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Day 1: Dec 25th, 2014 I've never felt much like the 'New Years' Resolution' type.. but here I am on Christmas day starting out my fitness journey. (I guess it isn't Jan 1st.) Working the evening shift (I leave my house between 1:15 to 1:30 and get home between 10:20 and 10:35) makes evening work outs a bit rough so I need to try to start in the mornings. I paced around the office (I work security as a dispatcher so actual walking around at work is rough - read: not possible) Does pacing count as a walk? I don't know.. but I suppose it is better than 8 hours staring at a computer screen at work followed by another 3-6 hours of video games and junk food at home. The one thing I have been doing great on so far today is lowering my soda consumption. I have not had any yet, but I have planned to have a can of Mountain Dew near the halfway point of work. Coming from drinking roughly 64 oz of soda a day to a 12oz can is not going to be easy. I am trying to substitute with tea - currently Red Diamond Sweet tea and homebrewed lipton tea - sweetened. I am also starting a push to drink water (note: I do not say more water because honestly there have been innumerable days past where I did not drink any.) I suppose my current philosophy is one of - anything I can change is a step in the right direction, which to me means that less soda, even if I am just replacing it with sweet tea for the time being is still a win. I am afraid of burning out or taking on too many changes at once. Advice is always welcome.

I guess if I write it, I may have to keep to it so like all good stories, we begin at the beginning. I, like most, have problems with consistency. So hopefully this will keep me on track. Input: Breakfast. 250 ml isowhey shake with added banana Snack. 1 coffee, no sugar, skim milk. Lunch. Egg salad. Not the creamy type, but a salad with boiled egg. Snack. 2 mandarins Dinner. 250 ml isowhey with 1 cup added frozen strawberries. While not into paleo as such, due to other issues (see my intro if interested) I eat low sodium, no added sugar diet. I have given up my beloved pepsi max and dont drink alcohol ( well last 19 years anyway). I do drink 2 litres of water a day. Output: Im currently starting C25K so walked to park before work then 1 min jogging, 1.5min walking for 20 mins. Walked home via the killer stairs at park (I hate every one of the 42 of them.) Its rained all afternoon so no running, but 30 mins interval on bike. My legs are killing.

Day 1, Thursday 26th December Up: 10:00 - 11 hours of sleeping. Is that too much? What happens if I sleep too much? Weigh in: 150 lb Mind workout: Today I started reading "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes so I can start knowing my enemies. Body WOD: Today I will try the beginner body weight exercises, to diagnose where I am exactly. I don't know if I should continue with the gym machines, if I should focus only on these body weight exercises or I should do both... I think I'll try to let my body decide Today, even stepping outside the door is like a challenge. It's windy as hell! Thank the gods I've got a gym subscription, running outside it's not an option

Here I will be posting my overall goals, failures and successes, and the daily challenges that I face. I hope my battle log can someday serve as an inspiration to others. My Bucket List: Fitness: Be able to do 10 full pullupsBe able to do a 60 sec freestanding handstandBe able to walk on my handsBe able to do 5 one arm push ups on each armDo the splitsBe able to do a front handspringSquat 400 lbsBe able to run 5 miles easilyTake a pole dancing classRun to the top of Drinking Horse Trail at sunrise!Win Ninja Warrior Personal:Be able to play the guitarBe able to speak conversational SpanishBe able to speak conversational RussianBe able to speak conversational HungarianBe good at math!Fly a planeLearn ballroom dancingLearn to salsaParticipate in a swing dancing competitionWin a swing dancing competitionTake a permaculture design coursePlay messy twisterLearn to bartendGive a great speech you are confident about!Successfully grow lemons/tangerines on a treeTake a picture everyday for 365 days!Win the Montana Rodeo queen competitionTake voice and piano lessons

