Zeno

Thanks for the reactions. I needed some time of social media and the internet. But reading your words really puts a smile on my face. The end of my challenge was not that good, but I will start tommorow with a new challenge. I will write it in the morning. I plan to keep going with where I was plus some other stuff! Goodnight!

I believe we are the same, except that I am overweight 😕 But the best of luck to you! Looking forward to see progress.

Depressing times here. I can't do my job right now. We can't go outside, only for walks or physical activity. But I am to scared to do so. My mum has bad lungs so I dread the idea of taking the covid-19 virus home. I still shop for my family and an older lady together with our groceries, so that's the only thing which earns me a bit of money (I'm used to do this for her twice a week for three years now. and gives me a bit of physical activity. Today I actually went by some homes to pick up some selfmade masks whoch I brang to the nearby hospital. Being depressed made me forget to workout this wednesday. Also I think I forgot to drink whatever two days. Not sure... But I try to stick again to it tommorow... I wish everybody luck these days! Even if your government didn't put out a quarantine or lockdown I advice you to stay home as much as possible and keep your distance from other people. Also wash your hands!

It was like something was pushing something in my hip flexors yes. And if I squated it began to hurt.

I did 20 squats and 8 push-ups in my workout today. Felt a slight pain in my hip/upper leg. Feels like something is blocked. I have this often, my physiotherapist always says that stretching works best if I have this. Sadly I won't be able to ask her for help following weeks since she is taken ill by the corona virus. So that's a bummer...

Thanks, I think my best bet would be to just have a controlled off-day in those situations.

Hey Hey! I have been abscent, sorry for that. Previous days have been a bit busy. Sunday was the family party. It was a sugar overload for me, which my stomach is still screaming about. Monday's workout I changed my knee push-ups to regular push-ups. I could do 7. Next time I try 8. Today was a bit of a weird day. I had to help move my mother's atelier. I had to bike her stuff to the new atelier with my cargobike. In the end I did bike 30 km from which 12 km my cargo bike was fully loaden. In summary: I don't have legs anymore. This is why I did not workout today and did eat some breakfast. Depending on how I feel tommorow I try to do my workout... Maybe I just skip one.

I do my warmup with them

Thursday and Friday: I'm feeling already a difference in how hungry I am around 14:00 compaired to how hungry I was in the beginning of the week. Back then I used to be ravenous, now I'm most of the time already surprised by the time. Not sure if I will be able to keep my goals for sunday, I have a familiy party and don't know how late, and if there will be any food... It's often such a social thing... And people expect you to eat, for some reason, if you are a certain size...? They would be worried if I wouldn't on a party... My workout today was also pretty good, I'm happy I can take a break for two days. Will be needed, for next wekk I will try to do normal push-ups instead of the knee push-ups. My hydration is still on point. 👌

Haha, I actually shaved my cheeks today to look a bit civilised and placed a picture of me on FB with shaving cream and I immediately had three friends commenting: "Not the beard!!???"

You're welcome, I keep you up to date if I find/buy new whiskeys

Haha, I say it often, don't have a job though, so can't irritate coworkers At the moment I have a bottle of Highland Park 12 and Ardbeg. Ardbeg is probably nothing for you, quite a lot of smoke and peat. Highland Park 12 is very mild but I like it as a normal whiskey. Monkey Shoulder is something you might look into if you like it a bit more sweet/caramel like.

I was thinking about a reward system. To keep me going. I am a big fan of whiskey. So for now, every day I do perfectly and I don't cheat I will treat myself a glass of whiskey. A few notes, previous day went well. A was sore as hell today, but I did the workout. Asked my brother for a proper weight for the rowing exercice. Apparently I am a lot stronger then anticipated since a 10kg dumbell was challenging enough. He promised me to keep looking into the workouts with me. I cheated yesterday on some candy though, feels bad. The day before I ate chili around 14:00. But my stomach couldn't handle the spiciness. Around dinner I wasn't hungry at all, so just skipt that.

