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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Walk Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Walked 3.5 miles yesterday. Did one mile by myself, then later in the day, met up with a group of friends for a walk that lasted 2.5 miles. I didn't know I could do that much at one time anymore. And, though my feet are paying for it because my shoes are old, my knees and hips are fine; which is a huge and happy surprise.

Changing this a bit. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Church work work work work work Jujitsu Float day Walk Walk Walk Float day Gym 1. Gym 2 Still doing walks around the neighborhood/ 5-10 min. Zumba- ish videos from Youtube. "Gym 1". is still: RDLs, bench and lats. Also working core with planks or shoulder stands, and assorted abs exercises. + 10=20 min. of some type of cardio. "Gym 2". is now: Squats, Bulgarian split squats, shoulder press, and tricep dips; possibly also glute bridge. + planks & 10-20 min cardio. "Float days" are days that could be BW circuits, MA conditioning drills, abs and core, yoga; or they could be rest days, What ever I need them to be, it's the weekend. And, as much as I love 5/3/1s and 5x5s; I really need to work on lifting moderate weights for awhile. I always want to dive back into powerlifting and I lift too heavy too fast, and end up injuring myself. So, to moderate myself, I need to do moderate sets. I'll be back on 3x8s, pyramids, and inverted pyramids for a while so let myself rebuild safely.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Not on the chart yet. I've been working on wrist mobility, and have improved enough to do pushups. I haven't done more than 5 (knee) pushups for a year, because of wrist pain. But thankfully, the mobility stuff has been working, and i was able to do actual sets today. Lunges (each side), 3x8 @ body weight Rear leg lifts (each side), 3x15 @ body weight Knee pushups 3x8 @ body weight. Honestly, this is the most I've done months. So I'm going to leave it at that and be happy with myself.

I guess I need a new graph: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 I really, really plan to get my mp3 settled this weekend. (Hopefully today). So that I can go back to the gym next week without wanting to shove an ice pick in my ear. That should help things. If I can, I might go do a challenge since it lines up well with my next six weeks.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 2 none Walk None none Weights. none none Week 3 Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Cardio Weights Week 4 Sleep Sleep Cardio Weights none Weights none none Week 5 Sleep Weights none Weights Cardio none Sleep Sleep Week 6 Sleep Cardio none none Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Vacation did not go as planned. I ended working at least part of every day, and I felt guilty for the rest I did get. I only got a small portion of my to-do list completed,. I can't say it was particularly restful. but what it did was it allowed my get enough of my errands done that I could actually rest on the weekend. So I do feel somewhat better. I've also decided to take every Friday (or at least the afternoon) off. 1. To help me get errands done so I can rest on the weekend, 2. So that I can rest a little more rest on Friday, and hopefully in general.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 2 none Walk None none Weights. none none Week 3 Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Cardio Weights Week 4 Sleep Sleep Cardio Weights none Weights none none Week 5 Sleep Weights Week 6 3x5 RDLs with the bar yesterday. Saw a thing from Al Kavadlo on FB today that said exercise is like medicine, and like any medicine the dosage is crucial; a responsible doctor will only prescribe a low dosage to begin with and you increase it only as necessary. And then Steve ( or whoever is in charge of NF FB) posted a thing about how we make stuff too complicated when all most of us need is a walk, more sleep, and some therapy. And it all made me think about what I'm trying to do right now. To just establish healthy habits and be mindful, instead of pushing really aggressive, unwavering goals. I feel like I'm on a good path, even if it's a slow one. Next week I'm taking a vacation. I not going anywhere, I just want to have a restful staycation. But I do have two goals with vacation, 1). To get my garden in order. 2). To figure out the MP3 player I got for Christmas and load some workout playlists. The music at the gym is awful.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 2 none Walk None none Weights. none none Week 3 Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Cardio Weights Week 4 Sleep Sleep Cardio Weights none Weights none none Week 5 Week 6

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 2 none Walk None none Weights. none none Week 3 Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

I read a memory from seven years ago on FB. I had just completed a 1001 burpee challenge, in which I did 143 burpees a day for seven days. I didn't just decided to do this, I spent nearly four months working up to it. I added one burpee a day, rain or shine, until I hit 100. Then I wanted to keep going, and did 100 for a solid week; and finally deciding to do 143 a day for "The Week of 1001." It was big deal to me; and I've held onto it over the years, not as a marker of success, but as a reminder of failure. Once I could do 143 burpees in a day, and now I could maybe do three before getting dizzy, or my knees cracking at frightening decibels. Today, however, instead of regarding the old FB post through the disappoint of comparison; I merely looked at the memory and simply thought, "That's cool, I wonder what my next challenge will be".

