Gryffudd

Workout yesterday: Warm-up; 30 jumping jacks. Workout: 4x chin-ups. Each set was 1 full chin-up followed by 4 short chin-ups. 4x30 squats 4x5 push-ups, this time with my arms pulled in under me more. 4x15 sit-ups 4x2 short chin-ups Each cycle was 1 of each set above, followed by 5-10 minutes of resting. I need to shorten the resting, too. Stretching: None. I kinda forgot. I need better stretches anyway. Slowly getting back up to speed. Pat

Yeah, that's pretty much what I did to get short chin-ups working for me. Right now one set of them for me is one full chin-up, followed by four short ones. A set of pull-ups is just 2 short ones. I should start doing sets of negatives with those, though. I think I've figured out what my third goal is going to be. I've been slacking off with how much I'm exercising with each workout, so I'm going to try to get it back up to 40 minutes per workout. Less slacking off. Starting to work off the couple of pounds I got from the cheap chocolate, which is good.

Have fun with the kiddies tonight!

I'm hoping Rift gets more interesting after the first few levels. So far the character stuff seems cool, but the world has no pizazz. It seems kinda bland and vague. Not terribly inspiring. I'll have to read up on it some.

Glad judo is making you happy again.

My new thread: http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/topic/39564-gryffudds-third-challenge/#entry767487 Hm, if we're moving game night to Mondays, I should be relatively free Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, school work excepting.

Still okay for me. I'll be around.

Hm, I don't remember signing up to the team separately from the challenge last time. I may have just forgotten, though. I'll look it up.

Thanks for the comments. So far my diet's pretty okay. Not perfect, but okay. With the exception of the last week, I'm usually 400-500 calories under my daily allowance. I eat a salad and sandwiches most days. Not much for junk food. Rice chips is about it, though I sometimes succumb to the temptation of ice cream bars. I still keep the calorie count under control, though. No pop or coffee, ever. Hot chocolate sometimes if it gets cold on the overnight shifts. The main problem this past week was cheap Halloween chocolate, which will be finished off soon and not replaced. Hopefully. Paleo isn't my bag. I've never heard of Whole 30. I do 3 workouts a week, about 40 minutes each, all bodyweight stuff. I walk to school and back, 5 times a week, about 25 minutes each way. I also walk to get groceries once a week, about 90 minutes the whole way, 20 of those uphill. More nutritious food would be nice, if it's possible without spending more money or taking more time, but I'm not sure that's possible.

I'm up for the new challenge. My main push is still to stay healthy and lose weight, which is not easy with this half-price post-Halloween chocolate here. Ah well, it'll be gone soon, then it won't be tempting me any more. Main goal: Lose weight. Sub-goals: 1) I'm working on doing real chin-ups. I can occasionally do a full one right now. I want to get myself up to doing sets of at least 3 full chin-ups. 2) I need to balance my arms out a bit, so I want to build up to doing sets of 3 pull-ups as well. 3) Get my workouts back up to 40 minutes each. Life goal: Hm, Dec 22nd puts this as ending just after exams, so I guess I'll go with that. My average right now is about 96-97%. I'd like to keep that. We'll see how it goes.

I'm in. I think I've signed up, though I haven't put up a third challenge post yet.

Sure.

Wait, you keep telling me how bad it is for people to hate squash and it turns out you hate turnip, otherwise known as 'squash without a thick rind?" Not that hating turnip is bad. I hate it too. I just find the squash love a bit hippocritical in that light.

7:45 here. I don't see anyone else on. I guess we'll try again next week.

I believe so.

Yeah, some of my chin-ups I'm doing some serious leg thrusting to get up there. Too bad the foods didn't work out better. I'll have to switch to harder push-ups too. I might be able to do them. I found a way to do regular ones without pressing on my wrist th wrong way. Might be able to do with other types of push-ups.

Well, end of my second challenge, so lets see how I did: Goal #1) Still no real chin-ups, but I can now do sets of 7 short chin-ups without touching the ground in between, so I'll take that as a win. I am getting closer to doing real chin-ups, too. Goal #2) Success. My workouts are up to 4 sets of 10 push-ups. Goal #3) Pretty much reached. I lost 5.5 pounds, so I'm going to count it as close enough. Life quest-wise, I found out I'm spending about 70 a week on food, so that's okay. I should drop it a bit lower, if I can. And I still need to watch general spending. So I'm considering it an A generally, though a couple of areas are kinda B+. The next challenge I'll probably be continuing mostly the same, but pushing a bit farther. Instead of push-ups, I may do pull-ups. Get both sides of my arms evened out.

Neat! That sounds cool.

Thursday Marketing midterm mans no workout Wednesday. I should be able to get back on track starting Saturday, though. I did manage 7 short chin-ups in a row without touching the ground. By short chin-ups, I mean my elbows were forming a right angle at the lowest point, then I pulled myself back up, rinse, repeat. I can occasionally dip a bit lower, but not much yet. I did a couple pull-ups too, but those muscles aren't as strong. I drop back down after two. Doing okay, though. Going to keep my caloric intake down to compensate for not needing to feed the exercises, so hopefully I can lose a little bit more weight before the end of the week. Hope everyone's doing okay.

Sounds like you're learning lots of stuff.

That's this week. So far everything's fine. Except workouts. Too much work on Saturday and today to do workouts. Hopefully get to do one Wednesday. Back to the grind. <sigh>

What are we going to be doing? If we're jsut saying hi, then 20 minutes is fine. Is there something people want to talk about that might take longer?

I can be on at 10 Atlantic. Probably only for 15 minutes or so, but I can show up, anyway. After that: Bedtime.

I have Skype and G+. If we're meeting up at 10pm local time I could stay on for a bit. Much later and it's bedtime for me.

Sunday night, Monday night, and Wednesday night are my best nights, but I don't know if I can do it this week. I have half a dozen things due. Next week should be clearer for me. Also depends on what we're doing. Hopping on to say hi for half an hour is easier to do than a 2 hour conversation. What do people want to talk about?