First time here, I found this site today, actually! A bit of reason why I chose this race to describe myself first though. If you have never played TESV: Skyrim, then you haven't lived, but Skyrim is the homeland of the Nords. Nords are wide-shouldered, tall, muscular warriors (pretty tanky, if you ask me). The kind of people you think of when you think middle-ages knights. Over the past three months, I've been doing my own body weight training, even though I had no idea what body weight was (did not hear about it until today). I was doing a lot of things wrong, and I've gotten a stress fracture in my wrist now. I have the muscle mass, my personal goal was 300 pushups for 300 subscribers to my youtube channel. I did that, but my endurance is still very low. My eventual goal is to be a parkourist, I have always adored the sport, but never really been motivated to quit minecraft and get there. Anyways, here are my starting stats: STR: 4 -- I am quite strong. I did the 100 pushup challenge (Doing them incorrectly was what killed my wrist), and I "made up" a body weight workout that was terribly inefficient, but slowly got my strength up. DEX: 1 -- Dexterity has never been a strongpoint for me. I'm 15, and my bones are growing faster than my muscles. This has resulted in terribly reduced flexibility, unfortunately, and I plan to begin changing that. STAM: 2 -- I can go pretty far, but not too far. I need to start doing more cardio, because I haven't done cardio in over a year! CON: 1 -- I'm a fairly healthy person, I keep my diet in check, and I am not gaining weight. I scored myself this low because I'm prone to injury quite easily, and I have an immune deficiency Both of those are hereditary, but what can ya do? WIS: 4 -- I would like to consider myself quick-witted and high above average when it comes to the mind. I'm good in school, good with computer programming, good with logic, and good with on-the-spot problem solving. CHA: 3 -- This is probably giving me more than I deserve, but I think I am a fairly interesting person, and okay-looking. GOALS: Attain The Splits: I'd like to be able to do this, and I believe it is a good first step in flexibility. I'll be using this and this to help me get there. +5 Dex Swim a Mile: I dislike running, but love swimming (Plus it's hot, come on guys). I believe this is an attainable goal to improve my endurance. For training I'll be at the pool 3-4 days a week (Biking there/back is my warmup/cooldown), alternating between interval days and distance days. +4 Stam +1 Str Let My Wrist Heal, and strengthen my bones! I've got weak bones, and while I am not doing any upper body workouts, I need to let my wrist heal. I will be drinking 4 cups of milk per day to help boost my calcium and get my bones stronger! +3 Con (Cutting this one short of five, because there is not much work to be done) Program A Forum From Scratch: I've been learning a ton of coding in the past 2 months, and this is going to be my first real project. Wish me luck! "When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!". Then get busy and find out how to do it." -Theodore Roosevelt +5 Wis That's it! Wish me luck! I'll post progress updates on this thread weekly. Best of luck to everyone, and accomplish what you set out to do. "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without even seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable." -Socrates
