Grandkai_NL

Grandkai Get's back to basics 2.0 Last challenge i did fairly well with getting back on the horse and bettering my every day life. This challenge is a continuation of my previous challenge to first go back to a good basic life. Workout Goal 1A: Workout 3x a week Goal 1B: Run outside 1x a week Last challenge i did pretty good with workout out a few times a week and i want to continue that streak. So gonna keep doing my Push/Pull/Legs Full Body setup. I also used to be a decent/regular runner, used to run 2-3 times a week for about 5-10 km every time. But after a running competition...uuh 2 years ago?.... i stopped running. The weather here is going to the better side of it all and i want to take this opportunity to get back into running and enjoy the outside again and clear my head. Nutrition Goal 2A: No ordering food for the whole challenge Goal 2B: Use a protein shake to UP my protein intake Last challenge i did...oke with not ordering food but near the end of the challenge i got lazy and ordered food. Yeah its handy but i still ordered mostly "bad, fatty, fried" food. So i want to stop ordering that all again and enjoy the meals I MAKE. I did realize with the last challenge and tracking all my food, well most of my foods, that protein wise i was a bit lower than i need to be. According to MFP i need to eat 100g of protein but if i calculate i should be getting more around 200g. So i'm buying some protein powder to help me up my protein amount and help me get closer to the amount i should be getting. Hobby/Skill Goal 3A: Everyday Blender with Pomodoro cleaning Goal 3B: Everyday stretch/Handstand practice Last challenge i started learning Blender and i'm loving it, did it 2-3 times a week and noticed every time i worked with it i had to really remember all my short-cut keys. So i decided to practice/learn it every day to remember the keys and get faster progress. I am gonna combine this with my Pomodoro style of cleaning. I also used to stretch every morning and do some form of Handstand practice (on a regular basis), i want to get better at this stuff aswell cause doing a handstand is one of my goals for 2020. So every morning i'm going to do stretches (after i'm done with reading and coffee), at the gym i'm doing the NF Handstand workouts & if i dont have a gym day i'm doing some wall stands & headstands. Here we go!!

Oooh dang, i forgot to update....but we are all used to it by now Don't have a lot of time today to write something so gonna keep it short. Last week went so-so. Workout went good, eating could go better, hobby stuff could go better. Didnt prioritize certain stuff and instead went for the lazy route. Quick summary for this challenge. I'm glad with what i did this challenge. Got back in a good workout rhythm, i enjoy the workouts and they aren't too time consuming (i can get in and out in roughly 30-45 minutes). Eating went pretty good, had some trouble in the beginning of finding what i enjoy eating but i got a better selection of what i like and don't like. I did notice near the end of the challenge and the week i was more likely to order something online (its not great, but only once a week is one hell of a improvement compared to before). My hobbies....im super glad i started with Blender. Its fun and interesting and those shortcuts are something i really have to learn. Every time i finish a Tutorial video im impressed with what i made. The cleaning tho...the drive to finish Darksiders went down each week. Maybe its because all the stuff i need to do i already did in the Xbox 360 version and this is the Xbox One Remastered version. So its kinda boring. I might have to try something else starting next week. Any suggestions? Maybe a different game or a skill between the cleaning times? I'll have to try some stuff out. Overall this was a decent challenge. If i would rate it out of 10 i would give it a 7, not amazing but still a good start again. Gonna take this week to think about the goals for next challenge. Things i was thinking about right now are: continue Blender (its great), use supplements to up my protein and perhaps some multivitamins......and a new skill perhaps? i dont know, i'll figure it out this week. Thank you for joining me in this challenge and hopefully i'll see you guys in the next one

