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Day 4 Aftermath (8/1/13) Day 4: Workout: An hour of walking plus the planned strength training. 1 point (3 total) Water: Under 2, can't count this today. (3 total) Sleep: On time, 7 hours. 1 point for the schedule, 0.5 for quantity (2.5 quantity, 4 schedule) Not my best strength workout. My ankle injury occasionally interferes with my squats, strangely enough, so I finished the minimum and took the strain off my joints. And my plank performance was not as good as my usual. But it got done. Workouts: 6.25%6.25% Water: 6.25%6.25% Sleep Quantity: 5.95%5.95% Sleep Schedule: 9.5%9.5%
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Day 2 & 3 Aftermath Day 2: Water: 2.75 litres. 1 point (2 total) Sleep: On time & enough. 1 point each (2 total) Day 3: Swimming: 25 minutes, four 50%/75% intervals. 1 point (2 total) Water: 2.5 litres plus a large mouthful of the pool, rounded up. 1 point (3 total) Sleep: On time, but I can't call that 7 hours. 1 point for the schedule (2 quantity, 3 schedule) Wow, I cannot wait for my new swim suit to arrive in the mail. There's nothing like distance swimming to help you figure out your suit is too big for you. Missed yesterday's planned strength training session, due to starting work again after dinner and losing track of time till 11:30. Well, I guess that shall become my rest day, and I'll juggle things around a bit. Workouts: 4.16%4.16% Water: 6.24%6.24% Sleep Quantity: 4.76%4.76% Sleep Schedule: 7.14%7.14%
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Day 1: The aftermath So I'll be posting these the day after, due to the sleep goal. Swimming: closer to 45 minutes than the planned 30, because I got to a part of my playlist I liked. 1 point Water: 1.5 liters + 20 ounces + 16 ounces of herbal tea = rounds up to 3 liters. 1 point Sleep: in bed well before deadline, and got about 8.5 hours. 1 point each Great swim. Went significantly better than my last swim, so I think I'm recovering my swimming chops pretty quickly. I think every muscle in my upper body felt that swim. My plan for this week is nothing fancy, just whatever it takes to do the time - it's been quite a while since I've been in the pool, so it's going to take me a little time to get my lungs and muscles back up to speed before I can start messing with high-intensity drills. Workouts: 2.08%2.08% Water: 2.08%2.08% Sleep Quantity: 2.38%2.38% Sleep Schedule: 2.38%2.38%
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SheWhoCrews search for Excalibur
sarakingdom replied to SheWhoCrews's topic in Level 1 Rebels (First Time Challengers)
Former rower here. I miss it. Sadly, not too much water nearby for me to do that any more, but one day. Still love erging, a heck of a lot more than running - the way the upper body actually works is the difference for me. What's your core workout like? That sounds kind of interesting. -
Browncoats - We aim to misbehave (ship is full)
sarakingdom replied to cavemom's topic in Accountibilibuddies
Sweet potatoes are the one thing I did on a mandoline that took a chunk out of my knuckle. After that, I stuck to cucumbers. -
To add to the original post, I've been giving some thoughts to scoring before we start. Objective #1: 1 point per workout, 2 points for doing them on six different days (to reward daily consistency). 1 bonus point for an extra workout available, but lose 1 point if I don't take my one rest day. I think that covers all the priorities. Scored out of 8 points per week, max possible score is 9. Objective #2: My main goal here is the water, rather than the diet, though I will track that and introduce scoring if there's something that pops out of tracking. 0.5 points for two litres of water, 1 point for three, 1.5 for four. No points for the day if I don't drink any water before 5pm. Scored out of 8 7 points per week, max possible score is 10.5. I recalculated my BMR for this challenge: BMR ~1600, TDEE ~1900, calorie target midway at ~1700. That's not much of a deficit, particularly since I'm planning to give myself the option of going over target by the amount I use in exercise so I don't drop below my BMR, but my initial goal is just to observe and find my problem areas - I've been doing primal and food tracking long enough that it's probably slipping in places. The purpose of this challenge for me is just making sure the habits are solid, before I tweak up the difficulty. Oh, what the heck, let's say 3 points a week for diet averaged over the week, 1 for hitting the calorie target, 1 for 80% primal/20% leeway, and one if I fail to track in a reasonable way. Objective #3: 0.5 points for 7 hours of sleep, because that's not bad, and 1 point for 8. Lose a point if I pull some stupid sleep stunt. Bonus point if the majority of days of the week have between 8 and 9 hours of sleep. Sleep quantity scored weekly out of 7, max possible 8. 1 point per day for being in bed before 11:45 (because I'm trying to break the mental association between midnight and bedtime, so no rush at 11:57), though 8 hours will clearly need an earlier bedtime. 0.5 bonus points for doing something relaxing for 15-20 minutes before bed, like reading, and keeping away from the computer. Sleep scheduling scored out of 7, max 10.5 points. Right. Enough math. Let the games begin.
