toomine

I couldnt' really think of any tags. HI, guys... and gals... I"m toomine. and I have this goal to be running three miles a day by the end of the year. its a general thing, and all, hopefully a baseline to a more useful habit of excercise that endurance weight training. Ideally, I'd like to be able to run forever. anywho, past the less interesting philosophical motivations, and etc, I'll jump straight to the nuts and bolts of the challenge. I am only doing two goals this challenge, because I have learned that I have to take it slow. when I work on multiple goals, i don't get any of them done. Goal 1. For the month of february, run .3 miles a day. for the month of March, run .6 miles a day. For the month of April, run .9 miles a day. .3miles is the distance around two citiy blocks at my house. its really nice to be able to just go stretch and run, I don't have to go to a track, or a gym, I can just get up and go. I keep track of the goal here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-lvF5Bg_Y7cKxFjnL9xL3gJmlaXo1EjxeKhyKly4yyo/edit#gid=0 so far, so good. don't really want to put a metric for success on this goal, becasue I don't know what i'll consider a success. if I can successfully build a habit where I'm working out every day without fail, its a success. if there are sporadic days where I don't, that's cool, as long as there are no systematic redundancies in my days when I don't workout. Goal 2: become involed in the NerdFitness commmunity more. So, I often start well with a challenge, and then stop doing well later. I'll post for like a week, and then I'll stop. its rough or whatever, but it is what it is, and I'm gonna try to make it what its not. Eventually, that'll be full fledged accountabilibuddies and workout groups. right now, that sheet is providing a lot of accountability for me, too. there have already been days where I ran not because I wanted to run, but because I didn't want to have to put another hole in my sheet. I have told many of my friends and given them the link to it, so anyone can glance at it at any time. and that's the last of the goals for this challenge. gonna stay focused on this one, probably won't post a lot more in this thread as most of my posting goes on in the spreadsheet. good luck, everyone on the challenge.

Hey, Hey, Feowyn. How about an Update? its roughly midpoint, and all that.

I Have my Signature Updated! my forum presence (While admittedly minimal) is now so classy I could be a marxist dystopia! Here's the low down on my Goals and where I stand on Them. As you can tell from the signature, My progress on Goal one has been outstanding. I haven't missed a workout yet, and even unintentionally took on the second mini-challenge to maintain the way that I have. My progress on Goal two is dismal. I have made one workout so far, but hey, that's better than no workouts so far. Today, a tuesday, is one of the days that I have to work on this goal. I'll be doing so a little later, breaking in a new pair of cleats (Copas, if any of you are familiar with awesome soccer gear). I'm on Day 2. I'll probably try to add a workout on saturdays, a previously unused day for this goal to adjust and strive for that A goal completion grade. That will mean that I have to get up on saturday and get right on that goal, it is a day when I work and I will not have the time (or energy) to do so after my shift. My progress on goal Three is also dismal. So, Here's the recipe that I need to put me back on track (until the end of the week). I stole the name of this recipe from somewhere else, but I'm calling this "Really Big Salad". 6 cups of soaked kale greens - 204 calories 2 ripe avocaods - 644 calories 100 g peanuts (a rough estimate of a handful) - 567 calories 3 oz cheese - 318 calories 1 bunch raw soaked broccoli - 207 calories 2 cups msuhrooms - 30 calories Vinegar 2tbsp - 4 calories oil 2 tbsp - 240 calories For a grand total of 2214 calories. All in all, its a good meal. I haven't been able to finish it yet, and everything is raw, which I approve of (after rinsing and soaking). So, To stay on track for this goal, I have to have another recipe by the end of this week. Any ideas you might suggest would be helpful, I'm kind of drawing a blank at this very second. I'm also looking to find these mini challenge accountability buddies, but, I'll have to do that soon. If you are interested and reading, you know, let me know. Until next time, my fellow challengers, I bid you adieu, and good luck on your challenges.

Hey, Everyone. I wanted to fill you in one what I'm up to. and, I just realized, I'm also looking for accountability partners to take on this MINI! But I"ll get on that later tonight, when I'm working. So FAR! My challenge is off to a great start, kind of. I'm on top of my cardio goal, Goal #1. I have made every workout I was scheduled for. Goal Number 2, not so hot, though. I haven't made a single workout. Today is the day i change that. I;ll be leaving in a few minutes to do just that. I'm gonna work on Day 1. I'm gonna bring this goal back, though, and make up the missing workouts during the weekends, when I wasn't planning on working on it. Goal Number 3, I'll also update later today, I have a recipe already, I just have to type it up. This evening, from 11-7 my time, I'll be hunting for partners, finding out and updating this signature to my satisfaction, and posting up a recipe here. Hope you're all having a great time with your challenges, I'll be looking in on you all later this evening! Have a great day, all. Toomine

Glad to see you're doing well, Snark. Hope you continue to do well.