Finish Level 1 Blender Tutorial; ooh heck yes i finished that one and i'm really freaking proud of it. With Level 1 you learn the basics of Blender and you make a Donut. Here's my Donut render. The next levels will all be about giving sprinkles, more detail and other objects in the picture. Play my scheduled PS4 time; did do this on tuesday but not on Thursday, buddy wanted to game on Thursday but he ended up coming online really late so i could have spend a couple of hours on my PS4. Oh well, will probably do a few hours today. Update on Day 3/Wednesday: yeah....totally forgot.but i'm here now, better than nothing Week 4, Day 1 till 4 Worked out twice, finished my Level 1 Blender tutorial (see pic above ) and did good on eating EXCEPT for yesterday (Thursday) i had a real craving for sushi so i ordered some but it didnt taste aswell as i had in my head. So i was a bit dissapointed. Got through the most annoying achievement with Darksiders so now its only the collectibles left. Its gonna be a bit tedious cause i did grab a bunch of those on my playthrough but i dont remember which so to be safe i'll have to check every spot again. Next week is the final week and so far i'm happy with everything i'm doing. I'm focusing more on food, tracking the last 2 weeks most foods i ate, enjoying my workouts more & enjoying playing on my PS4 and learning Blender. Yeah i'm a bit behind with updating here, but thats just a tiny thing. Progress: Workouts: X X X X | X X - X | X X X | X X - | Nutrition: X X X X X | X X - X - | X X X X X | X X X X - - Hobby: X X X X - | - X - - - | X X X X X | X X X X - -

there are a heckin lot of short-cuts. Luckily i got a list from Blender Guru (im following his tutorial on youtube)

Week 3, Day 3 till Day 7 lets first look back at this. "Test Blender again": it took a few days but i got back into blender and i forgot to save and had to do a lot of actions again BUT this helped me learn a few actions again so tis not a total loss. With knowing what went wrong last time i decided to not follow the tutorial to the dot. In the program you can set how detailed the drawing is and before i set it on a level 3 (like in the tutorial) but this time i went with a level 2 and it WORKED!!! i was able to get pass the sticking point and ready to continue. "Spend the hours on the PS4 that i scheduled" did okay with this. Didnt spend the complete times but still a lot without "missing" playing on my xbox too much. "Update here on Day 4" yeah i totally missed that. Day 3 till 5 went pretty good. Got my workouts in, got close to my calories each day. Didnt order any food online which felt AWESOME!, made some progress with Darksiders achievements (not sure if i will be able to 100% it at the end of the challenge but i'm gettin close) and overall had a good week. Friday was my mothers birthday & in the evening we went out to dinner and had some drinks. I had a Tournedos which was to die for, it was so yummy. And i kept it easy with snacks during the evening, beers not so much but it was a celebration so i didnt really care. Saturday & Sunday were really lazy days. I was supposed to go to my mothers party (for friends and family) on saturday but i fell a sleep on the couch and woke up at 10PM. My father was a bit worried since i wasnt there but i texted him to let him know what happened. And it was all good. All i did on Sunday was go with my sister to a electronics store to buy her a tablet and a wireless speaker. I stepped on the scale for my weekly weigh in and, i understand why nutrition is important but now i saw actual progress and it made me 10 times more motivated to eat healthy and hit my calories. Last week i weight 83,5 kg (184 lbs) with 17,5% BodyFat. After last week where i ate close to my calories each day (2020 cal) i went down to 82 kg (180 lbs) & 16,6% bodyfat. Which puts me back on the same weight as in October. Progress: Workouts: X X X X | X X - X | X X X | - - - | Nutrition: X X X X X | X X - X - | X X X X X | - - - - - - Hobby: X X X X - | - X - - - | X X X X X | - - - - - - *Goals for the next few days: - Finish Level 1 Blender Tutorial; - Once again play my scheduled PS4 time; - Update on Day 3/Wednesday

you helped a friend study, i wouldnt call that being lazy

Their loss. Sometimes i'm surprised what some companies ask even for entry-level/starter positions. They expected everyone to have super high level skills even when they just got out of school.

