I have recently been breaking a lot of goals that I set for myself both recently and a long time ago. In addition, I am close to breaking more of those goals in the upcoming weeks, if all goes well.
I started back squatting last fall, and went from lifting 145 to 225 in roughly one semester. Then I started front squatting. I was back to 225 when I pulled my groin swimming, losing the progress I had made. Only recently have I been front squatting again, but this time I blew by the plateau that I had last time. 220 one week, 225 the next, and this week 230. No problem. Next time I will attempt 235. One plateau busted, and a goal definitely broken.
Deadlifting is one of the exercises that I didn't really do. I started doing Stronglifts, but never deadlifted for some dumb ass reason. It was in the program, so I am just an idiot. I didn't OHP either, which was retarded. Either way, I learned my lesson. Starting at the end of the first semester, I started deadlifting, but I was essentially doing 1RM every time, and then recovering for weeks because of it. I started doing deadlifts for real the second semester, and out of all my lifts, it is the only one that has not stalled yet. My goal was to 5RM 300 before the end of the summer, and I did that last week. My try goal however is to improve my 1RM to above 330. I don't see that being a problem at all. I think it is most likely above that right now. My short term goal is to get my deadlift to 315, three plates, and then do a 1RM attempt, to see what I can get. I am hoping for 350 at the least.
Next is the bench press. My current goal is to improve my dumbbell bench to 5RM 100 lbs in each hand. I am getting close. Today was 90, although I couldn't complete all the sets. It will improve. However, this goal for DB bench is hiding my true goal. My bench press has been at around 205 since the middle of the second semester. It dropped down, probably due to slight overtraining, to 200 at one time, but then blew back in the next few times, passing 205 to get to 210. Then it stopped again. I could really care less about dumbbell bench. I know that my grip will fail before my chest does, and I will end of killing myself. I want to break my plateau of 210 and get to 225. When I can DB bench 100 lbs, the dumbbells at the current gym will be maxed out, and barbell will be the only way, which is how I want it anyway.
Shoulder press is a similar story to the deadlift, except it didn't take off despite my negligence. I started at about 115 lbs at the beginning of semester 1, and by the end of semester 2, I had not changed. I never did OHP, and suffered for it. I started now, with dumbbells to complement the rest of what I am doing right now, but I want my OHP to be 3/4 of my bench. Right now it is about half. I think this should be possible, but I am not sure how long it will take, because my bench improves too.
Dips. Just an exercise to do, and a goal for the hell of it. I don't really care. I think it would be cool to add a ton of weight to it with a belt, but I don't really care that much.
Pulllups are about the same. I think adding tons of weight for reps would be cool, but again, I don't really care if I can do this.
