What Have You Done In 2016 For Your Fitness, And What Do You Plan To Do In 2017?

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  • ChelzFit
    ChelzFit Posts: 292 Member
    After having 2 kids back to back I was able to get back into running and completed a couple 10ks only to find that my lingering knee pain is arthritis. My goals for 2017 are to focus more on the weights and to listen to my body more....rest when my body tells me to...this is something I struggle with.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    cerise_noir wrote: »
    Weight lifting and jogging (but I cannot jog now due to pissed-off fracture)..I still walk though.

    I also started reading The Beck Diet Solution to help me separate emotions from food.

    I forgot to put my goal for 2017....

    To BE at my goal weight. After the year(s) I've had, I am hoping 2017 will be my year..

    Another goal is to be stronger.

    Another: to be able to run 5k or even 10k.

    My mom would be proud of me.
  • sarko15
    sarko15 Posts: 330 Member
    I did my first triathlon in April 2016. I was pretty unhappy with my time and placement, but I did it!

    In 2017 I'd like to do get back into running 5 & 10Ks because I kind of stopped this last year. Maybe I'll do another half marathon, or I'll do another triathlon. I really just want to get back into running races because I think it helps keep me consistent, and they're a weirdly fun way to spend a Saturday morning and plus there's usually snacks and/or beer afterwards!

    I'd also like to do more strength training. I just kind of screw around in the weight room now, nothing super serious or consistent. At the end of 2015 I gained a lot of muscle, really quickly by lifting heavy. I never looked like a fitness model or anything but I had way more strength--when I was moving apartments, I moved a huge couch by myself (I'm still not really sure how I did that). Those kinds of non-scale victories are so worth it to me, and I'd like to have more of those.
  • Cylphin60
    Cylphin60 Posts: 863 Member
    2016: Lost 14 or so lbs, lots of strength and some endurance training. I don't think I really added any muscle as much as I toned up what was there, but it feels great.

    2017: I don't have this completely mapped out yet, but long term, repeated goals for the year include 5-10 mile hikes through New Hampshires mountains, and proving to myself that I, as a grandfather, can outlast and outclimb my kids and their husbands lol.

    I couldn't a year ago. That's changing, even if it kills me. :D
  • 35dollars
    35dollars Posts: 832 Member
    This year I have:
    Dropped another 15-20 pounds (currently oscillating around those last 5 pounds), which took me down to the lightest I've been for 32 years.
    Ridden over 2600 miles on my bike, which is comfortably double last year, which itself was my best cycling year before now.
    Got regular in the gym, and started on the AllPro regime, though after one food cycle that's got a bit interrupted by illness.

    Next year I want to
    Do at least 4 full cycles of AllPro, and dramatically improve the weights that I'm lifting.
    Keep the fat off, but add another 10ish pounds of muscle.
    Ideally, torch a bit more body fat
    Increase my bike mileage - maybe around the 3500 mile mark, and improve the max distances as well
  • Z_I_L_L_A
    Z_I_L_L_A Posts: 2,399 Member
    I'm old, so I've learned to let go of some things even if I don't want to. 2013 tore knee and shoulder up, had surgery on both. Before that I was power lifting 3 times a week, crossfit twice a day 3 times a week. Been working my way back since. 2016 ruptured herniated disc, MRI says my back is a wreck. But I work around things and injuries. I have a 385 flat bench, just hit 345 incline bench and 250 seated military press, all in 2016. 2017 I hope to compete in a power lifting bench meet, hoping to reach 405 lb.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    edited December 2016
    So the plan for the year was three marathons, an ultra and two half marathons

    What actually happened was a calf tear in January, which meant the first marathon of the year had to be downgraded to a half marathon.

    Where I ended up:
    • March - Larmer Tree Half Marathon
    • May - The Ox Races - Daylight 10K, night 10K and a half marathon all over the same weekend
    • June - Giants Head Marathon
    • August - Bad Cow Half Marathon & East Farm Frolic 12 Hour Ultramarathon
    • October - Clarendon Marathon
    • December - Bovington Half Marathon

    All trail races.

    Next year I've already booked four marathons and two 12 hour Ultras, and I'm planning on the Ox 10Ks, the Clarendon Marathon or Half Marathon and probably the Bovington Marathon as well.

  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Flipped back and forth between lifting and running. Basically, maintained mileage (25-30 mi /wk) and strength overall. Did improve form and range of motion on squats tremendously.

