I used to be pretty keen rock climber but an accident in the Alps meant I turned to hill running then cycling when my body rebelled. So I've spent 30+ years trying to waste away my upper body to reduce extra weight!
But last 18 months I started strength training, partly to improve overall conditioning but also to try to get some beach muscles back. In fact the intensity seems to have reduced body fat and improved tone, so results quite satisfactory so far. I'm training with a former international power-lifter, so am very happy with the quality of advice and the structure of my training. Not likely to be pushing to max on olympic lifts - too much technique required plus I'm very inflexible - but will use them as part of a circuit or for strength endurance, perhaps with kettlebells (eg snatch).
My numbers are a bit of a mismatch - would hope to get big improvements on upper body stuff :-
Bench - 72.5kg
Squat (old number) - 140kg
DL - 165kg
One-arm press (with barbell, not dumbell) - 5 @ 25kg Left, 3 @ 25kg Right
One-arm curl (with barbell, not dumbell) - 1@ 27.5kg Left & Right
(these are anomalous, press should be higher than curl )
Objectives for year :-
3 x Pistol squats on bosu ball each leg ( can do pistols with 12kg counter-balance on step)
Bench at body-weight ( difficult to measure since I don't weigh myself becos' it only depresses me! 80kg would be more than enough tho')
Be "muscle-up-ready" - difficult to actually do a mu 'cos all my gyms have low ceilings!
3 x one-arm pushups in good form, each arm.
(provisional)