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Browncoats - We aim to misbehave (ship is full)
sarakingdom replied to cavemom's topic in Accountibilibuddies
To be fair, blowing all the cash on thigh-high boots for men and fascist leather uniforms (and the fact that it was the 1970s, and they were making the show on a budget of five pounds and a teabag from the BBC canteen) meant a lot of the other costumes were mind-bogglingly silly. But just on principle... just the fact that that's where they blew their entire season's costuming budget is enough. -
The Xtreme Adventures of B. Mac
sarakingdom replied to bmacxtreme's topic in Level 1 Rebels (First Time Challengers)
I will be watching your kettlebell workouts with interest. I'm trying to master bodyweight training before I branch out, but they're on the list of stuff I want to give a try sometime. -
Browncoats - We aim to misbehave (ship is full)
sarakingdom replied to cavemom's topic in Accountibilibuddies
Absolutely! I think they're totally worth loving, and they're coming up on my movie queue. It's just the name. Personally, I'd prefer keeping in touch on the challenge threads, so there's just the one site to keep track of. I left Facebook and Twitter a while back because they were overly tempting timesucks, and would find it easier to focus here. -
Handstands are so on my list for a future challenge, and I think I'm going to stalk your playground workouts for ideas down the road. I really want to see your workout logs.
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Lonniepops [clever quest name here]
sarakingdom replied to Lonniepop's topic in Level 1 Rebels (First Time Challengers)
Man, I hear you on consistency, and on that water thing. Your calories look a little on the low side for someone with your target weight range. For someone whose healthy weight is in the 135-150 range, lean mass is typically about 110-120 pounds, with a BMR between 1400-1550ish (if I've done my math correctly). It might be worth double-checking your BMR and exercise needs, and making sure that's the number you want. (It might be totally right for you as is, but I think sometimes women get bad information about how low to drop their calories, and it could be a bad match for your exercise plan.) -
Grank: Slaying Demons
sarakingdom replied to Grank's topic in Level 1 Rebels (First Time Challengers)
When it comes to paleo recipes, some of the best I've seen are on Health-Bent (which is primal rather than paleo, they allow dairy) and Nom Nom Paleo. Nom Nom Paleo might be great for you - it's mostly simpler everyday food, written by and for really busy working parents, so there's a lot in there on quick things and packed meals for work and what you do after a stupidly long shift at the hospital and prepping for schedules to get crazy. For a while, I had problems eating paleo during 16-hour work days when I needed to have most of my meals away from home, and it became a lot easier when I looked at some of the paleo bento box lunches she was making for her kids. (It turned out it was mostly a transport problem, because paleo food is messier and harder to keep separate than throwing a sandwich and an apple into a bag.) For meals at home, I've got a whole lot of "throw everything into the oven in five minutes, crank the heat to 350, do something else for 30 minutes while waiting for delicious food to come out" meals. It depends a little on how many people you're cooking for and how many people are going to gobble up everything edible in your fridge while you're away, but there are some ways to save a lot of time cooking purely paleo, and get meal prep times down fifteen minutes, or at the very worst thirty. -
That's incredibly awesome. And I think that the value and quality of regional arts groups are severely underrated by the "bigger is better" mentality. I could also use a more restful pre-sleep routine, like a bit of reading. I pay attention to how tired I am when I'm reading, and I don't when I'm on the computer, probably because I'm still in work mode, even if I'm not working.
