Fussel

The bad news: I don't fucking manage the body weight workout. I have no idea, why. Probably the pain So if anybody has any ideas how to do pushup n stuff without aggravating my thoroughly aggravated wrist: spill The good news: we reached level 2 in C25K. Next one tomorrow morning, looooong before getting up time. Why am I doing that to myself again?

on it First things first, got me a new part for my continually growing exo-skeleton. My left wrist hurt so much while running that I convinced my doc to prescribe me something to keep the strain off until my appointment with the surgeon in November. It's a black splint and it looks like it's a fucking ppiece of my Post-apoc gear. I love it. The other good news is, I think I accidentally managed to outwit myself. How? I am a natural night owl. I know, nerd keep saying this all the time when they fall through a rip in space time continuum and end up at 3am somewhere in Fallout, BUT... I literally have been like this since I was... 8-9 years old? I just function better when it's dark. Sadly, I also run better in the morning when literally nothing can distract me. See, where this is going? Yeah. Slugging my way through the fog filled darkness of my hometown's parks at 6:30 in the morning. The worst part? And I swear, if you tell anybody we'll have a problem... I like it. I like that fog filled darkness more than you can possibly imagine! I love that nothing is distracting me and I just feel so at home! Although I'm literally just crawling along... but hey... so much better than summer. Anyways, the thing that doesn't get better? Getting out of bed. Chaos and the Hellbeast are not helping either... they love every minute spent in bed snuggling. Thanks guys, very supportive! You should take a sheet out of alienjenn's book. Now THAT is supportive. Thanks PS: That was a rather long winded way of saying: Went snail pacing through the park this morning ^^

Hah! No post since Tuesday! Guess who didn't fall Me again! yay. Did the c25k week 1 run on both Wednesday and Friday. Skipped the body weight workout on Thursday, though. Got my flu vaccine on Wednesday and did really feel like doing anything to my muscles. poor guys suffer enough. Reconnected with an old friend in the US whom I have wanted to write to for ages.

FOURTEEN!? Wow! Well done! And yeah, dancing is wonderful. Hang in there! I believe in you! And the idea with leaving half an hour earlier to use the gym is pretty nifty. So that if you can.

Hey Snuggles, the most difficult thing for me always and probably always will be sticking in there, when I don't readily see results. The problem is that most results in "weight loss" are invisible. Even weight loss itself is a lie because you'll get heavier if you build up muscle. The problem is, that the picture of the scale has been so ingrained in our minds, that it will kill our motivation even if there are super cool stuffs happening in our bodies. I am one to talk, ain't I? I am just the same. But I also set my eyes on different goals and those actually do MAKE a difference: eat clean and healthy 5 days out of seven (with pre-frozen portion sizes. Makes it super easy), Walk three miles home from work with music on my ears to de-stress, get up from my desk every hour and do some stretches. That's all small goals and most of them are not geared to reducing the number on the scale, though funnily, in the long term, they do. Now I'm trying to haul my ass out of bed earlier to go running, but ugh... Maybe set a doable short term goal for the PT (and yes, I know how annoying that is. Absolutely. I hate PT): Not tell yourself, you will do your PT daily from now on, but fix it to a certain date. You will do your PT every day until November 11th! And cross it off an openly visible calendar. This is how I stoppped smoking. I told myself, I'm not going to Smoke until October 24th (six months) and when it got rough, this was my go to date: Only until October, then I can start again. (Fun fact: I didn't :D) This and encouragement by my friends got me through the really hard times. Only until October 24th.

Someone did the Beginner's Bodyweight workout this morning and now is insanely proud of herself. Surprisingly, that someone even is me. Unbelievable, I know. I also did not, in fact, gain a shit ton of weight in France, although, being in France, I was eating baguette for breakfast and cheese for lunch. If you've never been to Lyon, I highly suggest you go, because the city is fucking magical. Especially if you like to eat. And walk up and down the Croix Rousse and the Fourvière a few times while you're there. The pain is worth it... oh wait, that came out wrong. Now it's back to not eating cake all the came. I need to meal prep again... when I find the time between Chaos and the Hellbeast keeping me on my toes. Another thing to try: Yoga with kittens. Behold Chaos and the Hellbeast. 16 weeks.

