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Hi spezzy! I totally fell in love with the drawings... Will you post more? <3 And the 405lb deadlift video :: WOW! I'll be cheering on your journey! And hope your wrist will heal in no time!

Just answered on my challenge thread!

MINI QUEST Time! #1. Make sure your goals are definitely SMART. For completing this mini quest you will receive an additional +1WIS at the end of the 6 weeks. S = Specific M = Measurable A = Attainable/Achievable R = Realistic/Reasonable T = Timeous 1. Is your overall quest achievable (over a short or long period of time)? Is it reasonable? [AR]My mission is to be comfortable with my own bodyweight and to upgrade my marriage life. I've never exercise routinely before. I think 6 weeks during this challenge will give me enough time to achieve the comfortable feeling, provided that I follow my own schedule to exercise. About upgrading the marriage life, I'm aware that there are certain things being problems in our home. I'd like to take a first step to solve the problem, and I'm certain it will leads to better daily life and relationship between us. 2. Do your 3 quests all build towards your main quest in little ways, or are you taking on too much? Do your quests have sub-quests or is it just one thing to focus on? This time, I picked YAYOG as the main routine, and adding push-up & pull-up training on the side. I also try to cook more often than before (which is nearly zero). I think they will contribute to my mission greatly. For now, my focus is only on the quests. 3. Are your main goals realistic? Can you scale them to smaller steps to fit your life better, even if it will make it take a little longer to achieve them? [R]I think they are realistic enough, because I'm just started to do things like push-ups and pull-ups, and during this challenge I'd like to see what I can do to be closer to the goal. That's why I didn't set a specific goal such as "being able to do a jacknife pull up" for this time; I'll do that when I'm more certain of what my body can do. 4. Are your goals able to be measured and tracked? What will you use to track them? [M]Yes. I'm using YAYOG app to track YAYOG progress, and there is also a dedicated PVP thread for it. For other quests, I'm only using notes. 5. How are you grading your goals? Are they pass/fail (“every dayâ€, “not even once over the six weeksâ€)? Is there a reward for the effort, or are you only grading yourself on whether or not you “lose the weight†or “run the distanceâ€? [M]I have certain numbers to be achieved weekly. The reward is... hmm, for now, it's personal satisfaction :] 6. What is your plan for continuing/altering/grading those goals if you become ill or injured? [A]Hmm... good question. I can alter YAYOG sessions to fit my condition, and I think push-up & pull-up training also can be modified too, and I should still be able to cook something unless I can't get up from the bed, so.. I think they're still doable. 7. Did you take into consideration any special occasions (Labour Day, Independence Day, birthdays, anniversaries, etc) that may occur during the challenge? What modifications do you need to build into your goals for those? [R]YAYOG schedule is flexible. For push-up & pull-up training, I give myself 2 days break per week. Cooking 3x in a week should still be doable. I just need to plan my week ahead in case of any special occasions 8. Do any of your main goals conflict with each other? Will one goal make it hard to do another? No, they're in harmony! Haha 9. Do you already have the time in your schedule to actually complete the goals you’ve set? If not, what are you planning to do to make time for them? [T]I think I'm okay with time. So far, I prefer to do YAYOG early in the morning, and push-pull training before going to bed. Cooking is flexible, anytime I feel like it 10. Are you trying to build multiple habits, or is all your energy focused on your main quest? [A]I have other things I want to achieve, but for this challenge, I'm focusing on my main quest. Conclusion: I think my missions/goals/quests are SMART enough!

Yeah, I thought the same thing... Already changed

Okay I tried to make one, your comment please! YAYOG PROGRESS SPREADSHEET http://goo.gl/T1zHd7

I'm trying to make a gdocs spreadsheet as we talk. Maybe people can see it and then we can add/remove things as we go?

