Goal Revision
Posted: November 5th, 2009 | Author: ERIC | Filed under: Body | Tags: aerobic, body fat, cardio, diabetes, enjoy, goal, gym, having, health, heart disease, immune, jumping, optimal, run, running, squat, wanting | No Comments »I’ve been spending more time away from the gym than I ordinarily would like, but my immune system has been taking hell lately and I’d rather not take more stress than I absolutely have to. I seem to have an inverse gym-to-thinking ratio; the longer I stay away from the gym the smarter and more introspective I become. I have to fix that.
Optimal health over the long-term is the only real goal, after all.
However, I do have three major goals over the next eleven weeks:
- 10% or lower body fat percentage.
- Run continuously for 20 minutes.
- Squat 300lbs.
They’re in a specific order, too. They’re in the order of effort I’m putting in, in order of likelihood to occur, in order of what I’d like to have and INVERSE order of what I would really enjoy doing.
A lot of people get mixed up. Yes I would like to HAVE sub-10% bodyfat, but I don’t really enjoy DOING WHAT IT TAKES to have it. Important distinction. Though honestly I enjoy squatting and also would enjoy having a BW-multiplied-by-whole-number PR.
And to be honest I don’t really care a whole lot about running one way or the other, so sticking it in the middle is accurate. I don’t really care about running, I don’t really think I enjoy doing it, but just having some aerobic fitness couldn’t hurt, and certainly contributes to my caloric deficit for fat loss. Family has a history of heart problems and diabetes, and I’ve already neglected the latter, so might as well take care of a problem before it can happen, you know?
Optimal health over the long-term.
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