MMyers

Haha sorry, it's been a little rough here with family issues. And I've stopped all caffeine yesterday. I tried pulling an all nighter a few days ago by taking a 200 MG caffeine pill and it didn't effect me at all. So, I have had a huge headache since yesterday and I've been really irritable because I went the cold turkey route. I've been listening to metal and pacing around my room for quite awhile. Hopefully in a few days this will be over.

I need more time, so I'm not going to stay with the challenge. I spoke way too soon about feeling better. I think it's the fact that even though the relationship is over, we're still good friends, so it's a really drawn out process.

I'm posting in this workout log now. I'm going to try working with short term goals and build on that.

Thanks for all of your support, LoD.

Hello. I'll be posting here from now on. This is going to be kind of like a training log with some Minecraft screenshots every once in a while and I might post some songs that are good/motivating. Most of those are heavy metal, hence the title.

I am starting tomorrow. The past few days have been tough but everything seems better now.

Thanks LoD.

I'm going to have a rough first week of the challenge. I'm currently in the process of ending a relationship, so this really sucks. We're still friends but it still is really awful at the same time, considering this relationship was involved in literally a quarter of my life.

I haven't done the motivation thing yet, and I ate from 2:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Fasting but wanting to stress eat is pretty bad, but I still managed to keep the calories down to between 1500-1750. No exercise, I don't know if I'm sick or if I'm just feeling really shitty from what's going on. I slept about six hours last night but it wasn't restful. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Anyone have any suggestions on how we can liven up the server?

I'm going to start working on some big projects. If anybody wants I'll post screenshots. I'll be on for a week or two if anybody wants to join me.

Are you doing the daily IM fasting or once a week version?  I have heard of success with both.  I do the daily version and have had success so I stick with it and have not tried the 24 hour version.  If only more of my wife's students were like you and took her advice to study a little each day, may be they would do a lot better on vocab...

I'm going to do the fasts daily. Yeah, I failed a few tests until I found a way that works for me. I raised my average from about a D to B+ after I started the memorization stuff. I figured I might try it for a motivation exercise and it's worked so far.

Sounds like you've got a plan! Good luck with your challenge and with the recruiter visits, whenever they may end up being!!!

Thanks LoD!

I feel you on the counting of calories and intermittent fasting.  Part of my challenge goals include a Monday daytime fast - I eat dinner but only drink water (I'm allowing tea and coffee - without cream or sugar - if taste or caffeine are needed).  How are you planning on doing yours?  Also, I'm working on keeping my calories around 1350 but under 1500 as well (I count, but I don't freak out if I'm too off).  All the best, fellow ranger!

I usually do my fasts from 10 PM the day before to about 6 PM. So it would be a 20 hours of fasting and 4 hours of eating. And yeah, stressing over numbers does more harm than good. Thanks buddy, good luck!

Sounds like you're motivated! Make sure to let muscles rest if they are sore from the day before. You have a lot of different exercises planned so you'll do fine.

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Thanks Sukiyo.

Good luck everybody!

Heyheyhey, this is a place holder. I had everything all typed out and went to browse reddit between proofreadings. After looking at a few images, I closed all the extra tabs... including this one accidentally. Not this one this one, but this one. I know as I type this that I'm going to type it all out anyway even though I said it was a placeholder, but I'll just keep that up there. Stream of thought writing is cool I guess. I kind of want to listen to music now, but I should probably do this instead because I said I was going to do it.

To summarize:

Last challenge

...went alright, I stopped updating but I mostly stayed with it. I fell off after the holidays, but it was pretty much uneventful.

This Challenge (my goals are)

1. Do four circuits a week. Two of those circuits need to include burpees.
2. Walk four times a week. These first few days might be with new shoes, so it might only be a mile to break them in. Or they might not fit that well even after a mile or two. I don't know, I'll see what happens.
3. I need to do some exercises every day to progress on them (hopefully) quickly. Those are: Push-Ups, Chin-Ups, Sit-Ups, Bridges, Third World Squat, and Flutterkicks. I might do two or three modest sets a day throughout the day in a 'grease the groove' format.

As for my non-fitness goal, I need to do a motivational exercise every day. It's how I used to study in high school for subjects that needed memorization like Civics. I was in a slump like usual a week ago, wrote what I needed to do twenty times, had the motivation to do it, did it, and then said: "Wow, I should do this more often". I don't believe I said it so poignantly, but I'm still summarizing if you couldn't tell. But that's my motivational exercise.

I'll also be counting calories, but that's not a goal because I should be doing that no matter what. I'm dropping my calories to 1500 and intermittent fasting.

After The Challenge

I plan on going to the recruiter's office after this challenge but before March. If I'm not confident that I'm presentable fitness wise after this challenge, definitely after next challenge. But there will be recruiter visiting. After all, I'm out of shape but otherwise healthy, there should be no reason why I can't destroy this challenge (or some vaguely wannabe inspiring phrase like that).

