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It's presumably also good for upper body strength in general.

Challenge Week 3 - August 13 NF Warmup Three sets: Bodyline exercises - round 1 - hallow and arch for 90 seconds each, round 2 - plank and fish for 90s each, round 3 - side planks on hand for 45s each Lunges with arms up - 15 each side Pushups - 2x10 focus on form and depth Horizontal bodyweight rows from doorframe- 2x10 20 Bodyweight squats Dips from the counter V - no foot support! 2x5 and they were shallow Chin ups (jumping) - 3/2/2 Jump step ups - 20 on a chair 10 burpees Toddler squat - 3 min L-sit practice - 2.5 min Judo stretching routine Time: 75 min roughly Notes: Hallow was awful today. Feeling a bit of strain from the pull-ups (probably). Otherwise feeling great. I'm getting rather more sleep than normal.

Eek, careful with the ankle!

Which calculator did you use? With your activity level, there's no way you're eating too much. Try Adding your workout calories to your sedentary TDEE and take 20% off of that and see what you come up with. Not that you're sedentary, but it seems to be the standard when calculating these things. Again, I am not an expert but it is concerning that you're hungry all of the time.

Hey, don't be too hard on yourself. Look at how much you had to do and what you accomplished overall. Off days happen and part of the reason you're here is for help with support and motivation.

Beginner's body weight workout

That's pretty low. Most places tell you to eat at around a 20% deficit *at most* and that's after workout calories. Please remember that you need a certain level of fuel to function and being constantly hungry is not sustainable. It might be slower progress when eating more but you'd probably feel a lot better. As always, please feel free to tell me to go shove my comments but you could harm yourself eating at too low a level.

Hi! Awesome job hitting all of your goals :-) just make sure you're eating enough? 795 net calories is really not much. You burn a lot taking care of the kids and you mentioned that you're hungry all of the time.

Agreed, you are indeed hardcore.

Great attitude :-). How is this week going?

How is this week going?

I thought they'd be harder but I managed to do them on my hand today and it wasn't as bad as I thought. I think we can safely consider you our resident authority on planks. Also, I envy your ability to sleep.

Maybe weighted lunges?

I know I vanished there for a few days but I'm catching up now. I am following everyone's threads but I don't always comment if I don't have anything useful to add. I almost did a full pull up today and started doing dips without foot support so I am very pleased with that. On the downside, I missed several workouts this week while everything was insane. You seem very energetic on here :-)

Argh, that sucks. I second the comment about keeping something on hand in case you need it.

Challenge Week 2 - August 11, 2013 NF Warmup Three sets: Bodyline exercises - round 1 - hallow and arch for 90 seconds each, round 2 - plank and fish for 90s each, round 3 - side planks on hand for 45s each Lunges with arms up - 15 each side Pushups - 2x10 focus on form and depth Horizontal bodyweight rows from doorframe- 2x10 my parents' table is NOT up to vertical rows 20 Bodyweight squats Dips from the counter V - no foot support! 2x5 and they were shallow Chin ups (jumping) - 4 but the doorframe is much higher so I was almost doing pull ups! Jump step ups - 20 on large trunk 10 burpees Toddler squat - 3 min L-sit practice - 2.5 min Judo stretching routine Time: didn't care, on vacation Notes: Feeling really good about the pull-ups! My parents' house is much more suited to this than my apartment

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Well I disappeared off the Internet there for a while. Work went to crap and I was busy getting ready for the trip. Sleep was also substandard and my stress level was fairly high. So this week was a big pile of fail. I am now on vacation and visiting my parents for a week. I have my workout gear with me and I should be back on track. I did get drafted to help my brother move as soon as I landed. There were a lot of people helping so I'm not going to classify it as a workout. I did finish off a book and start Neverwhere while I was traveling. So that's a little progress. I picked up the kindle edition of Starting Strength and have it on all of my devices. No excuses not to read it.

Congratulations! That is an awesome victory!

Not just you.

Thanks :-)

Hi MsLousie, I read whatever looks interesting at the time. I almost did science technology and society studies for a masters but I would have had to leave the country to do it. Neverwhere has been on my to read list for a while, but listening to the recent BBC radioplay version promoted it to the head of the fiction list. I found a video on dips that shows it pretty well. I'm using something rather higher, so I'm putting my feet on a much smaller trunk I also have but am keeping my legs straight. Hope it helps!

Nice plank progress! I'm still struggling with side planks in particular and haven't made it up on one hand yet.

Hi, sorry for the late welcome but welcome to the Knights :-) Hope you'll post to the group thread whenever you feel like it. How did you end up starting a genealogy business? Sounds like a great life quest to me.

Hello FaePrice and RhianD, Welcome to the Knights! I am pretty drained and cannot figure out anything else to add at this point.