thewritescott

I travel for a living. I'll be in the DC area Nov 3 - 12, then Quantico, Va for the next week after that.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've found it helpful in my quest for handstands. Steve posted it as part of NF bodyweight month recently. https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2016/10/17/a-beginners-guide-to-handstands/?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_term=handstand-guide&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=blog Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

I'm very interested in how this respawn works out. I'd like to offer up a long term perspective. You have a goal of fitting into the dress. That's great. Sounds like you're taking some healthy steps to get there. Adding vegetables. Watching intake. Building muscle. Good on you. I'd encourage you to look beyond the wedding day. This is your 1000th respawn? Man. I know the feeling. I don't want to keep getting to a certain point and then going back to where I was. Neither, I suspect, do you. Your wedding day is a new beginning. Wherever you find yourself that day... in this dress, in this dress with slight alterations or in a new dress because you lost too much weight ;-) look at that day as a fresh start as well. As you move towards your goal, make the changes to your lifestyle ones you can continue on. Probably you won't keep the calorie intake as low. But you'll want to keep the vegetables, eat more protein, and limit (though not eliminate entirely) the empty calories. Keep building muscle. And move from appearance as a goal, to appearance as a side effect of fitness. Then, years from now you'll have a great story about your dress. And you won't have to wonder how you ever fit into it. Keep us posted. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

Great advice, Dan. My current hotel has an accessible tree they're letting me use for the rings. That's not always good to be the case, of course. I can do 10 pull-ups in a row on a bar. Not sure how many on the rings yet, but I doubt it's that high. Yesterday I did 5 in a row to start. Managed 50 pull ups total through the 30 minute bodyweight workout. A high pull up is beyond me at the moment. So I need more strength. And I've been working on dips for a while. Good thing too. I've managed exactly one ring dip. It's surprising how much harder it is. I spent some time holding the start position yesterday, and that alone made my triceps feel pumped. Loving them so far. Good to know the ringed muscle-up is easier, since that's one of my goals. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

Just bought my first set of rings from amazon. Been thinking about doing it since this thread. Steve's email today was the tipping point. They're coming straight to the hotel too. Can't wait for Wednesday. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

I was gone for about 2 years. Wish I'd respawned earlier Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

Hmm. That sounds intriguing. Looks like I'm be visiting a sports store soon. Thanks. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

If anyone has advice, I'll welcome it. I don't have a question really. I'm just thinking through my goals vs the obstacles. I travel. A lot. Currently, I'm near the end of a 4 week trip, spent in 3 different hotels. My favorite exercises are pull-ups and swimming, both of which can be challenging on the road. One of my goals is to be able to do muscle-ups. Long story, back in the day I managed a kipping muscle-up, but I want to do them for real. Here's the dilemma. I can't bring my Pull-up bar on the road. There's often not a real option to do the real thing. Sometimes, I'll use a door in my hotel room if it's sturdy enough to get a few in, but it's not really conducive to a workout. I gravitate towards bodyweight workouts, suplimented with swimming and some free weights. When I'm home, once a week I do the 300 workout. (Disclaimer: I only just got to where I could do it again. So I've actually only done it when I'm home once in the last 5 weeks.) Anyway, I'm weak with dips, so I'm working on those. And, since most hotel gyms have a treadmill, dumbells, and an elliptical, I've learned (and fallen in love with) dumbbell workouts for upper and lower body. I do tabata on the elliptical, sprints on the treadmill, and once a week, a 10 minute mile on the treadmill. It's working for me, but I don't want to loose my progress towards more pull ups and eventually- muscle-ups. In my room I'll do pushups variations too. There. Like I said, not a question, but I'd love to hear others thoughts. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

Good to know. I did P90X years ago. Pretty much anything I know about throwing boxing punches is from that. I'll start with shadow boxing and grab some tape. Are the gloves more for actual boxing? So you don't do as much damage? And the tape to protect your wrists? Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

Thanks. This is one of my 60 hour work weeks with travel. I'm so tired by the end of the day, it's all I can do to get my work out in. Next week I'll start my keen research if I don't get an answer. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

My gym has a boxing bag. I've been strongly tempted to give it a whack. But I'm mystified at what to get. Do I need tape? For workouts, does it matter what gloves? I'm sure some well placed Google searches will help with this, but I'd love to hear from anyone here that works out with a bag. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

I've been rocking out to Evanescence's "Fallen" album. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

Before: Two-ish years ago I was in the best shape of my life. My body fat was in the low teens. I ate well, worked out 6-7 days a week, and mixed things up with swimming, callisthenics, and free weights. What happened: I hit the wall. Pretty sure I was over training and not resting enough. I was already loosing ground on my workouts, when Thanksgiving came around. I ate everything, decided to take a week break from fitness and healthy eating. I never got back. Eventually I took a job that had me travelling the majority of the time and my habits got worse. Low point: I found myself in the same shape as before. A stomach so big I couldn't tuck my shirt in. Super high blood pressure. I was convinced I'd end up alone having a stroke or heart attack in a hotel room. The change: I took the Nerd Fitness approach. I began with small changes. Cutting out one bad habit. Adding another. Beginning exercises. When I finally cut sugar out of my coffee, it was a turning point. That's been a few months now. My stomach size has gone down by more than half. I can see my muscles again. I can move like before. My blood pressure is normal. Just this Saturday I completed the 300 workout again. I'm taking a better approach to fitness. Not avoiding the things I'm bad at (like dips and stretches) and making sure my body gets rest. Tomorrow: I don't know. Making progress for sure. A goal I never reached before was unassisted handstand push-ups. That's an outside goal. But I feel like I need to do something else along the way. I definitely still need to lower my body fat percentage. Haven't measured it but the eyeball test tells me I'm in the low 20s. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

I'm in search of a new artifact. I'm finally back into fitness after gaining way too much body fat. And this past Saturday I finally met my first goal, being able to complete the 300 workout in 30 minutes again. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

8000 as of yesterday. Disclaimer.... all the words have been on those short story commitments I mentioned. The awesome part- 3000 of those words came yesterday, while staring at a deadline for a contest I was entering. *cracks knuckles* Back to writing.