You still fightin' the good fight?

Yessir. I was gonna update yesterday but we got a storm that has completely demolished my internetz so I've been putting it off. I've been downloading the update for Starbound since noon today. I'm getting 50kb/s and I can't play Youtube videos for more than 5 minutes at a time on 144p. Send help. Or download speeds.

Also, calories have been fine, they have been eaten but not too much. I did exercise and things but nothing extraordinary. A Chin-Up was performed, that was nice to get back. I should be getting some cold weather gear tomorrow from Amazon since I train outside. I bought some thermals, winter gloves and a balaclava. But I want my intertubes back right meow. I'm gonna hit 'Post' and hope for the best.

Intermittent Fasting: 10 PM Yestrday- 1 PM Today

Exercise

Max Burpees: 3X

Set 1: 8

Set 2: 8

Set 3: 5

Short Bridges: 1X10

Calories: 2237/2021

Comments

• Felt kind of crappy for a week. For quite a while I've had this thing in the back of my head that I might not be accepted into the military because of the various sicknesses I've had. It's almost like I've been more comfortable not knowing as opposed to actually finding out. Well, it's just time to buckle down. I've wasted enough time with this in the back of my mind. I feel hesitant but motivated. In a month or two I should either be preparing to go to basic training or looking at what to do with my life.
• I last ate at 10 PM.

It's going to take quite a while, but I'm clearing an abandoned mine shaft with three cave spider spawners. I plan on turning them into a farm.

Hope you feel better soon! At least the sick is gone, but the achy, crampy muscles are definitely no fun.

 

Having a new goal in mind can definitely change up training, but it sounds like you have it all planned out already. Don't forget your rest days!

Thank you Lulululu!

Hey, just checking in. My tonsils were swelling up and were sore when the sickness came back but I'm feeling better today. Also, it was my birthday today, so I just hung out with my girlfriend and had my first legal beer. It was a Sam Adams, I've always wanted to try one.

I've been thinking of naming a list of circuits I've made, just so I have a standard and can compare times from one session to another. It's better than just tossing some exercises together and not knowing if I'm progressing.

Misfits: Skulls

Mastodon: Blood And Thunder

Very sad to hear.

Good job bestie.

Remember how I said a post ago that if I liked my plan I could keep it? (Teehee current events) Well I may possibly be signing up for a GoRuck, so I changed it around.

Sunday: Ruck
Monday: Low Volume Strength Training/Ruck Circuit/Sprints
Tuesday: Low Volume Strength Training/Conditioning/Ruck
Wednesday: Low Volume Strength Training/Ruck Circuit/Sprints
Thursday: Low Volume Strength Training/Conditioning/Ruck
Friday: Low Volume Strength Training/Ruck Circuit/Sprints
Saturday: Low Volume Strength Training/Conditioning/Ruck
 

Thank you!

Question: Do they care if you use rucks that aren't GoRuck brand stuff? Because I bought an old army issue ALICE pack and another Transport Pack awhile ago. And is it the military standard testing 45 pounds?

You win this thread.

*Bows*

LMAO!!!

Clearly we are meant to be besties.

Maybe we are.

Ethoslab's design works well too, but of course you need to find a fortress with dual blaze spawners.

Hey, I just read this,

And this is crazy,

You can put me on there,

I'll be a Maybe

Intermittent Fasting: Not sure, but I ate around 1:30 PM today and last ate at 6:30 PM

Exercise

Hub Pinch

1X5X2.5 Pounds
2X3X5 Pounds

Calories: 2,788/2021

Comments

• I don't feel that sick today, which is nice, and I slept for about 10 hours last night which is also nice.
• However, it feels like I took up sleep boxing and somebody wailed on my back and side overnight. My upper back is sore, but not a muscle soreness. It just hurts. And the right side of my stomach has been on the verge of going into a bad muscle cramp all day. I know that because this morning I turned to get something while making food and I had to sit down and wait for a major muscle cramp to go away. But I got to train my hands a little bit today, so I got that going for me.

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So, hopefully tomorrow I can get this sickness out of the way and get back to it completely. The question is where I am going to go from here. I'm not changing the plan I just made earlier this week because I've barely used it and I'm happy with it.

If I want to be highly conditioned and overall an endurance fiend, I think I'm just gonna take the plunge and do a ton of conditioning, even if it sucks for a few days or a week. I'll just have to see how it goes.

I can see the tag line now - "The Guys of NF: These aren't your momma's nerds"

"They're out of the basement and on your wall!"

If I were you, I would compare time played every Friday with total commute time. Also, since I don't know your route, I would imagine it would be darker outside when the weekly event ends, so you might want to take that into consideration. Maybe go every other week?