[Sportsandrec] your fittness goals for the up comming year?

[Bill Kociaba]

Hi all,

I have noticed that this list has been very quiet of late and thought I
would throw out something for conversation. First I want to say I never make
new years resolutions.  No one ever keeps them and most times people make
unrealistic ones so they have an excuse to not keep them.  That being said I
like to set personal goals in my weight training and usually will set time
frames such as my birthday(in may) or by the end of summer, or by a trip I
am planning on taking.  I feel these time frames or deadlines(as thats what
they really are)work very well for me.  As usually they are a three to six
month time period rather than just saying, "I want to (insert goal) next
year." 

I have set the following goals for my strength training/fittness program for
the following year; 

by my birthday(may 21) I want to be able to do 15 pull ups(I have always
sucked at them so I avoided them) 

I want to be able to incline press the 100lb dumbells for at least 3 reps

I want to achieve a body weight millitarypress 

and finally I want to lose 10-15 lbs of bodyfat

I have two more goals for the year that I can not put a time frame on.  The
reason being that I have no control when  the events will take place.

I want to be certifeid as a TRX trainer and I want to become a HKC certifeid
kettlebell trainer.

I have spoken to the TRX people and they are very receptive to my doing one
of their training programs there are simply none booked in a reasonable
distance at this point.  The HKC people were not so receptive but pretty
much said they would be happy to take my money and if I could do it great
and if not just be prepaired that I would not get any breaks.  It is a pass
or fail training program that requires a lot of hard physical work  and not
just a written test like most personal training certs are. I will simply
have to go into it more prepaired than the rest of the people taking the
class.

OK thats it for me now I would like to hear from some of you as to what you
would like to achievein your own fittness programs in the near future.

I think this list can be more than just an exchange of information and ideas
but also a great source of support and motivation.  I would love to hear
from some of you now and then verbaly kicking my butt to keep me going and
would be more than happy to do the same for any of you who want/need a
little push.

Happy new year to you all

Bill

PS I hope everyone is having a wonderful holliday.