I agree with a shared spreadsheet. It get the load off cn3wton alone to monitor people's progress, and anyone can enter theirs How about we construct it together? I'd imagine that the 1st sheet will be the Ladder (Week 1 to 10) in columns, and people can write their name in the column as they progress further. Maybe include the date too, when he perform 1st exercise of a week. So.. SHEET 1: Weekly Progress Col 1. No (number) Col 2. Week 1 Row 2. name1 (date) Row 3. name2 (date) etc Col 3. Week 2 Row 2. name1 (date) ...etc Then, separate sheet(s) to write progress of each day (is this necessary, though?) SHEET 2: DAILY PROGRESS, WEEK 1 No. | Name | Date | Day #1| ...etc ...I need a paper & pen and sit down to think about this, brb

Challenge Progress: Week 1 (Recap) Monday : --- Tuesday : - Q1. YAYOG W1D4 (week 1 day 4): 25 side lunges, 27 ORDL, 48 squat 1s or 2s hold, 82 russian twist. - Q2. Pull up training: hanging 5 x 10s, assisted pull up 1x5, hang till drop 30s. - LQ. Declutter the batcave #1: re-categorizing my baby's clothes. Wednesday : - Q2. Push up training: wall push up (85cm distance) 4x10. - LQ. Declutter the batcave #1: packing unused baby clothes. Thursday : - Q2. Pull up training: hanging 5 x 15s, assisted pull up 5x5 - Q3. Cooking: tried two new recipes from a Japanese recipe book. Friday : - Q1. YAYOG W2D1: 58 inclined push up (waist-height), 46 LMI, 40 seated dips, 36 LMU. Saturday : - Q1. YAYOG W2D2: 36 back lunges, 28 ORDL, 43 squats 2s hold, 45 swimmers. - Q2. Push up training: waist-height 1x10, then hip-height 3x5. - Q2. Pull up training: hanging 4 x 25s (couldn't finished 5th rep...), assisted pull up 1x5 then 3x10. - LQ. Declutter the batcave #2: changing old computer table to new study table, categorizing books. Sunday : - Q1. YAYOG W2D3: 40 incline push up (waist-height 80cm), 55 LMI, 46 seated dips, 40 LMU. - Q3. Cooking: I cooked for breakfast and lunch, so it counted as two, yay ;-D - LQ. Declutter the batcave #2: finished categorizing books and rearranging book shelves. Pfuuh! ==========Overall.. I did 4/4 YAYOG sessions, 4/5 push-up/pull-up training sessions, cooked 3/3 times, and 4 sessions of house-reorganizing (WOW!) Week 1 quests, 100% 93.33% completed~

Thanks~~~ Thank you for the warm greeting! I'm glad I can keep the spirit on this first week! He he, still a lot to do here~ Thanks, I'll be cheering on yours too! I really want to see my hubby start exercising, but I don't wanna nag him too much or else he won't do it at all ^^;;

I just completed day 8 (W2D4) of YAYOG Basic program... 36 more days (8 weeks) to go! Today's workout: 28 side lunges (still hard..), 28 ORDL, 46 squats 2s hold, 91 russian twists. About side lunges --> how deep should you go? When I did it just now, I thought of it as a side squat I went deep beyond parallel and as a result I came back up sllloww. That's why my reps are still below targets As a recap of my progress over the past 2 weeks: W1D1: 66 incline push up (wall), 63 LMI, 63 seated dips, 51 LMU. (generally bad form!) W1D2: 33 back lunges, 21 ORDL, 40 squat, 40 swimmers. W1D3: 40 incline push up (wall distance 85cm), 60 LMI, 40 seated dips, 46 LMU. (paid more attention to form) W1D4: 25 side lunges, 27 ORDL, 48 squat 1s or 2s hold, 82 russian twist. W2D1: 58 incline push up (waist-height distance 75cm), 46 LMI, 40 seated dips, 36 LMU. W2D2: 36 back lunges, 28 ORDL, 43 squats 2s hold, 45 swimmers. W2D3: 40 incline push up (waist-height distance 80cm), 55 LMI, 46 seated dips, 40 LMU. W2D4: 28 side lunges, 28 ORDL, 46 squats 2s hold, 91 russian twists. Overall - the improvement can be seen, even only slightly ;-) Done with 2 weeks of ladders training - Week 3 will be interval training! Bring it on!!! o(^_-)O

I just completed day 7 (W2D3) of the YAYOG Basic program... 37 more days to go! Today's workout: 40 counter pushup (distance 80cm, +5cm from yesterday, left me breathless!), 55 LMI, 46 seated dips, 40 LMU (still can't touch the bar...).

