Last Year's Fitness Goals

In my previous post, which goes all the way back to June of last year, I updated the following goals:

1- Pull-ups
2- Bench Press
3- Slam Dunk

My current update:

1- I did indeed hit my goal of 12 quality pull-ups. For a brief few seconds I was pretty emotional.  Weird. Best guess as to how many I could do right at this moment is 10; it's just not something I train "for" anymore.

2- I've been training differently on most of my lifts since discovering this channel on YouTube last year:  Natural Gallant Bodybuilding. At this point, I have no interest in pursuing the goal, because "good form" in bench pressing means something different to me now.  Further, because part of my reason for wanting to hit this goal was because it is tested in NFL combines (with 225#), and because I've seen the sloppy form they often use, it means even less.

Maybe someday I'll try to hit the goal with the same sloppy form NFL prospects use, but for now, I couldn't care less about this goal.  Funny how things can change that quickly, and it ain't even sour grapes.

3- Yeah, still more than doubtful.  But I might give a 12-week "jumping" training course a try just to see how much improvement I can make, and then decide from there. On the plus side, my knees have been very good for a while now.

I credit different squatting technique, thanks to the Gallant YouTube page mentioned above. The guy is a riot, and speaks the truth. Kind of depressing feeling like 30 years were wasted, following scores of other types of training advice that only steered me wrong. If I ever start my own YouTube training page, it would be about stupid-ass things I did in the past. I'd have enough material for a post every week for the next 30 years.