Week 3, Day 1 & 2 Monday was a nice productive day, had a good workout and a good filled afternoon without distractions. In the evening i continued my tutorial in Blender, which hit a little bit of a ditch. The program froze a few times while i was trying to move something in Blender, could be that my laptop isnt powerful enough (which can be a possibility since its also 2 years old and not the highest spec) but i will see it tomorrow/today when i try it again. If it ends up that my laptop isnt powerful enough i'll probably look into a other drawing program (perhaps 2D instead of 3D) and learn/create art with that. On day 2 i spent some time with my PS4 instead of my Xbox, i'm mostly a Xbox Gamer but i kept lookin at my PS4 lately and i wanted to put more time in there to finish the games i still have lying around. So like the routine type of guy i am i scheduled a couple of hours every few days so i can finish those games. And it felt so nice, playing Nier Automata and i forgot what a good game it is. Only downside is that i'm really invested again in Destiny 2 so i am easily convinced by a good friend to switch to that and game with him... Progress: Workouts: X X X X | X X - X | X - - | - - - | Nutrition: X X X X X | X X - X - | X X - - - - | - - - - - - Hobby: X X X X - | - X - - - | X X - - - - | - - - - - - *Goal for the next few days: - Test Blender again, if it doesnt work trouble shoot the web for help. If there's no solution except "get a better PC" look into 2D drawing programs - Spend the hours on the PS4 that i scheduled - Update here on Day 4 (Thursday)

If one person can make something badass as this: Its gonna take a long while for me to do it but in the words of Shia LaBeouf

If your breakfast/lunch is in a package with a barcode you can scan it with MyFitnessPal and it will automatically put everything in. Makes it a whole lot easier to track stuff. OH NO! Good luck at your GP and i hope this was something "small".

Okay, last week was bad to track my stuff here. I am just bad at journaling so for the rest of the weeks i'm putting down a checklist and will write atleast 1 sentence to tell you guys how the day was. But first......last weeks progress (a bit more extensive): Week 2 Update: This week wasnt a good one. The meals i made were really small and i didnt get close to my maintain calories, bought more snacks & food when i should be fasting. So not a great week nutrition wise. Workout wise it went oke, i did my workouts and decided to change from 4 days a week to 3 days a week in a full body setup (something i used to do before which i always enjoyed). Doing this will help me aswell in making sure i keep doing my cleaning and gives me a bit more free time which i missed with doing the 4 times a week workout plan. Week 2 wasnt a total loss, in the evenings i'm reading through a lore book from Destiny 2 (my favorite game) and in there is a "300 Spartan" type story which stuck with me since the day i read it. So much i download Blender (a 3D drawing/animation program) and going through a tutorial now so i can recreate the art in 3D and perhaps this year make a short 30 second animation from it. I'm following a good tutorial to learn the basics and i'm really excited about it So that was week 2 , a lot of downs but also some changes to make the next weeks better. Progress: Workouts: X X X X | X X - X | - - - | - - - | Nutrition: X X X X X | X X - X - | - - - - - | - - - - - Hobby: X X X X - | - X - - - | - - - - - | - - - - -

Probably 2 or 3 more. So not too crazy and then the rest of the achievements are collecting stuff. Hopefully i can get through those in a week after this farming achievement.

Day 2 till Day 5. Oh yeah i need to update this The last few days went well, had some good rest days and played a bunch of Destiny 2. On day 2 i went to the gym and did some overhead presses, dips & chin-ups. I wanted to go yesterday to the gym but i felt so tired from my nightshift so i skipped it. Today i wasnt really feeling it, BUT i decided to go and do a quick one. Did Deadlifts 2x5 & Bench Press 2x8 and called it. Head home, shower & put on comfy clothes cause i dont have to leave the house anymore today. All the days i did my cleaning stuff. alternating every day and everything is nice & clean in my apartment Also made some progress with Darksiders Remastered. There's a achievement im working on were i have to get weapon xp and there's a great farming spot, but its a bit boring. so i only do it for 30 minutes or so. Ordering food goes oke. I'm curious how i will fare on fridays & saturdays when i'm in total relax mode. Eating my apple goes well, usually take it a bit before i prepare my dinner. So far these first few days are going oke. Been trying to track as much as possible on MFP to get a good idea of how much i eat and help me makes good decisions for future meals.

