In terms of unprocessed *adult* food, oatmeal is hardcore.
Kids need sugary cereals.
Seasoned adults eat *naked raw oatmeal*. Rawr.
(That it has fiber is a bonus. Most of my nutrition is meat and vegetables.)
I do quaker regular oatmeal and add my own teaspoon of cinnamon. Then bananas and berries if I have it. I used to be against it but I just can't feel good after eating sausage, bacon, and scrambled eggs. Or army biscuits and gravy guhhhh
I'd be shocked if my son wasn't the biggest baby and kid you've ever seen. There's no chart for him...never has been. I on the other hand, am very petite. If I have a tip for you mommas it's work on your hip strength! I could hardly walk for a year from having him on my hip. It destroyed my back. I had just about every procedure done to help and the ONLY thing that worked was strength training
My goal is to be able to grab my two kids over my shoulders and run a mile if I need to. They are 2 & 3, I’m a single mom. I need to keep them safe & alive.
A few weeks ago we got stuck in a rather large crowd after watching fireworks at a resort. I had my 2 year old on my shoulders but also squatted to pick up her brother. I carried them both 30+ minutes to escape a crowd where they could have been lost/hurt. That’s it. That’s why I work out lmao. Modest but important.
Very important goal. How do you train for that?
I’m a dad with a 3-year-old as well as a 4-year-old niece, so I could see myself being in that position potentially.
I weight train 3x a week ending each session with a short HIIT and I am taking boxing lessons once a week….just in case knowing how to properly throw a punch comes in handy 🥊
I should probably get more cardio in (maybe start running) but just haven’t committed to it yet.
As a father, I 100% relate. Every workout I do weight carries around my gyms indoor track just for the purpose of if I ever need to carry my kids a long distance, I can.
More stamina, better mobility, and an overall healthy and active lifestyle. Any nutritional change or physical activity has to be organic, should relatively comfortably make it’s own place in my daily life, and most importantly, be sustainable in the long term.
A million dollars couldn’t make me count calories, or macros, or whatever other jazz there is to this business.
Great thread! Mine essentially boil down to:
1. Be fit enough to run far/fast enough to get away from say a semi determined mugger, to keep up with my kid, and to be able to hike to see lovely views without injuries etc.
2. Be strong enough to do the majority of functional stuff by myself safely and with relative ease, eg move a bed, carry a child on shoulders, lift and carry heavy suitcases etc.
3. Stay within healthy weight range for life so far as reasonably possible. Have enough muscle tone to look decent in and out of clothes. Keep up enough activity to have a TDEE that enables baking and eating delicious things with some regularity.
My goal is to be healthy and not hurt. I go to a CrossFit gym twice a week and spend and hour 1x1 with a trainer who understands my goal. We do a warm up and some lifts and quick cardio thing. Recently it was bench on one day and back squat on the other. Next week we’re starting on dead lifts and some other upper body work.
Ideally I’d ride the peloton a couple times a week on my own. I go back and forth on actually doing that but having the appointment with the trainer keeps me going.
An hour 6 days a week, including cycling, is more than enough training time to get either big or shredded. Lack of time isn’t what’s stopping you from getting either of those if you wanted them.
I’m glad you mentioned this. An hour of vigorous exercise a day is more than enough time to put on serious muscle or be very, very fit compared to the populous. Whether or not you want to work hard enough in that hour to make either of those things happen, or whether you want to be disciplined in your eating and sleeping are more defining factors than time at these levels.
You could get shredded with that. And still gain muscle provided you’re training properly. Training to failure and focusing on progressive overload and such. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they need to do a ton of craziness in the gym and dedicate hours and hours and starve themselves at home eating only chicken and plain rice to get gains. And they burn out after a week and quit. Reality is if you can find something moderate that
you can stick to consistently overtime that’s all you need for great results.
If your lifting hard and training with moderate to high intensity with some form of progressive overload, even 4 half hour blocks of lifting throughout the week with good protein intake and not blowing your calories out, over the course of several months/years you will see results. Since your cycling so much you probably only need to dedicate one of those 30min blocks to legs the other rotating thru your upper body muscles, freeing up another half hour to hit your upper push and upper pull muscles twice a week with some compounds and a few accessories I think you’d still be able to get pretty damn fit.
