Our 2002 Goals
Dan Long
Greg Godwin
Dan Marbes
Kirk Roy
Gabrielle
Jesse Jobe
Roger Broeg
Dayle
Marty Keech
Michael O'Connell
Jeff Finlayson
Mike Brookman
Donna Slaga
Howard Gutnick
James Kothrade
Dian Newell
Bryce
Stephen Horton
Bill Duncan
Posted By: DanL
Date: Thursday, 20 December 2001, at 9:03 p.m.
I hope this hasn't been done and I missed it! You can't miss a day of reading here
anymore before the threads scroll off! Let's see everyone's goals for the next year, be they lifting, weight loss,
conditioning, anything...
For me:
In general...
Stay as injury free as possible.
Keep a good workout ethic.
Lifting...
Bench over 300
Squat over 500
Deadlift over 525
I think these are reasonable goals. I don't want to lie to myself and say 350 bench
and 600 squat and dead, because that's not going to happen yet. My deadlift seems to have stalled after a couple
years of good gains. Lately though, my squat seems to be doing better. My bench has always been poor in my opinion.
Hopefully the new training methods I'm using will help me achieve my goals.
Let's hear what you want to do!
Dan
Posted By: greg godwin
Date: Thursday, 20 December 2001, at 8:20 p.m.
close on the new house tomorrow, so will get some strongman training. probably still
a week out from any workouts. i expect i'll have a month before i'm back into good enough shape to start a new
cycle. let's see very ambitious goals for next year:
sq - 400
dl - 500
bp - 300
oh - 200
Posted By: Dan Marbes
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 4:42 a.m.
I'd like to...
bench 350
squat 500
dead 550
remain injury free
compete in my first meet
Daz about it!
Dan
Posted By: Kirk Roy
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 4:06 a.m.
I would like to first temper my goals in saying that, until I do my first powerlifting
meet, I'm not so sure how close my lifts are to being legal. So, these are gym goals, squat depth whatever I'm
doing now (maybe deeper than necessary, maybe less), and a touch'n'go bench press.
* Continue to lift consistently (I just started Sept 5, so this is a biggie)
* Compete in a powerlifting meet
* Get up to 200 lbs bodyweight
* Get down to 10% bodyfat
* Squat 400 (current estimate some time in Mar-Apr)
* Bench 300 (current estimate Jun-Jul)
* Deadlift consistently enough to have some idea what my max is!
Posted By: gabrielle jayde
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 3:00 a.m.
Ok, first of all, I need to lose 10 lbs.
As for my lifts,
hmmmm...
I'd like to squat and deadlift 225
and bench anything over 140. 141 would be fine.
gabrielle
Posted By: Jesse Jobe
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 12:12 a.m.
I would like to get up to 235 lbs
squat 500
bench 365
DL 500
Jesse Jobe
Posted By: Roger Broeg
Date: Thursday, 20 December 2001, at 11:13 p.m.
Compete in at LEAST 1 full powerliftng meet in the 148 pound division.
Hit a 270 bench (this one would probably be in a bench only meet)
Total 1100
Deadlift triple my bodyweight
Get a 400 pound squat
And if I ever get a chance to lift in a full power APA meet nail a world record total.
Gymrat
Posted By: Dayle
Date: Thursday, 20 December 2001, at 9:09 p.m.
By the end of 2002, I hope to achieve these:
Bench: 315
Squat: 450
Deadlift 500
I'll have to train hard and avoid injuries to hit
these. I'm optimistic.
--dkt
Posted By: Marty
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 7:43 a.m.
Keep lifting (easy goal, it is a HABIT now)
Waist down to 34 (from 35)
Compete in NorthStar games and win Shotput, place in discus and javelin.
Compete in National's and win Shotput, place in discus and javelin.
Bench my weight (around 225)
Squat in a real rack, determine Max single lift (currently doing 150lbs X 60 with
no rack)
Work into deadlift.
Marty
Posted By: Michael O'Connell
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 7:39 a.m.
FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS!
Be present in the gym and remember why I'm there.
Stay focussed on form, let my ego take a pass on frivolous PR attempts
Continue to have fun at this sport.
Make the time/money for massage once/month.
That having been said:
275 BP
405 Squat
315 DL
All of these at 2-4 sets of 3
15% body fat
Visible abs
Posted By: C. Jeff Finlayson
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 8:12 a.m.
