2022 Goals

[augeleven]

0) realizing that having calendar year-end goals is dumb for me since my life is structured completely around the school year

End of School Year goals
1) PR Murph - should be easy, last year’s time was sloow.
2) continue to effectively diet. On day 85, hoping to get to day 200 before a maintenance phase
3) PR my 5k, which means sub 27 minutes. I still think I can add speed by building my base and shedding some weight.
4) continue with my program to the end of June without hopping to something else
5) Be prepared for a summer of topless mowing the lawn and running in the streets.

Stretch goals
1) Bench 300/Squat 400/Deadlift 500
2) hike the Carter/Wildcat/Moriah traverse
3) sign up for a trail 50k in the fall
4) 20 chin-ups, even if they’re neutral grip and kinda cheaty.

[TimGarvey]

I am going to finally take assistance work seriously and get my extensors, glutes, and hamstrings strong. I have a glute ham/reverse hyper machine now so I have no excuses for having a fragile back and weak posterior chain any more.
Lifting goal will be an 1100 lbs total, at whatever body weight I end up at with a 34" waist.
Ski 30 days.
Mountain bike more.

[Allentown]

1. Run 2 miles a month
2. 16" left arm
3. Visible abs
4. Follow a program as written
5. Bench PR
6. Deadlift 455


Might add more.

[olekto]

I will not be able to hit my goals this year, so am a bit hesitant of committing something down now.

However:
Lose weight (currently 108 kg, was 104 kg before getting a cold and being stuck at home)
Get stronger
Get better conditioned (ran a 53.56 10k, want to beat that with quite a bit)
Compete in both endurance sports (did it twice this year, easy to get into and quite fun) and in a strength sport (seems harder to find and do)

[Adams]

My main goal is to get my weight up to well over 90kg. I've been too lazy when it comes to eating. I'm currently 87kg and very lean. So gaining 3kg+ should be very easy and quick as I could do with some more fat!

I have no interest in testing a one rep max these days.

I would like to get back to where I can squat 180kg (400lbs) x 10 and 200kg (440lbs) x 7. Right now I'm around 180kg x 3 and 200kg x 1, but that's after hardly squatting.

I'm aiming for 120kg x 8 and 130kg x 5 on the bench press.

Trap bar deadlift (low handle) 245kg x 5

All these goals are achievable if I eat.

Also, run 5km in under 22 minutes.

[OrderInChaos]

DL 405 (for 3 if I'm lucky)
BP 285 for 3
Wide Grip 225 for ~6
HBBS 315 for 3
FS 225 for work sets
OHP 185 for 3
BTN 135 for ~6

Get better at pronated pull-ups than neutral/supine chins
Front Lever
100 unbroken push-ups

BW 235 -> 215

[ColonelMoutarde]

Be 200 lbs at 12% bodyfat with 17 inches arms

[EggMcMuffin]

1) deadlift 500 at 180lbs~ BW
2) 100lb weighted chinup
3) run a half marathon
4) make some friends
5) fail really badly at 4
6) kill myself

[MarkKO]

1) deadlift 500 at 180lbs~ BW
2) 100lb weighted chinup
3) run a half marathon
4) make some friends
5) fail really badly at 4
6) kill myself

I hope 6 is a joke. You ok?

[EggMcMuffin]

1) deadlift 500 at 180lbs~ BW
2) 100lb weighted chinup
3) run a half marathon
4) make some friends
5) fail really badly at 4
6) kill myself

I hope 6 is a joke. You ok?

Yes and no. I'm about to turn 26 and am incredibly dissatisfied and frustrated with how my life is turning out. A lot of the times I feel like there is nothing left to do but turn in my life at the customer support desk for a full refund.

[Hanley]

there is nothing left to do but

...trip your balls off


Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide


^ they're everywhere around you (I used to live in Half Moon Bay).

[MarkKO]

1) deadlift 500 at 180lbs~ BW
2) 100lb weighted chinup
3) run a half marathon
4) make some friends
5) fail really badly at 4
6) kill myself

I hope 6 is a joke. You ok?

Yes and no. I'm about to turn 26 and am incredibly dissatisfied and frustrated with how my life is turning out. A lot of the times I feel like there is nothing left to do but turn in my life at the customer support desk for a full refund.