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 2 none Walk None none Weights. none none Week 3 Sleep Sleep Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 2 none Walk None none Weights. Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 5 sets RDLs: with the bar-- 10, 8, 6, 5,5 30 sec. plank x 2 3 sets, alt. hammer curls/shoulder press.: 10, 8, 6

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 2 none Walk None Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 nope Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Sleep Sleep Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 nope Sleep Zumba Sleep Weights & Sleep Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Got eight hours last night, but only because I overslept by two hours. Today did 20 Bulgarian split squats on each leg (really starting to like those things), and reverse pyramid RDLs, (10, 9, 8, 7, 6) reps. with the bar.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Zumba Sleep Bul. Split Squats-20 nope Sleep Zumba Sleep Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 It's been raining off and on all week, so I haven't been able to get my walks in, did Zumba instead. Kind of got enough sleep, but because I overslept, not because I went to be on time.

It's been nearly a year since I started this battle log, and several months since I left it, and now I'm back to try some new stuff. I like the challenges, but I prefer to do six weeks at a time, because that's how long it takes to learn a new habit, and yes I could use the 0 week, as my week one (and I have before), but I don't want to now. And I want to be able to start my six weeks over if I figure out something that doesn't work halfway through. During my latest round of doing too much challenges, I learned that I should start way at the beginning and baby step my way to fitness instead of jumping to unrealistic over-programed expectations. Tiny. Little. Baby. Steps. That's the plan right now. The goals for life are to be stronger, have more stamina, and feel better..... and sleep more. I really, really don't sleep enough. This is the basic schedule I'm attempting to follow. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Church work work work work work Jujitsu Walk Walk Walk Walk Gym 1 Gym 2 Gym 1 "Walk' can either be a walk around my neighborhood, or it can be Zumba/dancing / circuit training, in my house. Mainly, some sort of stamina cardio. Gym day 1s-> RDLs, bench, and (pull ups) lat pull downs. (or a body weight equivalent) Gym da y 2 -> Squats, shoulder press, and dips. (or bodyweight equivalent). I may also throw in some Bulgarian split squats (the long ones) and glute bridges, because I have IT band issues, and quads exercises can make it worse when I don't balance it out with hamstrings as well. (Which is also why I am doing RDLs twice a week). Also, presumably, there should be 10-20 min. interval cardio in there, and 10-ish minutes of BW core work and yoga to finish out. Oh, I'm also trying to reclaim my shoulder stand, which I did not realize I had lost until very recently. In the past, I've picked a progression style/program and stuck with it for months. I like the 5/3/1 progression system the best, but I've also found a lot of benefits with 5x5s, and 3x8s, and inverted pyramids. So I'm going to play with it all, and not worry about following a specific program right now. I'm just building habits. (I also totally reserve the right to change up the scheduled exercises, randomly, depending on how I'm feeling that day.) I have a bar at home, which is helping for days when I don't make it to the gym, but I would like to actually make the gym a habit. I got an MP3 player for Christmas, which should help, because my gym's awful music is honestly a big reason why I'm not going right now. It's so bad I can't think focus or think straight. I still haven't loaded anything on the MP3 player, but that's a goal for the end of the month. I. Will. Not. Beat. Myself. Up. For. Missing. A. Day. I'm determined. I also, will not over-focus on obtaining certain milestones, because it makes no sense to hurt myself in the process of trying to obtain one, or to compare myself to where I was a decade ago. I forgive myself for necessary side-questing. Here's a progress graph. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 For the next six weeks, the plan is just to get in my walks and get decent daily sleep. And If I do any other stuff, such as strength building, that's just going to be bonus.

It's been nearly a year since I started this battle log, and several months since I left it, and now I'm back to try some new stuff.

