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Hi everyone! Forgive me my prolonged silence,but these have been 2 explosive weeks :-S I've started my full-time job as a Game Programmer, and this has literally blew off my routine... and my biorythms :-P So, let's roll up what's happened up to now :-) Good news first :-) The workout, the diet and the water have found a comfortable place into my day :-) The diet it's cranking fine: with my dietist we're trying a more protein-based diet and see which results can yield. Hope I can stabilize my food routines before christmas: I need to be solid on my position to face the panettoni invasion ;-P and believe me... Here in Italy panettoni can be a nasty temptation to resist! :-PI've made occasional deviations from the diet, though: my fiancée it's experimenting with her oven, and I really can't resist a taste of the muffins she make :-P Up to now only two afternoon snacks have been compromised by this treat The water intake is going great! I bring three 0,5L bottles with me to the office and by evening I've always finished them off :-D actually, non-work days are more tough to go through than workdays, because I'm outside often, and I can't carry 1,5L of waters in my pocket ;-) but up to now I managed to squeeze enough water in my stomach every day except one, in which I drank only a single liter of water. I'm very satisfied with this result: relatively speaking it's the biggest improvement I made :-D And, finally, the workout. Bad news time :-(A very ugly weather hit my zone, it's raining almost non-stop since the 10th :-( and these days it's getting also much colder (below zeros on nightly hours). This weather has completely jeopardized my plan for outdoor workouts, and make me reeeeally lethargic in the morning, so the planned fasted morning training has never happened... Good news time again :-D...until yesterday :-D seeing that I couldn't manage to exercise on early morning (I could barely get off my bed :-P) I've set my training spot just after I come home from work... And, apparently, it fits good :-) but the evening, then, developed as follow: dinner - tired - bed - sleep. This has left me with the exact same fat mass (measured via biometrical impedance analysis by my dietist), despite growing up muscular mass.So I literally altered my biorythm, going to bed earlier and earlier every evening, until I could snatch 8 hours of sleep even when waking up at 6AM the next morning.Let me tell you: it was no easy task... But man,I felt more energized than any coffee can make me feel, and that energy stayed with me the whole day :-) on another sidenote, the next morning I woke up at 07:15AM, the usual hour, and I remained sleepy all the day ^.^' I guess that things simply needs to get stable on their feet, and these sleep disorders will fade away :-) Next planned workout it's on friday morning... Let see if I can make it! :-D Talking about the workout structure and progression, well... I think that a detailed excel sheet is worth a thousand word :-) I apologize in advance for not using an open format (for the nerds who care about that), but I really can't another spreadsheet software that fits me as well as excel...So you get .xlsx files ;-) Long story short: I'm sticking with the beginner bodyweight workout, using a 5kgs water tank for the arms-pulling exercises.As you can see I've recently added bench dips to the circuit, because I felt that my triceps were kinda neglected :-P there are only a few reps up to now, and my heels are on the floor... but I'm building up on that :-D Last but not the least...Life goal: stay in budgetThis goal has been completely missed, because I decided to buy the christmas gift for family and friends these days, because of a sales nearby... But I can't really blame myself for this: I've snatched a ball that come near me, in order to save more money the next month, and I don't feel that I deserve to be punished for this. Thus, I've got an idea. I will froze my life goal reward for this challenge, and carry it over to the next challenge life goal, which will be the same: stay in budget. If after these twelve weeks, split among two challenges, I can reach the break even point with the budgets, I will get the rewards of BOTH the life goals, otherwise I'll get nothing. I think it's fair enough, isn't it? :-) I want to thank everyone of you for your support and your advices: I really feel like this time I am actually progressing on my personal life level-up project... And I think that Nerd Fitness contribute is the cornerstone of this feeling :-)

Hi guys, and thank you for stopping by and leaving such a big pool of advices! Minor things, sure, but really appreciated, especially the moderation part: now it makes sense to me that almost all the challenges I found in this section started halfway september Well played, 49er... Especially for the Yoda quote but you're absolutely right, I'm correcting the post right now,.. and I'm making it clearly measurable on all my goals. This was very useful... I read the advice later, this night, and brought the appropriate water supply today at work. Results? I dranked my 1,5 liters all in the worktime this means that, in the whole day, I think I can reach the 2 liters mark... But magnitude of success isn't as important as the perseverance: try to replicate the miracle tomorrow and start getting this habit locked on for good! I'm not new to exercise, I practiced different sports before, actually... But I'm surely new to stable exercising About the pushups, I tried the regular pushups both yesterday night and today after work, monitoring carefully my movement and my posture while exercising (taken this as reference)... And I still think I'm good I did a full 10 reps set, started shaking after the 5th/6th rep but managed to finish the set without any sharping pain or my arms giving up. Thank you for pointing out this, though: I think my arms needs a little more rehab than I expected during workouts I will switch to a lesser engaging exercise if, after the 1st/2nd circuit, I can't repeat the set properly. Thanks again for your insights, they're clear to understand and inspiring in many ways... They seem (and they actually are) reachable. They're the baby steps I never figured out how to take.

