define 'reasonable goal'

[alexseanchai]

Resistance bands? Apparently not doing it for me. However, my development has a gym attached to the community center, and it has free weights. Yesterday I did a ten-rep set each, with five-pound weights, of bicep curls and overhead presses and half a ten-rep set of lateral raises; given how long it's been since I did any strength training at all, I'm calling that impressive.

The goal I am setting is to be able to do at least that much with thirty-pound weights. Appropriate intermediate goals seem to be each intermediate size of weight, five-pound intervals. However, I do not know how long I should stay with any given size of weight before moving up to the next, how many ten-rep sets I should be aiming for with each weight, and also something about more reps with smaller weights for stamina and fewer reps with bigger weights for strength?

Help me set attainable goals, is my question here.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

*nodnod* Thanks! *watches goal recede into distance*

Still going for it, mind.

[weirdquark]

Oh, totally go for it! From what I've read women tend to shoot low because they don't know what's possible -- I read a comment on strength standards where someone was saying that she though she was doing pretty well benching with 25lb dumbbells until she saw another woman using 40lbs, so she worked on increasing the weight and after not too long, she was using 40s too. :)

[rydra_wong]

THIS.

Being able to curl and overhead press 30-pound weights is an awesome and inspiring goal (I'd personally not focus on the lateral raises so much, for reasons explained above). If that's what gets your imaginative juices going, GO FOR IT.

But be aware that it's a big goal, so don't get frustrated or think that you're weak or incapable because it's taking you time to get there. You're not: you've just gone for it and chosen a big and exciting goal.

[alexseanchai]

*nodnod*