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Maybe I'm missing something, but you can't do 32 so far. So why is 33 or 34 even an option?
Update. Got 34. My left hand is a traitor. Did it essentially to near failure left to start, then run out the right, get to 17 left, finish right. My right hand didn't let me down. Painful and stupid, but done.
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32 had to be done while I was 32, now it has to be at least 33, but due to my horror of asymmetric workouts I'd probably round it up to 34. Given additional weeks of training towards the goal I may be able to achieve additional reps.
Are these numbers entirely arbitrary? Yes. But only in the sense that setting a personal goal is more arbitrary than allowing some Frenchmen to set the distance you are running or the weight you are lifting.
To addend that, any actual time goal on a run or lifting one rep max is also going to be effectively arbitrary in the sense that the goal is pretty much always just, "better than yesterday". Setting something that you know is completely unrealistic is silly, setting something you can easily accomplish is pointless. No one else is ever going to care all that much about a level of physical accomplishment that is good, but nothing special. Looking at graphs of how many people finishes races at round number is pretty funny. Running a sub-3 (or sub-4, or sub-5) marathon doesn't actually matter to anyone other than the people doing it, but you set a number that's hard but achievable and go from there.
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