Dianakdrury

Thanks!

It was good.

I've come back to a bit of a crazy life storm and with a cold

 

Haven't been the greatest with my diet or coffee but it hasn't been bad bad, but not great. Mostly managed to keep up with exercise.

As mentioned before my goalkeeper has been away and I've been playing - but I haven't really been able to confirm until like 2 days before whether I'd be playing which has been throwing by other training out of whack because I don't want to train then play etc. Which is annoying because if my team is playing well then it's not a great workout for me. But in good news - haven't conceded any goal and there were a few good saves in there but it's not a good work out. But it's hard to work out after because you get battered around and have a bit of soreness.

 

Hoping to finish the last week strong.

Its just a week off work staying with my parents interstate. Its good. Its a chance to reset a little.

 

But being my parents it has its own stresses.

 

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Challenge is going ok.

 

I'm actually away this week without much computer access.

 

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I feel ok - we missed easy shots so I was disappointed as a coach - but as a Keeper I did my job.

Nil Nil Draw - fair result.

Yep - Football/Soccer whichever you choose to call it.

 

I'm a goalkeeper through and through.

 

Thanks I was going bananas getting it done! But now it is and I'm gone shopping so I can start meal prep. Sooo many veges.

 

Another Southerner? Are you from around these parts as well - or are there just so many of us?

Second half of the week was a bit dodgey. I basically populated and built a website in 3 days - a very good one and looks amazing so I fell short goals. But I found out I have to play on Sunday rather than just coach and I don't want to risk sore muscles.

 

Winter holidays (I'm in Aus) going to visit my parents for a week up on the warm coast.

 

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Well we're launching our new website on the 13th... and a lot of thr pressure is on me but I can't start until everyone else does their bits. We were not good with the whole 'closed for changes part'

 

But I am finally going on holiday 2 weeks after

 

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Hi All

 

I'm Diana.

 

Been off the forums in a while but recently came back and rejoined through academy.

 

Generally I'm pretty good with diet and exercise but I was getting a lot of exercise through playing football and this year I transitioned to coaching so my life as been super busy and my fitness has suffered. I'm hoping to go back to playing next year which means I have just over 6 months to get into the shape of my life and be able to play at the same level I've been able to coach at.

 

I've also hit my mid 20's and gotten bored of messy house, and being short of money. I earn enough and my budgeting skills are ace - my sticking to them not so much. Eveything is starting to stabilise for me so it's the right time to take the next step and fix these things.

So here we go with my goals:

 

Superhero Basic Training

Build Gym Habits back out, commit to 3 ‘gym/bw workouts’ a week

 

Superhero Diet

Complete NF diet level 5 for 4 weeks

If I go to the cafe I will order a long black

 

Superhero Bank Balance

I will make sure at least 2 days per week I don’t spend money (applies to elective spending only, not things like bills getting deducted in the background)

 

 

Hoping it works out well - I've picked a stressful 4 weeks to start - but its the right time.

Meesa [Level 8] Building a lair

So my life has been a bit up and down over the last few months. I was made redundant (i do have a new job) and went through some hard times around that and I've now come out the other side a little bit bruised and battered.

 

There are a few things I need to change in my life and #1 is getting things in order; so for this challenge my main goals will be more the life ones rather than the exercise ones (and the exercise ones with be bonus goals). I am progressing nicely with most of my things; and pre season for the soccer club starts up midway through the challenge so exercise is not a worry for me.

 

1. Food preparation area

I am one of those people that is notoriously bad at cleaning my kitchen (its very small and a single person unit with no dishwasher). I have recently started a food program called Hello Fresh. Basically they just deliver you all the ingredients and recipes for delicious fresh and healthy food. I have taken the effort out of shopping for most of my meals so now I just need to keep it clean (that includes coffee cups). By my count there are 26 days in this challenge so. This is good food and health so the stat is Constitution. This extends to making sure I remove plates form my desk/table.

 

A - Clean kitchen 90% of days in the challenge (23) - Con 3

B - Clean kitchen 75% of days in the challenge (19) - Con 2

C - Clean kitchen 50% of days in the challenge (13) - Con 1
D - Clean less that 13 days in the challenge - Fail

 

 

 

Bonus Exercise Goals

Nail 60cm box jump for >10 reps in at least 3 different sessions - 1 Dex

Lower the resistance on chip up to half of what it is for 3 reps in at least 3 different sessions(the machines and gym have all different measurements) - 1 Dex

60kg Squat for 3 reps in at least 3 different sessions - 1 STR

85kg deadlift for 3 reps in at least 3 different sessions - STR

 

 

 

I will be starting the challenge on the 4th with my best friend visiting - she and I are going to completely from head to toe clear and declutter my house so I can start from the right place.

