates to do weighted dumbbell squats, Bulgarian squats, shoulder presses, etc.
- Manage macros more consistently
- Be able to run 10min and 1 mile without stopping as well as be able to run that mile in 12 minutes or less.

By end of year

- Get down to a size 9
- lose at least 10% Body Fat
- increase my weights to:
- cable deadlift - 200lbs (currently at about 130lbs)
- chest press - 180lbs (currently at about 120lbs)
- bent over cable rows w/ rope attachment - 150lbs (currently at about 80-90lbs)
- Do 1 chin up and 1 pull up unassisted. (currently able to do 2 sets of 2 half chin ups and 3 sets of 1 half pull up)
- Be able to do one hand push ups (currently able to do a set of 32 full push ups)
- Hammer Curls - 70lbs (currently around 30-40lbs)
- Side Laterals and Front Raises - 60lbs (currently at 20-30lbs. Really weak at this)
- be able to do weighted squats, Bulgarian squats, shoulder presses and other dumbbell exercises of 40lbs +
- be able to run 5k without stopping

Goals to be achieved by Sept 30th

PR in Squat, Deadlift, OHP.

Knock two minutes off my 5k time (current best 35:40 or so)

Lose 20 lbs of fat. Took BF% average from the thread in ETF, measured myself and averaged them out to be 30% currently. Would like to get that to 25%

Do Crossfit 3 times a week, run at least once a week and possibly twice. If only run one, at least one walk (preferably two.) One "do nothing" day per week, always.

So a ****-ton of foam rolling/flexibility work. I still can't get the proper rest position on a clean. Need to loosen up my lats and triceps something fierce.

Stretch goal: Do a pull up.

Mine are about the same. 3 months and then maintain...

Get in the SOLID 140's. No bouncing back to the 150's

Get my nutrition in order so a carb doesn't throw my body into a whirlwind

Get my bodyfat under 20%

Get familiar in the weight room and rock it

Look like Sarah. :happy:

Just remembered that I do have a couple of specific goals for the near future (apart from not getting fatter or weaker):

* 5 pull-ups in a row
* learn how to power clean and snatch. I used to be a decent high/long jumper in my youth so I am curious to see if my explosivity can translate into power

A quick update: I've met two of my three goals way ahead of schedule! I haven't tried snatches yet, but I am up to 5 chin-ups per set now and I have gotten the hang of the power clean movement. I'd like to increase my PC weight a bit more before attempting snatches.

That is utterly fantastic!!

Two months left, but I'll jump in.
1) I want to lose one inch off my stomach circumference (currently 37).
2) Increase my chest to 43 inches (currently 42.25).
3) 200+ miles of walking/running.