ohnonebraska

Nice! I've been to Düsseldorf several times and have some good friends there [well, mostly in Lörick, to be exact]. Great city.

Awesome "meet" numbers! PRs all over the place!!! And thank goodness you're going to a gym now where people don't think bosu balls are the answer to everything...!

Well...disappeared off the face of the NerdFitness earth, except for checking in on people I was following. I thought it would be easier to do this kind of thing over summer break, but it turns out trips, family meals, dinner parties, last-minute beach afternoons, trying to spend more time with the boyfriend, etc. tripped me up quite a bit [although I didn't feel too guilty about doing all those things - that's what summer is for!]. I'll be sticking with the rebels in the next challenge. Long-term consistency is and always has been a problem for me - I start doing something regularly and it's awesome, but then I can't do it once or twice and everything kind of unravels. This will be a big focus in the next challenge. I also stopped being so productive once I let the 3+2 slide. I need to bring it back - although I won't be sharing it on here every day, because it's boring for everyone else! But I think it really helps me a lot to have specific things to work on each day so I don't feel so overwhelmed that I don't do anything. I'll start it up again this week already, but I'll continue into the next challenge for another shot at the kettlebell... I've started to get my shit together again in the last week or so, now that roller derby has started up again and I'm able to get to the gym four times a week now that we're not traveling anymore [and now that I'm over that cold!]. Things can only go uphill from here! Here's to my next [third] first challenge being my last first challenge so I can rejoin the warriors after it...!

Um...I would say you're definitely doing lots of things right! You did amazing work in this challenge!

Auuuuuuuuuuuuusgezeichnet! You were completely and totally awesome in this challenge!

Nice PRs!!! And Marzamemi looks beautiful.

I don't actually usually use it, either. Ha, something to strive for in the next challenge!

What a knob.

Ha - generally I'm a little sad that my boyfriend really isn't interested in my lifting at all, but I guess it's at least nice that I don't have to deal with mansplaining from him. Nice that it turned into an interesting new program for you, though! I hope you keep enjoying it. WPC Worlds are in Prague in late October this year. I won't be able to make it, but a bunch of people from my gym are driving there from Portugal in two vans...woo, road trip!

You appear to be kicking ass! I was also told to widen my stance for the squat when I started at the PL gym - and they told me to do sumo deadlift. It's really weird at first, isn't it?!? They also told me to do mixed grip on the deadlifts pretty much all the time, but yesterday I used normal grip for some light Romanian deadlifts, and my grip was giving out way before the rest of me - so I think I really need to work on that. Interested to see how the farmer's walks and so on help you!

Then work that knee! Sounds like you're doing well, considering. I've also been struggling with doing everything I wanted to do what with trips and everything. I thought it would be easier in the summer, but apparently not! Did you manage to get your exercise in over the last week?

Seeeeeriously, it's a ridiculous time to get a cold! But now I just have a bit of a lingering cough and should hopefully be over that, too, after a few more nights of good sleep. I hope yours disappears soon, too! Definitely enjoyed my rest day! But what with sleeping in and then going to my boyfriend's mom's for dinner, I only managed to get the main three tasks done, not the bonus ones [i could potentially stay up later again to get them done, but I need to start fixing my sleep schedule a bit]. Still at 7 bonus points. There's 18 days left in the challenge, and I still need 14 more bonus points to get to 21, so I'm starting to cut it close. We'll be spending a few days out of town visiting my boyfriend's family early next week, so I'm not sure how I'll handle that. I won't take away bonus points for those days if I don't get three tasks done, but I'm also not sure I'll have the time/resources [won't have much internet access, not bringing my skates, won't have lifting stuff, will be spending lots of time with family] to do five tasks and get bonus points, either. I do want to get a fair bit into re-reading a book for my thesis, though, so maybe I'll just set a goal for that each day, at least. Tomorrow's 3+2: 1. Yoga. 2. Lift. 3. Hour of cleaning. A. Hour on miscellaneous tasks. B. Read next two sections. [sorry everything's so repetitive! That's just how things are at the moment.]

Oh, Cort, I have that, too - if I'm just sitting there with what feels to me like a neutral face, people ask me what's wrong. I think there's some YouTube video referring to it as "bitchy resting face". Vixen, I definitely hope the creepazoid backs off - or, better, that you don't even have to deal with him again.

Bleagh, gym creeps and work crap - sorry about all that. BUT you're doing amazing! As a chronic procrastinator, I would just like to especially say how incredibly impressed I was when you said something like "I had assignments due today but I turned them all in last week"...I'm pretty sure I've never said anything like that in my life! Excellent work! I'm excited to hear how the coaching session goes!

Nooooo, the sickness! Get better soon!!! And congratulations on your promotion! Aaaaand nice work on getting to the gym AND kicking ass once you got there, despite the snot!