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Nice story Inspires me to write a story for my challenge haha! Good luck in this challenge and I hope you'll reach your goals!

AND BAM! http://www.nerdfitness.com/community/showthread.php?15541-Kibcy-s-First-Challenge Challenge accepted

Thanks

Yes, though I don't feel very ready haha! Not much confidence in making my fitness goals... but I'll be working hard!

Good luck on reaching your goals. Though I have to say, your goal 3 is a bit vague, it doesn't seem very measurable? How are you planning on tracking your progress with that?

Good luck with your goals!!

Thank you!!

Sounds like you have some tough goals (from my perspective), good luck working toward them!!

Good luck with your goals! Getting curious toward your blog It sounds like something I would be reading anyway

Thanks! I've already noticed slight improvements as to how often my shoulder hurts, so I'm positive it will help! Thanks for the tips! I'll look into those exercises. Though my shoulder doesn't hurt all the time. At the time the doctor's advice was 6 weeks of rest or something? And since that didn't really help, another 6 weeks. Pretty much my options right now are doing nothing or getting some really painful shots and needing to not do anything for 3-4 weeks and then another 6-8 weeks of rest (and that may not even help permanently). So my doing nothing is just strengthening my muscles to hopefully help with the problem. Anyway I'll definitely keep up with rows and whatever comes after that If you're interested; Lesson learned: don't drop the trunk of your car on your shoulder. No I have no idea how I did that.

Good luck with your goals and overcoming your injuries!!

Thanks for the tips!! Though I have shoulder problems, which makes doing push ups terrible for me. So I'm keeping to the "attainable" I suppose. Shoulder problems would be that on some days my left shoulder will just hurt, the whole time, whenever I do anything with it. (incl working on the computer). Due to a stupid stupid accident, and I'm coming from not being able to lift 1 liter of milk 2 years back :| In short, I'm just trying to be careful not to injure myself. Though I'm definitely going to try doing push ups more regularly.

Didn't change, it's just on a separate page! (I was looking for it too for a moment) http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/turning-your-challenge-into-a-rpg/

Even though we're in different classes, I'll be cheering for you!!! Sounds like you have some good goals there Good luck on your first challenge! (will be my first too, so I'm also nervous/excited!)

I'm no expert, but that second option might be a good idea! I know I heavily overestimated what weight I could exercise with haha.

I like how you're changing things up good luck and I hope things will go alright for those 2 days concerning your friends wedding!

Good luck on your goals! And I hope you'll feel at home among the rangers

Burn out is tough I feel your pain as I was running down that road last year. Much luck with all your objectives and I hope you'll be feeling much much better soon!

Just posted up my challenge thread and edited my signature. I'm really excited about this! It'll be my first challenge. I'll try to be as active as I can around here Just wanted to say hi! I'm kind of nervous as well, but this should give me some motivation to push myself!

I'm kind of nervous about doing this!! But I'm also very excited!! A little background on where I'm currently at: - I have pretty sucky endurance for any higher intensity cardio. I can walk/cycle for longer though (1 hour or so) - I've been starting with strength training on June 28th, overdid it and slowed down/backed up. Currently working on Push ups, Pull ups (bent over rows at this point), Squats and Plank. - I've cut out grains almost completely so far. Personal records as of August 5th: - Squats: 20, 10, 10 - Push ups: inclined: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 - Pull ups: bent over rows (4.2kg each hand): 5, 5, 5 - Plank: 15, 15, 15 - Elliptical: 5:14 min - Cycling: 1 hour - Walking: 30 min Beginning STATS (taken Sunday August 5th) - Height: 178 cm (5'10") - Weight: 76.5 kg (169 pounds) - Hip measurement (widest part): 107.8 cm (42 inch) - Pictures: Front: [ATTACH=CONFIG]4896[/ATTACH] Side: [ATTACH=CONFIG]4897[/ATTACH] (Those pants may make me look thinner though?! But I'm not posting pics of me in my underwear...) Beginning attributes: Level 1 - STR 3 ; DEX 1 ; STA 3 ; CON 4 ; WIS 3 ; CHA 1 Goals 1. Diet 3 CON (failed) I'll be doing the whole30 challenge and my goal is to complete it with a 100% score. 2. Strength 5 STR At the end of the challenge being able to do 5 push ups on the ground. Rewards: Rebel Fitness Guide Progress: 0/5 managed 3. Endurance 5 STA At the end of the challenge being able to use the elliptical for 30 min. Progress: 5/30 min 4. Life 2 WIS (failed) Spend at least an hour a week working on a template for managing commissions (for my artist friend specifically, and everyone else generally). I sincerely hope these are realistic goals.

