Iceburner

Hi back to you and thanks. Try to continue that way.

Thanks @Tateman . Had another leg workout today which was already harder than last week. I think I did too much danicing at the wedding on saturday. But the band was just too good

Well done!

And now I got the song stuck in my head

Sounds hard to focus on your goals with a schdeule like that.

Wow, kickboxing. Hell of a cardio training. Well done and go for it. Looks like you're on a good way with your challenge. You didn't score perfectly but when I take a closer look at the tasks you missed it seems to me that you need only a little more effort to reach those goals. I believe you can do it. If you exercise just one more time this week you will drink more automatically. Same goes for taking your multi-vitamin. There will be automatically one more glass. And boom, you turned three 'miss' into '**'.

You, sir, inspire me!

Hi, how is it going for you?

Hey Pollyanna, how are things going? How is/are the dog(s)?

CJ, what's up? Keep us in the loop what's going on. How are the parents and the toddler?

Schaengel, what's up? How's your progress?

You did good for a week where you were basically sick the whole time. Get completely well, get inspired by the incredible athletes at the Olympic Games and then get back on track.

Congratulations on a successful week. Sounds like you rocked it. Hope you will have as much fun doing archery as you did doing fencing. I did it (archery) once with my team from work and was surprised to find that is the first physical activity where do not suck initially. Additionally it was super fun! And yes, best archer: Robin Hood. (less unnecessary drama)

Congratulations on missing just one workout and being so disciplined on the other ones. Good luck on keeping it that way when you're abroad. I know it can be extra tough then. Don't worry about the scale. The body fat it measures is the one in the legs and I am not even sure that it does that correctly.

Recap of week 1 Subquest 1: To beat the Beast, become the Beast Goal: 6 days a week Done: 6 days a week Rating: A Comment: Nailed it! Even went to the hotel gym on Saturday where I did the legs workout. Subquest 2: Use skills and knowledge Goal: log the food Done: logged breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks every day Rating: A Comment: Logged everything, even all the food and drinks on the wedding on Saturday. When I was in doubt, I logged more. Total calorie count: 4663 kcal (Estimated on Wednesday: 'From the top of my head I predict a calorie intake on that day of 4600 kcal.') Subquest 3: If you don't know what to do, just punch him in the face Goal: Attend Martial Arts training twice a week Done: Wednesday and Thursday Rating: A Comment: So much fun when you realize you have at least 'some' skills after all this years of training. Life Goal: Level up Goal: Level up in Habitica to Lvl. 79 Done: Leveled up to Lvl. 79 already and I am close to Lvl. 80 Ratings: A Comment: Completely underestimated my progress on leveling in Habitica. Too be honest those exp points I got where mainly from habits and daily toDos than from the huge toDo list. So while I technically finished this subquest already I am not content with my progress on my toDos. So I'll add some key-toDos to my initial post. Summary: I totally rocked my challenge this week and I am super happy and proud. But while this looks so easy in this post, let me tell you it wasn't! It took a lot of effort to make it a AAAA Score. The coming week might be even harder, since I have some additional appointments destributed all over the week. But I'm far from complaining, I just want to be aware that I have to plan my workouts and training and continue strong. Rebel Mini Boot Camp: achieved Fighter Lvl.5

Well done ! You show those sore back and crappy ankles who's boss!!!

Very well done! Since you did it I won't spoil it by asking about the back execises. Or in case you did them I will have asked. If you didn't this paragraph never happened.

Maybe I could help to get you started. Is it already installed? What distribution do you use?

Maybe there are some activities during the day that you can stop doing that save you some time that you can invest in your creative activities. For me that would be playing with my mobile... or games on my mobile... probably I should make that part of my next challenge.

But yay for posting your 'progress' and sticking to no alcohol.

I was actually just looking for the best expression for 'rest day' , but I probably should have repeated that a few more times since my wife persuaded me to play Badminton on Sunday. Well, at least I can substitute myself for my brother-in-law. Yes, and always good to discover what's important and what's not early in the challenge (or even better, before) and adjust. Some update on my challenge: Yesterday evening my wife and I went to a Greek restaurant and had a lot of food. Afterwards we were invited to a friends house. Now my normal calorie intake is between 2100 (no workouts) and 2600 kcal (workout days). Thanks to this evening I made it to 3400 kcal and only because I had just a smoothie for breakfast. I don't mind really, since it's no problem to do this once in a while. I just think it's interesting how the values can go up so fast. This morning I had my cardio workout... really don't like it much. Maybe I don't like to do cardio in my apartement. Give me a ball and let me run on a playing field, or let me ride my bicycle or let me run through the woods and things would be different. Anyway. I think is was also due to the huge amount of food and some drinks and the lack of sleep that I felt tired during the exercises. So I probably did just half of the reps and had more breaks in between. But I pulled through and my heart rate was up all the time so I count it as a win! This week I did not attend my Wing Chun training so far, so I have to go today and tomorrow if I want to make it this week.

Some habits are harder to change than others. Maybe the circumstances are just too hard. If you realize that it takes too much energy away from the rest of the goals of the challenge (or of your life in general) then yes ditch it. Take responsibility that you couldn't do it, but don't beat yourself up about it. Better 2 goals of your challenge done right and still be able to handle your life, than getting overwhelmed by the sum of it just because of this 3rd goal. That said if you still see the possibility that you can reach that goal you should still go for it. As you wrote in the beginning: 'She believed she could so she did'

1. I'd say yes, definitively. There's so much analysis going on in therapy. And a therapist just knows what to ask, what to suggest and how to guide the conversation. The 'rest' is done by you. It's magic 2. Thought about that too. I do a few planks during my workout but realized that I would not be able to get a single skill point in 'Hold' when I choose the fighter/rouge combination. So I just chose 'fighter' as class. I won't go back on my decision but wouldn't mind if we 'recalibrate' the progress of rouge skills so that they can level about the same speed as the rest of us.

Well done. Yes, that works for me too. I once quit smoking by drinking tomato juice instead when I got a craving... I drank a lot of tomato juice...