Hello! I'm subbing to your thread bcoz I want to progress in pull up too. I'll definitely check the startbodyweight.. link you posted up there! On you pre-game thread, I saw that you're already doing YAYOG intermediate! I'm still on Week 2 of YAYOG novice /o\ it'll be quite a long time to get to your level - but then I'm only working on my fitness for just one month, so... patience is the virtue! Stay strong and do the yoga (next week)~

I just got into Assassins guild! Yayy~ Blaidd moved my thread here, since I have completed half-challenge last time, although I'm still at Level 0.5 ha ha. Assassin seniors, I'm hoping for your guidance along the way m(_ _)m

Have I told you that I'm subbing your thread? ;-) Keep going strong, YAYOG fella!

Mmmm aren't them yummy ;-D Oooh kagoshima - kyushu! I haven't been there - only went to Fukuoka for visiting my senpai two years ago... And hadn't got time to play in the city, at that time. I'd like to see more at kyushu someday..

What is that awesome app you are using?? I must know! *app enthusiast here!*

Hello Wufkar First time I go to Warrior thread just for finding you - thanks a lot for checking my form a while ago! Although, it'll be in the quite far future that I try lifting again... 65 squats in the not-feeling-so-well day, that's bigger number than my fit days O.o I hope you'll get better soon!

Hey Starpuck-- just found your thread when loitering around Assassins challenge thread I'm subbing in! Ouch ouch ouchhhh all the DOMS talk made me cringe >,< But then, aren't we all embracing that pain dearly? *joooking lol*

Hello Red! 20 pull ups so awesome /o\ I'm subbing to your thread~

Hey, I found a studying-abroad-in-Japan friend! Where are you? I'm at Hiroshima. This is my 3rd year here Subbing to your thread to follow you along~

Hello guys! I originally wanted to join T2SC accountabilibuddies; too bad IRL caugt her ^^; I noticed some of YAYOG fellas here too, so can I join this group? Here's my 1.5th challenge http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/topic/54273-d3li9hts-15th-challenge-walking-that-lonely-but-awesome-path/ *introduction* I'm a 27 yo mother & graduate student, been studying abroad in Japan for 5 years. I don't have any target for weight loss (just need to make sure I won't gain too much) but generally I want to live more healthy and do exercise regularly. I stumbled on NF when searching on how to do a "right exercise" (methods, goals, and such); lurked on the forum for two days, and jumped right on to my first half-challenge The encouragements are really strong here! If you're interested to take a peek on my first challenge, the link is on my signature ^^ Ok, looking forward to meet other group members in their thread! Cheers for you all! *edit* Adding the Gamer part! I don't do many games, and the ones I do, most people tend to not knowing/doing them. Haha. I played Harvest Moons :: SNES, GB1, GBA, the original PS1 "Back to Nature" (only several times at my friend's place), "Friends of Mineral Town" (forgot the original console was), and finally the Wii version "Animal Parade". All of them I played using PC, ha ha. Other than Harvest Moon, I also plays Nancy Drew PC games; I just love RPG & detective! I got hooked with Harvest Moon on high school and became a fan ever since. On iPhone, I played Hay Day for almost two years, then Puzzle & Dragons (hardcore player!) for around 9 months before deciding to quit for good. Nowadays I don't do much gaming anymore as life catching up with uni stuffs & family stuffs - plus I got hooked to NF and get busy learning all things related to fitness! ^^

