Rebel Pilot Gar

[table=width: 500, class: grid, align: center] Goal Description Pts Assigned Grade Pts Awarded Walk 10k steps/day +1STA, +1CON B +0.75STA, +0.75CON 10 min Fencing/day +1STR, +3DEX, +1STA D +0.25STR, +0.75DEX, +0.25STA Eat Real Food +2CON, +2WIS C +1CON, +1WIS Organize +3WIS, +2CHA A +3WIS, +2CHA [/table] Notes: It feels like forever ago since this challenge started. I was still at my internship at the beginning - now I'm three weeks into college (and fencing practice starts next week!). Though now that I'm interacting with people and wandering around town during my free time instead of being a hermit I have less time for detailed updates. This challenge was alright, I dropped off (again) near the end of it. Getting my goals ready for next challenge using what I learned this time. Didn't enjoy they "do this every day" format, but I loved tracking # pushups, etc for my PvP with Blade. One thing I wish I did was participate in more minichallenges - I only did one this time around. End-of-challenge statistics: [table=width: 500] Stat Start End STR 5.5 6.75 DEX 3.5 4.25 STA 6.75 7.75 CON 8.75 10.5 WIS 9.75 13.75 CHA 5.75 7.75 [/table] 9.75/15 = 65% Need to do better next challenge.

Week 6 results Walkies - B Fencing- F Food - dining hall makes me cry Organizing -A

So I didn't update my workouts from last week: Tuesday Sept 4: Squats - 4 sets of 10 = (40 total) = 370 cumulative Planks - 3 sets of 30 sec = (1:30 total) = 13:10 cumulative Thursday Sept 6: Band assisted pullups: 1, 3, 3, 2 = (9 total) = 67 cumulative DB Lunges: 3 sets of 5/leg = (30 total) = 290 cumulative

Week 6 Update I've turned into a crazy person again. I need to calm down and start saying no to people/things and reclaim time to breathe and workout. Skipped a lot of workouts this week, and ate kinda shitty too. Food itself was fine since I've gotten better at foraging the dining hall for vegetables, but cookies every day are bad. Sleeeeep =.= Mon - 10,345 steps Tues - 8,211 steps Wed - 8,030 steps

Well, I've fallen off the face of the internet. Haven't done too well working out this week either. Consistency and tracking things like food and workouts will be a big theme next challenge. Week 5 update So that weight room workout from last tuesday was: Warmup - 5 min on concept rower - 1115 m Benchpress - 10, 10, 9, 3 w/ 65 lbs, 4 w/ 60 lbs Squats - 4 sets of 10 with empty bar (45 lbs) Stability ball leg curl ins - 4 sets of 10 Planks - 3 x 30 sec Wednesday - 25 min in pool Thursday - another weight room workout (it was kinda awesome, my legs were mad at me for days), 10487 steps Warmup - 500 m row (2:13) Box Jumps - 3 sets of 5 Band assisted pullups - 1 w/ thin band (1 in), 3,3,2 w/ thicker band (1.5-2 in) Lunges holding 15 lb db per hand - 5/leg, 5/leg, 5/leg Back extensions w/ 10 lb weight - 3 sets of 10 Cooldown - 3 min on stationary bike, foam rollers Friday - 16 min elliptical, stretching, 15 min elliptical, moar stretching (9984 steps, curse you pokewalker for resetting at midnight) Sat - lots of walking. Target is a long walk away - 16644 steps Sun - did not wear pedometer Week 5 Results Steps - Averaged about 9000 steps/day - B Fencing - no footwork - F Food - Ate alright, need to cut down on the junk - C Organizing - kept on track of deadlines, not much to organize though - B

Getting so bad at updating. My life has been taken back over by engineering... though I have a sidekick on campus and we've been really good at keeping each other on track even if we didn't feel like working out. End of Week 4 - Results Walking - Doing much better at getting over 10 K steps/day => B Fencing - 2/7 => D Food - bought food. Dining hall sucks and makes me sick. Ate out over the weekend though (and none of it was particularly healthy) => C Organizing - have an agenda to keep track of homework due dates, also have a wall dalek dry erase board with 1 week to keep track of school meetings => A Week 5 - Day 4 Monday - nothing (well homework, but no exercise... and only 6376 steps) Tuesday - Weight room workout, 11377 steps (will update details later. have to go to class) Wednesday - Swimming workout, only 7686 steps Thursday - Weight room workout, steps tbd

Here's my next workout, from Thursday. Workout: 25 min Pushups - 10, 10, 10, 10 = (40 total) = 216 cumulative Squats - 20, 20, 20, 20 = (80 total) = 330 cumulative Lunges - 20, 20, 20, 20 = (80 total) = 260 cumulative Planks - 60 s, 45 s, 45 s, 30 s = (3 min total) = 11:40 cumulative Your turn

