[Closed] Fitness challenges for 2022

I've steered away from that sort of number gathering for the past couple of years, though it is certainly an incentive for the weak-willed (like me).

The only thing I'm really looking at for next year is trying to increase my Garmin "points". I've just broken 400 so I think 500 might be do-able. These are awarded for various long and short challenges throughout the year and it helps if you are doing lots of different activities.

though it is certainly an incentive for the weak-willed (like me).

*waves*

I set myself a target of running 100km a month last year. Made 1200km with a week to spare but found at times I was going for a run rather than riding just to make the distance each month.

this year I’m just going with running when I feel like it, riding when I feel like it, surfing when it’s good and seeing some new places.

at times I was going for a run rather than riding just to make the distance each month

Totally get this. 60,000m is just to encourage me out - running or riding, and I like riding up hills so hopefully its generic enough.

@jimmy, is the 60,000m a just cycling, or any combination of run & bike?

I'm dropping to a 3 day week from the spring and hope to work up to a road century over the summer (a proper one, none of that metric nonsense!)

@james-rennie I think it's a combination based on Strava..I'm intending to keep up / increase hill running so would include.

I am not making any distance type challenges this year, as I find if I slip behind it becomes disheartening rather than motivation.

What I am going to try and do is 5 sessions a week, so until spring 3 gym workouts and 2 bike rides a week, and then swap to 3 rides a week and 2 workouts when the days get longer.

Having built up a decent gym/weights room now in my cellar and using an indoor trainer for some rides, even when I don't feel it I can force myself to start, and then after 10 mins decide if I have the energy or not. If I actually had to go to a commercial gym or only have outdoor rides available I would probably talk myself out of it too often.

For the past few years I have had peaks and troughs, so my aim this year is to keep it steady and make it an engrained habit.

No set number really, but I want to get back to being fit enough to run ultras again. Dunno if I'll actually do any, but got my eye on a few classic hill races I'd like to tick off, Ennerdale Horseshoe, Ring of Steall Skyline, Vorlich and Stuc a chroin, and a few of the Scots Hill races that I haven't done yet. Might try and get an entry to the Jura Hill race, restricted numbers though.

Listened to always another adventure pod ast with Mike Dales yesterday, he does 5km every day, run, walk or cycle. I don't that would be too hard to keep going every day really.

I plan to repeat my longest road ride Stratford upn Avon to Snowdon, last done in 1979. Either that or the Chilterns cycleway in two days, depending on how my training goes 😬

My goals for 2022 are:

Reach 4.5 W/kg.

Focus on at least one good hour-long MTB training skills session per week.

Continue to eat healthily.

Continue 100% compliance rate on workouts and increase commuting hours from 3 hours a week to 5 hours a week by taking longer routes home (aiming for 400+ hours of total riding time in 2022).

Add in one strength session per week in the gym, and try to hit strength training benchmarks consistently.

Fitness challenge is mostly set by everyone else in the village that I ride with being on e-bikes these days. 😄
It certainly easier for me to get my hardtail over gates though.

Inspired by @mrb123 on the 100 days of christmas thread, I'm for 365 active days this year, which on the face of it sounds hard going, but in reality it's just logging something every day. So even on the odd rest day, I'd always go at least a decent walk anyway.

Oh, and I've done the ultimate January cliche too, joined a gym at the worst possible time of year, with all the other desperados!. They do early morning sessions so I can go before work, and have a 24hr sauna and steam room, I'll give it a month and see if I get bored. 🙂

@Nobeerinthefridge - I set myself a minimum of at least a two mile walk every day, although most days I did more than that and usually two activities a day during the week (run or bike in the morning and evening walk). I think my total hours for the year was about 850. Good luck with it!

I'm going to continue my '50 press ups every morning', and increase it to 60 every morning by the end of March.

And I'm going to start another Zwift training programme, I just need to pick which one.

@mrb123 cool, I reckon that's doable, We've got a daily mile route at work that we're encouraged to do, even if I'm struggling from a big weekend in the mountains, a couple of those is easy enough.