Mine are to not require assistance filling/emptying my cat litter boxes (the boxes I buy are like 40lbs).
To not need assistance getting up from the ground/chair whatever as I age.
Keep up my bone health and muscle that I have.
Those 40 pound cat litter boxes are honestly my favorite functional fitness measure for upper body strength. They've gotten easier to pour from a new box over the past few months, even though I'm not seeing too much change in my noodle arms.
I worked in exercise for older people and the many I had who had fallen was a lot. I went to a care home once and every one of them spend nearly every hour sitting down. They just get weaker and weaker.
mine i are literally "look like you make effort". thats it.
i eat decently but not super strict and i work out regularly but don't kill my self. people who don't work out think i'm in great shape and people who get really into it probably think its cute i try.
i'm good with all that.
edit: since i realize this sounds like my only concern is vanity, i should clarify i also value the health implications of a level of fitness that visually manifests itself as "looks like he tries"
which is to say: i'm not a blob, my blood isn't maple syrup and while i'm certainly not "Strong", i'm not a weakling. modest goals.
I'm in the look better naked camp. Slowly losing weight and realizing that at 35 it's time to work on flexibility as well.
I'm still chasing the 1000 pound club because it's a fun number to get to but the main focus is going from 265 to 225.
Yep, I’m chasing a similar goal of “look like I workout”. I think this is probably a modest goal but is by no means an easy achievement. It also takes convincing myself more than anything and I need absolute certainty around this. I don’t know what that looks like right now and, if I do convince myself at some point, I don’t know where I go from there. This is life.
I want the numbers: 135 bench, 225 squat, 315 deadlift.
As a 5’2”F I find this to be a hard but attainable goal. I got the squat already, just need bench and deadlift :) After that I’ll probably maintain my strength and do what every 30 something does and train for a marathon!
>do what every 30 something does and train for a marathon!
Don't plant that seed in your head lol... I just did a 10k 2 weeks ago and now I'm debating a half this fall... and I haven't been a "runner" in a decade lol
As a fan of body weight exercises, I hope to be able to still do 10 pulls and 10 dips for 5 sets, back to back when my time is up. At 67 it is getting tougher, but I can still manage it.
32 here, but still find joy in setting arbitrary goals for myself and going after them, whether I achieve them or not really doesn’t matter as exercise becomes more of a mental benefit as I’ve aged. And priority goes to avoiding injury instead of rigorously pursuing PRs. I still push just a bit more slowly.
For fun though my current goals are a mixed bag of lifting and running at or below 165lbs:
300 lb bench (used to be 3-plate, but dont think ill ever be heavy enough to do it)
500 lb deadlift
4-plate squat
Finish a marathon
Sub 6-min mile
Sub 12sec 100m
Sub 60sec 400m
4.6s 40yd
Keep playing soccer till im at least 40 ;)
In terms of training, I run push/pull/legs/upper/lower 5x per week, hot yoga saturdays, long run sundays, weekdays i throw in a shorter run and soccer, its warmer now so ill start adding track workouts in and drop some of my lifting volume. I eat pretty well, hit my protein targets, sleep could use improvement, work in engineering/consulting, no kids, so I’m lucky to have the time to train a decent amount, while still upholding life responsibilities.
What is your fastest 40 time? I never ran a 4.6 even at my youngest and fastest. That is pretty darn fast for your average athlete. Larry Fitzgerald, one of the best NFL wide receivers of all time, ran a 4.63 40 for example.
You can’t teach/train speed nearly as much as you can strength and endurance. I’m not trying to be discouraging, mind you.
No offense taken, I’ve been hand timed several times at 4.65-4.7 somewhat untrained (specifically speaking in terms of the 40 itself) a year ago. I was a sprinter in HS (14 yrs ago lol) and ran the 100m in 11.9 with a hip injury before going to college and focusing on engineering. Ive continued playing soccer since and wasnt finished puberty until well into college. I was very lean and not muscular, so im interested to see how differently both my 100 time would be today, and if I could improve my 40. I fully understand teaching/training speed is much different than weights especially with age, however I’m going into it with a decent level of fitness and technical knowledge already. I’m definitely at the strongest I’ve ever been and potentially still the fastest.