Well, I did it only once and only 1 round and it is already heavy for me. Only the rows are pretty easy for me. Probably my weights are not heavy enough.

Couldn't find my old chess.com account, but if you want to play: zenov361 Well, my condition atm is so bad that my heart rate goes up if I do anything physical. I spoke about the cardio with her and she adviced a rowing machine, will look into it. Sounds reasonable. that's why I am skipping only breakfast by now. Allthough I tend to overeat the moment I start to eat. So for me it's best to just keep my eating window as small as possible.

Both, on mondays I meet with some people to play live. But I often played online as well, this is some time ago though.

Today I went to Nadine, my physiotherapist. I spoke with her about my plans. She is the person who knows me the best and longest, apart from my mother, so she was really helpfull and motivated. We did the workout together, she made some corrections and explained to me why. She made a warm-up for me, based on excercices we often do together, a few are actually overlapping with the NF warm-up. She scrapped all the jumping jacks, most explosive movements are to hard on my back and my knees and won't help me. She adviced me in finding other ways of cardio I would enjoy. What I did as the actual workout 1 round: 10x squats 10x knee-pushups 10x 10kg dumbell rows 15 seconds plank I could do more squats and maybe even normal push ups but I recently got an inflamation in my right foot that isn't healed yet, so I should take it slowly with putting weight on it or moing it in uncomfortable ways ( like push-ups). She also adviced me on skipping breakfast for now and eating two meals a day, pushing those meals closer untill I only eat one meal. She said that I often go all in and then lose all my motivation because my goals are too hard. I have to agree with that so that's why I decided to follow her advice and fast everyday untill 14:00.

thanks, just done writing it

Hey everyone, I decided to just jump in the challenge now instead of waiting for three weeks. I am a young man. I see myself as a nerd and recently decided to work on my weight. A friend guided me in the direction of NF, this is how I stumbled on the forum. Being overweight has been a huge problem most of my life. I have been born with spina bifida occulta. For those who don't know what it is: My parents and docters only found out about my handicap when I was almost 2 years old, since I didn't start walking. I want to tell more about this but I've just recently asked my parenst to tell me everything that happened... so that will be for in the future. 23 years later and I walk. I walk with a cane. Most of the time I do not really need it, but I feel safer with it. And on bad days it is my lifesaver. BUt I walk to less. I do not move. During my teenage years I had to bike to school and back and I had 2 hours of gym. This kept my weight more or less in check. I was always on the heavier side, but now, a few years later and working from home mostly, and the weight piled up. Ok, sorry, that was kind off heavy. But I had to tell it or everything else would have been pointless. I'm basically a fan of most fantasy books, movies, series,... Lord of the Rings is probably my favorite movie series of all time. Other stuff in no particular order: Anne Rice's books, Stephen King, Star Wars, Avatar. Deathnote, the Witcher, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Marvel, DC Comics,... and probably other stuff as well. Not a big gamer but I did and do play some games: AC, the WItcher, LoL, Hearthstone, The Long Dark, SKyrim, Fallout 3, Frostpunk, Surviving Mars, This War of Mine. My all time favorite game is chess. My Main Quest is to lose weight and find my limits. Since I've always been overweight I don't know what my limits will be if the weight is off. My goals for this challenge: Diet: Goal 1: try OMAD (one meal a day) one of my biggest problems is overeating, I can't eat small meals because then I start snacking on stuff. I did Intermittent Fasting before and I know I feel really fine fasting for longer times. Goal 2: drink 1l water every day Fitness Goal 3: complete the NF bodyweight workout 3x a week That's it, not sure when and how often I will update, I think that I just will feel when it's right to do so.

Thanks guys! Can I still start a challenge for the following three weeks?

Hi everyone, I recently decided to start working out, and a friend guided me to the workouts here. I stumbled across the forum, and after reading a bit I decided to sign up. It's going to be a struggle since I was born with spina bifida. Im mostly interested in losing weight, so I will focus on diet, bodyweight workouts and stuff like that... I hope I will fit well in here... cheers, Zeno