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For fun, a physical fitness bucket list, nothing too crazy, all realistic for me. After seeing what I've been able to accomplish in the past 4 months with a less than excellent diet, and slightly over training myself (not a good thing), and having some difficulties sleeping, I'm surprised other people seem to struggle so hard accomplishing what are honestly really minimal fitness goals, even in perfectly healthy people.
Right now, I'm just powerlifting, following the popular, simple stronglifts program to gain mass and strength. I don't think it makes sense to say, doing bodyweight, strength, and cardiovascular (endurance and speed) training all at the same time. That sounds like serious overtraining to me, and I wonder at football coaches in high school that overwork their players sometimes believing more = better. 2-a-days are silly. So, one thing at a time here.
Nonetheless, I'm amazed at how fast the human body can adapt, and I think most everyone else will be amazed too and stun themselves, if they sincerely tried instead of limiting themselves.
When I started, I could only squat about 105x5x5 (weight in lbs x set x reps), now I'm at 165x5x5.
When I started, I could only deadlift about 135-145x1x5, now I'm at 210x1x5.
When I started, I could only bench about 75,80x5x5, now I'm at 130x5x5 (not quite at 1xplate yet).
I've gained almost 30 lbs in 4 months, that scale moves up almost every day I go to the gym.
My progress is still kinda slow though--not just being stupidly humble there either, I've seen what other people have done, it blows me away, I got set back a little bit at the beginning of this month, so I'm blasting off now.
I already clearly look thicker and more ripped in the mirror [naked, can't really tell with my clothes on yet, although my breasts are starting to stick out of my shirts now, heh, my pants feel a bit tighter] and I'm not even doing a body building routine or anything, just compound barbell movements. I'll post a progress picture in a couple months. One of my friends had a picture of me with my shirt off at a rave in September '09. I was like, "Holy shit, I was that skinny?!" It motivates me, looking at that picture, I keep it on my desktop (it helps me eat my meals), I looked malnourished in that picture, maybe it was the lighting, I'm at a much healthier weight now though.
I have no idea what my 1 rep maxes are since I've never tried.
Pushups and chinups... I never really do them, sometimes I'll just randomly try to do some for fun. I can do about 30 pushups before collapsing, and something like 8 or 9 chinups... Yeah I got a ways to go on those.
I've always wanted to do a marathon, or some sort of long-distance hiking adventure. The Appalachian Trail is an obvious and popular one. I used to work with a guy that completed the entire trail with his wife, and he was like 50 years old. He showed me a bunch of pictures, really beautiful, I would savor the solitude. When I was 14, I ran my fastest mile which was around 5:40, 2 miles at 12:10, I can run decently. With a little training, how hard could a marathon or casually walking really far be?
Once I reach my strength goals, I want to start doing bodyweight exercises, probably follow the routine in Convict Conditioning by Paul Wade, get a set of gymnastic rings and do some stuff on those, do recreational wall climbing... start running around.
I'll let you know in about 6-7 years when I complete all of the above.
- Squat 2.5x bodyweight
- Deadlift 3x bodyweight
- Bench 2x bodyweight
- Weigh 200 lbs
- 150 pushups
- 50 chinups
- Walk a mile with 1x my bodyweight on a barbell in any amount of time
- Complete a marathon in any amount of time
- Hike the Appalachian Trail in any amount of time
- Carry a fully grown adult that is injured / in danger with my bare hands to safety (LIKE A REAL MAN)
Right now, I'm just powerlifting, following the popular, simple stronglifts program to gain mass and strength. I don't think it makes sense to say, doing bodyweight, strength, and cardiovascular (endurance and speed) training all at the same time. That sounds like serious overtraining to me, and I wonder at football coaches in high school that overwork their players sometimes believing more = better. 2-a-days are silly. So, one thing at a time here.
Nonetheless, I'm amazed at how fast the human body can adapt, and I think most everyone else will be amazed too and stun themselves, if they sincerely tried instead of limiting themselves.
When I started, I could only squat about 105x5x5 (weight in lbs x set x reps), now I'm at 165x5x5.
When I started, I could only deadlift about 135-145x1x5, now I'm at 210x1x5.
When I started, I could only bench about 75,80x5x5, now I'm at 130x5x5 (not quite at 1xplate yet).
I've gained almost 30 lbs in 4 months, that scale moves up almost every day I go to the gym.
My progress is still kinda slow though--not just being stupidly humble there either, I've seen what other people have done, it blows me away, I got set back a little bit at the beginning of this month, so I'm blasting off now.
I already clearly look thicker and more ripped in the mirror [naked, can't really tell with my clothes on yet, although my breasts are starting to stick out of my shirts now, heh, my pants feel a bit tighter] and I'm not even doing a body building routine or anything, just compound barbell movements. I'll post a progress picture in a couple months. One of my friends had a picture of me with my shirt off at a rave in September '09. I was like, "Holy shit, I was that skinny?!" It motivates me, looking at that picture, I keep it on my desktop (it helps me eat my meals), I looked malnourished in that picture, maybe it was the lighting, I'm at a much healthier weight now though.
I have no idea what my 1 rep maxes are since I've never tried.
Pushups and chinups... I never really do them, sometimes I'll just randomly try to do some for fun. I can do about 30 pushups before collapsing, and something like 8 or 9 chinups... Yeah I got a ways to go on those.
I've always wanted to do a marathon, or some sort of long-distance hiking adventure. The Appalachian Trail is an obvious and popular one. I used to work with a guy that completed the entire trail with his wife, and he was like 50 years old. He showed me a bunch of pictures, really beautiful, I would savor the solitude. When I was 14, I ran my fastest mile which was around 5:40, 2 miles at 12:10, I can run decently. With a little training, how hard could a marathon or casually walking really far be?
Once I reach my strength goals, I want to start doing bodyweight exercises, probably follow the routine in Convict Conditioning by Paul Wade, get a set of gymnastic rings and do some stuff on those, do recreational wall climbing... start running around.
I'll let you know in about 6-7 years when I complete all of the above.
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