[Sportsandrec] your fittness goals for the upcoming year?

Fri Dec 28 19:22:56 UTC 2012

hay Brad,
That all sounds great.  I used to own a gym and have been training people
for close to thirty years so if I can be of any help I am more than willing.
Just a quick thought you may want to research a bit when designing your
program; a lot of people are starting to lean away from extended periods of
lower intensity cardio as a fat burning method and leaning twords aggresive
interval style training with the weights using big movements like squats,
bent over rows, standing presses etc. If you want to get deeper into it you
can contact me off the list at williamkociaba at comcast.net
Bill

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From: Sportsandrec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Brad Dunse
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 9:29 AM
To: 'Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] your fittness goals for the upcoming year?

I'm not into New Year's Re-solutions either, I do however look at it as one
of those reviewing points in the year. In essence  it  probably slightly
resembles a resolution, but I don't  use it as my only charter map to set
sail in the year's abyss. It helps to have islands of review points and life
assessment to connect the dots along the way.

When I was a younger man, I worked out periodically with my most intense
workouts when I attended BLIND Inc with little to do at nights, so I trained
2-3 hours 4-times a week at the Minneapolis uptown YMCA. I was in my best
shape then at 31-years old, just under six-foot, 185 pounds and hard pressed
to find any pinchable fat. Since then it's been hit and miss with moves
across the country, injury or two, work, and other excuses I can use; but
the plain fact is, it wasn't enough of a priority for me.

At 49-years old, friends and people I know suffering from disease and
effects of lathargic or abusive lifestyles,  my priorities are motivated in
a heightened manner than when I was younger. With a basement  with an
exercise matted area, rack of hex dumbbells, a set of steel weights and
bench, treadmill and a cool home-made lat machine I found on Craig's list a
couple years back; my aim is to make working out a regular regiment again.

Currently bobbling at the 200 pound mark give or take a few pounds, my goal
is to get back to 185 through daily treadmilling aerobics and returning to
weight training using less weight  coupled with slower more accurate
movements.

Though I haven't gotten detail in my goals as yet, they are as follows:

. Begin a light Mon-Tuesday Thurs-Friday workout toggling back/legs and
chest arms, etc.

. Treadmill daily for 40-minutes as goal 1. I want to rid myself of caffine,
using treadmill as my morning wake up stimulant.

. Though I'm not a horrible eater of junk, I do have my times and I plan to
rid the junk... makes one feel like crap anyway. I want to get to six
lighter balanced meals a day.

. My blood pressure is creeping up and it is a hereditary thing, so
increased water intake, aerobics, and healthier eating as well use of
natural supplements I'm hoping keeps me off any drugs. To this point in life
I've managed to stay off them.

. At some point I'd like to return to martial art training. I've done three
short stints of it  as a much younger dude, but I love the stretching,
discipline, sense of balance literally and figuratively, plus a heightened
sense of confidence in this increasingly wacko world. I'm not sure when I'll
be able to commit to it, but it is on my radar.

So, that is where I'm at. As for accountability partnering, I'm always open
to those types of things.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Sportsandrec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Bill Kociaba
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 7:11 AM
To: sportsandrec at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Sportsandrec] your fittness goals for the up comming year?

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.

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