Ok so I stopped posting because most of my stuff was in my accountability group.

 

Not sure how I went on my specific goals.

1. Eat food at the right times - i got better at this and have now signed up to a thing called hello fresh which is great.
2. Lose the next bunch of weight - I decided not to weigh myself as I realised I was putting on muscle
3. Hit the gym regularly - I did really well on this. I can now make the 60cm box jump; squat 55kg and deadlift my bodyweight (80kg). Next up the century to annoy one of the senior accountants at work
4. Get some runs on the board (bad cricket reference). I did really well on my cardio challenge.

WEEK 4 - 220 orcs defeated! Special thanks go to our tank, Andrew, with 59 kills!

 

Brutal Bears, Rikem, and our fearless leader Hardway also wreaked havoc on the orcs, killing between 30 and 40 each.

 

And a special commendation to Meesa/Diana for wiping out the final three orcs.

 

Whoop

 

For some reason I haven't been getting notifications but thanks.

Holy wow. I can't even deadlift (not that I've tried more than a few times, but still), much less deadlift my own weight!

Yeah I've been working up to it for a while and just decided to give it a try

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Adjusting goals is totally kosher. My first challenge I has push ups in there - had my wrist in a cast for most of it!

You absolutely don't want to risk injury

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So Week 2 was kinda terrible. I feel off all my wagons and got injured.

 

Really good start to week 3 though. We won 25 nil on Sunday night; I finally started to get the hang of things at work on Monday and I managed to deadlift my own body weight for the first time. Feeling so much better and hoping to exploit it.

In terms of electronics try an app called Twilight for your phone. Turns the screen red tinted at night. Red doesn't wake you up as much as normal blue light.

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Well its Sunday night and I have no idea why but I had a complete food breakdown this weekend for no reason and I'm disappointed in myself. I really need to recommit to the food part. So I really need to get my head around it.

 

So here's how I went:

1. Eat food at the right times - Great during the week. Not so much on the weekend. So I will try to keep to it more.
2. Lose the next bunch of weight -  I'll see tomorrow but I haven't begun to shift it yet.
3. Hit the gym regularly -  After a few injuries I only made it twice.
4. Get some runs on the board (bad cricket reference). - I got 10/15 Kms of cardio at the gym

I think my late week let me down and week 1 is a fail

 

Looking forward to a better week 2.

Alright, the old Facebook is re activated with its 5 year profile pic and everything. I'm Derek Landes on Facebook.

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Well, I've got my healing potion, so I am good there, right? And there are a few people on FB who said they can do some meditation. Also, I've done an hour of meditation, which I figure I could use for the 25miles, but I think I might actually make that. So, one way or another, we've got it covered. And I'll be sure to check in on Wednesdays now that I know about it. My normal strength training routine has 100 knee-pushups in it, but I didn't do it on Wednesday.

You know, I have never meditated regularly, but it is funny how appealing meditation becomes when my other option is running. Especially when travelling. Or when it is raining. Blegh. I'm at about 12 miles so far though, but I have never before thought, "Hey, right now is a great time for half an hour of pranayama." So this is beneficial on multiple levels.

I had to do 144 push ups because I didn't want to mediate. That's the way it works.

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Looks like great progress. For the knee brace. Try getting an old pair of stockings/tights/pantyhose and cutting them so it is just longer than the knee brace. Won't affect the compression/bracing. Will help with the chafing.

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There we go. 144 push ups.

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Yeah that that 24 hours comes up around midnight for me. Its 930pm now

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And remember I am 12 hours off from everyone else.

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I am 50 push ups away... this is going to be a grumpy assassin tomorrow.

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Ok, so if I look on the spread sheet I will see how many push-ups I need to get done tonight, then I post that on the spreadsheet?

This is totally awesome by the way, I had been looking for something like this since I joined NF

I have filled in your expected number (42) as /42 on the spreadsheet. (This is based on standard push ups. If you do a variant you'll need to adjust accordingly). I'm on Australian time so my wandering monster ends up being Thursday.

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