Hey Hey, Feowyn. Just wanted to let you know, the water goal has a danger associated with it. Your cells will lyse if you consume too much water, and too much cell death can lead to larger health complications and death. Soo, if you're not sticking to that goal so much, don't sweat it, your body might be trying to tell you to back off and if you don't, well, you might hurt yourself. That much being said, water is a great goal, but your body (supposedly) pulls alot of the water it needs from foods that are also high in water content. So, if you spread your water consumption out throughout the day, I think you'll do fine here, just give your body time to process the water out that you're putting in (that is, expect to go pee alot!) Also, Dogs don't have sweat glands like humans do, so I'd recommend going in the evening, when it is cooler, to help your dog and yourself. Dairy has a lot of calories in it (cheeses and yogurts and stuff) as well as the aforementioned nuts. Breads have lots of calories too, though your body doesn't need super amounts of carbohydrates (supposedly, according to paleo theory). How did your consumption go today? did you make your goal?

Thank you, Feowyn. I'll make sure to come encourage you at around week 2.5. HEY, Everyone else! (or anyone else, if I have any sort of readership!) Day one. (I work graveyard, so my day starts around 4 pm, and ends around 8 am). Running Accomplished for today. Tuesday, (today) I will also do my day 1 routine described above (but that'll be this afternoon/ my morning). And, no progress on the recipes, yet. The hardest part, by far, is not cooking something that is tasty, but finding the way to measure what you're cooking. Still working on these bars beneath my post. Incidentally, does anyone know of a tutorial for the bulletin board codes I can look up? I've got some basic knowledge of programming syntax, but I'm not a super nerd enough to just naturally infer what each value might mean. Hoping to keep this challenge strong. Toomine

Alright, Teros. I'm looking to you as the leader of this group, brother. your successes will inspire us to achieve our own goals. see you down the road.

I'll work on re-defining that goal a little better then, but I'm going to do it tomorrow.

Hello, Brothers and Sisters. Challenge number three for me. And, I have the opportunity to complete it, something I haven't done yet. The theme of this challenge is Consistency. Main Quest: play soccer competitively Goal 1: consistent cardio. 3 days per week, 20 minutes total workout. walking is fine. failing to walk/run is not. I stick with this goal, because last challenge I was doing great for like, 3 weeks, and then I hit a mental wall. I just couldn't get up and get out, perhaps I was working out too hard, or perhaps I'm jsut a baby and need to man up. whatever the case is, the vehicle on which you arrive on the road of success is persistence, so, I continue pressing on, training for the goals I have to survive. I often times want to get up and run, though, and do intervals with some regularity because they feel great. But I want to get that measurable consistency up. This particular goal is Pass/fail. anything short of 100 percent completion is a failure for me, because I have a degree of fitness already. So, 3x6(w)=18 total workouts. my work schedule is fun, graveyard shift and all, so M, W, and F afternoons are when the workouts will go on. Goal 2: Train for the upcoming soccer tournaments (jun 21st and July 31st). I have 8 drills that I do. I don't want to do each one each day, because that challenge sucks. I tried, and failed. So, I'm gonna say if I spend five minutes working on 2 skill drills (or completion for the around the world challenge) 3 times a week, it'll be ok. I play between two and four games a week during the summer, and while I love it, I have to take it easy if I want to be consistent, My goal is not to break my body, but to consistently build skill. DAY 1: soft touch and around the world. Soft touch is a cones drill (I use rocks, cause I'm broke right now, but maybe that will change.) where you dribble through cones. Around the world is an adaption where you try to build passing accuracy on each side of both of your feet by consistently hitting the same post from nine different positions. DAY 2: Triangles and juggling. Triangles is relatively straight forward, you pass the ball between both feet making a triangle. Juggling, you keep the ball in the air. DAY 3: Shooting precision and shielding: Shielding is the movement of the ball in four directions without changing the orientation of the hips. Shooting precision is working on hitting the same spot on the ball with each kick. I'm not super skilled yet, so the goal is to have the ball roll forwards and backwards with no spin. DAY 4: classic agility ladder and lower leg strength. The classic agility ladder is one that I have seen in every strength training/sports program I've ever been involved in. I don't think it needs a whole lot of explanation. But the lower leg strength is gonna be bodyweight squats and jumping drills, forwards and backwards on a left to right on a line. 15 secs squat, 15 secs jumping forwards and backwards, 15 secs jumping left to right, 15 secs rest, for five minutes for this drill. Two days a week is going to be easy with this drill, as I work at a soccer program (WHICH, BTW, I got paid to do this summer! I wasn't expecting that one) and I can show up and use our equipment before I run our program's games. So, 12 total workouts (2x6(w)=12 total workouts), 3 on each day. Should be easy-peasy, no joke, but I'm going for the easy win here because I've not been able to complete a challenge to my satisfaction to date. A: 12 workouts total (3/d) B: 8 or more workouts total (2/d) C: 4 or more workouts total (1/d) F: 0-3 workouts total. Goal 3: Develop 4 recipes that are 2200-2400 calories. These recipes will be big pot recipes, or something along those lines, that I can cook in the evening and distribute in small portions throughout the following day. This is part of a long term strategy that I'm working on to lose weight. But I don't want a specific fitness goal as much as I want to start building a lifestyle of healthy eating habits that I can then stand on for the rest of my life. I have 2 recipes already, for a 400-600 calories snack, if it becomes necessary. I'll post up a recipes thread, probably somewhere not challenge specific, to keep you informed of what I like to eat, and to talk with you of the many tasty concoctions we can make. so, 6(w)/4 equals 1.5(w) per recipe. Starting on June 9th, the challenge start date, I will have one recipe drafted for each 1.5 weeks of the challenge (252 hours to complete one recipe). A: 4 recipes, 1.5 weeks apart. B: 3 recipes over challenge. C: 2 recipes over challenge D: 1 recipe over challenge F: 0 recipes over challenge And, since I'm still trying to successfully complete a challenge, no life quest, though there are several I'm looking forward to getting underway. If you can, help me out. I get weighed down after some weeks, and can definitely use the encouragement. that mental wall is for real, and its out there for me to find, and overcome. Hopefully, this will be the challenge that I do just that. This challenge also, I'm going to be posting up a signature with progress bars, and all that, so that'll be a lot of fun. And, any suggestion about tags would be helpful, I don't know how to tag this thread at all. AND, I have a theme song for this challenge as well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHk_Emakefg. "To pass beyond is what I seek. I fear that I may be to weak..." (;

