Soli Deo Gloria!

Short Term Goals (by the end of August):

Workout Goals:

1.   6:15 mile

2.   250# Back Squat

3.   Handstand Pushup against a wall

4.   315# Deadlift

5.   100# Weighted Pullup

6.   20 Pullups

7.   125# Shoulder Press

8.   10% Body Fat

Reading Goals:

1.   Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper

2.   4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

3.   Weightlifting Olympic Style by Tommy Kono

4.   Naked Warrior by Pavel Tsatsouline

5.   Power to the People by Pavel Tsatsouline

6.   Relax Into the Stretch by Pavel Tsatsouline

7.   Beyond Stretching by Pavel Tsatsouline

8.   Super Joints by Pavel Tsatsouline

9.   Practical Programming by Mark Rippetoe and Lon Kilgore

Long Term Goals (by the end of the year):

Workout Goals:

1.   5:45 mile

2.   290# Back Squat

3.   Freestanding Handstand Pushup

4.   350# Deadlift

5.   Bodyweight Weighted Pullup x 3 reps

6.   30 Pullups

7.   160# Shoulder Press

8.   Bodyweight Weighted Dip

9.   7% Body Fat

Reading Goals:

1.   The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People by Stephen Covey

2.   The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey

3.   Suffering and the Sovereignty of God by John Piper and Justin Taylor

4.   The Paleo Diet by Dr. Loren Cordain

5.   Enter the Zone by Dr. Barry Sears

6.   The Kid Who Climbed Everest by Bear Grylls

7.   Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

8.   Good News About Injustice by Gary A. Haugen

9.   Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Currently Reading

1.   Weightlifting Olympic Style by Tommy Kono

2.   Naked Warrior by Pavel Tsatsouline

…hope helps us dream. Hope helps us think up ways to do good. Hope helps us pursue our ventures with virtue and integrity. It’s hopelessness that makes people think they have to lie and steal and seize illicit pleasures for the moment.

- John Piper from Ruth: Strategic Righteousness