Challenge Progress: Week 1 Monday : --- Tuesday : - Q1. YAYOG W1D4 (week 1 day 4): 25 side lunges, 27 ORDL, 48 squat 1s or 2s hold, 82 russian twist. - Q2. Pull up training: hanging 5 x 10s, assisted pull up 1x5, hang till drop 30s. - LQ. Declutter the batcave #1: re-categorizing my baby's clothes. Wednesday : - Q2. Push up training: wall push up (85cm distance) 4x10. - LQ. Declutter the batcave #1: packing unused baby clothes. Thursday : - Q2. Pull up training: hanging 5 x 15s, assisted pull up 5x5 - Q3. Cooking: tried two new recipes from a Japanese recipe book. Friday : - Q1. YAYOG W2D1: 58 inclined push up (waist-height), 46 LMI, 40 seated dips, 36 LMU. Saturday : - Q1. YAYOG W2D2: 36 back lunges, 28 ORDL, 43 squats 2s hold, 45 swimmers. - Q2. Push up training: waist-height 1x10, then hip-height 3x5. - Q2. Pull up training: hanging 4 x 25s (couldn't finished 5th rep...), assisted pull up 1x5 then 3x10. - LQ. Declutter the batcave #2: changing old computer table to new study table, categorizing books. Sunday : ========== Woke up feeling energized today and did YAYOG session first before anything else! Push up & pull up training was done before going to bed. Actually I was already lying in bed with phone at hand browsing aimlessly, thinking that maybe I'll just do the training next day... But that feeling kept nagging in the back of my mind -- I'm curious of my own limit; I just had to get out of the bed and find out! I just realized a small mistake; yesterday I was attempting waist-height instead of hip-height inclined push up, using the deep freezer. So, today I tried push up on the kitchen counter, and found out that I could not get more than 5 reps in a set ^^;Moreover, my chest can only touch the counter (meaning: good form) if I stood at the distance of 75cm. I tried to step back further to 85cm just like when I did waist-height push up yesterday, but I couldn't lower my body enough to touch the kitchen counter. Well, one small thing to achieve before going even lower! For the pull up training, last time I did 15s hanging, so today I attempted 25s. Sure enough it left me a little breathless. And I couldn't finish the last rep because my hands kept slipping off the bar before 25 seconds Yesterday I consulted some Rebels on the NF chat about progressing on pull up training (Thanks a lot Red1263, Fizban, PhotoBrandon, BenWo!). I was advised to find my max rep and increase it as further step. Last time I did assisted pull ups 5 sets of 5 reps, so this time I tried to do 10 reps. And the result was... I couldn't make it to 10 reps consecutively - I had to lower the other leg on the ground on 7th rep, and took several seconds to catch my breath on the next reps, and I couldn't do the 11th rep ^^; So I think 10 is my max rep at the moment. The baby steps might be small, but surely they will get me there... -- almost forget, today I did some Life Quest too! Received a big study table from a friend to replace my feeble computer table; it also has shelves for books and even printer! So I moved things over to the new table and decided to recategorizing my books along the way too (still halfway done though). I want to put the books I'm planning to read/study from on the study table shelves, and will be rotating them with the rest of books on the old shelves. Feelin' productive, yay!

Um... I don't think I get what you mean... I'm doing LMU from the floor; how do I do that while standing? YAYOG progress: Finished W2D2 early in the morning. Today's workout: 36 back lunges, 28 ORDL, 43 squats 2s hold, ------> ...am I supposed to hold them or just go slow? 45 swimmers. Feels great to exercise in the morning! And as the day progressed, I started feeling them in my legs... >,<

Lol, all of your cats! Maybe the cats thought you're playing a new game with them ;-D Anyone have suggestion on how to improve let-me-ups? I can't reach the bar with my chest yet; it seems still quite faraway... What do I need to do additionally to increase my strength so I can do the right form of LMU? cn3wton, I'll be waiting for your post! I haven't done any interval training before, so I wanna make sure I'll do it right

Hello guys, I think I just found my inspiration! http://youtu.be/qgAdBr-3opU Thanks for posting about Granma Johanna earlier! Gotta keep up with my YAYOG routines first~