evilestmark

I could rephrase my intended goal without the buzzword by replacing that with "exercise variation" and it accomplishes the same thing. Scientifically based or not, there's definitely a motivational boost for me when I have an assortment of different things to do, as opposed to the same three movements day in and day out. Please also try to be constructive with your criticism, Shooting me down like that doesn't help me a lot.

Tell that to all the mega-devoted crossfitters out there.

I made some open source workout cards. I designed them to be a little bit harder than what I can already do for the most part, so they're not extremely scalable right now. But they're open source. You can download them and open them in any vector graphics program that can edit .svg files. I recommend Inkscape, as its free, cross platform, and exceedingly powerful. I use them as follows: Everyday I feel up to working out, hopefully 3-5 days a week, I draw a card from the deck. If the muscle groups indicated need recovery, I reshuffle it and draw a new one. After I do the workout, I judge whether or not I should reshuffle the card. If its too easy, or just poorly designed then I pitch it, and make a new one. The goal is an interesting way to make personalized muscle confusion based on workouts that I have the equipment and ability to do, or at least attempt at little to no cost. I hope someone else finds these useful. And if not, you can always download, edit, or make new ones for yourself ;-) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cxoli14pce358zc/8yGt8RkLa3 I print them off, slip them into a trading card game sleeve with a playing card behind it. I'd love to hear other ideas.

Yesterday was a push-up rest day, also my birthday :-D I neglected breakfast, ate hummus for lunch, and had chicken and beer for dinner. I'll say 2/2. Today I once again neglected breakfast, did day 3 of the pushups but failed to complete the last set at above 28 reps, Then I ate a lot of chicken, and some cucumber and avocados mixed with some mayonnaise. Dinner tonight will be hummus. Push ups completed were: 22, 30, 20, 20, 20. Kinda pissed I couldn't get the last one, but oh well. I'm going to rest 2 days and repeat the week 3 program. Tortoise... Tortoise... Maybe I'll make the tortoise my personal symbol.

Not perfect as far as goals, but otherwise way better than expected. Got a surprise free day with my fiance so we went out and enjoyed her rare free day. Also ate 1/3 meals at home. But most importantly day 2 of 100 pushups program was completed successfully: 20, 25, 15, 15, 27 reps.

Day 5 was a big festival! Huge festival called yosakoi: http://youtu.be/ZP1ssjOfJP0 I made breakfast, walked around a lot, but also drank a lot. Mealwise 1/3. Breakfast was home-made hummus and home-made flatbread. Tomorrow is 100 pushups day 2, also targeting 3/3 home-prepped meals

Day 3 was a flop: 0/2 meals prepared at home, no major exercise. Day 4 was a resounding success: 2/3 meals prepared at home. Breakfast was the last bit of potato salad, ate a bento for lunch, and had a tin of sardines and some olives for dinner. I also decided to follow hundredpushups.com schedule for my pushups progression. I started at week 3 under the 25 column and did the following sets: 14,18,14,14,23 Bazing. Gotta keep it up.

Finally found the RPG rules link, here for others looking: http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/turning-your-challenge-into-a-rpg/ Starting Stats: 3 Strength (STR) – physical strength 3 Dexterity (DEX) – agility and speed 2 Stamina (STA) – Endurance and Energy 3 Constitution (CON) – ability to resist damage and disease 2 Wisdom (WIS) – intuition and sense of things around himself 2 Charisma (CHA) – force of personality and physical attractiveness And goal breakdown: Goal 1 (Diet) +3 CON: Prepare at least 14 of my own meals per week rather than eating out or buying them. That averages to 2 per day. Goal 2 (Fitness) +2 STA, +2 STR: Be able to do 50 push-ups in 1 set. Goal 3 (Fitness) +5 STR: Be able to do three sets of 10 chin-ups. Goal 4 (Life) +3 CHA: Prepare three D&D adventures ready to be deployed at the game table.

Thanks Nyxy :-) And to other commenters as well. If I post about food I can keep up a good rhythm hopefully. Skipped breakfast this morning, sort of by accident. I'll drink some coffee to suppress appetite.

Day 2 Results: 2/3 Meals prepared by myself. Breakfast was potato salad and some aburage tofu I sauteed. For dinner I made a delicious 10 inch cheeseless pizza. Didn't weight train, but was doing heavy lifting all day at work, earned a gnarly sunburn for being stupid and not bringing sunscreen... I call it a success.

Day 1 Results: 38 pushups (lower than last time I did em by about 3) 1/3 meals prepared by myself.

Background information: I'm a weekend boulderer/climber with an interest in cooking and cuisine. I've been reasonably fit most of my life and have been getting more so since I graduated college a few years ago. Weight: 77 kg Height: 180 cm Subjective d20 Ability scores: Strength: 12 Constitution: 13 Dexterity: 12

Starting a day late, but oh well. Goal 1 (Diet): Prepare at least 14 of my own meals per week rather than eating out or buying them. That averages to 2 per day. Goal 2 (Fitness): Be able to do 50 push-ups in 1 set. Goal 3 (Fitness): Be able to do three sets of 10 chin-ups. Goal 4 (Life): Prepare three D&D adventures ready to be deployed at the game table. I should definitely be able to reach goal 2. The other three will require a bit more willpower.

Today: 5 sets of (10 pushups, 10 squats) in 3'17"60 That's my first time doing that for time, so it set's a bench mark. Not bad... difficult last two sets though, my heart was pumping. I can definitely improve this. Eating pretty well, lots of veggies, raw and cooked, some chicken and eggs. Had a big festival dinner (enjoyably off diet) last night and I made a point to enjoy it thoroughly, balanced by lots of swimming/body boarding in the ocean, and walking all over the place.

Back to it: http://evilestmark.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/plan-to-spiderman/ Didn't end up getting the costume... but then I didn't quite meet my goal. Last time I measured I was around 17% body fat, aiming at 10%.