That Daily Excercise grind... Thursday, leg pain cut my workout short. only wound up being out for 30 minutes, all told. Friday - my huge failure mentally occurred. I didn't even try to work out. I thought about it like 3 times during the day, kept putting it off and not planning it, or making a committment to get it done, and then I just blew it off entirely after about 9 pm. Saturday - Full field soccer game, 11 vs 11. It was my first full field game in about 6 months, and showed me just how much improvement I have to go. I know I can't rush it, either, or I'll wind up burnt out like on friday. Sunday - Today was a biweekly short field soccer game. I managed to hurt my leg, so I'll have to take it a little easy in the next weeks. All told, however, My missing friday doesn't mean a failure for the challenge, as This makes 5 out of 3 days trying to make a challenge. I'm still ahead, but it was my first encounter with a physical "wall" since I've been keeping track of it. (I think its like what mountain climbers describe as a wall, but as I've never climbed a mountain, I can't say for sure). SOOOOO.... The things I have learned this week: I need to balance my workout some, or I"ll burn out. I've figured out the priorities for this upcoming challenge, and the reasons I have behind them: I'll do my interval flats 2 days a week, and a regular interval one day a week, trying to push the length of the regular intervals up each week. Interval flats build lower leg strength, which is really important to me right now. I'll work on fine tuning how to keep building lower leg strength as the rest of this challenge winds down. (suggestions or anecdotes will be helpful). And regular intervals builds cardio endurance. Also really important, and something I need to make sure is in my workout. (I may try to just do a 2 week cycle, and alternate between the two excercises. I don't know yet). This is going to be one of the hardest things I have ever undertaken physically, to get in shape and to continue to play well. Nevertheless, I have a plan, and I can take steps to actualize that plan. I'm getting back on my challenge grind tomorrow, and since this week was a rough week physically (the soccer extra soccer game on saturday wasn't planned) I'm gonna slow it down next week, and aim for my challenge goal only for monday (which means rest tuesday). More recipes coming up, and an anecdote about this juicer that I recently bought that is amazing, and then we kick into high gear in the next challenge, blending calorie consumption, workouts, and recipe building. Here we go.

D'EM RECIPES Shepherds pie burrito. 4 oz ground turkey, cooked (170 calories) I medium potatoe, smashed (170 calories) 1 0z american cheddar (105 calories) I tortilla (100 calories) salt 1 tbsp (o cal) pepper 1 tbsp (17 cal) Total average calories : 557 cal.

here we go again, with that Dily Excercise Grind: Tuesday was a success according to the aforementioned week plan. wednesday was a success according to the aforementioned week plan. Thursday, today, flat intervals for 2 hours, 40 minutes of total running. peace.

I'm starting to feel, like, really happy about this. I've been largely successful so far with this challenge. I don't thin Happy is the right word, its like happy mixed with confident about being able to do stuff.

The Daily Excercise Grind! today, Regular (varying) intervals. Tomorrow, interval flats, 60 cycles, wednesday Game Day, Thursday interval flats 120 cycles, friday interval flats 60, saturday varying intervals. That's the loose plan. But today, at least, I can say that the interval run is completed. I'll be doing that as soon as I get the specs for the interval run from the rools page. Good luck on the challenges, guys.