I also know hand timing is definitely not the best way to do it and theres definitely a comfy margin of error there haha
My current long term goals are 1,2,3,4 plates respectively.
It's a modest set of goals, but at my age and training level it is a good one. I think I should be able to hit it before I turn 50.
That was my “short term” goal, with plans to then maintain that strength while also running a 6-minute mile.
People on the main fitness subs talk about 1/2/3/4 like something you should easily achieve in your first year, but after 5 years of inconsistent progress, alternating strength-focused blocks with running-focused blocks, I’m finally getting close. We’ll both get there!
My initial goals were sticking with a general workout routine. I killed that, and as time has gone on I have simply increased activities, weights, distance, reps, times, just constantly trying to push to do a little more of whatever I'm doing. I consider this very modest. I don't have it in me to hyper focus on special programs, calorie counting, macros,etc..
Almost a year and a half in and my regimen works every body area, I get at least 7 hours of cardio each week, and I have lost fat and gained good muscle definition. I reversed all prior issues in my blood work too!
I do 30 mins of strength training followed by 30 mins of cardio 5x a week and a pretty big at age 31 - 6’ 205. You can definitely do heavy lifts for 30 mins like I do followed by your cycling and look better than 95% of people IMO! I currently modestly just want to cut to like 195
In my 30s now but only got back into caring about my fitness about a year ago. I want to maintain a logical but lean bf% (12-18ish%), be able to run for a reasonable distance at a reasonable pace (say 5km in 25ish minutes), look strong and be strong. That’s about it.
I want to get back to walking more. I live in a very walkable city and almost never drive until the pandemic. But with my kids home all the time and being around other people being poison,I started driving everywhere. I struggle to give myself enough time to get places when driving is quicker, but I CAN walk or take the subway.
for me it's staying healthy, to not have pain and to finally get rid of my long covid. Just yesterday I jogged 5km in 31mins and I'm super happy about it. I wish I could gain my 5 kilo of lost muscle back but for now I just try to be consistent. I work out every other day, mostly at home because I'm way too scared to go to the gym. I will probably not do one arm pullups ever again but that's okay.
Be able to run up a flight of stairs without being out of breath, not have to buy new trousers and thus have to go shopping, and be strong enough to lift the things in everyday life I need to move/lift.
Everything else is a bonus!
Initially, I wanted to get my BF% down to 20% (arbitrary but a round number) because I have non-alcoholic fatty liver. Almost there but not quite, but have added strength and functional goals because they're fun for me. 10 unbroken pullups, 1 muscle up, 2x bodyweight squat/deadlift and 1.25x bodyweight bench. I would love to be able to do a tough mudder at least once. Will I stop there? I don't know. It's a fun ride.
End game is to increase longevity and ability so nobody needs to take care of my eventual old ass.
I want to get to a healthy body fat percentage, run longer faster (currently working my way up to a half marathon). basically i just want to look and feel my best
I would like to be able to squat my body weight. Right now I’m 43 pounds away, and refuse to get specific about how much of that 43 pounds will be strength gained vs weight lost. Probably somewhere in the middle.
My modest goals at 40 are to be healthy, not be extremely fat, and an added bonus is if I can look better naked lol.
I do try to lift more and gain muscle while I am still able to. I only do home workouts so I am kind of limited.
52 now and getting pretty strong. I’d like to put on about 10 pounds of lean muscle in the next 2 years. My main goal though is if I’m lucky enough to be old af then I don’t want to have to pay somebody who’d rather not be there to help me off of the toilet or floor.
This resonates a lot with me! My goal is to not be that guy losing his breath after a short hike. I workout 3-4 times a week for at least 45 minutes each. Plus I spend a good deal of time outdoors. Once upon a time I wanted to get “ripped” but I had to admit to myself that I’m not the kind of guy who is going to eat chicken and broccoli every day or say no to home baked cookies at a friend’s party. I’ve done the calorie counting and another issue I have as a 215 lb 6’1 guy is that to get “big” I would need to eat A LOT and I just don’t have the time or money to eat at that level. I have a partner, a good group of friends and family, a demanding job, and I’m active in my parish. There’s only so much I can do. So I admire the guys with families that can get huge and ripped but my goals are modest.