That's not great. Not uncommon, but not great.

Is there anything in particular that stands out as not how you has envisaged your life?

On consolation I will offer is that at 26, there's still a lot of potential to dig yourself out of almost any hole you've found yourself in and I say that from experience.

[Hardartery]

1) deadlift 500 at 180lbs~ BW
2) 100lb weighted chinup
3) run a half marathon
4) make some friends
5) fail really badly at 4
6) kill myself

I hope 6 is a joke. You ok?

Yes and no. I'm about to turn 26 and am incredibly dissatisfied and frustrated with how my life is turning out. A lot of the times I feel like there is nothing left to do but turn in my life at the customer support desk for a full refund.

That's not great. Not uncommon, but not great.

Is there anything in particular that stands out as not how you has envisaged your life?

On consolation I will offer is that at 26, there's still a lot of potential to dig yourself out of almost any hole you've found yourself in and I say that from experience.

I made my mistakes in my 20s, paid for them in my 30s, and ended up better than I ever expected in my 40s. Don't sweat it, you are not stupid and you will find your thing.

[EggMcMuffin]

there is nothing left to do but

...trip your balls off


Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide


^ they're everywhere around you (I used to live in Half Moon Bay).

That shit's going to make me go fucking insane(r), Hanley

1) deadlift 500 at 180lbs~ BW
2) 100lb weighted chinup
3) run a half marathon
4) make some friends
5) fail really badly at 4
6) kill myself

I hope 6 is a joke. You ok?

Yes and no. I'm about to turn 26 and am incredibly dissatisfied and frustrated with how my life is turning out. A lot of the times I feel like there is nothing left to do but turn in my life at the customer support desk for a full refund.

That's not great. Not uncommon, but not great.

Is there anything in particular that stands out as not how you has envisaged your life?

On consolation I will offer is that at 26, there's still a lot of potential to dig yourself out of almost any hole you've found yourself in and I say that from experience.

I mean, from a very early age I was perceptive enough to know my life was probably going to suck, but the reality of it is harder than I thought it would be. It's very hard to put into words what I feel, but most succinctly it's the feeling of living in a failed life, or having been here by accident. I've never been very comfortable in my own skin and pretty much my greatest wish is to be someone else entirely but that exactly isn't something that can be accomplished.

Pretty much, I'm like 1/4-2/4ths of the way to the grave (depending on life expectancy) with nothing to really show for it. I have never felt like I was in control of my own life, and spent the majority of my childhood and teen years shaped by my incredibly dysfunctional family and kind of spent my early 20's incredibly depressed and lost as a result and now I'm approaching 30 with no real ambitions, goals or really...anything. I have no relationships to speak of, nothing to look forward to but economic precarity until I die and at my current age it almost feels like I have nothing left to do but wait to die. I'm not really good at anything, I don't really particularly like the world around me and feel constantly bewildered and shocked by what is basically normal human behavior and being almost completely unable to socialize I miss out on like 90% of what makes life worth living anyway.

I'm just profoundly tired and uninterested in living. I don't really think that's depression talking, I sometimes genuinely think I was wired in such a way that it was never going to be all that enjoyable for me. When I was a teenager and more blatantly more unstable and emotional to the point of nearly constantly having to avoid breaking down in front of authority figures in between fits of rage I remember I would be almost scolded for wanting to kill myself, as I were not allowed that agency, or that the idea that life itself simply isn't for everyone is a valid concept. I'm still not really sure what to do with those feelings. Am I just here to bear witness to my own suffering? Why are we here? What is even the point of all this?

To add, I've been absolutely miserable almost since birth to the point where the idea that I could even be reasonably contented is conpletely alien. This is my pattern: depressive rumination, pointless metaphysical preoccupation and an intense sensitivity to the frailty of corporeal existence.

[GrainsAndGains]

This year has definitely been kind of settling into the plateau for real. Small PRs in all of the three lifts, but certainly nothing earth-shattering. On the other hand, I've been able to work in a weekly medium-to-high-intensity bike ride to my training and I've stuck with it.

