What are your 2020 Fitness Goals?

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  • mikehildebrand73
    mikehildebrand73 Posts: 1 Member
    Threefold:
    1. Maintain a consistent healthy food and exercise program which fits my nutrition and ability to still enjoy life while fueling me and allowing to become stronger and healthier
    2. Create a productive mindful program and stress relief outside of workouts for strong mental health
    3. To conduct the above in order to harass and play with my wife and kids as much as possible outdoors
  • Katmary71
    Katmary71 Posts: 7,142 Member
    Chieflrg wrote: »
    MrThin13 wrote: »
    I would like to be 20lbs lighter and not feel so much in pain.
    I know it's not a marathon run or lifting mark. I would like to be in better shape to do a mud run this coming 2020.

    As a person who has dealt with chronic pain 24/7 for the past couple decades I feel this.

    There is established evidence that resistance training helps with pain. I encourage you to reap the benefit of resistance training.

    Good luck with your goal(s).

    I second this. I've had back surgeries and deal with nerve damage. I've had to compensate for what I can't do but strength training has helped by strengthening my body and increasing my mobility. It hasn't touched the nerve damage.
  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    Loved reading everyone's goals. Some great stuff!

    I've dusted off the goals that I put on hold last year to allow for a year of injury rehab. While I'm just about recovered, I'm also "de-conditioned", a.ka. overweight and slow. :)

    So, my goals for 2020 are:
    1. Maintain a regular yoga practice.
    2. Stay healthy during my training builds.
    3. Get to a 5:59:59 finishing time in a half iron distance triathlon.
    4. Get to a 1:54:59 finishing time in an open half marathon.
    5. Help our training group's "men's team" beat the "women's team" in both the race and the costume competition during the RiMaConn Relay in August. (95 mile relay from Mass to RI to Connecticut). This won't be easy, since the women are seasoned marathoners with far better creativity and fashion sense than the men. :)
  • runnermom419
    runnermom419 Posts: 366 Member
    Wow! All these are great! Thank you everyone for taking the time to share your 2020 goals!
  • bobchicoria
    bobchicoria Posts: 4 Member
    As a 70 male in 2020
    Drop 5 lbs to 135
    Complete a half century ride
    Bench my weight
  • cyndit1
    cyndit1 Posts: 170 Member
    Finish the 9+1 for NYRR and get a guaranteed entry into the New York Marathon for 2021. Ran it twice before and want the third for my last .

    Also, finally do it right and lose these last stubborn 10 lbs and keep lifting regularly.
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    spiriteagle99 wrote: »
    I want to break 4 hours for the marathon. Current PR is 4:01:30. After that I want to drop pace goals and just race for fun. I'd like to race more, because I enjoy it, but feel so much self-imposed pressure to PR I don't do many, especially when my health is iffy.

    I am very much in this same boat. I have tried in the past to run races for fun and forget about my time, but then I ultimately end up feeling lost without a goal. So I am trying a different approach of balancing the two. Thus my goals for next year:

    1. Run Big Sur marathon without any regards to finish time. Enjoy the scenery and take lots of pictures.

    2. Get entry into New York marathon and run it well. A PR would be nice, but I feel like I may be aging myself out of that hope.

    3. Run a sub 7 minute/mile 5K.

    4. Run a trail marathon or similar distance for fun.

    4. Continue to do plyo and strength training and regain some of my flexibility. Would love to be able to do full plow again (yes, I have become that inflexible).

    5. An overnight kayaking/camping trip with my husband.
  • neugebauer52
    neugebauer52 Posts: 1,120 Member
    Touch my toes whilst standing up. Fit into / onto at least some gym machines. Try to reach the bottom of the swimming pool - I am still floating like a giant whale.
  • PennyP312
    PennyP312 Posts: 161 Member
    Improve my bench, OHP, squat, and dead numbers while keeping pain at bay.

    Stick to 6 days working out, 4 lifting 2 spin.
    Get to goal weight (that maybe 2021...I want to go slow so my lifts don’t suffer too much)

  • ironhajee
    ironhajee Posts: 384 Member
    Out run my diet lol! But seriously I'm still trying to complete an IRONMAN TRIATHLON!

    2.4 mile sarim
    112 mile bike
    26.2 mite run
  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    ironhajee wrote: »
    Out run my diet lol! But seriously I'm still trying to complete an IRONMAN TRIATHLON!