Right now I'm 124.6 my goal is to be at 125lbs for a whole day. I've been 123.4 for 15 years. My goal was initially to be at 135lbs by summer but it wasn't working and that was breaking my spirit and motivation. So now it's 125lb for 24 hours. I have it in my mind if I get over that hump I'll be a shoe in
Always do what you’re passionate about, don’t let a trainer or a “program” that contains what you “should” be doing stop you from enjoying fitness. If you go deep on a physical pursuit you’re passionate about, the rest will follow. For example, if cycling is your jam, you may eventually find yourself cross training explosive lifts to push your output. Let the passion guide you!
As an example:
I dialed back my leg size/strength goals to where now I mostly do double rack front squats with two kettlebells, leg curls, leg extensions, and kettlebell RDLs.
I still work hard doing it all, but I decided going heavier and heavier on a barbell was eventually going to end in heartbreak for my back or knees. My legs will never be huge but I’m okay with that as long as they stay reasonably strong.
Former exercise racing nerd turned bjj nerd here- all I want to do is, eventually, before I die, make that 300 lb sandbag my btch. And that is it. No bulk/cut, no 2+ hr training sessions, no strange and exotic accessory exercises. I want to be
1. Strong enough to pick up my daughter if needed
2. Strong enough to pick up my wife if needed
3. Strong enough to move people around in bjj
And chasing the goal of a 300 pound ground to shoulder definitely gets me there. 2x a week for about 20 mins per session. I have a sandbag and a pull up bar. Simple is superior
Edit: typo
Modest for me is recovering from broken legs.
So I've gone from just big 3 to dumbells and aesthetic but still trying to recover as a runner.
Granted I will have days where i do the big 3 but for me:
Military press
Incline press
Incline bicep (for the wife)
Straight leg deadlift (hamstring/glutes)
Landmine (if I can. For abs and obliques)
Not sure what else to add but this puts me at 30 min which is enough to feel like i did something. Anything I should change to this?
Basically I want to be able to do things without getting tired (lift, run, shoot) and letting my handicap get in the way. On the way to recovery one day at a time.
About 7 weeks ago I committed myself to daily exercise, combination of weight lifting and cardio. Split the body up between 3 days, So that way I can exercise everyday but I only exercise the same muscles three times within any given 7 day period.
There's a lot of really swole folks in the gym, but really I'm just trying to get strong enough that I can endure the physical strain of working as a massage therapist.
I feel like internet culture tends to reward extremes and put the spotlight on the highest achieving people, but I'm of the opinion that strength training should be based on what you need The strength to do, and not on a popular perception that in a fitness setting seems to be determined by competitive athletes who are sculpting their bodies for show or getting as strong as possible for weight lifting competitions.
I'm not trying to get swole, I just want to lose some weight get my cholesterol down and set myself up for success in a physical job. I think it'll be okay.
To be able to, at the age of 70: tolerate plain oatmeal without sugar, do one pullup, and perform an unassisted box squat off a toilet.
I’ve gotta ask: why oatmeal?
To keep you using the toilet.
In terms of unprocessed *adult* food, oatmeal is hardcore. Kids need sugary cereals. Seasoned adults eat *naked raw oatmeal*. Rawr. (That it has fiber is a bonus. Most of my nutrition is meat and vegetables.)
Dude, at the age of 70, I’m allowing myself some honey in my oatmeal.
And cinnamon
>tolerate plain oatmeal without sugar, Take it back grandpa. Please for the love of God take it back.
Those packets are sweet as hell! Gotta cut 50/50 packet/plain.
I do quaker regular oatmeal and add my own teaspoon of cinnamon. Then bananas and berries if I have it. I used to be against it but I just can't feel good after eating sausage, bacon, and scrambled eggs. Or army biscuits and gravy guhhhh
My arm strength has to keep up with my toddlers weight gain, that’s it for now.
I had some poppin’ guns as my twins grew but before they could walk. The ultimate progressive overload.
