Sharing your goals on a public blog adds extra pressure to actually complete them. Thankfully, most of my friends and family don’t know I blog, so the embarrassment is not too big. I set some goals last year, and now is the moment to look back and see how well I did.
- ✅ I’ll try to climb Vihren (2 failed attempts in 2024) – success
- ✅ I’ll try to keep an average of 10k/day for 2025 as well but increase the difficulty by doing more hiking and less city – success for the steps and mostly for the hiking as well
- 🚩 I’ll try to add 1h/week of gym time, starting with body weight exercises like push-ups and plank. – failure
Honestly, the Vihren goal was too optimistic and we stopped doing hiking after it. I don’t know what happened with the gym idea. I did a grand total of under 1 hour of exercise. I don’t have an explanation, it was never part of my todo, had zero interest in spending time on it, and just dreaded the idea that I’m going to do that. But, reality is, that I need to find a way to do it.
So, for 2026, let’s try again:
- 10K steps on average for the year – it is at risk because one of my knees doesn’t feel right
- Get back to the mountain and post 3 bean soup blog posts. The mountain misses me
- Make one pull-up
Wish me luck.
Veselin.blog 
I do wish you luck x
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Thanks!
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All the best Veselin. Just take care of the knee.
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Good luck. That pull up might be a tougher goal than you might think 😆
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Maybe 🙂 I have a knee issue but don’t have any shoulder problems. Should be doable in a year
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Agreed, less even. But it will take work. Happy New Year.
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True, going from zero to one is much harder than going from one to two. Also tied to my weight, it may not be doable without losing some. But I’ve achieved this before. Who knows:)
Happy New Year!
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I did the first exercise – trying to hang on the bar as long as I can and some scap pull-ups and push-ups.
As it turns out, even hanging on the bar is difficult these days. I could barely hang for 10-12 seconds.
But we still have 364 days ahead. Who knows, they may be enough.
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As long as you try regularly, I bet it will be much sooner than that. Are you doing any resistance training on top of it?
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I’m doing 10k steps per day. Quit the gym in 2019 for health reasons and haven’t done any training after that.
I was able to do 10-12 pull-ups in 2019.
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happy new year!! and these are great goals!
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Thank you! Happy new year! 🥳
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All the best with your goals!💪🏻
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Getting healthy is also a goal I have. It can be hard to keep things going. Life can through you curveballs and before you know it, that healthy routine is not so routine anymore. Some good choices have helped me. Doing the stairs instead of the elevator and even replacing junk food with healthy snacks.
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Exactly. I used to do gym two times per week. Had a health issue that made me stop for about half a year. This was 2019. I never resumed the gym. It’s very difficult to get back on track.
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I totally understand. It is hard getting back on track. I went for about a month after being ill without a good healthy routine. And it has been a struggle.
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Update: It’s January 3rd and I’m pretty motivated to do the pull-up. It seems to be the right kind of a difficult goal, distant enough and possible.
I can do very little right now, essentially hang on the bar for time, do push-ups, and try shrugs while hangings. Everything hurts after that. But I’m pretty sure that if I persist for a month or two, other things will become possible.
I find it insane how my body remembers how it used to do things and forces me to do very difficult types of push-ups just because this is what I used to do decades ago, when I was thin, young, and in good shape.
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