I am currently sporting a pleasantly plump waist of a rotund 56 inches hence the Nix The 56 Main Goal: Fit into a size 32 Jeans ( I realize this will take longer than 6 wks) Milestone 1 : Complete the Bodyweight Brigade level 1 workout at least four times a week improving each workout. Milestone 2 : Condition by walking to the park and plating with my children at least three times a week. Milestone 3 : Be Liquid calorie free by the end of the challenge. Milestone goal 1 is a little aggressive I know but I BELIEVE I can do this Milestone goal 2 is to better my relationship with my kids and also makes sure I am getting them involved in healthy living at a young age. Milestone goal 3 is because I like food entirely too much to waste precious calories on liquid Life side quest : Learn to play one scale on my guitar by the end of the challenge. I have the following points system: Workouts 10 pts for each work out +1 bonus point for each workout better than the previous. Conditioning 10 pts for each day accomplished Liquid Calories 10 pts for each day liquid calorie free with a -15 point penalty for days i relapse. Play a scale 60 pts Points Possible Workouts 24 x 10 pts = 240 pts Conditioning 18 x 10 pts = 180 pts Liquid Calories 42 days x 10 pts = 420 pts Guitar Scale 1 Scale x 60 pts = 60 pts Grand total 900 pts We are taking it back to the old school with the 10 pt grading scale 90 -100 = A 79 - 89 = B 69 - 79 = C 59 - 69 = D Anything Lower is Failure I haven't determined rewards for the points system yet but WHEN I finally attain my main goal My reward will be a new wardrobe. Below are the beginning stats and graphs I will be using to measure my progress on For my main Quest: Fit into a Size 32 Pants This is the Form I will be logging my workouts with These are the graphs I will be tracking my progress with. These are My beginning Stats

I wanted to start a Daily Battle Log for my future use, and to post stuff that is not really relevant (necessarily) to the Nov 11 Challenge. So here it is - my battle log. I don't really want to write a long introduction about myself... I'm 27. I'm an attorney. I eat food. I should move more. Paleo is good. Doctor Who. Stargate. Harry Potter. Ender's Game. Futurama. Sharkbait oo hah hah! Yap... Okay, so I'm pretty new to NF, but I'm really digging it so far. My only problem is that I'm very "omgeez what if that person who is obvs super cool doesn't like me because I say something supes stupid?!@#%Rgfadgs." And I'm trying not to be like that, because that attitude is the very thing that stops me from saying "hello" in the first place and prevents me from making friends and meeting people. Isn't that what the community here is about!? C'mon! And also, this is how I feel about some of you: http://www.buzzfeed.com/katieheaney/what-its-like-having-an-internet-crush

Here Goes. My Battle Log. First Post - Failure - Not Starting Early on Challenge. Going home to eat 45 turkey legs.

The short story: A year or so ago I was doing great, eating well, exercising regularly and feeling awesometastic. Now, I am not. ----------------------------- I have struggled through 3 or 4 challenges now and accomplished very little. Rather than do the same thing over and over again with no results, I am changing things. Long term fitness goal: Get back to the place where I was going to the gym/exercising 3-4 times a week out of habit How? Because kid and family activities get in the way, I need to look at my calendar before the week starts and decide which days I will be doing my exercise (and what I will be doing). Long term food goal: Get back to the place where I was just eating paleo/primal the vast majority of the time. How? NO grains (except occasional rice) until Thanksgiving. *** Editing to say the no grains will have to start on Monday. Visiting family this weekend and it is not realistic to pack an entire weekend of food. We are at their mercy for food. I will limit it as much as I can. NO more Halloween candy. Some dark chocolate will be acceptable here and there, especially Shark Week.Dairy is not an every day item. Remember:-Drink water-Go to bed at a reasonable time-Cut out the negative self talk -Text a nerd instead of giving in to the food? Personal affirmation: I can and will get back to feeling awesome again.

My first Battlelog entry: I have signed up for the Challenge starting Jan 6 - very exciting. This morning I finished Week One of the C25K - though I am hoping to persuade my husband to start soon too and if need be will repeat week one with him. I have registered for the Colour Run in Melbourne on March 2, and roped in a half dozen friends too, which is exciting but nerve wracking. At the moment I am around 118kg, 5'5", 36 my blood pressure is good but the last time I went to the doctor my LDLs were a little high and my blood sugar was resting in the 'pre-diabetic' zone. I want to change that by the time I have done the Colour Run. I aspire to be a Ranger in the short to medium term, maybe learn me some fancy pants Assassin ways too as I improve in fitness and skill.