Week 4 - Day 6 Wednesday - Spent 15 min on the stationary bike then 10 min doing footwork. 11,541 steps for the day. Thursday - Partner bowed out of a morning run, so I did a short jog back to my room followed by a quick bodyweight workout. No fencing though Pushups - 10,10,10,10 Squats - 20,20,20,20 Planks - 1 min, 45 sec, 45 sec, 30 sec Lunges - 10/leg, 10/leg, 10/leg, 10/leg 13449 steps for the day. Friday - Left campus early to visit bf's for the weekend. Didn't take pedometer, but we fooled around at a mini golf place and floated around in a pool with friends.

Hey Blade, sorry I haven't posted in a while. I was lazy and took a week off from working out, but I'm getting back into it now. Especially since it looks like I have some catching up to do. I'm back at school now so I used weights today. I'll count the weighted squats as bodyweight and try to get in 2 bodyweight workouts later this week. As far as pullups go, I don't think we ever figured out any multiplier. I'll be doing band assisted now, but maybe negatives count as 50% (because it's only the lowering part) and band assisted counts as 70% of a pullup? I have not put any multiplier on my pullup numbers yet, so they are currently counting as 1. Though it doesn't look like you have found a bar to use yet, so maybe we should take those off the list for our PvP? Anyway, here's the part of my workout that counts towards our challenge. I was in the gym for a total of 45 min for my entire workout. Squats (w/ bar but counting as bodyweight) = 10, 10, 10, 10 = (40 total) = 250 cumulative Pullup (band assisted) = 5, 4, 4, 2, 1 = (16 total) = 58 cumulative Planks = 32 sec, 30 sec, 30 sec = (1:32 total) = 8:40 cumulative

Week 4 - Day 1 & 2 Monday - no fencing or workout. Was really good with food though (started tracking again on myfitnesspal). Took 11,839 steps though. And I cleaned out my school email inbox since it was getting very close to the limit. Tuesday - Yeah I know it's only the beginning of tuesday but I met up with a friend to work out before class. 5 min warmup on concept rower (1040 m) Bench Press - 10 (45 lbs), 10 (55 lbs), 10 (65 lbs), 8 (65 lbs) Squats w/ Empty Bar (45 lbs) - 4 sets of 10 Band Assisted Pullups (black 1.5 in band) - 5, 4, 4, 2, 1 Crunches w/ MB Pass - 3 sets of 10 Planks - 3 x 30 sec Cooled down with some stretching and 10 min of footwork. Steps recorded: 8089. I didn't put it on until after I showered in the morning so I missed any steps I took to walk to the gym and then to the dining hall after working out.

End of Week 3 - Results I've been really bad this week about working out. Took the one week I had between end of work and beginning of school to be super lazy. I also didn't remember to put on my pedometer every day, did not take any time to practice my footwork.... And now I'm falling behind in my PvP. Walkies I have a few numbers, but did not put my pedometer on for more than a few hours (at most) this week. Even if I had it on, I wasn't doing enought to get past 10K steps. Had it on today and just general errands/walking around campus brings me over 11,500 steps. Next week I'll work on making sure I get over 10K daily. C Fencing F Food Ate some cereal for breakfast. Other than that everything was freshly prepared. B Organization I get a super A++ for this week. Packed all of stuff in House B, lugged it out to car to take to House A. Unpacked, tossed stuff then repacked in House A to move necessary items to college. Loaded up the truck and then lugged my stuff up 4 flights of stairs. Then I unpacked again and organized everything in my room.

Hey Blade, how are you holding up? I didn't feel like working out, but figured I had to do something. Just did a quick 30 min routine of warmup, pushups, cool down. 4 sets of 15 pushups = (60 total) = 176 cumulative

Walked a lot in between some appointments scheduled before I go back to school. Also got some shopping done to replace clothes I ditched. Will update later tonight with total steps for the day. Didn't feel like doing anything so I made myself at least get some pushups in. Quick warmup, 4 sets of 15 pushups, followed by stretching. Took less than 30 min start to end.