Oh, I needed that motivation today! Congrats and THANK YOU! I'm trying to start c25k proper tomorrow morning, stress or no stress going on in my life. Awesome time! I'll be glad to finish the 5k. LOL

didn't do much the last days except a Yoga sun greeting in the morning. Basically I was in too much pain ^^ I walked around 6 -8 Miles a day, hill up, hill down and my body is grumpy

Done body weight work out and I really cheated my way through. Ugh, everything hurts. Lugging a 30 lbs bag through Europe leaves traces ^^

I'm writing this on a train to Heidelberg, sitting in the first class carriage while admiring the Franconian landscape in the dewy morning light. No matter how cheesy it sounds, I swear, it's true. On my way to France. First class. Like a successful bohemian person. Have you ever sat among businessmen with your spindle and spun wool? Do it for the looks alone! No workout today except carrying a 30 lbs bag and a modified sun salutation this morning. Gods, this is so beautiful! I also successfully spent 20 minutes snuggling with the kittens this morning. PS: special price contingent tickets rule!

*that's a mix between a Rogue and a Ranger... what the heck did you think that was? Welcome to my consistency diary, or, as I like to call it: Do the thing! A bit about me, so you know who you yell at, when I don't drop a "Done!" on time: My name is Kat, I am 37, Star Wars fan for 27 years, roleplayer for 17, LARPer. I sell computers. So far so average. Things get complicated when it becomes clear that I was born in the body of a mage with the brain of a warrior and the temperament of a Hobbit. First challenge: Motivation. The best time for me to train is in the mornings when everything is still silent and clean and nobody out there who can annoy me. I am also a night owl. See the problem? I am notoriously difficult to get out of bed. Just now I set myself a timer to 6:30 every morning and my alarm clock to 6 and I must be fucking crazy! Who does that???!!!! Number two: Disability. I suffer from Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome (makes my tendons soft and vulnerable) and Rheumathoid arthritis (makes my joints go ouch and imflammated) I tend to have one or two areas in my body that I can't use at any given time. One of my biggest dreams is to get really nice shoulders and do pull-ups. Right now I can hardly bend and only with heavy difficulty put weight on my left wrist, due to a tendonitis in the base tendon of my left thumb. And if i do, I'll regret it. I have major trouble grabbing anything because putting strain on the thumb, means putting strain on the tendon. I also do love to walk. Usually until something in my arch gets strained to the point that I cannot walk for two months. Which is, why we will be having a collection of workarounds. I set the timer to three times C25K running each week and on the rest day, the Beginner Body Weight Workout Routine. Modified version. Why? Who cares? Those who can't do that shit care. · 20 body weight squats (knees) - gently and carefully. Variations to take strain off injured areas? · 10 push ups (wrist) - Neutral position push-ups using dumbbells or on fists. Difficult against a wall. Table? · 20 walking lunges (Knees) - lunge gently and hold onto something for balance · 10 dumbbell rows (using a gallon milk jug) (Shoulders, wrist, fingers) - Shoulders: no idea, Wrist: replace with wrist weights, fingers: tape or strap it in place (how?) · 15 second plank (elbow, maybe shoulders) - elbow cushion, damn bursitis, shoulders: good form! (anything else?) · 30 Jumping Jacks (feet) - get proper shoes! They cost you half your monthly food budget, but it's worth it! Or find another exercise. (which?) As it stands at the moment, I need a work-around for the dumbbell rows. The Push-ups can be done with a neutral position wrist, but since I probably need to do them against the wall, I am looking for a good and safe workaround still. Table might be an option, or the couch. Number Three: The rest. I travel a lot. Don't look at me, I'm going to France next week to meet a dear friend, eat croissants, drink cafe au lait and generally be a tourist. I have two small kittens, who sometimes make doing anything impossible AND who eat my yoga mat. (Thanks pals!) Ook, neither are real reasons, are they? So it comes back to motivation and ability. Something I found important with my disability is to not look at it as an illness or a disability. It automatically pushes you into a category of weak people who need sitting in a chair excercises. And yes, some of us DO, but we need to be challenged too, not coddled. Look at it as a chronic injury! Injuries are cool! Injuries are what you get when you slay an Ogre! In LARP I am semi-famous for playing a battle healer and trust me, injuries are cool. Being sick is just... Look in the mirror and tell yourself "You're sick" and then go for "You're injured, but you keep going." BAM! I just like to be cool. But, Number Three, since the previous number three was nothing but a whiny cop-out: The plan! Monday: C25K Tuesday: Bodyweight Wednesday: C25K Thursday: Bodyweight Friday: C25K Saturday: like I would get up before noon on a Saturday, excuse me? Sunday: Slow and easy bodyweight. Thursday evening: PT Wednesday: gym Tuesday: write at least 600 words Every day: spent ten minutes with the kittens, pet them, play with them. Cleaning up after them doesn't count. Full plan starts on Monday, October 8th. Until then: eat baguette!