Going to try for 1000k running, 1000k biking and 100k open water swimming this year.
Of them it is the running that will likely fall away simply because the others take less time.
Will give it a go though

I want to do a full season of fell races this year. I've joined my local club and am up for doing as many FRA races as possible. Probably limited to 10 miles due to niggling knee issues

I’m for 365 active days this year

See I'd have failed that already as I went down to Stonehaven to visit my dad on the 2nd and ended up staying far later than we should've just sitting blethering which was great, I'd have wanted to rush off if I'd been trying to challenge myself. It's the same reason I didn't do any hillwalking, my free time was taken up chasing km's on the bike. So this year I'm not trying to accumulate any distance or climbing goals, just try and keep to regular exercise but more varied stuff.
I would like to get fit enough to have a go at the Cairngorm loop itt though.

Didn't achieve any sort of meaningful fitness last year - gained weight over the winter and never lost it.

Any improvement on that this year will be a bonus.

General aims - more rides over 60 miles early in the year, more multi-day rides from April onwards. Not being a fat, lazy slug.

And I’m going to start another Zwift training programme, I just need to pick which one.

@IHN I really like, and benefit from, the build me up programme..

Mine are:
-a 200mile road ride (got a route planned)
-get the KOM on the Avenue Vert route (Dieppe to Paris.. something like 250km)
-an IRL everesting - road and off road
-get my FTP to >300 again
-get bigger arms again (i lost my bufftings after my broken wrist!!)

DrP

To enjoy my cycling without putting pressure on myself to reach arbitrary targets

1. Get over this effing covid that I just got so I can start training.
2. Get over the side effects of this last year of cancer treatment so I can train harder.
3. Get fit enough to race the three enduros that I have entered for this year.

That last one might be a bit ambitious but f**ck it, I'll give it a go!

just try and keep to regular exercise but more varied stuff.

@Swavis this is the essence of the 365 tbh for me, I've done the likes of Marcothon etc and I feel you always end up doing the bare minimum just to get through it, so it's not exactly great from a training perspective.

The 365 allows me to have a rest day that still features walking a couple of miles, something I feel I should be doing anyway.

Yes, I'd probably find it easier if I didn't have other targets so that I can mix it up a bit. I'm going to try and log something every day but am not going to be too hard on myself if I miss a few.

first up, rehab from tibial plateau fracture, yesterday was an unexpected set back of another week as the Ortho dept cant do my consult and refer me to Physio 🙁

following that and a return to cycle commuting, mtb and jui jitsu... i'd like to rack up 2022 miles (running & riding) and maybe purple belt.

@IHN I really like, and benefit from, the build me up programme..

Yeah, that's where I think I'll be going.

I've also moved the dumbbells into my office, with the thought that, in those moments when I'd otherwise be distracted by idle web-surfing, I could instead be distracted by something vaguely useful...

Just to stretch every day for a minimum of 15 minutes my flexibility is atrocious and the root cause of so many small injuries that stop me exercising so I figure if I can do that then I'll end up exercising more too.

When lockdown shut my gym, I decided to learn to skip, something I'd never managed/bothered to do before. I recommend it.

I think I'll get a pull-up bar with my Christmas Amazon vouchers and see if I can combine them with a bit more TRX stuff.

I'm in the varied, 365 day minimum 2 mile walk club - I'm do out of shape, that'll do me the world of good! 🙂

1. Aiming to just improve bike fitness and do a longer ride. Current longest is 70miles.

2. Run a half marathon un under 2 hours. Longest run is currently 8 miles off road in 1hr 15 and only started running in August.
That might be a bit of a challenge and probably a bit stupid.

I'm putting together a proper bouldering training programme for myself right now (I've just broken away to post on here).

It's the first time I've done such a full on training programme addressing overall conditioning, strength, flexibility, lifestyle - as well as specific climbing strength (eg finger strength) and skills. I've got a basic framework and will build up from that. Working on goaL setting this afternoon

I've done running programmes on my Garmin, up to half marathon, but is something much more in depth.

I've got time to work on this now I'm pretty much retired - it's an interesting experiment to see the extent to which focused training can offset ageing.

Get over 4w/kg, given I’m about 3.8 at the moment that should be doable.