Week 1, Day 1 Woke up nice on time after the first night shift of 2020 and ready to start a new challenge and start working on myself. After my morning routine (coffee & reading) i grabbed my gym bag, put on my Overwatch Reinhardt shirt and headed to the gym. It was a long break since my last workout so i decided to go with 3x5 on Squat and tried to find a good weight. Ended up with 100 kgs for 3x5. Felt good and after that i did some leg presses & leg extensions. Went to the store to buy some meal containers but they didnt have the size i needed so i'll have to buy some later this week. Got home turned on the oven to warm-up my home made burrito's and took a quick shower. With my burrito i took my apple (which was tasty and i forgot how nice a apple was to eat) . Cleaning went well & fast. Today was the toilets turn & i felt a tiny bit sick from the cleaning spray but it wasnt too bad. After that i played an hour or so of Darksiders Warmastered on my Xbox One and grinded some xp for one of the achievements. So overall i had a good strong first day. Now i have to keep this going until the end of the challenge

I missed all your faces! ❤️ Its a great idea @WhiteGhost cause "a apple a day keeps the doctor away"

When those day's arrive they are the best, together on the couch watching shows and relaxing and letting that hangover pass Same, messages go so freakin fast and when i get get to add something to the conversation, everyone is already done with talking about it

Great sentence Following!

Loving everything in this challenge! Following and lets make 2020 a great year!

Hey everyone! Respawning again now in 2020. Maybe you remember me, if not here's a rundown: joined NFR a few years back and did some great challenges where i saw a lot of changes. Until i got to a point where i thought i had it down and stopped the challenges, it went well for a bit but i slowly slipped up. Tried a few times to get back into these challenges but ended up stopping half-way through the challenge (not sure why i stopped). But that time has passed, last year i made some changes and i want to improve those changes in the new year. Seeing as this is the first challenge of 2020 & the new decade i decided to start simple. Also thanks to those "Back to Basics" emails from Steve Fitness: Strength train 4 movements a week; The focus is to get stronger with Bench Press, Overhead Press, Deadlift & Squat. And rather than call it "4 times a week" and put pressure on me i went with this. The focus for now isnt to go 4 times a week, its to get stronger. Health: No ordering food & a apple a day The focus is to get back to the rhythm of making food i enjoy and not spend a lot of money on ordering food. The apple a day is to get more fruit in me. Hobby/Life: Other stuff i want to get back into routine - Cleaning every day as soon as i get home; used to do a Pomodoro Routine (10 min work, 5 min clean) every day to clean everything up. It used to work, but at a certain moment i got into cleaning up as part of my evening routine. And when that started i stopped using the Pomodoro method and stopped cleaning the big stuff on a regular basis. So as soon as i get home its doing on of these 3: vacuuming & mopping the floor, cleaning the toilet, cleaning the shower. - 100% Darksiders Remastered; i used to complete 1 game every month & want to get back into that. So i planned out a few hours each week to focus on this game. Can't wait to start and get back into shape & routine.

Week 2 update. I'm gonna keep this short, night shifts are tough to record. Doesn't feel right to type something out before heading to work and don't have energy to type something out after work (i just want to get to bed and sleep before the sun rises). - Got 3 workouts in YAY - Did 0 Yoga workouts NO!! I noticed if i do them immediatly when i wake up im yawning a lot and not focused, i tried doing them after my coffee but by that moment i'm in total "get ready to workout" mode and i skip them. - Went out for dinner with my parents on Friday and on Saturday i made something but it had coconut milk and just the smell made me want to gag and the taste wasnt great. But the stores were closed by this time so i ended up ordering some food. so MEH for these goals - Ordered food once, reason above. so NO!! - Got some medallions completed for the 100% and i should write down the amount of stuff i need to do to keep it easier to track. but progress is going steady so YAY

Sort of the same as last week. My biggest goals/tasks for this week are: - Getting my bicycle to the shop for a check-up - Get new profile pictures taken for my driving license and re-new it. And i’m going to try out Intermittent Fasting. And look into some nutrition stuff about it.