I will be trying to do it 100% for 30 days. I really wanna know how much intolerance I really have and based on that make diet choices. I feel not doing it 100% won't get me the exact results I want. Even though I have 2 weekend where it will be tough, I'd be all, fine I rather don't eat than eat bad stuff. (may not be the best option always, but for this challenge it what I'll do) LeadChipmunk: I would suggest eating before the events so you'll be less tempted to eat a lot? Otherwise just go with the "good" choices as much as possible That would be my strategy anyway.

Thanks, I'll be doing my darnest best these coming days Hmmm... maybe. Maybe I should take them out of their package?! It is delicious! I totally recommend making it

Just spend half hour to an hour translating Whole9's shopping list... Used google and wikipedia... and I didn't even get all of it translated... stupid pumpkin types are like... yeah. Either way... I'm a lot less confused!! I was always very much like "what's kale?!", since I didn't recognize the images either... turns out it's something we eat a LOT in the Netherlands during winter -doh- We just make a lot of stew from veggies I guess. So yeah Kale stew it would be. Anyway, yeah I'm glad I spend the time. Now I can shop with some more confidence on Saturday.

I second this! I had bad form on push ups and on squats and they were much easier to do that way. Only that means you're also not properly training I guess? I was at 70 squats in no time... then did proper form and am now at 30 in 3 sets of 10... it makes a lot of difference.

Activity: Angry Birds workout (modified) Goal: 30 squats, 60 sec plank Achieved: - Plank: 15, 15, 15, - - Squats: 10, 10, 10, ** - Inclined push ups: 3 Thoughts: Progress on plank! I can actually now breath painlessly, even though it still takes effort. Really had to push out that last set of squats, especially the last two reps, but I'm glad I did! And yeah I felt like doing push ups for some strange reason... but only managed 3, but still!! Rewards: 3% toward Ranger and 5% exp. Food list - 1 piece of organic chicken - 1 piece of roasted/baked chicken (for tomorrow) - 2 pieces of salmon - 2 bags of organic minced meat - 3 organic sausages - 3 pieces of organic roast beef - Slices of organic cheese - Cucumber - 1 organic eggs - Chive - Organic apple juice - Grated coconut - Potatoes - Sweet potatoes - 2 garlic - 2 jars of carrots - Almonds - Walnuts - Hazelnuts - Sunflower seeds - Organic honey - Organic coconut oil - Almond butter - Organic olive oil - Macadamia nuts - Raisins - Sultanas - Various spices and what have you - 2 Nectarines - 1 Apple - Strawberries - Blackberries - Blueberries So for the first time ever I marinaded (olive oil, chicken spices (as in that's what the container says), cinnamon, sesame seed) my chicken and stuffed it in the oven!! It's totally delicious!! I only tasted a little bit, seeing how it's food for tomorrow! I also stocked up on berries don't know if I like blueberries, as I've never tasted them! For dinner I made myself a delicious combo of egg, bacon & cheese. I drank all the left over milk just now. Just need to get through that cheese... not sure, maybe I'll take it with me to work as a snack... Then I should be set for really doing the Whole30!! (officially starting it as one of my 6 week challenge goals). I also ate my first apple slices with almond butter!! Not sure how I feel about them, but almond butter is definitely better on an apple slice