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Friday,

Had a weirdly hectic day of work where I bounced around projects and I have no idea how I'm going to sell my time for the day. After I got done bouncing around played around in the dirt some more (I'll have to post pictures sometime of what I'm slowly working on). I did a 10 minute core workout on Youtube that was okay, and definitely worked my core, but I'm not sure it's what I'm wanting so I did some more thinking on a program I could do (made actual notes this time!). 

I stress ate a little bit while being hectic, but overall my food was good and just above goal

Thursday

My string of bad luck from the last few months continues and I woke up to a nail in a tire and when we were putting the tire in the other car's trunk I noticed the rim is slightly bent (which explains the slow leak it's had).  That car doesn't have a spare so the plan right now is to order a new rim but also see if they can repair the bent one and if so turn it into a spare. 

But I worked a few hours, came home and relaxed with Hubs for a bit before heading back out and running some errands I forgot to do when I was in town earlier. In the evening I did my workout. Food was decent and calories were within goal, though we resorted to frozen pizzas for dinner since we were both slightly grouchy. 

Cable row: 55/60/65 x 10

EZ bar curl: 30/35/35 x 10 (not positive on the weight of the new bar, assumed 20lbs, might be 15)

Lat Pulldown: 65/70/70 x 10

Zercher Curls: 20/30/20 x 10

Reverse Fly: 20 x 10 x 3

Incline Curl: 20/30/30 x 10/10/8

Dead hangs: 25/25/20 seconds

23 hours ago, h3r0 said:

Disk golf!

 

Nice workouts. Here for the challenge 

Welcome! I'm not actually a disc golfer, but Hubs likes to play so sometimes I'll go out with him

Another fellow anxiety-filled person here. For me it's less catastrophizing and more feeling like I need to do 3,846,985 things right now, but when I actually try to organize my thoughts of what I nee to do I just sit there and churn. And yeah, like other have posted, one small inconvenience can send me off the ledge even though I handle the bigger crises fairly well

I'm far more concerned about this:

14 hours ago, Stronkey Kong said:

Three hours of sleep, then went in for a 10 hour shift. All I ate all day was two Dr. Peppers and handful of baby carrots.

Then about this:

14 hours ago, Stronkey Kong said:

and eggs... real eggs... BAD VEGAN!

Take care of yourself and rest & fuel properly!

Wednesday

I took the day off work to spend with Hubs (he works weekends so we have no days off together). We ran some errands, I bought an EZ-curl bar, and Hubs got some new discs. When we got home we set up the disc golf goal in the yard and threw some discs. I'm awful but made some progress on midrange accuracy (let's be honest, it's midrange for people who don't suck, long range for me). 

Food was on track, though we did get Chipotle for lunch while we were out and about. The only exercise I did was throwing discs. I made thoughts about a core workout, but haven't organized them or tried it out to see if it's something I'll actually do

Tuesday

No more migraine. Food was a little high, but it was all real, homemade food. Then I went downstairs and lifted some things. I wanted to go for a walk, but "feels like 104F at 8pm" just didn't sound pleasant

Bench press - 75lbs x 5 x 3

DB Skullcrusher - 20lbs x 10 x 3

Around the World - 10lbs x 10 x 3

Knee pushups - 8/8/5

Tricep cable pushdowns - 35/40/35lbs x 10

DB Tricep extension - 20lbs x 10 x 3

Pushups are pathetic and around the worlds are done more for shoulder mobility than the chest exercise it claims to be

5 hours ago, Novaurora said:

I am here for this!!!!  You are lifting heavy and kicking ass!!

Good to have you along, and thanks!

Nice work on the cheaper & easier solution to the shelves. But I have to ask, where did the t-rex go?

Monday

Not as good of a day. I was productive at work, but had a headache come on pretty early. By the time I left around lunch it was a migraine that then didn't go away until nearly bed time. So I did not lift, or do much of anything the rest of the day. Hubs made dinner and I medicated myself with Excedrin and ice cream. I was over on calories by a couple of hundred, not concerned. 

I did finally get back into Norwegian on Duolingo, which I'd ignored for a couple of months

Sunday went okay. 

When my kickboxing gym closed down I ended up signing up to a Hotworx gym. It always seemed pretty hokey (sweat out fat and toxins by working out in a sauna) but seemed to have some of the benefits my old gym had (flexible class times, instructor led but still generally working out alone, etc). But a month in and I'm not really feeling it so I think I will probably cancel it before the end of the year. That being said I did go yesterday and did a pilates class.

Food was probably within my calorie goal, but certainly wasn't good quality. I slept in and ate breakfast late, so I just had a snack for lunch assuming I'd be cooking dinner. Then Hubs said one the guys coming over for D&D was cooking. It wasn't something I'll eat, but then I didn't feel like cooking for myself so I just snacked for dinner too. 

Then I went outside and played in the dirt and moved some more rocks (so.many.rocks)

I'm attempting a challenge this time around. Link is in my signature

18 hours ago, Marauder said:

It gets so exhausting!  I wish I could chill a bit. 

Hub's suggestion is "Just stop it. Turn your brain off" 🤣 If only it were that easy

That does sound like a hectic family gathering. Hubs family has some similar family drama and it breaks my heart that the kids are caught up in it. 