    I'm about 1/3 of the way into a marathon training program. Just pulled up with what I'm pretty sure is mild hamstring tendonitis so I'm resting and will ease back to where I left off once the pain goes away. Should be able to run my first marathon in 2017. Need to do some regular body weight strength moves at home until I'm ready to pick up lifting again.
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    I ran a full marathon in 2016! But I definitely gained weight.
    2017 I hope to run a full marathon and maintain my weight!
  • lizzyh207
    lizzyh207 Posts: 26 Member
    I started caring about my health and fitness. I started eating better putting thought in to what was going in to my body. I also joined and gym and started working out.

    I haven't made a lot of progress yet but it's a start.

    In 2017 I plan on putting more effort in to working out and losing weight.
  • Cylphin60
    Cylphin60 Posts: 863 Member
    lizzyh207 wrote: »
    I started caring about my health and fitness. I started eating better putting thought in to what was going in to my body. I also joined and gym and started working out.

    I haven't made a lot of progress yet but it's a start.

    In 2017 I plan on putting more effort in to working out and losing weight.

    Congratulations on the start. It'll pay off. :)
  • Titanuim
    Titanuim Posts: 331 Member
    For me 2016 was all about attaining flexibility. I had been lifting weights for a couple of years but at the beginning of 2016 I had to rethink my approach as my issues with limited range of movement in various joints was making me hit barriers to lifting heavier plus I was starting to get niggly hip pains.

    So I did some research and started doing Aerial Yoga as the inversions are meant to be good for decompressing your spine. It worked in sorting out my aches and pains associated with lifting but then I feel in love with the whole Aerial experience and did lots of training on the Aerial Hammock to preform tricks and flips and poses. Unfortunately you do need to be very flexible to perform well, which I am not, so I also took loots of training to get bendy including lots of stretching classes and pilates classes using the reformer machine. I am happy to report that after nearly a year of training I am now very bendy and flexible and graceful so the effort was worthwhile.

    Next year I want to conquer the gymnastic rings and handstands - and finally break my hoodoo maximum lifting weights.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    2016, So far, I've lost 80 lb. I've exercised with cardio machines a lot. I've done a few body weight and weight lifting exercises. I've participated in a couple of 5k events. I drank a lot of water. I slept a lot. For 2017 I'm pretty sure I'll drink water and sleep. I just hope I sleep with the fishes.
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    I bulked and gained weight, hopefully some muscle. I hired a coach, competed in powerlifting, and then accidentally gained more weight (whoops).

    Goals in 2017 are to deadlift over 300, squat 225 effortlessly, get a little leaner, compete again, and maybe do some cardio a couple times.
  • CarolPre
    CarolPre Posts: 1,866 Member
    For most of 2016, I had Plantar Fasciitis so bad my workout were scaled way back and that caused me to gain back most of the weight I had lost. I finally went to the doctor about it and after new orthotics and a steroid shot, I'm back to normal. He told me no more treadmill workouts, but to walk outside or on an indoor track or to use an elliptical machine. He told me to take it easy for another month and then I'm back at it. For 2017, I'm hoping to add workouts back into my daily routine. My goal is to lose 50 pounds this year.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,687 Member
    edited December 2016
    Machka9 wrote: »
    What have I done?

    This: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10364677/2016-goals-quarter-of-the-year-done#latest


    And also ...

    After the last event I talk about there, my husband and I attempted a 600 km randonnee. Unfortunately, between the 400 km event (mentioned in the link) and that 600 km event, I had developed a mystery illness which took me a month to recover from, and I wasn't able to train according to my plan. Just one week before the 600 km event, I was battling a raging fever as the last bit of the mystery illness departed. So ... we did complete 390 km of the 600 km, but I just didn't have it in me to do the whole 600.

    Next year, I'd like to do the full set of events ... a Super Randonneur. The 200K, 300K, 400K, and a successful 600K.


    So ...

    2015 was the year of the weight loss.
    2016 was the year of building up again more or less to where I was a few years ago with the long distance cycling.
    2017 ... well, hopefully, even more. And no mystery illnesses.


    I was just looking at the calendar for 2017, and suddenly realised that I've got a 360 km ride on the schedule for mid March. Guess I'll be ramping up the cycling a little quicker than I thought. :grin:

  • billglitch
    billglitch Posts: 538 Member
    i have lost 117 pounds...going to lose another 25
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