My old thread was getting kind of long and since I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about where I want to go with my fitness goals I figured a new thread was a great idea to help me sort it out!

In 2017 I met most of my personal fitness goals that I'd been working on for a while (20 pull-ups, 50 push-ups, unassisted head stand to name a few) and it left me with a sense of uncertainty in regards to what I wanted for myself fitness-wise.

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Feb 2022 Update:

It's been five years since I've done an update on fitness goals so probably about time I put an update here!

I did a real generalized update here, but I'll maybe explain a bit more here and talk a bit about what has been going with me in the last few years.

To start off, I've not been very active around the Hive until this past year and very intermittingly at that, but I've missed it terribly.

In late 2018, I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and it got worse before it got better - not going into it - and as of this past Fall after my last biopsy and a (hopefully) final surgery, I was declared cancer free! I don't head back to the hospital for a check-up in this regard until late summer unless something hinky comes up before then, but so far so good!

Some fun news - I started BJJ in the later half of 2019 and wasn't very consistent with it even though I completely adored it as my health interruptions just wouldn't allow for regularity. Going into 2020 I was excited to focus on it [jits] and physically felt the best I had in a long while, but at the beginning of Feb 2020 we started the beginning of the first Covid lockdown here. Since then the lockdowns are kind of just a part of life now and somehow I managed to get in enough, and consistent, training in to test for my blue belt this past December and walk away with some new colour before the latest lockdown

I tell people all the time that BJJ was one of the best decisions I've ever made because I don't think I'd be physically or mentally where I'm currently at without it. I think several things would've been very different and I'm grateful for the community that exists in this sport.

Some of my goals for this year are not specific in nature as I'm more interested in being functional and just enjoying myself. I have more specific goals around jiu jitsu, but I won't get into those here since I do in a thread post already later on.

BJJ is the most important fitness aspect to me at the moment and so I'm hoping to move my daily fitness around in such a way that it compliments my jits training, has me all of the happy, but also puts me on track for some steady progress on things that need work.

Some physical things that need some love are - stronger core, glute activation, more flexibility in my hips and shoulders, high intensity cardio conditioning (just running is fine for me, but the step up from there is not great), some toning up and losing a maximum of 15lbs, but ideally no more than 10lbs.

If I can find a trail, or even city, race in my area that I haven't done before then I will set a more regular running schedule. I miss running so much, but I struggle to stay consistent with the training if I don't have a reason to do it.

There is a BJJ tournament coming up the end of April that I am leaning towards doing right now. If I can get my training schedule sorted out and one-on-one time with coaches then I'll do this one. If I'm not, then I'll do the following one that should be in either the late summer or fall sometime. There's always another one if the one this Spring doesn't work out