Setting some modest goals:
1) Deadlift 420 -> 430 (maybe switch back to conventional from sumo)
2) Bench 230 -> 235
3) Squat 335 -> 340
4) Heal the persistent tendonitis in my left elbow (don't have a plan for this)

[DCR]

I’ll play:

Bench 300 (as I should have this year)
Deadlift 440
Squat…eh don’t even care. Let’s say front squat 225x5.

Spend a lot more time with DBs getting swole.

[MarkKO]

there is nothing left to do but

...trip your balls off


Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide


^ they're everywhere around you (I used to live in Half Moon Bay).

That shit's going to make me go fucking insane(r), Hanley

1) deadlift 500 at 180lbs~ BW
2) 100lb weighted chinup
3) run a half marathon
4) make some friends
5) fail really badly at 4
6) kill myself

I hope 6 is a joke. You ok?

Yes and no. I'm about to turn 26 and am incredibly dissatisfied and frustrated with how my life is turning out. A lot of the times I feel like there is nothing left to do but turn in my life at the customer support desk for a full refund.

That's not great. Not uncommon, but not great.

Is there anything in particular that stands out as not how you has envisaged your life?

On consolation I will offer is that at 26, there's still a lot of potential to dig yourself out of almost any hole you've found yourself in and I say that from experience.

I mean, from a very early age I was perceptive enough to know my life was probably going to suck, but the reality of it is harder than I thought it would be. It's very hard to put into words what I feel, but most succinctly it's the feeling of living in a failed life, or having been here by accident. I've never been very comfortable in my own skin and pretty much my greatest wish is to be someone else entirely but that exactly isn't something that can be accomplished.

Pretty much, I'm like 1/4-2/4ths of the way to the grave (depending on life expectancy) with nothing to really show for it. I have never felt like I was in control of my own life, and spent the majority of my childhood and teen years shaped by my incredibly dysfunctional family and kind of spent my early 20's incredibly depressed and lost as a result and now I'm approaching 30 with no real ambitions, goals or really...anything. I have no relationships to speak of, nothing to look forward to but economic precarity until I die and at my current age it almost feels like I have nothing left to do but wait to die. I'm not really good at anything, I don't really particularly like the world around me and feel constantly bewildered and shocked by what is basically normal human behavior and being almost completely unable to socialize I miss out on like 90% of what makes life worth living anyway.

I'm just profoundly tired and uninterested in living. I don't really think that's depression talking, I sometimes genuinely think I was wired in such a way that it was never going to be all that enjoyable for me. When I was a teenager and more blatantly more unstable and emotional to the point of nearly constantly having to avoid breaking down in front of authority figures in between fits of rage I remember I would be almost scolded for wanting to kill myself, as I were not allowed that agency, or that the idea that life itself simply isn't for everyone is a valid concept. I'm still not really sure what to do with those feelings. Am I just here to bear witness to my own suffering? Why are we here? What is even the point of all this?

To add, I've been absolutely miserable almost since birth to the point where the idea that I could even be reasonably contented is conpletely alien. This is my pattern: depressive rumination, pointless metaphysical preoccupation and an intense sensitivity to the frailty of corporeal existence.

On the plus side, you are definitely in control of your life so you can choose to make something of it if you want to.

It sounds like you've had a bad run, but that doesn't mean you can't improve it. It won't necessarily be easy, but may well not be as hard as you think either.

[leprechaun71]

Currently got a nasty cold (daycare special) but my goals for this year are:

Bench: 405 (current e1rm 355)
Squat: 495 (current e1rm 445)
DL: 495 (current e1rm 465)

I think if I can stay healthy it's possible. Most of my stoppages last year were related to sickness and not injuries so there's that.

[MarkKO]

Currently got a nasty cold (daycare special) but my goals for this year are:

Bench: 405 (current e1rm 355)
Squat: 495 (current e1rm 445)
DL: 495 (current e1rm 465)

I think if I can stay healthy it's possible. Most of my stoppages last year were related to sickness and not injuries so there's that.

I mean, why not round squat and pull to 500?

[leprechaun71]

I mean, why not round squat and pull to 500?

I think that extra 5lbs would be too much and totally unattainable. But seriously I more interested in 5 plates than an even 500.