51. Continue to keep my mouth shut and take Kyle's advice in training. Continue to be aware how my actions and mental state might have an effect on him as he works with me.
52. Be more diligent about logging. EVEN if I'm injured, which I have a hard time doing.
53. Clarify where my motivations come from in relation to my training goals. What drives me, how can I focus on it and purify it?
54. Expand my collection of workout garb. It's frivolous and superficial but it makes me happy and probably in some small way helps me self-identify as a lifter. I mean, damnit, my glutes sure don't.
55. Purchase and read at least one strength-training related book. I basically no longer read these days, so this is actually more of a feat for me than it sounds. Ugh, I used to love reading, what happened?
56. Comment more on both Youtube lifting videos and training logs.
57. Network more within the lifting blogging community.
58. Determine whether or not I want to start squat work with knee wraps. Decisions, decisions.
59. Improve wide-grip press and work towards using it in competition.
60. Better myself as secretary of our powerlifting team. Pretend I'm freaking Joan from Mad Men (sans glute development) if that's what it takes to do so. The better I am about efficiency and contributing to the team, the more prepared I am to take on a helpful role in the lifting community at a later point in my career.
61. Work on my tolerance of brospeak/people speaking about my lifting as bodybuilding when I'm discussing it with non-lifters.
62. Work on my tolerance of Crossfit. It's here to stay, it's going to become more and more prevalent as more and more powerlifters embrace it/incorporate it into their gyms.
63. Be a better ambassador for powerlifting. This includes fully embracing my status as a lightweight lifter. It also includes not being allowed to call myself a "novelty," even in a facetious manner. I'm no one's novelty act.
64. Go to a meet outside of Iowa. This might be more like in the next two years, but I REALLY want to compete in a different setting with different people around me. It would be a good challenge and I'd only get to meet more powerlifters that way.
65. Work to generate more visibility for our team within the city in which it is located. Athletically, we have some really talented team members and our club is probably one of the more accomplished athletic clubs at the University of Iowa.
66. Figure out more ways to keep my hips from doing wonky things during a pull--both breaking off the floor and at lockout.
67. Make sure I replace my mouth guard a few times per year. I'm sure that thing is going to get nasty eventually.
68. Be more diligent about SMR work, particularly through the quads, glutes, and hamstrings. Possibly calves if I want to torture myself.
69. Learn to spot better. Particularly at squat. I am pretty inexperienced there.
70. Continue to think about lifting and lifters less and less in terms of gender. I wish everyone would adopt this one.
71. Do more submaximal bench work and check my pride when I do. Submaximal is about firming up motor patterns and technique.
72. Reconcile the seeming discrepancy between my sense of pride/foolhardiness when lifting and my self-loathing. It's a weird combination of character traits to have in relation to training, and one that is one of my greatest weaknesses.
73. Improve wrist mobility, because there are some issues there right now. Particularly with the right one, which might be a scapula rotation issue, see #37. Dangit.
74. Possibly run a trial with following the carb backloading diet more correctly.
75. Help out new lifters in their first meet in April. I've watched a few people on our team improve quickly, and it has been exciting. I want to see their efforts pay off in a good first meet in the spring.
76. Do more prehab and hypertrophy work outside of regular training hours. I'm horribly lazy outside of the gym (I save all effort and energy for teaching and being in the gym) so this one will be a challenge for me. Small changes will get me there.
77. Drink more water.
78. Drink more green tea, something I've been better about lately, actually.
79. Fix the issue I've been having with my hips doing something wonky when I squat sometimes. The wonkiness is apparently most easily seen from the back, so I'll have to film myself from behind while squatting and you know that's going to be attractive.
80. No more disparaging remarks regarding my posterior plane(s). I'm sort of kidding, sort of not on this one. It is in keeping with prior items on this list, i.e. disparaging remarks towards myself just aren't that helpful in relation to self-confidence-building. Also, honestly, my glutes are not that bad. They're just not.
81. Laugh more around training sessions (probably not during). This seems to help my psyche.
82. Stop being as automatically belligerent when someone at the gym gets in my space.
83. (Be able to) help someone with their programming--and have enough knowledge to do so--if my help is requested.
84. Find more lyric-less music for lifting that I really like. I don't really listen to music during many work sets right now, but enjoy it a lot when doing accessory work. I think it helps with motivation and probably has aided in pushing out a few extra reps here and there.
85. Start taping more of my bench sessions. My bench sucks, therefore I conclude that no one is going to want to watch my bench work, therefore I don't film it and/or don't make videos of it. This is erroneous logic if I follow the logic of #32 (premise: no one actually cares that much about what I'm lifting) and making video would only help me in being able to spot errors in form, improvement (or lackthereof) in speed, and/or make fun of crap people are doing in the gym around me as I work.
86. I'm so close to being done with this list, awesome. I bet you haven't read this far in it. Oh, you have? Okay, number eighty-six: maintain calluses so I don't tear one off during the course of 2013. I believe this is possible.
87. Force myself to do this "bat-hang" Donnie Thompson mobility move Kyle had me do once. It was awesome, but I'm still kind of afraid of it.
88. Remain mostly mute in response to the misplaced enthusiasm of students/acquaintances who, upon finding out I lift, launch into a detailed description of how good they are at leg press, the pec deck, or similar. I'm actually serious about this one. Telling someone why the leg press isn't a test of their maximal strength levels is just not productive use of my time.
89. Spend less internet time doing frivolous crap and more of it researching lifting. I'm ashamed that I need to even write this one up, but I know it would help my lifting if I made a concerted effort to do so. Better yet, as referenced in #55, pick up one of my hypothetical strength training books that I WILL read this year and spend time with that instead of reddit/pinterest/pajiba.
90. Rebuild my pull-up and chin-up numbers. Improve on them.
91. Do more flat press work; I'm terrible at it and a lot of my mobility inequalities come out when I do it.
92. Max test floor press because I THINK I can probably do 135 sometime this year and that would be pretty cool. Hell, if I did 120 x 3, I should be able to do 135, or I'm close to it.
93. Use a lacrosse ball for SMR on my traps/upper back because I know the area tends to get extremely tight.
94. Try some epsom salt baths for recovery.
95. Learn more about how maximal strength training carries over into training for specific sports--and I mean literally on a physiological level how the carryover works.
96. Continue to re-evaluate aspects of my squat: grip width on the bar, stance, hip use throughout the year. Mobility changes, strength changes, opportunity for evaluation is constant. Hmm, I like that, I'm going to use that. It's going to be the TITLE of this hulking tome!
97. Firm up my pausing work on bench. I currently pause my reps, but sometimes I juke them. Not okay.
98. Develop more meet-specific mental strategy. This means more visualization work in the week before the meet along with meet-day visualization.
99. Work on anxiety issues in the week leading up to a meet.
100. As the next few months (now through April) set in, keep a balanced mindset regarding training and the demands that will be placed on me by the end of my academic career. Turn to others for support during this time (I'm getting better at this). Train hard, do well, learn lots even when things feel overwhelming.