What are you goals?

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TakeItAll

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I read stuff in this forum because I often pick up training tip/ideas not related to steroid use since the training you need to do goes hand in hand but I've begun to wonder a bit about what body stats the users here are aiming at? Purely because I'm a curious kind of guy and I've just about reached a long time goal of mine.

To get things rolling here's me now:
Age: 31
Height: 185cm (6'1")
Weight 84kg (185lbs)
Body Fat 10% by three site fat caliper measurement but about 15% last time I had an electrical impedimence test. Not really sure which to trust but I've always been a fairly lean kind of guy.

Ever since I started getting into martial arts in a big way I wanted to reach 85kg since I thought this would be an ideal weight that blended being strong, having enough mass to anchor yourself in lots of situations and still being light enough to move around pretty quickly.

I've only ever done weight training as a cross training tool for my martial arts and usually for no more than 6 months at a time. Now I'm wondering once I get that last kg if I should look at doing more time with weights and setting a new goal.

Apologies if this doesn't really belong here but I was mainly interested in the goals of some people that do take their training seriously which is the guys here more so than the nice people over at healthy living.
 
We all have different goals, power lifters have specific kinds, body builders have others. MMA and other athletes will have different goals. For MMA, I would try to keep my BF% around 10%. The reason why I am saying 10% is because anything less can possibly cause some internal organ damage from hard blows from your opponent. The extra BF can help absorb some of the blow where as not to damage a kidney or something. IMHO.



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Well for me, I'm a short guy and have to fight my genetics hard because my whole family is pretty obese. I've always been really active and into sports, but I broke my back and blew my knee out while in the Marine Corps and let myself get fat, 5'7" 210 lbs @ 30% bf is not a pretty picture. I used to compete in BJJ and kickboxing, but over the last year I haven't had a lot of time to train consistently and don't foresee competing any more.

Basically my goals are to be as big, strong, flexible, lean, and in the best cardiovascular shape I can be.

My current stats:
Age: 28
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 220 lbs
Body Fat: 11% (measured hydrostatically yesterday)

I'm going to get to 10% and then start a cycle of prop/npp, planning to start in about a week, maybe two. I'm hoping to finish that cycle at under 10% and be around 225. Will be running a 6 month cycle that is a beast at the beginning of the year that I'll post if anyone wants to see it.
 
Always being skinny my goal was driven towards mass for the last few years with mixed results until I got every bodypart up to par and ate normally. I was never able to get bigger than 185 on a 5'11'' frame but then again I could also picture myself training more consistently and eating even more.

I got to the point where every muscle was big enough to be showy about and I was getting compliments from girls without digging for them and then I remembered my original goals, to be as strong as I can be regardless of size! now I realize there is a direct relation to size and strength but recently noticed even though my biceps buldge they're not really exceptionally hard under full flex.

I now care more about absolute output than sheer mass. because at my biggest I even noticed a slow down when I was running. Also sadly one of my main reasons for this attitude is a lack of money for food, you need to eat alot to be big big big, but to develop a strong NERVOUS SYSTEM you don't need to chow down on more than your comfortable with

Pure performance strength and density is what i'm after now. I would worry to much about eating when I didn't really want to eat when it was for mass.
 
triple bodyweight squat
triple bodyweight deadlift

no mass goals now that I have attained a healthy mass for my height...although I reckon if I take my squat/DL from about 2.1x BW to 3.0x BW my mass will go up in the right places.
 
Optimum health & nutrition, maximum strength & cardiovascular endurance , minimal fat, minimal stress and to live another hundred years.
 
Hmmmn...I was really looking for some new ideas of what I might aim at. I like the multiple of bodyweight idea for squats and deadlifts but I might aim a bit lower to start with.

I think I must also be a corporate brain washing victim since when I make goals they are alway quite specific and have a deadline attached to them. Or it could just be you guys are just relaxed and posting on this board without all that detail.

To hijack my own thread what are your thoughts on continuing to build strength while training to run a marathon in Jan '11. I already run 10km in a bit over 40min but usually never go out for long runs. I'm kinda worried about how catabolic it would get.
 
as an avid weightlifter who used to run 100mi/161km a week I can say that its gonna be realllllly hard. Your aerobic fitness will improve steadily but GLHF trying to maintain any sort of size/strength. You might be able to maintain... if you start eating twice what you currently do.

My goals, to be on topic:

Height: 176cm / 5' 9''
Goal Weight: 77kg / 170lbs
Goal BF: 7-8%

Lifts:

Squat 2x bodyweight for reps
One arm pull up

Mainly I just want to improve proportions and build bigger guns via GH release from CNS intensive shit.

I would shoot for the 1000 club however that isn't super realistic for me. I'm all Type I fiber and IT BLOWS.
 
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TakeItAll said:
Hmmmn...I was really looking for some new ideas of what I might aim at. I like the multiple of bodyweight idea for squats and deadlifts but I might aim a bit lower to start with.

I think I must also be a corporate brain washing victim since when I make goals they are alway quite specific and have a deadline attached to them. Or it could just be you guys are just relaxed and posting on this board without all that detail.

To hijack my own thread what are your thoughts on continuing to build strength while training to run a marathon in Jan '11. I already run 10km in a bit over 40min but usually never go out for long runs. I'm kinda worried about how catabolic it would get.
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my short-term goals are always set each workout to make progress on the last workout. Lets say I squated 300lb the last workout for 5 reps. This workout I am at least squatting 300lb for 6 reps or 310lb for 5 reps. At least!

dunno about your other question.

"The only easy workout was last workout"
 
My goal is to get to around 275 and ripped. Right now I'm 6'2" and 260lbs with about a 16% bf. I'd like to get my bf under 10% eventually but I'm more focused on bulking while keeping my bf in check rather than focusing on bf as it will interfere with my feeding to bulk
 
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