training age == 1 year

I started going to the gym one year ago and I've made some progress. I spent some time at the beginning dicking around with some exercises that weren't as useful (you know the stuff, 3 sets of 10 on isolation exercises) so I like to think my progress would have been greater. But some others have been doing the same routine for years so I won't complain.

Here is a snapshot.

• weight - 2007/157lbs; 2008/170lbs (even a few days after nats, I expected this to have dropped a few pounds)
• squat - 135x6; 225x5 (I haven't done these in 3 months because my legs have been beat up from frisbee)
• deadlift - 165x6; 285x1 (April -the grip is the gating factor here, the weight feels light everywhere else)
• power clean - 95x5 (January); 135x4 (May)
• press - 90 (January); 100x3
• chins - 1; 12 & 30lbsx3 (I'm not at 12 right now, I only hit 9 a couple of weeks ago)
• push ups - 15; 30 (November - I haven't done them since?)
• inverted rows - 11 (January); ______
• 100 burpees - 16:06 (May)/13:25 (July)
• vertical jump - 18"/_____

Clearly my baselines were not set up in an ideal way. But I was figuring out a lot of stuff as I went. And I suppose I still am.

I should do a broad jump.

Things I'd like to accomplish in the next year:

1. 1 muscle up (they say you can probably do this if you can do 15 chin ups and 15 dips)
2. 1 handstand push up
3. 130 press
4. 375 deadlift
5. 300 squat
6. 200 power clean
7. 30 chin ups (with a kip)
8. sub 6 minutes for 1 mile
   
9. sub 8 minutes for 100 burpees

I don't have any stats on my sprinting times so I won't include that -- I am assuming that they will improve with the increased strength and general physical preparedness (gpp or metcon).

World's is in Prague in 2010. I'm just saying.

I think I might compile a list of sports that I don't think should be in the Olympics.