Fitness bucket list!

[natcot]

I'm a bit of a drifter as far as fitness is concerned, I've never stuck to a routine for longer than a few weeks and as a result I never achieve the targets I set for myself. Thing is, I like all aspects of health and fitness and I'm happy to be a jack of all trades. I do though have a few targets I want to achieve, a right mixed bunch, some much easier than others

Squat 200kg for 10 straight reps
Deadlift 250 for 5
100 press ups without pausing
At least 1 bar muscle up
10k run sub 40 mins
2k row sub 6:30 mins
Walk at least 5 metres on my hands
Be flexible enough to fold in half ( the one I may never get!!! )

Anyone else have a growing lists of hopes, which they are working towards?

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

I had one big one. Didn't get to do it though But I did have a few smaller ones that I did manage.

15 or so years ago, I was a big fat unfit blob of 20 stone. I decided to sort my life out, and the goal was to get fit enough to go motorbike racing.

With a monumental effort and abstination that a Monk would be proud of, I went from 20 stone to 12 stone in just over a year. The main form of exercise being running, with some cycling.

However, I grew to absolutely LOVE running, and with my fairly long legs, realised after a few years that I was probably fit enough to run competitively.

I eventually started doing some local 10k races, and managed to get myself into the 35 to 40 minute bracket. Lovely.

Trouble was, I had a recurring knee injury which often flared up. I had one arthroscopy in 2007 which seemed to sort it out. Then in 2011 I started training for the London Marathon. I got my charity place with the BHF confirmed. Excited I was.

I was getting there nicely, well into the 20-mile run training sessions at around 3 hours. My goal was a sub 4-hour time.

Until on one training session, my knee locked solid, leaving me in a collapsed heap in the middle of the road. Ambulance to Hospital.

They diagnosed ligament strain and I was discharged. However it was clear after a few days / weeks that something more sinister was afoot.

Eventually, I had an MRI scan and a second arthroscopy. When I went back to see the Consultant a couple of weeks later, he showed me the pictures and told me that the articular hyaline cartilage on the femoral condyles was almost completely worn away.

The killer blow was him telling me, at 38 years old, that I must cease running immediately, unless I wanted to be back for a total knee replacement operation within 2 or 3 years. So that was that, Marathon dream over

Put me in a depression that, if I am honest, I have only recently started to rationalise and come out of. I stopped doing any exercise at all, and am now a bit of a fat blob again.

I've started to try and address it with a bit of cycling and swimming - but the fitness mojo just isn't there anymore

[Hoofy]

Do handstand and scorpion poses (yoga thing).
Hold a front lever for at least 10 seconds.
Hold a human flag for at least 10 seconds.
Deadlift 3xBW.
1 Bar muscle up. (Really hurts the shoulder when I get to the dipped position.)
Planche hold.
Go from L-sit to planche like this guy: http://youtu.be/G-yj4xvE47s

Edited by Hoofy on Monday 23 June 22:20

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

brickwall said:

I'd love to be able to do a sub-3 hour marathon.

Do you run much already or is this a pipe-dream?

I'd wager that anyone half-decent would be able to train for a sub 3-hour event.

[The jiffle king]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

brickwall said:

I'd love to be able to do a sub-3 hour marathon.

Do you run much already or is this a pipe-dream?

I'd wager that anyone half-decent would be able to train for a sub 3-hour event.

I've done a few sub 3's and know a lot of people who can trot them out. I also know a lot of people who mentally make a mess of the marathon including many who should be sub 2:45 and screw it up.

Sub 3 is a good challenge in my view

[shouldbworking]

http://www.votwo.co.uk/events/challenges/jurassic-...

3 marathons in 3 days on the jurassic coast. I'd love to do it, but I can't find anyone willing to try it too - at least not anyone who is prepared to without having say run a marathon before.

I've walked a fair bit of the south west coast path and I can see it would be emotional to say the least. Still want to do it though.

[IroningMan]

shouldbworking said:

http://www.votwo.co.uk/events/challenges/jurassic-...

3 marathons in 3 days on the jurassic coast. I'd love to do it, but I can't find anyone willing to try it too - at least not anyone who is prepared to without having say run a marathon before.

I've walked a fair bit of the south west coast path and I can see it would be emotional to say the least. Still want to do it though.

Votwo also run the Atlantic Coast Challenge - same format on the north Cornish Coast: I've done it for three of the last four years and will be doing it again this year. The terrain in both cases is such that even walking is a significant achievement - although for me the limiting factor is my feet rather than my engine.

It's a very sociable event - entering with someone else will help to limit the accommodation costs - but there will always be someone you can walk/run with, although I get a lot of benefit from spending most of the time alone in my head.

Sub 12-hour Ironman goes on my bucket list; won't happen this year, though.

[ewenm]

Bob Graham Round next year hopefully - that's been on my bucket list for a long time.

I'm also keen to do some ultra-trail races like the TransVulcania or one of the many events in Chamonix.

[Hoofy]

The jiffle king said:

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

brickwall said:

I'd love to be able to do a sub-3 hour marathon.

Do you run much already or is this a pipe-dream?

I'd wager that anyone half-decent would be able to train for a sub 3-hour event.

I've done a few sub 3's and know a lot of people who can trot them out. I also know a lot of people who mentally make a mess of the marathon including many who should be sub 2:45 and screw it up.

Sub 3 is a good challenge in my view

I know someone who was doing decent times in half marathons. He seemed very confident about getting sub 3 hours on his first marathon based on his half marathon times.



Well, he managed 2'45" on his first ever marathon! (I saw his certificate so knew he wasn't lying.)