Yep, I've decided. I'm going back to the battlelog in my signature.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 0 N/ N /N N /N /Y Y/ N /N N/N/N Y/N/N N/N/N Y/N/Y Week 1 N/N/N N/N/N N/N/Y N/N/Y N/N/Y N/Y/Y Y/N/Y Week 2 N/N/Y N/N/Y N/Y/Y ??? ??? ??? ??? Week 3 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Week 4 Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Y/N/Y Week 5 Y/Y/Y Y/N/Y Y/N/N Y/Y/N Y/YY Y/Y/Y Y/N/Y Well at least I finished strong. Still debating if I'm going to do another challenge or go to battelogs.

Honestly, at this point, I think I'm just waiting for the new challenge threads so I can redo my goals and chart.

For whatever reason, I read the challenge dates as ending on March 13th, and thought the challenge was over at the beginning of this week. Since this is week five, I'll record the following. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 0 N/ N /N N /N /Y Y/ N /N N/N/N Y/N/N N/N/N Y/N/Y Week 1 N/N/N N/N/N N/N/Y N/N/Y N/N/Y N/Y/Y Y/N/Y Week 2 N/N/Y N/N/Y N/Y/Y ??? ??? ??? ??? Week 3 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Week 4 Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Y/N/Y Week 5 Y/Y/Y Y/N/Y I think I need to redo the way I write my chart, because it looks like I've failed goals, even when I'm not scheduled to do a particular activity that day. Also because of my work schedule, the first full week of the month is just not workable for goals. Sometimes I don't get home until 9 or 10 at night, and even if I get home before that I'm so mentally drained I can't work out on those days even if I wanted to. So I'm just going to start writing that in as a de-load/rest/dead week, and stop beating myself up about it. Also, I'm going to pare the next challenge way down, to just walking and sleep goals. If I get in any resistance workouts, cool; but that won't be a goal this next time, they'll be bonus points instead. Recently, I've been reviewing my workout history from the past twelve years. The time period with the greatest fitness gains and progress was in 2010, when I was just starting, and knew nothing. Because I knew nothing, I had no expectations and took everything painfully slow. Like from walking around aimlessly in the backyard for ten minutes to walking laps in the backyard for ten minutes, to walking to the back ally and around the neighbors to the front of the house. It took a whole month before I walked a solid block, and another month before I even tried walking to the park. And then another month of walking TO the park before I walking IN the park. I didn't do anything on a time schedule, I only advanced when I felt the current activity had gotten annoyingly easy. I didn't try resistance exercises until it felt ridiculous to not do them. Diet-wise I just did the practical health things like eating cleaner, more vegetables and smaller portions on carbs. I lost 90 lbs. in a single year that way. The second greatest fitness progress was in 2014, when I started the 5/3/1 lifting program and gained 75-150lbs in all of my lifts, over eight months. Again, I had no real expectations, and only increased my weights in very small increments. I'm always so impatient trying to jump in and claim or reclaim certain milestones. I think, at least for me, the goals are the problems. I should probably just focus on habits I can live with.

I didn't fail 1001 times at making a light bulb, I simply found 1001 ways to not make a light bulb. Seriously debating on whether or not to go back to battle logs or to do another challenge. About halfway through this last challenge I discovered a change I wanted to make, but felt compelled to try to finish out the challenge; and then in response I did nothing instead. Technically, I can do what I want in either thread forum, but I feel compelled to try and follow the intended rules anyway. ........ I'm thinking it over.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 0 N/ N /N N /N /Y Y/ N /N N/N/N Y/N/N N/N/N Y/N/Y Week 1 N/N/N N/N/N N/N/Y N/N/Y N/N/Y N/Y/Y Y/N/Y Week 2 N/N/Y N/N/Y N/Y/Y Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Got out of work too late to go for a walk yesterday, but did work on a shoulder stand progression, and got enough sleep last night.

Let's see, it was still too cold and icy on the Thursday the 24th. I didn't leave the house at all. On Friday I remembered my barbell and did RDLs 5x5 with the bar. On Saturday I went for a walk; on Sunday I meant to go for a walk, but they day got a way from me. I didn't do anything yesterday. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wed Thursday Friday Saturday Week 0 N/ N /N N /N /Y Y/ N /N N/N/N Y/N/N N/N/N Y/N/Y Week 1 N/N/N N/N/N N/N/Y N/N/Y N/N/Y N/Y/Y Y/N/Y Week 2 N/N/Y N/N/Y Week 3 Week 4 Week 5