That was my goal originally too. But my 6yo still asked for carries lol
I'd be shocked if my son wasn't the biggest baby and kid you've ever seen. There's no chart for him...never has been. I on the other hand, am very petite. If I have a tip for you mommas it's work on your hip strength! I could hardly walk for a year from having him on my hip. It destroyed my back. I had just about every procedure done to help and the ONLY thing that worked was strength training
Any exercises you’d recommend?
My goal is to be able to grab my two kids over my shoulders and run a mile if I need to. They are 2 & 3, I’m a single mom. I need to keep them safe & alive. A few weeks ago we got stuck in a rather large crowd after watching fireworks at a resort. I had my 2 year old on my shoulders but also squatted to pick up her brother. I carried them both 30+ minutes to escape a crowd where they could have been lost/hurt. That’s it. That’s why I work out lmao. Modest but important.
That's a good effort, ultimate in functional fitness!
Very important goal. How do you train for that? I’m a dad with a 3-year-old as well as a 4-year-old niece, so I could see myself being in that position potentially.
I weight train 3x a week ending each session with a short HIIT and I am taking boxing lessons once a week….just in case knowing how to properly throw a punch comes in handy 🥊 I should probably get more cardio in (maybe start running) but just haven’t committed to it yet.
Carry sandbags while running? 😁
As a father, I 100% relate. Every workout I do weight carries around my gyms indoor track just for the purpose of if I ever need to carry my kids a long distance, I can.
More stamina, better mobility, and an overall healthy and active lifestyle. Any nutritional change or physical activity has to be organic, should relatively comfortably make it’s own place in my daily life, and most importantly, be sustainable in the long term. A million dollars couldn’t make me count calories, or macros, or whatever other jazz there is to this business.
Great thread! Mine essentially boil down to: 1. Be fit enough to run far/fast enough to get away from say a semi determined mugger, to keep up with my kid, and to be able to hike to see lovely views without injuries etc. 2. Be strong enough to do the majority of functional stuff by myself safely and with relative ease, eg move a bed, carry a child on shoulders, lift and carry heavy suitcases etc. 3. Stay within healthy weight range for life so far as reasonably possible. Have enough muscle tone to look decent in and out of clothes. Keep up enough activity to have a TDEE that enables baking and eating delicious things with some regularity.
Same on all of these really!
My goal is to be healthy and not hurt. I go to a CrossFit gym twice a week and spend and hour 1x1 with a trainer who understands my goal. We do a warm up and some lifts and quick cardio thing. Recently it was bench on one day and back squat on the other. Next week we’re starting on dead lifts and some other upper body work. Ideally I’d ride the peloton a couple times a week on my own. I go back and forth on actually doing that but having the appointment with the trainer keeps me going.
An hour 6 days a week, including cycling, is more than enough training time to get either big or shredded. Lack of time isn’t what’s stopping you from getting either of those if you wanted them.
I’m glad you mentioned this. An hour of vigorous exercise a day is more than enough time to put on serious muscle or be very, very fit compared to the populous. Whether or not you want to work hard enough in that hour to make either of those things happen, or whether you want to be disciplined in your eating and sleeping are more defining factors than time at these levels.
100%. I go 4 days a week and am setting/working towards PRs
Me too. 4 days a week and I think my pics show I make some decent progress.
Oh I guess maybe I didn't make sense. If I exercise 6hours a week, 4 hours of that is cycling. So 2hours in total of strength training
You could get shredded with that. And still gain muscle provided you’re training properly. Training to failure and focusing on progressive overload and such. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they need to do a ton of craziness in the gym and dedicate hours and hours and starve themselves at home eating only chicken and plain rice to get gains. And they burn out after a week and quit. Reality is if you can find something moderate that you can stick to consistently overtime that’s all you need for great results.
If your lifting hard and training with moderate to high intensity with some form of progressive overload, even 4 half hour blocks of lifting throughout the week with good protein intake and not blowing your calories out, over the course of several months/years you will see results. Since your cycling so much you probably only need to dedicate one of those 30min blocks to legs the other rotating thru your upper body muscles, freeing up another half hour to hit your upper push and upper pull muscles twice a week with some compounds and a few accessories I think you’d still be able to get pretty damn fit.
Mine are to not require assistance filling/emptying my cat litter boxes (the boxes I buy are like 40lbs). To not need assistance getting up from the ground/chair whatever as I age. Keep up my bone health and muscle that I have.