My goals are:
1. Make eating 4 meals a day a habit. Make sure to get enough protein.
2. Get 7 hr or more of sleep a night.
3. Keep my weight in the 178-180 lb range, but reduce my body fat.
If I can do the above 3 and continue to lift hard but smart then I should be able
to reach these below.
4. Squat 420 lb or more (it's about 370 lb now)
5. Deadlift 450 lb or more (it's about 405 lb now)
6. Bench press 300 lb or more (it's about 270 lb now)
7. Get my bent over rows weights to my bench press levels and do a pull up with 90
lb (0.5 bw) or more.
8. Put more muscle on my calves and forearms. Increase measurments by 0.5 in.
That's more than enough to shoot for.
Jeff out
Posted By: Mike Brookman
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 9:39 a.m.
1.) Stay injury free
2.) Get healthier
3.) Achieve a 1700lb total, via 650 sq, 475 bench, and 575 dead
4.) And most important to me right now is to be a better father and husband to my
lovely wife and daughter!!!
Posted By: Donna
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 1:17 p.m.
Well, I won't give you numbers. That's something between me and ME :^). If I was
moving up a weight class, I would expect to see some substantial improvement. Right now, I'm running out of room
to add muscle and stay in my class, why couldn't I have been born short! :^) If I move up a class I will take away
the state records of a friend of mine. She uses the records as motivation, hate to take that away from her. Unfortunately,
at some point I will have to make that decision. My frame is taking more and more stress without being to add a
little muscle. This has happened to me through 3 other weight classes. I eventually begin to tear myself apart
if I don't allow myself to grow. My goals are to improve on my past PR's which are my contest lifts. Stay healthy
which gets harder and harder. Find more sleep in the day somehow. Add more good fat to my diet and thus improve
it. Be less hard on myself.
D.
Posted By: Howard N. Gutnick
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 3:29 p.m.
Goals:
First and foremost although it really isn't in my control: hope that my wife's health
continues to improve.
In lifting.
1. Continue stay about 180 to 182 lbs. I don't want to get any heavier.
2. Continue to get stronger without injury.
3. Squat 415 in competition to good depth. A stretch goal is 430 (current PR is 400).
4. Bench 300 in competition. A stretch goal is (310 current PR is 285).
5. Deadlift 515 in competition. A stretch goal is 525 (current PR is 510).
6. Total 1200 in competition. A stretch goal is 1250 (current PR is 1185).
HNG
Posted By: James Kothrade
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 2:53 p.m.
Stay injury free the number one goal.
By end of 2002 be upwards of about 215 lbs in weight and still be at around 12% BF.
Bench 250 for reps (I don't max out here...no spotter and no cage or rack). As a
max (touch and go) 315.
Squat....period. In order to do that, I will have to change my routine to fit the
legs day in on the weekend where I can use the Air Force Base Gym. But at this point, it is useless while on this
current cycle. Will probably dothat in February where it will be a full month on the 4-6 rep cycle on the whole
body for a month. After that month the whole routine will get changed up a little. If so then be able to squat
around 400 (below parallel of course) and use 365 for reps.
Deadlift 450 with no struggle and use 405 for reps.
Hopefully there will be a PL meet in Montana next year so I could at least go to
it and watch...I would have to buy suits if I was to compete, IMO, unless there would be a RAW meet.
That's about it.
Posted By: dian newell
Date: Friday, 21 December 2001, at 2:42 p.m.
Interesting thread. I am ashamed to say I haven't even started working on my 2002
goals. But I DO set goals regularly (january and june) and I set 5 yr goals as well as 1 yr goals. That doesn't
include all those short term goals I work on in a less structured way.
Most of my goals right now center on music rather than lifting. And..increasing the
quality of my relationship with my mother, who is ill enough that I put off a lot of things just to spend time
with her.
I get plenty of sleep hours at night, though I still struggle sometimes with insomnia.
But, unlike a lot of people, I have a full 8 hours in bed every night.
I'd like to lose another 15 or 20 lbs, and get my bodyfat down to 17% or lower.
I'd like to go ONE COMPLETE year without hurting myself. I am not sure how much actual
progress I will make in terms of lifting next year, but if I can keep lifting without hurting myself, I think I'll
be able to make good gains in 2003.
I'd like to do ONE friggin' chinup
And I'd like to get consistant about eating 6 meals a day. It seems like when summer
hits and I start traveling, all my nutritional insight goes on vacation, and I start my yearly burger and beer
diet.
That's about it for now. Maybe I'll make some specific goals around numbers after
I get to start squatting again in a few weeks.
dian in spokane
Strongman things (LONGGG!)
