Time to introduce myself....

[Pat]

Hi everyone! I have been on the forum for maybe 2 weeks now but never took the time to introduce myself so here it goes!

 

I'm Pat, a 34 years old office worker from the Canadian Arctic. I decided to start being more active about a month ago. First it was a way to keep busy during my lunch time and soon because I liked it. I'm usually very active during the summer but in winter, with weather in the -40 to -50 and the little light, it's easy to want to sit on the couch and do nothing in the comfort of  your home.

 

I do a lot of fishing and hiking during the summer. Last year I started hunting and it's been a lot of fun so far. Cause I'm a bit of a nerd sometimes, I spent the last year reading all I can find about the new hunting sport and I even joined a shooting club and started practicing there weekly. It's not as easy as I thought!

I spend a scary amount of time canoeing during the summer. I did less of that the last 2 summers because of heavy forest fires in the region but otherwise I am on the water every weekend from end of may to early september.

During the spring and fall I also do lots of berry and mushroom picking and while at it I started studying animal tracks (that last one is very cool).

Over the last 15 years I followed all kinds of training to better play outside, stuff like survival class, search and rescue, orienteering, first aid,  outdoor oriented cooking classes, plant identification, etc, etc. I also graduated from a guiding school a while back.

 

For me NF will be a tool and a motivation to do more during the winter months and try to get back in shape cause really, while what you just read above might make me look like a very active person, trust me when I say years working in an office kind of work your body in a wrong way. Ok... not just the office, I also got lazy over the last few years.

As a  bonus I'd love to be in a good enough shape to get back so some of the activities I use to do or at least use to do better.

 

I read the guild and all and I think the Ranger is my kind of thing. I'll make sure to jump in the next 6 week challenge. Right now for training I did the recruit workout and gave a try to the body weight before to jump to dumbbell this week. I actually like both the bodyweight and the dumbbell so I might mix the 2 a little or go from one to the other and back, I don't know yet... time will tell.

 

Oh and finally, I have no goal to lose weight. My challenge is quite the opposite!

 

Hopefully I didn't derail too much in this introduction lol.

 

 

Cheer!

 

[fitwownerd]

Hows life in the Canadian artic?

[Leafa]

Good luck Pat! Great to see someone from Canada (and someone more north than me! I'm in NL)

[Pat]

Hows life in the Canadian artic?

 

Easy!

 

Lots of work for every one (and well paid) and the mood is more relax than what you see in cities downsouth. There is a lot to do to so it's very easy to keep busy at whatever you like to do.

[skinNbones]

Hi Pat, I'm also trying to gain weight with bodyweight. Was just looking over your other thread about weight gain too.

Good luck with it, I'm doing OK so fat but finding all this extra eating is quite time consuming!

Only gazbaillion posts behind!

[Pat]

Hi SkinNbone. I agree with you the extra eating takes quite a bit of time. You would think it's easy to gain weight but it's not. I think I gain a big 2 pounds since I started.

 

Good luck with your pull up challenge. I have the same challenge and I know it's not an easy one.