Its going to be REALLY interesting!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woeps missed a few days lets catch up: Week 1, Day 4 till Day 7 Day 4 was another rest day. Rest days are my LEGIT rest days, bought some stuff at the grocery store so i could make burrito's and made a couple of those for the evening and kept a few as a snack the next day after work. Day 5 was supposed to be a workout day, but in the morning i saw what the weather was going to be and it was TERRIBLE!!! A lot of rain and strong winds, so i opted to skip the gym on this day and instead do it on Day 6. However.... i was going to drink some beers with a buddy of mine on Saturday but he asked if we could do it on Friday instead, sure no problem with me. So i had a fun evening with a good buddy of mine. Drinking some beers, talking about life & a lot about video games in particular Destiny 2 (which has a new DLC coming out in October which i am exciting for). (Day 6) Woke up the next day with some headache from the beer and that started to get me in a full relax & do nothing mood. Its been a while since i drank a lot of beer (we went from 8pm till 2am and we had special beer so it also kicks a punch) and i forgot that i can get a headache from it. Took a cold shower and drank A LOT of water. But i ordered some fast food instead of making my own food. -1 on goal!! Halfway through the afternoon the headache was gone and in the evning after my fast food dinner i chilled on the couch and did a good old "anime & chill" evening, with water instead of beer. It was a good evening, finally caught up to My Hero Academia and just in time for Season 4 to start. Yesterday (Day 7) i woke up wayyyyy too early since i had to go in my nightshift. But i had a productive morning; Read my book with some coffee, did some laundry, looked through some articles on Nerdfitness and got some interest in Intermittent Fasting after reading the article. Going to read up on it and perhaps try a day out. Wooh thats a lot of catching up. Fitness: - Workout: X X - | - - - | - - - | - - - - Yoga: X X X X X X X | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | Nutrition: - Home made food: X X X X X ! X | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - NO ORDERING FOOD: X X X X X ! X | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | Hobby: Practiced a little bit more, its a toughy for the speed trophies

Well for starters my showers are WAYYYY shorter i feel awake and energized after it and that really helps when i take one after my morning shifts (normally im lazy and tired after them), my skin feels & looks not as dry as when i had a hot shower. And i'm not sure yet....but i think i lost some bodyfat thanks to the cold showers. Last week i had some fast food most of the days so i wasnt expecting to have lost 1,5% bodyfat.

Week 1, Day 2 Today was a rest day, so i relaxed at home with a bit of gaming and i layed down on the couch and i fell asleep and woke up at 7pm. And immediatly thought: "yay, getting to sleep is gonna be great tonight". Didnt stream like i had planned but perhaps i will do it on Thursday.. who knows And thats all that happened on Day 2 Week 1, Day 3 Woke up pretty good after having trouble to get to sleep. Looked at the Yoga program for the day and it was 5 minutes of meditation...well let me tell you if i would have sit down and meditate with my eyes closed i would have fallen asleep again. So i did the same routine as Day 1. After work i went to the gym and this time i didnt forget to bring my gym shorts And got a decent workout in. some squats, deadlifts, dips, push-ups & inverted rows. Gym done and went home, took a cold shower (and i just realized i havent taken a warm/hot shower in 2 weeks, only cold showers by choice). And relaxed on the couch with some games. Tried to do a few Speed Trophies in Rayman Origins but some of those are hard. And that pretty much sums up Day 3. Fitness: - Workout: X X - | - - - | - - - | - - - - Yoga: X X X - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | Nutrition: - Home made food: X X X - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - NO ORDERING FOOD: X X X - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - | Hobby: Learned a level a bit better so i can give a good attempt to get the speed trophy for that specific level.

In a way it is, less rest more sweat. Depends, its one or the other. I wont read and watch the show, i will switch if the show is getting stale with a lot of fillers. Like i watched Naruto until the fight against Tobi and continued reading it. I read Shield Hero and didnt watch it except for short clips to see how some parts differ from the manga. I decided to watch My Hero Academia when i saw a "You Say Run goes with Everything" video on youtube.