It's great to use this time of year to look back on the past year and how much of what you wanted to achieve actually got done.
This can obviously be appied to your fitness, nutrition and health, but also the other areas that make up your life.
As for training, this is one reason i love to keep training diaries. It's great to look back on the past year and even previous years to compare what i have done, what has lead to success, what challenges needed to be overcome etc.
I do feel training diaries lend themselves best when you can attach some numbers to what you are doing, for example weights lifted, repetitions, time taken, distance covered, average speed etc. This just makes it easier to compare training sessions and the results from them.
Even without much of this quantification, i'd still recommend keeping track.It's like looking at a roadmap of how you got here!
I feel i had a good year overall. I trained hard and consistently with a well rounded approach. I did suffer a pretty significant injury, but i was able to work around it so it didn't slow me down too much! I set a goal of Deadlifting 200kg's earlier in the year. As i got to the final months of the year i knew this would need to be revised slightly.
So last Sunday i managed 192kg's - a good personal best and exactly 2 and a half times my bodyweight!
If you didn't have any friendly challenges to look forward to this year, how about setting yourself some for next?!
Time for the Bootcampers to step up to the challenge once again on Monday 4th January. Still some spaces available - http://www.sussexbootcamps.co.uk
Steve