Ich frag jetzt einfach mal nicht "Wie?". ich bin die ganze nächste Woche in Frankreich und hab Zeit es raus zu finden Danke. I'm using C25K... or I will... as soon as I'll manage to train again in the mornings. I just got two little kittens and let me tell you... at least it's not kids. Thanks for your kind words. Somewhere on here the information will be and if they aren't... I gotta write them up. I sorted myself into Ranger. I like a lot of things and like to do a lot of things (and besides, Archery!) Sadly many of those involve hands -.- but I'll see what I can find that is more than just running. Thanks for the welcome. We will see. I'm looking forward to it.

While leaving my apartment this morning, hand already on the door handle, I turned around, dodged my cats and marched into the bathroom to pull "Level Up your life" from the toilet reading pile. Then I walked out the door. So, this is the first day of my new life and I am spending it by writing a forum introduction in "How to use Outlook" class, before running out for a meeting with manufacturer representatives. That's my life. I have been hanging around the fringes of Nerd Fitness for about two years now, I am a member of Nerd Yoga (sad story, more on that later) but I haven't DONE anything, really. A bit on myself: My name is Kat or Fussel (Fluffy for the non German crowd). I am 37 years old and at some point in my life studied archeology before I had to give it up and do something that involves earning money... I restarted everything and now am a backoffice corporate account manager in IT. Basically, I sell a lot of computers. I was born with a mild case of Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome and spent my life slower, weaker and more injury prone than my peers. It would be a lie to say, I didn't let it stop me. I got used to being too fragile to be badass. Luckily not in my head and luckily the Force works without a strong body. 13 years ago I developed a bad case of rheumathoid arthritis that drove me into depression and at some point close to suicide. Funnily, the knowledge that suicide was an option kept me going when shit got real bad. I got my stuff together and my body back into something resembling working order. Like that it worked ok-ish until, 4 years ago, I started feeling that after 20 years, it was time to stop smoking. Gosh darn it, that was hard! But I've been clean for 3 1/2 years now and for 2 1/2 years now, I finally have the feeling to be able to breathe for the first time in my life. But that packed on some pounds. I shot to 180lbs with the help of cortisone and the lack of nicotine. I dropped a good bit of those already (163 lbs at present) but it's hard. So hard. Due to my body not working right, whenever i seem to have found something I can do... I need to stop. At any given time some appendix is not working right, feet, knees, hands, elbows..... you get the gist. And that is the one thing I am sorely missing on nerd fitness. I started with nerdfitness yoga (which I love) but with a brutally inflamed left wrist for the last 9 months, training is out. I wanna do the wall handstand. I just can't. I wanna do curls, but I can't grip a barbell. I love my kettle bell, but guess what...? So I stuck to leg strength, excercise bike... trying just to do something. Anything. Sadly, the only thing I can seem to stick with are my 3 mile walks home from work. There are times when I'm sorely doubting my gym membership. So, where are all the creative cripples with the workarounds at? Is there a group? A Mailing list? Anything? But that's not the only problem I have. Number two is motivation. The friends I train with are super inconsistent and it's extremely hard to keep going on my own. Accountability... I am totally looking for people to keep me on track. As we're all, probably. But aside from that: come talk to me! Tell me, how my use of the word cripple is totally inappropriate (I know you thought it, but sometimes owning it, is all you got). Come talk to me about Star Wars, about LARP (that's what I'm training for), crafting (sadly, spinning is off limits with the hand, but right now, I am building a new post apoc outfit!), music (guitar is, guess what, off limits atm), movies (just saw Magnificent 7. Holy shit!) and all things food and fitness. I'm looking forward to this new day and whatever it may bring As for goals? Short and sweet: run 5 k by new year and write a book. Greets from Germany, Fluffy