    2.4 mile sarim
    112 mile bike
    26.2 mite run

    Sounds like a great goal. Have you signed up for a race yet? If so, which one?
  • jhanleybrown
    jhanleybrown Posts: 240 Member
    3.2 or higher power to weight ratio on the bike. Working numerator and denominator (which is why in on MFP).

    Side benefit:
    Lower bad cholesterol to acceptable limits. Avoid statins.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    Lean down and lose my baby weight slowly (have about 10-12lbs left) and build my strength back up, try not to lose too fast, get adequate nutrition and protein. I would like to do this by Spring 2020, maintain/recomp through the summer then run bulk #4 August/September 2020.
  • jessrex
    jessrex Posts: 41 Member
    Get to a healthy weight BMI (130 for my height) then start building muscle. Been researching for a while now while losing weight and am so ready to start this goal. I have 26lbs to go! Take more fun classes; yoga, pilates, Barre, stripper stuff, etc.
  • nikkibrianne64
    nikkibrianne64 Posts: 90 Member
    I love everyones goals! Very inspiring!

    1. Get to goal weight 130 ( I'm 12 away!)
    2. Participate is Sprint triathlon June
    3. Savage race in Sept
    4. Half/full marathon in Oct
  • slbbw
    slbbw Posts: 329 Member
    2020 goals:
    sub 50 min 10K in race or training. I have done a 52min so it may be a lofty goal, but I have never really done any speed training nad I would like to start incorporating some in.

    Do a pull up and eventually get to at least 3 pull ups

    100lb bench
    150 lb squat
    200lb dead

    Get back into triathlon. I was to complete a half iron but I think that may be a 2021 goal.

    get to 138 (-10lbs). Not aiming to stay there long, but I want to see how hard it would be to get to that weight.
  • avalonblues
    avalonblues Posts: 558 Member
    edited November 2019
    Get back to my PR in the 5K (28:35). I 've been over 30 min the last few races because I have slacked in training. Easy fix, just gotta do it.
  • smith667metal
    smith667metal Posts: 29 Member
    1. Get sub 10% bf
    2. Lean bulk build strength and get a 400lbs bench press 500lbs squat and 600lbs deadlift
    3. Then switch my focus to proper bodybuilding and maybe eventually enter in a bodybuilding competition.
  • Whydahdad71
    Whydahdad71 Posts: 319 Member
    I wanted to enter a men's over 40 physique contest.
  • stephie_nyc
    stephie_nyc Posts: 96 Member
    Training:
    Squat 265
    Deadlift 340
    Bench 135

    Nutrition:
    Have a healthy relationship with food.

    Physique:
    Find a “happy” place and stay there. 140-145 and 138 in the summer.

  • weightliftingbarbie
    weightliftingbarbie Posts: 156 Member
    To get to my goal weight and look and feel great 😊 continue to keep lifting and just be happy 😁
  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
    My first and main goal is to pass my Orange belt test in Krav Maga in Febuary. But then I still have 10 and a half months left in the year so here are some others:

    Be able to do an unassisted pull up.

    Be able to bench Press my body weight.

    Complete the determination race (an obstacle course mud race) an hour quicker than I did it this year. My team was one of the last to finish the entire race this year.

    Complete a sprint triathlon.

    Run a sub-30 5k.
  • KrystalKayeFisher
    KrystalKayeFisher Posts: 32 Member
    My current weight is 204. I want to be 125 by this time next year.

    I plan on doing a 5k and hitting the hiking trails around my state.
  • JustSomeEm
    JustSomeEm Posts: 20,287 MFP Moderator
    I actually just decided to start working toward my 2020 goals today. In December, I"m going to hold myself accountable for restarting resistance training, and doing *something* (even if it's just going for a walk or doing a few pushups) every day. I have a 30-day app that I'm going to begin using today for planks, wall sits, pushups and sit-ups... So that will give me about 5 to 15 minutes of exercise each day... Sometimes small victories help. :) For 2020, I"m going to:

    1. Get back on the wagon and get rid of the 10-ish pounds I've regained.
    2. Restart and stick with resistance training.
    3. Heal my foot injury and start running short races again.
    4. Ride a century (next fall).

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