End of Week 2 - Results 10K Steps per Day Friday - 4,751 steps only. Don't remember if I took my pedometer off halfway through the day though Saturday - Walked around a lot looking at art. Took pedometer off to go out with family for my birthday. 7,504 steps logged for time wearing pedometer though. Sunday - Did not wear pedometer. Probably didn't get many steps because I slept in super late Average steps per day (that I wore a pedometer) is 5,900. Now that I have a baseline I know I definitely need to focus on walking more. C for this week Footwork First three days I did well. Last four days I did nothing. C Food Not really sure anymore what I'm counting as real/not real food.... I feel like I ate a lot of junk this week (mostly over Thurs-Sun). Need more veggies (not in salad form either. Stupid restaurants.) C Cleaning Now that I'm done with work I've sorted Closet B in terms of college vs not college. I need to go through the not college pile and be really picky about what I keep. Maybe buy some new clothes that fit as well and toss all the baggy things I've been wearing. I've finished off/tossed teas. Now I just need to restock my tins and pack them up to move out again. B

Week 2 - Day 4 Forgot to update my steps for Wednesday - 5,101 steps. Better than the day before, but still not great. Had a going away party after work Thursday, so I didn't get home until pretty much bedtime. Got in 6,735 steps though which is the top for this week. I really need to push those extra walks. Didn't practice fencing - but I found some new footwork drills that look exhausting (in a good way )

I think most of the main regions (like Kanto from Red/Blue and Johto from Gold/Silver, etc) are based off places in Japan. Bulbapedia has speculation on the actual towns, so I was thinking of just google mapping distances between the speculative towns and seeing if that worked...

Mounted archery?! That's intense. My new bow's still in the mail, but I'll have the same problem finding places to shoot. Weekly archery club meetings at school probably aren't enough to get some instinctive shooting experience. Hopefully my bow finishes its trip around the USA before I go back to school so I can bring her with me.

Thanks for the clarification! Maybe I'll just start packing an lugging things around a few days early. Or I can carry a few loads of laundry down the stairs to get washed.

I haven't been logging miles or anything with you guys, but I'm trying to figure out ways to map out miles for a Pokemon themed walk. Definitely won't be as long as the walk to Mordor, but if I get something that works, maybe I'll post it on the threads for more nerd access Background is I'm trying to get my little bro more active, but he's not a fan of Lord of the Rings (I'm working on it). Though he loves Pokemon so I figured I could make one we could do together through google docs while I'm at school. Walk through Kanto and trace the path done in the games or whatever, still working through the details.

Is it this Saturday (18th) or next Saturday (25th) as the end date? Don't think I'll get another workout in before this Sat, but I'll be moving my stuff out of work Friday (none of it's heavy though). Next week will be the move heavy stuff week as I'll be packing and moving back into university. Also I may or may not be pathetically checking the ranger forum constantly from Monday afternoon on looking for the newest mini-challenges =)

It's literally a tube of high density foam (google search will give a picture). You sit/lay down on the tube and use arms to roll a muscle group along the foam roller. My IT bands are often tight, so I'll rest the side of my hip on the foam roller and slowly roll along the outside of my leg. Basically your bodyweight and a foam cylinder make a good self massaging tool. With some flexibility I'm pretty sure you can get any muscle group with it. Youtube has some videos for good ways to use a foam roller to hit certain muscle groups, like for IT Band.First found foam rollers in my university's Varsity gym. I'll use it as a cool down after a lifting day or when I'm really suffering from tight/sore muscles I'll make a special visit on a rest day. Walk around a bit or do a few jumping jacks to warm up then attack the muscles with the foam roller. And cry, crying sometimes happens but so worth it afterwards. Hope that made sense

Nice job on the pushups! And wow, time is a much better way to keep track of planks. *shakes head* Going to go update my previous posts. Also did a workout today. I need to work on getting my sets done quicker. Total Time = 20 min Pushups: 19, 16 = (35 total) = 116 cumulative Squats: 20, 20 = (40 total) = 210 cumulative Pullups (negatives): 6, 7 = (13 total) = 42 cumulative Lunges: 20, 16 = (36 total) = 180 cumulative Planks (side): 30 sec, 30 sec, 30 sec, 30 sec = (2:00 total) = 7:08 cumulative Don't know if I'll get time to do another bodyweight workout this week. Looks like you are going to pass me in pushups very soon though

Week 2 - Day 3 Did a quick workout today. Hips were really tight today, so I spent a good 15 min attacking them on the foam roller. Warmup - Jump rope, dynamic stretching (especially hip flexors) 2 sets of bodyweight routine: Pushups - 19, 16 Squats - 20, 20 Pullups (negative) - 6, 7 Lunges (walking) - 10/leg, 8/leg Planks (side) - 2x30 sec/side Then I did about 10 min of footwork (though I had to take breaks. Felt pretty beat by the last 3 min). Walked around to cool down, then went over to the foam roller.

Feel better soon! Magic naps for the win.

I look forward to seeing your update tomorrow with your immense wookie arm strength