This is a big, uber-pleasant surprise!!! Haven't played MC in a pretty long time (I really don't have enough spare time to enjoy it properly) but my account still exists, afaik... Well, hope to hit the 50 post counter soon!

Thank you for the warm welcome, Gimeniux Lol, and I thought that going for 1.5 liters was already difficult yes, I did know that water keeps your interiors working and consuming... But really, 2.5 liters are a lot Thank you very much for the advice, though! I guess the 2.5 liters will become a good goal for the second challenge: doubling my daily water intake in 6 week seems like a fair fight for this time

That's hit the spot ;-) thank you very much!!! Inviato dal mio GT-I9505 utilizzando Tapatalk

Can't find that in search results Only result is a "Shadowrun" forum, which is unaccessible...

Hi Leon :-) I'm from Treviso, in Veneto... Hoping in someone a bit closer to my home ;-)

No problem for the shortness Tried that a bunch of times with no results Logging in with Tapatalk ID doesn't do anything after a brief loading, while trying to manually input my credentials will popup briefly "Forum force login"... And nothing else. Excuse me in advance for the trivial questions: are you using the android app, or the iOS app? Correct forum is "Nerd Fitness Academy", right?

. I think I will try to make this post a little shorter than my introductory post So less about myself and more about the battle plan Main quest: Drop belly fat and flatten my abdomen I’ve already stick to exercise and diet before, with various commitment level but always disappointing results, so I think this won’t be easy But it’s something I damn want, so I’m going to work toward it. No excuses! 1st Goal: Workout 3/wk. I’ve already performed some gym before, but I think this is going to be tough, because I’m going to exercise A ) outdoor; B ) early (6 AM) in the morning and C ) before breakfast (a fasted workout is supposed to be more effective, is it? Any advice on this?) and D ) autonomously, without trainers or surveyors. I decided to use the Playground workout with a couple of exercises from the Beginner Bodyweight circuit that seems the right circuit completion to me. I think I should do the first level exercises in the first times, except for push ups: I'm pretty sure that I can handle regular push ups instead of assisted ones. Result of the blending is this: Explosive legs work: bench step ups (10 reps each leg) Push: push ups (10 reps) Pull: swing rows or, if managed, body rows (10 reps) Legs: lunges (8 reps each leg) Core: body plank (15 seconds, planning on working up to 60) Full body: jumping jacks (30 reps)Reward: +1 END STA. I’ve already built some muscular mass, so I think this will be more an endurance training, about waking up early, running to the park, performing more and more reps on each exercise. Please correct me if I’m wrong on this point Success Metrics: based on a total of 6*3 = 18 workouts A: Never miss a workout.B: Miss 1 workout (5% of the 6-weeks total)C: Miss 2 workouts (10%)D: Miss 3-4 workouts (25%)E: Miss 5-6 workouts (33%)F: Miss more than 6 workouts 2nd Goal: Adhere strictly to the diet, on food and quantities. I already have a non-paleo diet built by a nutritionist two months ago but the starting motivation is fading away, due to lack of sensible results. I’m sure that this diet, teamed with the workouts, will do its job, but I must strictly follow it for this to happens Reward: +1 CON Success Metrics: based on a total of 5 * 7 * 6 = 210 meals A: Miss up to 7 diet-clear meals (<5% of the 6-weeks total)B: Miss up to 11 diet-clear meals (5%)C: Miss up to 21 diet-clear meals (10%)D: Miss up to 52.5 diet-clear meals (25%)E: Miss up to 69 diet-clear meals (33%)F: Miss 70 or more diet-clear meals 3rd Goal: Drink at least 1,5 liters of waters daily This is part of the diet but it’s a separate goal: planning my meals is a thing I can manage to do but drink that much water is something I’ve never managed to do before… Damn, usually I drink from two to three glasses a day… And this already make me pee a lot! I can’t imagine what will be drinking 2 times more than that Reward: +1 CON Success Metrics: based on 7 * 6 = 42 days of challenge. I use days in order to prevent myself from drinking more than 1.5 liters a day to compensate a less-hydrated day. A: Don't hydrate appropriately for 0-1 day (<5%)B: Don't hydrate appropriately for 2 days (5%)C: Don't hydrate appropriately for 3-4 days (10%)D: Don't hydrate appropriately for 10 days or less (25%)E: Don't hydrate appropriately for 13 days or less (33%)F: Don't hydrate appropriately for 14 days or more Life Goal: Try to Stay in monthly money budget, adapting it to my needs but NOT to my whims. (Credits to 49er for the "try to" disappearance) That’s right, I’m budgeting my incomes and outcomes… And I really don’t like what I see I’ve written down a budget, using that budgeting software I bought some time ago (thank you steam sales! ) but I didn’t really follow it right up to now... In my next level-up I want this thing to be of some usefulness too! Reward: +1 WIS Success metrics: A: Overspend by 1% or less of monthly budgetB: Overspend by 2% or less of monthly budgetC: Overspend by 3% or less of monthly budgetD: Overspend by 4% or less of monthly budgetE: Overspend by 5% or less of monthly budgetF: Overspend by more than 5% of monthly budget Ok, I think this is it What do you think, for a first challenge? Feedbacks of all kinds are always welcome! Thank you very much!!!