Posted By: Bryce
Date: Friday, 31 May 2002, at 2:25 p.m.
w what everyone is doing with posting the workouts. I thought why don't I post some
goals and see if I can stick to them.
I like to experiment, and while I see this as a good thing, it also tends to hold
me back in some ways, so maybe it might be a good time to just make some public declarations and stick to them
or face the humiliation of failure, agony of defeat.....whatever.
I have done PL mostly and now after getting bored to death with 10 hour contests,
getting misweighed twice and just going to contests where there is No-one to compete with, I have decided to try
strongman. Its really colorful, fun and outdoors generally. Like a big circus with heavy stuff.
In pL my best lifts (raw) are: 501sq, 325bp, 578dl. Strongman is different however
and while having *some* pl strength helps, it not the same. In pl you are lifting a long balanced object with a
roughened 1 1/16" handle in the middle. In strongman you dont' get this kind of help and you have to move
with things, you dont' just stand.
I am in the process of making or improvising some implements like the yoke and making
a real set of big round rocks from fibre-cement but I wanted to develop the basic strength while I am doing that.
Every event seems to fall into one of three categories,
1.)lifts--or lifting some awkwark thing off the ground to load, drag etc.
2.)presses--Getting something overhead
3.)Walks--Carrying weight by one way or another.
Goals:
300# Rock lift, using my olympic bar end loading pin weight stack thing.
200# x 100Yds farmers walk with those bars on my page
225# power clean and strict press with the 2" bar, 200# x15 in the clean and
push-press also.
160# Water barrel snatch/swing, I have cleaned and pressed this (on webpage) but
now I want to simply rip it from ground to overhead. This is the most cruel grip and forearm exercise there is,
I think it has helped me alot even though its very hard.
300# curl grip thick bar deadlift. I can do 300# with a double overhand, 500#+ with
an over and under, I saw a picture of a guy (Jason Keene) using this grip, tried it and felt that it could definitely
help.
I think if I get these things I will have the all over and especially grip, forearm
and wrist strength to do ok with a little event practice once I get some things made, improvised or borrowed.
Where I am now:
235#x1 225#x5 Rock lift, my hands and bear hug are the limiting factor here so I
do alot of rows with the same stack which are like hugging the thing from the ground up to my chest without standing
up. I have done 235x7 with the row. I am also making a 200-300# sandbag to practice with once I figure on an unobtrusive
place to store the sand I am not using.
110# x 128yds walk, 180# x 26yds walk and 200# standing for 15 seconds for grip only.
The implements they use at contest have the c.o.g. lower than the grip and will not roll out of your hand, the
bars I use will so its a bit harder.
180# x3 In the power clean and press with the thick bar. The clean is the limiting
factor here. The thing is really hard to hold onto and very hard on your wrists to turn over.
2/3 full barrel snatch x5.
250# Curl grip deadlift with thick bar.
What I am doing.
5 days a week
Press according to a 3 week cycle from 150x5-185x5, and then a second speed set with
10% less, very strict form. I press on each of the five days.
Then
Mon-Barrel snatch Trying for a bit more water each time. I don't push the issue.
If I can do half to a gallon more, then I do as many reps as I can safely then quit and save it for next time.
Tues-Farmers walk for a higher weight or longer distance depending on what I suspect
I can do.
Wed-Rock lift, more weight or reps. If I get a bit more, I leave it alone. If I dont'
then I try to do several sets with what I *can* do.
Thurs-Curl grip deadlift up to a 3 max singles.
Fri-Bearhug weightstack row described up-above.
I know that this seems kind of odd, but if anyone has creative ideas, I am more than
glad to listen.
I'll post updates if anyone is interested. I like this idea and have been reading
all the others too.
Bryce
Weightlifting Discussion Board
Re: USAPL Eastern USA Bench Results (Long)
Posted By: Steve Horton
Date: Sunday, 16 June 2002, at 12:44 p.m.
In Response To: Re: USAPL Eastern USA Bench Results (Long) (Roger Broeg)
I WILL hit 400 before this year is out!
In December
of 2003, I'll turn 45. My goals for the
next 15 months are to reduce my bodyweight from 325 to
between 250 and 275 (50-75 pound loss). In the same
period of time, I want to increase my squat from 525
(as of 09/05/02) to between 575 and 650 (75 - 125
gain); increase my bench from 320 (as of 08/26/02) to
between 350 and 375 (30 - 45 pound gain); increase my
dead lift from 500 (as of 09/06/02) to between 575 and
625 (75 to 125 pound gain).