Goals for 2020?

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  • mjhurry
    mjhurry Posts: 29 Member
    Oooh, I'm 82.6kg right now, if I could hit 70kg by the end of the year I'll be over the moon. Also, I will be very impressed with myself if I can do 20 full push-ups by then.
  • billkansas
    billkansas Posts: 267 Member
    billkansas wrote: »
    How's everyone doing on their goals for 2020? I'm hoping Coronavirus hasn't stopped you but understand if you had to make some adjustments.

    I think I'm about halfway towards the 1000 lb club. I believed myself 123 lbs short at the beginning of the year and I think I'm now only about 60 lbs away. This breaks down to only needing about (3, 15, 40) pounds to my bench, squat, and deadlift respectively. This is an estimate though as my heaviest squat was actually a 317.5 x 4 at RPE 9 and when I reviewed the video footage discovered I was barely shy on depth. Long story. Still need to do more 1 rep maximum attempts but trying to get my squat depth correct first. Also still trying to figure out the best way to strap 30 lb dumbbells to my barbell because my home gym is a bit short on plates such that I can practice deadlifts above 350 lbs. Any suggestions?

    I'm fatter than I've ever been at 215 lbs but eating a lot seems to take the lid off of my lifts. Looking forward now to my next cut.

    Did everyone reach their Goals for 2020?

    I hit my strength peak in May (above) and went through a downward spiral which I'll attribute to new job, life stress, and Covid recovery this month. I haven't been tracking my macros. I know, excuses, excuses.

    Here's where I'm at with estimated 1RM's: Bench 217, Squat 273, Deadlift 345 or 835 total which makes me further away from 1000 lbs than I was at the beginning of 2019. If I take my best lifts during all of 2019 I was only 7 lbs shy of 1000... so close, but I never took time to test it.

    What I've learned is that I absolutely need to ALWAYS be aware of my 1 rep maximums and test it fairly often. Contributing to my downfall for 2019 was that I worried about program adherence but lost site of my primary goal of making my lift 1RMs go UP. I'm going to tweak my program- quit following the Bridge 2.0 and do a "Bridge-2.0-like" program however continually practice 1RMs with perhaps slightly less volume (been overly sore, too much). I think I was having some real success at the beginning of 2020 when I was running a program like this. I'm most successful when I'm rigorously tracking 1RMs and focusing on making them go up.

    Thanks for "listening". Best wishes to you regarding your goals this year and next.

  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,427 MFP Moderator
    psuLemon wrote: »
    psuLemon wrote: »
    1. Get lean enough for abs
    2. Recovery from all my injuries
    3. Increase cardio
    4. Increase flexibility
    5. Create and share new meals and desserts recipes.
    6. 275 lb bench

    1. Making progress (down 7-8 lbs)
    2. Almost
    3. Completed
    4. Completed
    5. Done (started a FB group for this)
    6. I was making good progress until corona. I had a 1rm of 250. If my gym opens up again, then i hope to hit this.

    Still the same. Still working on injury recovery as new ones popped up.
  • jruch23
    jruch23 Posts: 1,069 Member
    300lbs squat and 600lbs leg press by June. 120lbs bicep curl and 250lbs bench.
  • B_Plus_Effort
    B_Plus_Effort Posts: 311 Member
    15% body fat, please and thank you
  • B_Plus_Effort
    B_Plus_Effort Posts: 311 Member
    edited January 2021
    mjhurry wrote: »
    Oooh, I'm 82.6kg right now, if I could hit 70kg by the end of the year I'll be over the moon. Also, I will be very impressed with myself if I can do 20 full push-ups by then.

    just keep trying to do one more push up every time you do them, also push ups are a very advanced exercise and strenuous on your joints because it's difficult to adjust the weight (you can do regular ups or kneeling but that's about all, you can't grab a 15 pounder or a 25 pounder type a thing)

    try adjusting your arms as you do them to find your sweet spot, there is no One Way to do push ups, coming from a guy who has alien joints ha ha I struggle with push ups and bench press but I recently learned I am not alone, so keep adjusting your arms, elbows, hands in or out or this or that until you find that spot when you are actually Pushing Up with your chest not just your arms, practice against the wall standing up, see how your arms want to go when you push against the wall, now do the same on the floor

    and yes I know you didn't ask for help, ha ha I am sorry, but for some reason the devil made me write this

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