So, here I am at my desk one day last week, mulling over the fact that I have to establish some concrete goals. After preparing a small, handwritten list of options for the future, I begin to peruse some useful sites online, most notably Dan Johns lifting and throwing page . For those of you not familiar with Dan's work, he's a great O-lifting, throwing, and life-experience coach (for lack of a better word) as well as a great masters throwing, lifting and highland games athlete. Though his teaching progression for various strength and power movements is top-notch, his words of wisdom on the life-choices involved in training and sport are second-to-none. To distill his useful information to one ideal would be ludicrous, but I've never been afraid of ludicrousness, and I will attempt to do so now:

"Set a goal, find some system of measurement to keep track of progress, and bust your ass until you achieve it." 

    Sounds simple, huh? You would be surprised how far from the mark you might be in this seemingly simple charge, as most people fail to ever even set simple goals, much less actually MEASURE their progress against some objective system of random and varied tests.