Good day, all! I'm Kara. I've been following the fitness emails for a lil' while. I joined out of sheer enthusiasm at the general awesomeness in making exercise pop-culture. But life circumstances have shot me in leg(knee! *runs*) a few too many times now. So Here I am! Online forums are social jump for me, but I'll do my best. I'm hoping that by becoming as active as possible on here, and I can perhaps find people who can offer advice, motivation and encouragement. In time I'll definitely want to return that energy, this seems to be a very honest and caring community. This isn't going to be my first journey for physical health And I do apologize for the lengthy post! For me, this is the beginning to an old tale. My fitness journey (I've tried to keep it brief)~ 2009-2010 I began exercising age 15. The parentals bought a Wii-Fit, and I began to take it very seriously. Struggling with self-esteem and being rather overweight, my 5 minute jog-on-the-spot was exhausting to begin with. In one year (exactly), I lost about 10kg. 2010-2011 ...and then I plateaued. But I was able to run 2km easily, ride my bike to school and back (a 20km round trip) and was getting pretty darn fit. 2011-2012 Parents got me the best thing ever - a gym membership. By mid 2012 I was lifting 40kg on the benchpress no problem. I'd picked up Gymnastics and Crossfit (on top of farm work and Fencing) I was flatlining at 58kg, but it was ok. I was tank. All of this combined led to severely straining my knees. I learned a valuable lesson about over-training. I had to stop everything. 2012- 2013 I moved away from home to study, and suddenly had no time or funds (I LOVE gyms) to regularly exercise. I couldn't run or jog because my knees, despite endless physio, would protest painfully. Ended up diagnosed PTSD and the whole mental illness shabang mid 2013 and lost motivation. Throughout all that I lost fitness but didn't gain any serious weight. 2013-2014 Things were really looking up! But~ I've now recently been diagnosed with a prolactinoma (a benign brain tumour which releases the prolactin hormone), I've suddenly flown up 10kg. The medication to treat this, called Dostinex, has had a field day with side effects. I'm lethargic, dizzy, unable to focus and continuing to gain weight. I eat healthy enough, and walk most days on top of Gymming whenever I am able to. (2x a week minimum at the mo) I'm third year at University and struggling just a bit to keep up. My Current Stats: Height: 167cm Weight: 69kg Fitness Level: Average Pushup Level: 10 on-toes Knee Capability: Soft jog-walk over half an hour. Energy: Critically Low Goals (date TBC): Height: -same, tehe- Weight: 58kgs Fitness Level: Tank Pushup Level: 35 (my old limit) Knee Capability: Jog-sprint-walk over half an hour. Energy: Medium - High. Did a lookup on the Guilds. I think I fall into the Warrior/ Assassin group. I love weight training and would love to be able to get back into Gymnastics again. You might say I feel a bit like good ole' Link. Went forward 7 years, got all tank.. went back. Not so tank. I'm sure some folks have seen the awesomely inappropriate animations going in depth about this. (Youtube, go!) If you made it this far, thankyou so much for taking the time to read. I really look forward to being a part of this community!
Good day, all! I'm Kara. I've been following the fitness emails for a lil' while. I joined out of sheer enthusiasm at the general awesomeness in making exercise pop-culture. But life circumstances have shot me in leg(knee! *runs*) a few too many times now. So Here I am! Online forums are social jump for me, but I'll do my best. I'm hoping that by becoming as active as possible on here, and I can perhaps find people who can offer advice, motivation and encouragement. In time I'll definitely want to return that energy, this seems to be a very honest and caring community. This isn't going to be my first journey for physical health And I do apologize for the lengthy post! For me, this is the beginning to an old tale. My fitness journey (I've tried to keep it brief)~ 2009-2010 I began exercising age 15. The parentals bought a Wii-Fit, and I began to take it very seriously. Struggling with self-esteem and being rather overweight, my 5 minute jog-on-the-spot was exhausting to begin with. In one year (exactly), I lost about 10kg. 2010-2011 ...and then I plateaued. But I was able to run 2km easily, ride my bike to school and back (a 20km round trip) and was getting pretty darn fit. 2011-2012 Parents got me the best thing ever - a gym membership. By mid 2012 I was lifting 40kg on the benchpress no problem. I'd picked up Gymnastics and Crossfit (on top of farm work and Fencing) I was flatlining at 58kg, but it was ok. I was tank. All of this combined led to severely straining my knees. I learned a valuable lesson about over-training. I had to stop everything. 2012- 2013 I moved away from home to study, and suddenly had no time or funds (I LOVE gyms) to regularly exercise. I couldn't run or jog because my knees, despite endless physio, would protest painfully. Ended up diagnosed PTSD and the whole mental illness shabang mid 2013 and lost motivation. Throughout all that I lost fitness but didn't gain any serious weight. 2013-2014 Things were really looking up! But~ I've now recently been diagnosed with a prolactinoma (a benign brain tumour which releases the prolactin hormone), I've suddenly flown up 10kg. The medication to treat this, called Dostinex, has had a field day with side effects. I'm lethargic, dizzy, unable to focus and continuing to gain weight. I eat healthy enough, and walk most days on top of Gymming whenever I am able to. (2x a week minimum at the mo) I'm third year at University and struggling just a bit to keep up. My Current Stats: Height: 167cm Weight: 69kg Fitness Level: Average Pushup Level: 10 on-toes Knee Capability: Soft jog-walk over half an hour. Energy: Critically Low Goals (date TBC): Height: -same, tehe- Weight: 58kgs Fitness Level: Tank Pushup Level: 35 (my old limit) Knee Capability: Jog-sprint-walk over half an hour. Energy: Medium - High. Did a lookup on the Guilds. I think I fall into the Warrior/ Assassin group. I love weight training and would love to be able to get back into Gymnastics again. You might say I feel a bit like good ole' Link. Went forward 7 years, got all tank.. went back. Not so tank. I'm sure some folks have seen the awesomely inappropriate animations going in depth about this. (Youtube, go!) If you made it this far, thankyou so much for taking the time to read. I really look forward to being a part of this community!