2017 goals:
Squat: 5RM 285 -> 315, 1RM 335 -> 365
BP: 5RM 225+, 1RM 260 -> 285
DL: improve form
Clean & Jerk: 225
Snatch: 175
Mobility: Yoga/extended stretching 1x/wk
IEL status: Look like IEL
Handstand: 30 sec hold

Caveat to all of this is my wife and I are expecting our first child in June, at which point simply maintaining a reasonable workout schedule isn't a bad outcome.

Total 1562+ raw

3 months in and already hit a couple of these. hit a 405 squat and not only got back to pulling 4 plates but did 455 this week. one goal I forgot to put was total 1100, and actually did 1145 this week. The one goal I haven't hit is 300 bench, but did see a 5lb jump to 285. Still hoping to get 300 by years end and a 1200 total now. also, finally started a log so can check that off too

[] 20+ Pullups
[] Squat 150kg
[] Deadlift 225kg
[] DB Bench 100's
[] BW+75% Weighted Pullup
[] Get down to 180/<10%
[] improve on one arm dead hangs

Current totals (3 months back in training):

-12 pullups
-100kg squat
-140x3 deadlift
-db benchin 75's
-Pullups BW+55lbx3
-bw 190
-dead hangs, 10-15 seconds on my right hand and almost nothing on my left

late to the party, but here's some stuff:

[] 804 lb squat in a full meet
[] 540 lb bench in a full meet
[] 683 lb DL in a full meet
[] 2,000 lb+ total in a meet
[] no major injuries

Just a week to go before I attempt this. Training has gone really well, conditions are looking good, so I'm feeling confident but it's going to be right on my limit.

Failed..... 3:02:32. Still happy with my time though, especially as it qualifies me for a spot in London, and I know I'll get it next time.

Snatch 250
C&J 315
Squat 405
Deadlift 500
Pullups 20

Guess it's just you and me pullups.

I just read through this thread and lol, no, my wife didn't press 245 in that video. Or ever.

I think it was right around ~80kg, give or take.

To me it looks like 85-90 kg yellow + yellow + 2,5 or 5.

But you probably know best.

Honestly, I was gonna say 80-90kg, but figured I'd shorten the range some, lol. It's somewhere around there. I'll ask her later, but I don't think that was a PR press day.

It's too late, G4, I'm already six months into Project Make Loco Eat His Liver and see no reason to let a little thing like "it's all based on an optical illusion" change my calculus!

I just want the thread deleted, I cursed myself and busted my back. I guess I should do the running and pullup goals.

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Damn, that's a fail. Got up to 15, but then moved and sucked at training pullups regularly. 20 pullups is a lot for fat people.

Got one!

Let's all have a nice laugh at what seemed like a modest body comp goal at the time.

Weighed in at 137 this morning, probably 22% body fat. I did achieve the second lame process-oriented goal.

I also added like 25% to my press this year, deadlifted nearly 2x bodyweight for 8 reps (sumo tho), and made some decent bench gains despite having near-constant shoulder issues. Squat went from 81kg x8 w/ low bar to 107.5x5x3 w/ low bar and 105x6 w/ high bar, all at roughly the same body weight so that's pretty reasonable, I think. Can I retcon all these accomplishments as goals so it seems like I hit my marks?

I am disappoint.

DF2 knew it

Yearly goal

Any x Any

2017 was my worst lifting year ever. Easily my best life year though so I ain't mad.

I managed to squat a cumulative 3.5 months very spaced out throughout the whole year. Maybe only 2 months of that were literal non rehab weights. Tons of pec/bicep tendon problems, although I did fix the underlying cause of this which had plagued me for over 5 years. Never fully recovered from lower back stuff. Upper body went okay as I hit 110kgx6x4 which would surely make me good for at least 125x5 which is good enough for me lol.

Currently at:
240km of skiing
168 hours of paddling
And learned to skate ski (actually attended a clinic this past weekend to work on skating)

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[~] Got to 180 and stayed in that area for a while, but I'm not about dat lyfe anymore

[ ] Pretty much stopped rowing because it was too fatiguing to do that and try to get stronger while simultaneously cutting

[x] Just did a pretty comfortable 5x295 in what I'm relatively sure was a mildly fatigued state, so this was a pretty comfortable win

[ ] Got up a relatively smooth single in the 365-75 area a few months back, but my form still isn't great and I tweaked my back recently, so I'm trying to slow and steady this one. I finally learned how to squat this year, so maybe 2018 is the year I learn how to pull?

[ ] Lol no. 170-175 for a single was the highest I got, and I've apparently destroyed DT's soul by not pressing as much on RPElf as I used to. Que sera.

[ ] Close, but no. Might have a hard 255x3 in me right now, but that's about it. Increased bench frequency from RPElfing, which I'm planning to run for most/all of '18 unless my joints fall apart, should help get this going eventually.

BB - weren't you so lean that you were worried you were dying? Seems you smashed that one! Also, you keep talking about debt - and retirement, in your blog. So, which is it? How can you have debt and also be close to retiring? Or is the debt, "good debt" like low interest house loan and stuff like that?

Got the 21 pullups. Never went for the bench but it's not there at my current weight (161).

Mile time is still alive, barely.

There is always next year. We adjust, make reasonable goals and keep trying. And trying. Ensuring we never fail to try.






You go after things. You try,
even if you fail you get back up,
and you continue to try and fail, continue to try and fail.
And ensuring you never fail to try.

Failure is part of recipe for success.
It’s the losers, that failed once and quit.
Every winner has done with failure.
The loser and the winner, both have failed…
it is just that a winner gets back up and does it again.

Making your dreams a reality, rep by rep.

I'm gonna go with GF trumps everything here so it's been a great year.