Re: Whats Your Personal Goal ?
Funny you should post this as I have been asking myself that question for a few weeks now. What are my fitness/training goals? I have been active most of my life. Most of my adult life fitness pursuits have been either running or some form of weight training. As I related in another thread, all that stopped when I discovered some disc compression. Then a couple of years ago, I realized I better do something to be more fit or I would miss out on a lot of activities with my children.
So, now I have regained a base level of fitness and strength. To what end? Crossfit is a great resource for pithy little sayings and when I asked my trainer - rhetorically - what I was training so hard for, he replied, "to not suck at life." Okay.
Still, something a bit more specific - an identifiable target as it were - would be a good thing to have. One of the guys at our gym just ran an adventure race and loved it. He now trains with the goal of doing another adventure race in the future. But I am 50 years old and quite frankly, I do not like to "camp-out."
So after assimilating all this, I have determined a couple of short term goals I am going to pursue: 1) Flexibility - I have none..., well, very little. I would like to reacquire the flexibility I should have had and kept up in my 20's (or at least 30's). 2) Running - I want to get back into running something longer than 2-3km, without pain, and preferably without shoes.
So my goal is to turn back the clock..., without breaking the spring or other vital parts.