Hello, everyone! I discovered this site about a week ago, bouncing from a link an American friend of mine posted on Facebook. Lurked around, read posts, watched Steve’s tutorial on YT… “Damn, this seems too good to be true, where’s the scam? It has to be nearby…†(no offense intended: every nerd knows that the internet is a big source of scams and phishing attempts ). But after one-week check I can’t really find anything wrong here, and this is a really pleasant surprise! So first thing first: I must congratulate to Steve himself, for putting up his efforts in giving birth to this site, and to you guys, for building up this enthusiastic community And, above all, thank you all for being nerds and rebels simultaneously: the “air†I breath in there is clean and full of potential and willpower. This is really good for my lungs Ok then, let me start the core part of this introductory post! The just-past me I’m Marco, from northern Italy, a 27 yo male who’s never been too concerned about his appearance no, let me correct myself: who never believed in his appearance or other physical qualities. Except for the music. I have a pretty good hearing for rhythms and melodies I tried out many sports, starting from judo, when I was a kid, then stepping to karate, jujutsu, aerobic class, heavy machine-oriented gyms, but except the first one no one has endured much in my daily routines... I guess this comes for my big lack: I still didn’t believe that my appearance could change significantly. Obviously any effort is too much if you don’t think you can obtain any result. Now I have a full-time desk job as a Game Developer, which make me stand still the major part of the day, watching at a screen and thinking… And gaining weight After hitting the too-damn-high count of 86 Kilograms for my 1.75 meters (excuse me for using metric system, can’t really think in other ways :-P anyway, google tells me that they’re about 190 pounds for 5,74 feet height) I put myself been on a diet since the first of september, but I still couldn’t see a good trends in results, so my determination started to fade away, and exceptions started to leak in my food plan more and more often… As today something has drastically changed, though, from a spark I never expected to come: my girlfriend said to me “I love you, and I wish you could love yourself tooâ€. Something to barf a rainbow in her face, huh? Well, it actually is, let’s face it but it’s also something that managed to move something around both my guts and my brain. The current me I think that time for procrastination and indifference has ended, because for the first time in my life I damn want a flat stomach, and I know for sure it’s not going to appear automagically (not a typo ) under my Christmas tree. My work routine do not allow me to go to be productive in a gym, so I’m resolved to exercise myself autonomously (beginner bodyweight circuit, here I come), but this requires a lot of task-tracking skills, which I think I have, and motivation, which I’m pretty sure I have but I’m still a little afraid to trust So here I am, signing in for the next 6-week challenge, the first step on something that I want to be a new path for my life to follow! As a big fan of RPGs I couldn’t resist to build a character sheet, following the mechanics described in other posts ;-) Feel free to take a look at the link in my signature for my main quest, motivation and first challenge goals, and let me know what you think about it: feedbacks are always welcome! Shortly I will also open the opportune thread on the 1st challenge section [uPDATE] 1st challenge online! Again, thank you all, and… Hope to see you around for a long time PS: I apologize for the long text but, honestly, I really can't reduce myself to a little bunch of words... I need at least a medium bunch of phrases ;-) PPS: no matter how much I try, I can’t persuade any browser into showing me the members map. Is anybody else from Veneto, here?

Ditto: I'm using tapatalk for android too, and on login it says "connecting" for a short and then nothing happens The URL change sounds like a plausible reason for tapatalk getting confused, though I think this should be filed under the HELP/SUPPORT section, imho... But that section seems more like a ticketing system, other than a forum... So the thread might have to be duplicated, instead of simply moved away by a moderator.