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chickie.monkey: Wedding? Shrink, Shrink Away!!
sarakingdom replied to chickie.monkey's topic in Rangers
I've found that, while water may be "the best thing for hydration", that's not necessarily true if you're already a bit dehydrated or the conditions are kind of dehydration-enabling (like hot summer days). A little salt and potassium and things in your drink can make a huge difference - if you've lost too much from sweating, water by itself might not get rid of all the symptoms of dehydration. I don't really know a great solution to this one. Sports drinks are too sugary, DIYing it can be tricky. I know there are some tablets out there that dissolve in your water bottle, but I have no idea how good they are, because I find them kind of expensive. My current solution is a pinch of salt and a splash of lemon juice, preferably in cold herbal tea to mask the taste and add some trace vitamins and minerals, but when you're dehydrated enough, you don't notice the taste in water much or even crave a little salt in your water. If I'm having a bad week of things, hydration-wise, I add it to every bottle of water I drink for a few days, on the assumption that my body's going to need a little time to get its water and electrolyte levels sorted out properly. -
UltanBoyd - To seek the holy grail....
sarakingdom replied to UltanBoyd's topic in Level 1 Rebels (First Time Challengers)
I'm going to need an archery-themed element for a future challenge, so I may ask you for some advice. (The Silver Nemesis Challenge. Archery can't be avoided on that one. Focusing on inverted rows is the closest I've come to a good option, short of taking up archery itself, which may or may not be practical when I get to that challenge.) Good call on your running plan, to build in some time for setback. I think some people starting out on these sorts of get-fit plans don't count on the body needing to adjust and rest when you stress it, and get discouraged when their ideal plan doesn't work out. Sometimes it really is better to give your body an extra day or two off, rather than push through the next workout on schedule and risk injury. -
I might dabble in some yoga for use in a future challenge. I don't particularly enjoy doing it (though I don't particularly dislike it, either), but I do like how I feel after having done it, and some extra flexibility would be nice. My French is very rusty and not at all fluent, mais si tu veut, ici on peut parler en français de temps en temps.
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That's precisely what I do, if I'm not consciously drinking water. I realize around 5pm that all I've had to drink all day was my morning cup of coffee. I've started noticing more and more things that look like signs of dehydration, so I really ought to drink more water. Everything is more fun with aquatic Viking vampires.
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Browncoats - We aim to misbehave (ship is full)
sarakingdom replied to cavemom's topic in Accountibilibuddies
I know, it aired during the years when I didn't have a TV. It fell into the television gap, between the cushions somewhere, and I haven't fully caught up. But I've just noticed Amazon has it streaming, so this challenge might be a good time to do that. Blakes 7 had its up and downs, but it definitely had its audacious moments. I can't fault any show that blows its entire costuming budget on leather from London's local S&M shops, the lead villain has never been bettered in the history of villainy, and the first episode and the last episode were both pretty hardcore dystopian... that ending is a high-water-mark for going out with a bang. Um. Not one I would choose to personally emulate, so by all means, let's not do that as a group. No. Anyway, an introduction: I'm Sara, and I'm in my mid-30s. I'm sometimes a programmer and sometimes a writer, so I spend far too much time at the computer. I love a heck of a lot of SF and genre movies/TV, but I have a real soft spot for the old British stuff. (I have very firm ideas on what can legitimately be called "The Avengers", and Marvel heroes in spandex is not it.) My first challenge is, by design, easier than what I can do fitness-wise, because I am severely habit-formation-challenged, so I'm just trying to get some regular habits reliably in place before I tweak up the difficulty to the right level. I have some strength training goals down the line, but right now, dropping some weight is my priority. -
Browncoats - We aim to misbehave (ship is full)
sarakingdom replied to cavemom's topic in Accountibilibuddies
If I snuck into your group under false pretenses - I haven't finished my Firefly self-indoctrination yet, but I can chalk up Farscape and Blakes 7 under my rebels-on-spaceships column - would you be willing to look the other direction? Because I think a little behaving badly on spaceships would increase my enjoyment of this challenge about 1000%.