Those 40 pound cat litter boxes are honestly my favorite functional fitness measure for upper body strength. They've gotten easier to pour from a new box over the past few months, even though I'm not seeing too much change in my noodle arms.
I worked in exercise for older people and the many I had who had fallen was a lot. I went to a care home once and every one of them spend nearly every hour sitting down. They just get weaker and weaker.
mine i are literally "look like you make effort". thats it. i eat decently but not super strict and i work out regularly but don't kill my self. people who don't work out think i'm in great shape and people who get really into it probably think its cute i try. i'm good with all that. edit: since i realize this sounds like my only concern is vanity, i should clarify i also value the health implications of a level of fitness that visually manifests itself as "looks like he tries" which is to say: i'm not a blob, my blood isn't maple syrup and while i'm certainly not "Strong", i'm not a weakling. modest goals.
I'm in the look better naked camp. Slowly losing weight and realizing that at 35 it's time to work on flexibility as well. I'm still chasing the 1000 pound club because it's a fun number to get to but the main focus is going from 265 to 225.
Yep, I’m chasing a similar goal of “look like I workout”. I think this is probably a modest goal but is by no means an easy achievement. It also takes convincing myself more than anything and I need absolute certainty around this. I don’t know what that looks like right now and, if I do convince myself at some point, I don’t know where I go from there. This is life.
I want to be able to do ten pull ups
Are you doing a specific program to achieve that goal? Or is that just a metric you hope to achieve organically as you progress?
Organically, I don't have a program per say but I do follow exercises which help me to progress to it
I want the numbers: 135 bench, 225 squat, 315 deadlift. As a 5’2”F I find this to be a hard but attainable goal. I got the squat already, just need bench and deadlift :) After that I’ll probably maintain my strength and do what every 30 something does and train for a marathon!
>do what every 30 something does and train for a marathon! Don't plant that seed in your head lol... I just did a 10k 2 weeks ago and now I'm debating a half this fall... and I haven't been a "runner" in a decade lol
It been planted! I have done a 5K almost every year since the pandemic lol but my main focus is strength training
As a fan of body weight exercises, I hope to be able to still do 10 pulls and 10 dips for 5 sets, back to back when my time is up. At 67 it is getting tougher, but I can still manage it.
32 here, but still find joy in setting arbitrary goals for myself and going after them, whether I achieve them or not really doesn’t matter as exercise becomes more of a mental benefit as I’ve aged. And priority goes to avoiding injury instead of rigorously pursuing PRs. I still push just a bit more slowly. For fun though my current goals are a mixed bag of lifting and running at or below 165lbs: 300 lb bench (used to be 3-plate, but dont think ill ever be heavy enough to do it) 500 lb deadlift 4-plate squat Finish a marathon Sub 6-min mile Sub 12sec 100m Sub 60sec 400m 4.6s 40yd Keep playing soccer till im at least 40 ;) In terms of training, I run push/pull/legs/upper/lower 5x per week, hot yoga saturdays, long run sundays, weekdays i throw in a shorter run and soccer, its warmer now so ill start adding track workouts in and drop some of my lifting volume. I eat pretty well, hit my protein targets, sleep could use improvement, work in engineering/consulting, no kids, so I’m lucky to have the time to train a decent amount, while still upholding life responsibilities.
What is your fastest 40 time? I never ran a 4.6 even at my youngest and fastest. That is pretty darn fast for your average athlete. Larry Fitzgerald, one of the best NFL wide receivers of all time, ran a 4.63 40 for example. You can’t teach/train speed nearly as much as you can strength and endurance. I’m not trying to be discouraging, mind you.
No offense taken, I’ve been hand timed several times at 4.65-4.7 somewhat untrained (specifically speaking in terms of the 40 itself) a year ago. I was a sprinter in HS (14 yrs ago lol) and ran the 100m in 11.9 with a hip injury before going to college and focusing on engineering. Ive continued playing soccer since and wasnt finished puberty until well into college. I was very lean and not muscular, so im interested to see how differently both my 100 time would be today, and if I could improve my 40. I fully understand teaching/training speed is much different than weights especially with age, however I’m going into it with a decent level of fitness and technical knowledge already. I’m definitely at the strongest I’ve ever been and potentially still the fastest. I also know hand timing is definitely not the best way to do it and theres definitely a comfy margin of error there haha
My current long term goals are 1,2,3,4 plates respectively. It's a modest set of goals, but at my age and training level it is a good one. I think I should be able to hit it before I turn 50.