Following along

Saturday is leg & shoulders day. Here's what I did:

Squat: 90/95/100 x 5

DB Lateral raise: 20 x 3 x 5

Deadlift: 150/155/160 x 5

DB Front Raise: 20 x 3 x 5

RDL: 95/100/105 x 5

DB OHP: 40 x 3 x 10

DB weights are the total, so 10lbs & 20lbs pairs. I supersetted a leg with a shoulder through it

Overall I like this one. I will probably pull my squats back a bit next time for for reps at lower weight since I'm close to max and want to make sure my form doesn't breakdown as I add more weight. DL & RDL are fine and I plan on starting 5lbs higher each time until I get the same feeling with them

Food was on track. I also spent about an hour working in the yard which included moving rocks

18 hours ago, Marauder said:

Once a ranger, always a ranger.   Here to cheer!

51 minutes ago, Jarric said:

Also, what @Marauder said. You can multiclass, but you'll always be a ranger

Lol, I'm sure I'll be back to Rangering at some point, but right now, even with reduced hours at work, I only have the mental energy for one fitness activity

52 minutes ago, Jarric said:

For core work, I've found pretty much the only thing I'll do are hanging knee raises/leg raises/toes to bar - I get tired of crunches real fast.

Those would require me to be able to hang from the bar for any amount of time 😅 I'm working on that, part of my Pull day is dead hangs with scapular pulls as I'm feeling up to them but those are about as pathetic as my core is, even with a heavy band

Congrats on the new work schedule! I worked nights in college and I know it's hard to be so out of line with "normal people schedules"

Hopefully the eye issue clears up with new contacts

1 hour ago, Stronkey Kong said:

Speaking of diet... what I'm going for ultimately is being a 'bad vegan.' Eat mostly plant based, ignore minor shit like gelatin, and occasionally have a bacon cheeseburger

1 hour ago, Stronkey Kong said:

I think all effort to eat more plants and less animals are valiant, and everyone has to find their own balance.

This is exactly how I feel as well. Work on reducing the amount of animal products you consume, don't freak out if you accidentally have some, and if the occasional burger (or fish in my case) makes you happy then have it and don't feel guilty. Too many people act like it has to be an all or nothing and it really doesn't. Find what level works for you

Might as well introduce myself here. I've been around NF as a Ranger for quite a while now but just respawned as a Warrior. I have a good weight set in my basement now where I can truly lift heavy things without having to wait for a squat rack to open at the gym (or, you know, deal with people). So right now my primary goal (other than losing some chub) is to lift the heavy things to get stronger

I'm gonna try this challenge thing again. 

Previously I was a Ranger that liked to try all the things and especially liked Mudruns/OCRs. Then I got a new job that had me working insane hours 4 months out of the year, then COVID hit, then COVID never ended. OCR's in my area have pretty much completely died (there's one left) and even if they hadn't, I can't run at all and can't muster up the desire to work at it (I never liked running, I just did it for the OCRs). On top of that, my kickboxing gym suddenly shut down last month. I'd been going there for 3 years and loved it, but that's done for me too.

Well, now I still work insane hours 4 months out of the year, but now I work half time the other 8 months. I also moved to a house that finally has place for a home gym so in the last few months I've bought myself a olympic barbell/weight set, power rack, and bench. So I guess now I'm a warrior that picks up heavy things and puts them down 

Overall Goals

Lose fat - I'm about 40-50lbs over where I want to be. Some of the jiggly bits needs to go 

Get strong - I'm also a fair bit weaker than I want to be. Something something crush my enemies

Get muscles - Seems redundant but this is an aesthetic goal, not a performance one. I want something to actually happen when I flex my arm

Challenge Goals

Food - Eat around 2000 calories a day.  My TDEE is around 2300 so this is a reasonable deficit

Lift heavy things - Do that 3x/week. I have a Push-Pull-Legs/shoulders split that I've tweaked from a program a trainer gave me and is nearly honed in to something that works well for me

Strengthen the core - my core is very weak which is causing problems with my hip flexors (plus it's just embarrassing how weak it is). Find a routine that I will actually do 2x/week that will make this better

6 minutes ago, RES said:

Yay!! Welcome back

Nah, the goal of a public accountant is to maximize revenue for the shareholders...I'd rather do accounting for small companies and not for profits to help them provide a service...it doesn't pay as well though  

 

Thanks!

Oh, I work for a smallish local CPA firm so all of our clients are smallish local businesses so I still get to feel like I helping out the little guy (we do a lot of not for profits too but I'm not touching a 990 with a 10ft pole 😂). Working for a Big 4 firm or even a largish regional one sounds like hell to me

Following along. I'm not vegan, but would be about 95% plant based if I wasn't married to an omnivore that is already gracious about being vegetarian at home

On 7/25/2022 at 5:43 PM, Stronkey Kong said:

After the run I had frosted mini wheats... which I realized have gelatin in them

I think gelatin is a sneaky one that gets forgotten about, I know a lot of vegetarians that don't take it into account. Technically frosted poptarts aren't vegetarian either (....I write as it just dawns on me that I have generic frosted poptarts in my house right now that I wasn't even thinking about...)

Following along as another chronic over thinker

Nova!

Sounds like accepting the hit now was absolutely worth having it over and done with. I'm sure it sucks hard, but a prolonged fight and the possibility of having to pay spousal support because he refused to work would suck harder

I'm here to try and follow along again

On 7/24/2022 at 7:37 PM, RES said:

I work from home, (3 jobs) as an accountant,

Didn't you say something to me once about not wanting do public accounting because of the hours? 😂