Someone here reminded me of this thread recently.

I've passed some important milestones in the last month. I remember when I was a freshman in high school, the ultimate goal was to rep 135 on the bench 12 times. I finally did this by my junior year.

When I was a freshman in college, I set the same goal, but with 225. That never happened, because it was college and was much harder to keep up a regular workout schedule. But having stuck with a regimen for a solid year now, I'm finally able to get 225 up 4 or 5 times. I think I will be able to accomplish my goal by the end of the summer. After that, well, who knows. I don't foresee having any desire to want to lift more than 225 lbs. I'm not trying to look jacked or whatever. Maybe I'll do yoga or some bullshit like that.

I am also squatting around 275 right now, with a similar goal of 315 in mind.

I've also started to do a lot more shoulder work than I used to. I'd love to get my hands on a copy of the Sox shoulder workout program. As an aside, I'm sure it was natural for most people who played baseball here to have shoulder soreness when they would throw for prolonged periods of times, especially early in the season. Well, my friend was interviewing Ryan Kalish several years ago after he was drafted and they were chatting on that very issue. Kalish told him that as soon as he started training with the Sox, they put him on their typical throwing program and he never felt that soreness again. This really makes me jealous. Damn trade secrets.

I think I'm going to start turning my mind to some cardio goals soon. 3 miles in 20 minutes is what we had to run to suit up for baseball in high school and I've always considered it a good informal threshold of fitness.