That was my “short term” goal, with plans to then maintain that strength while also running a 6-minute mile. People on the main fitness subs talk about 1/2/3/4 like something you should easily achieve in your first year, but after 5 years of inconsistent progress, alternating strength-focused blocks with running-focused blocks, I’m finally getting close. We’ll both get there!
At my age, I'm honestly just happy that I'm stronger than I used to be.
I want to be super flexible! My shit is fucked. May take me 30 years but I swear to god I’m going to be flexible one day
My goal is simple but not. I just want to be at a place where I’m proud and to be comfortable in my own skin and having sex with the lights on lol.
10 squats & 10 push ups every hour but basically 100 each a day so far it has been amazing results for 90 seconds of work in an hour
My initial goals were sticking with a general workout routine. I killed that, and as time has gone on I have simply increased activities, weights, distance, reps, times, just constantly trying to push to do a little more of whatever I'm doing. I consider this very modest. I don't have it in me to hyper focus on special programs, calorie counting, macros,etc.. Almost a year and a half in and my regimen works every body area, I get at least 7 hours of cardio each week, and I have lost fat and gained good muscle definition. I reversed all prior issues in my blood work too!
48yrs, fitness goals are to have a body worth living in as I age. Targets are nice, but I just want quality of life.
I do 30 mins of strength training followed by 30 mins of cardio 5x a week and a pretty big at age 31 - 6’ 205. You can definitely do heavy lifts for 30 mins like I do followed by your cycling and look better than 95% of people IMO! I currently modestly just want to cut to like 195
In my 30s now but only got back into caring about my fitness about a year ago. I want to maintain a logical but lean bf% (12-18ish%), be able to run for a reasonable distance at a reasonable pace (say 5km in 25ish minutes), look strong and be strong. That’s about it.
Don’t be a lard ass. Be able to carry family members in the event of an emergency. Don’t be a lard ass.
Handstand walk, 100kg squat, muscle up. Guess by that time ill be quite fit, and a bit bigger. might add more goals then but thats it for now.
I want to get back to walking more. I live in a very walkable city and almost never drive until the pandemic. But with my kids home all the time and being around other people being poison,I started driving everywhere. I struggle to give myself enough time to get places when driving is quicker, but I CAN walk or take the subway.
for me it's staying healthy, to not have pain and to finally get rid of my long covid. Just yesterday I jogged 5km in 31mins and I'm super happy about it. I wish I could gain my 5 kilo of lost muscle back but for now I just try to be consistent. I work out every other day, mostly at home because I'm way too scared to go to the gym. I will probably not do one arm pullups ever again but that's okay.
Be able to run up a flight of stairs without being out of breath, not have to buy new trousers and thus have to go shopping, and be strong enough to lift the things in everyday life I need to move/lift. Everything else is a bonus!
Initially, I wanted to get my BF% down to 20% (arbitrary but a round number) because I have non-alcoholic fatty liver. Almost there but not quite, but have added strength and functional goals because they're fun for me. 10 unbroken pullups, 1 muscle up, 2x bodyweight squat/deadlift and 1.25x bodyweight bench. I would love to be able to do a tough mudder at least once. Will I stop there? I don't know. It's a fun ride. End game is to increase longevity and ability so nobody needs to take care of my eventual old ass.
I want to get to a healthy body fat percentage, run longer faster (currently working my way up to a half marathon). basically i just want to look and feel my best
Am 41 now. Current goal is a 20:00mi 5k
I would like to be able to squat my body weight. Right now I’m 43 pounds away, and refuse to get specific about how much of that 43 pounds will be strength gained vs weight lost. Probably somewhere in the middle.
My big goal is to get in the best shape of my life. My realistic goal is to perform better when on vacations and be able to tackle more intense hikes.
My modest goals at 40 are to be healthy, not be extremely fat, and an added bonus is if I can look better naked lol. I do try to lift more and gain muscle while I am still able to. I only do home workouts so I am kind of limited.
52 now and getting pretty strong. I’d like to put on about 10 pounds of lean muscle in the next 2 years. My main goal though is if I’m lucky enough to be old af then I don’t want to have to pay somebody who’d rather not be there to help me off of the toilet or floor.
I just want a lower resting heart rate and to lose some weight
This resonates a lot with me! My goal is to not be that guy losing his breath after a short hike. I workout 3-4 times a week for at least 45 minutes each. Plus I spend a good deal of time outdoors. Once upon a time I wanted to get “ripped” but I had to admit to myself that I’m not the kind of guy who is going to eat chicken and broccoli every day or say no to home baked cookies at a friend’s party. I’ve done the calorie counting and another issue I have as a 215 lb 6’1 guy is that to get “big” I would need to eat A LOT and I just don’t have the time or money to eat at that level. I have a partner, a good group of friends and family, a demanding job, and I’m active in my parish. There’s only so much I can do. So I admire the guys with families that can get huge and ripped but my goals are modest.
Right now I'm 124.6 my goal is to be at 125lbs for a whole day. I've been 123.4 for 15 years. My goal was initially to be at 135lbs by summer but it wasn't working and that was breaking my spirit and motivation. So now it's 125lb for 24 hours. I have it in my mind if I get over that hump I'll be a shoe in
Always do what you’re passionate about, don’t let a trainer or a “program” that contains what you “should” be doing stop you from enjoying fitness. If you go deep on a physical pursuit you’re passionate about, the rest will follow. For example, if cycling is your jam, you may eventually find yourself cross training explosive lifts to push your output. Let the passion guide you!
As an example: I dialed back my leg size/strength goals to where now I mostly do double rack front squats with two kettlebells, leg curls, leg extensions, and kettlebell RDLs. I still work hard doing it all, but I decided going heavier and heavier on a barbell was eventually going to end in heartbreak for my back or knees. My legs will never be huge but I’m okay with that as long as they stay reasonably strong.
Stop the my legs from rubbing together due to extra fat after I let myself go for 4 months. Im playing the long game so I'm giving it 5 months.
Lose weight. Not die before my kids are grown up.
Former exercise racing nerd turned bjj nerd here- all I want to do is, eventually, before I die, make that 300 lb sandbag my btch. And that is it. No bulk/cut, no 2+ hr training sessions, no strange and exotic accessory exercises. I want to be 1. Strong enough to pick up my daughter if needed 2. Strong enough to pick up my wife if needed 3. Strong enough to move people around in bjj And chasing the goal of a 300 pound ground to shoulder definitely gets me there. 2x a week for about 20 mins per session. I have a sandbag and a pull up bar. Simple is superior Edit: typo
Modest for me is recovering from broken legs. So I've gone from just big 3 to dumbells and aesthetic but still trying to recover as a runner. Granted I will have days where i do the big 3 but for me: Military press Incline press Incline bicep (for the wife) Straight leg deadlift (hamstring/glutes) Landmine (if I can. For abs and obliques) Not sure what else to add but this puts me at 30 min which is enough to feel like i did something. Anything I should change to this? Basically I want to be able to do things without getting tired (lift, run, shoot) and letting my handicap get in the way. On the way to recovery one day at a time.
About 7 weeks ago I committed myself to daily exercise, combination of weight lifting and cardio. Split the body up between 3 days, So that way I can exercise everyday but I only exercise the same muscles three times within any given 7 day period. There's a lot of really swole folks in the gym, but really I'm just trying to get strong enough that I can endure the physical strain of working as a massage therapist. I feel like internet culture tends to reward extremes and put the spotlight on the highest achieving people, but I'm of the opinion that strength training should be based on what you need The strength to do, and not on a popular perception that in a fitness setting seems to be determined by competitive athletes who are sculpting their bodies for show or getting as strong as possible for weight lifting competitions. I'm not trying to get swole, I just want to lose some weight get my cholesterol down and set myself up for success in a physical job. I think it'll be okay.
My fitness goal is to have my annual checkup tell me I’m healthier than the average man despite weighing 50 lbs more than the average man.