Hello everyone! Just for some introductions, My name is LaughingViking and I am a male from Perth, Western Australia. I play, coach and umpire (some may say live ) Softball and also do Zen do Kai freestyle Karate in which I'm an Orange Belt. I also work in IT support, yes, the kind where I get to say "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" allot I have joined the Rebellion to help me get back on the road to fitness. I outlined this years story in my first challenge here. I am now very motivated to get this right and achieve something I thought at one point impossible. My main overall quest is to achieve my black-belt in Zen do Kai, which will require me to be much more fit than I am now, which means it is a good goal to have. I have chosen allot of different ways to measure my progress due to what happened earlier this year. This is why Steve and his approach really works for me and my situation, and I can see it work for many others too. I hope to get to know many of you over time and I will update this log with some metrics later today. My current challenge is here. Please feel free to shout encouragement and advise at me and I will try to repay the favor (mostly in encouragement ). Thanks for reading and I will post again soon, LaughingViking

For the record - I am fat, and trying to lose weight. This is my battle log. The Title of my battle log, is a line from the movie Zombieland:

********************************************** References / Sources of Information. Westside Barbell Conjugate Program - For Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri training. Gymnastics Foundation 1 Gymnastic Bodies - For Gymnastics work on Tues, Thurs and Sat/Sun Crossfit Endurance - For Rowing / Running intervals on Tues, Thurs to supplement training. Dangerously Hardcore - For how I will be eating to fuel this program. Carb Backloading. Eat to Perform - Another source of information regarding Carb Backloading and high volume training (specifically mentions Crossfit). Holocron - My collection of information surrounding training, nutrition (including supplementation) and health. *If anyone wants questions any aspect, fire away and I will throw a post up. ********************************************** Greetings everyone. After completing my first 12 week training cycle, I feel I have developed a good foundation of strength and conditioning. After taking a week of rest (with some weight sessions to keep away any muscle catabolism and hopefully and DOMS when I start training again!) I am ready to kick off phase 2. Phase 2 is going to focus on Gymnastic Strength Foundation training (see the references for Foundation 1 - Gymnastic Bodies), with some conditioning work placed on the back of it. The conditioning work will be in the same vein as Max Effort Black Box (short, intense, nothing over 12 - 15 mins). I will be keeping my Sprint training twice per week as I thoroughly enjoy it. Additionally, I will swith from Max Effort Black Box training to the Westside Barbell Conjugate training with my friend Matt. The reason for this is primarily because I am enjoying exercising with another person, plus I have started to get addicted to weight lifting after seeing the results from the previous program. However, the overall focus remains the Gymnastic Strength Foundation - or as I like to think of it, the 'Jedi movement fundamentals'. On days that I am not doing weightlifting (Westside) I will throw in some body weight training in the afternoon (this should occur Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays). My previous body weight training was all circuit work - I intend to mix this up and do some body weight exercise sets, focusing on hard exercise such as Pistol Squats, Handstand push-ups, etc. Therefore, a week of training will look something like the following... Sun - Westside Barbell Dynamic Bench Press. Mon - Gymnastic Foundation 1 with conditioning circuit, Westside Barbell Max Effort Squat/Deadlift. Tues - Sprint/Interval Training, Body Weight Training. Wed - Gymnastic Foundation 1 with conditioning circuit, Westside Barbell Max Effort Bench Press. Thur - Sprint/Interval Training, Body Weight Training. Fri - Gymnastic Foundation 1 with conditioning circuit, Westside Barbell Dynamic Squat/Deadlift. Sat - Rest - or Group Training (Circuit or Strength with some of the guys), Body Weight Training. Force Attunement - This is an indicator of how I felt prior to commencing the workout. The rating stretches from One to Five, each with the following meaning: Completely out of alignment. Almost no connection to the force. Training should probably be postponed. Difficulty in feeling the Force. Possibly tired or fatigued. Re-assessment of one's training supporting elements (Diet, Sleep, etc) should occur if a trend of this level develops. Normal connection levels. Considered the 'base-line' for Force sensitivity. Heightened connection. Above a normal level, resulting in increased optimism and feeling of well-being. Very strong connection. A feeling of almost perfect alignment.Nutrition - equally, if not more, important than the training itself is the nutrition. My target is 200g of protein each day, with Carbs dependent on the day. Fats will fill the remainder of the calorie intake (until satiety). Meals will remain High Fat/Low Carb throughout the day with Carbs at night. Breakfast is a non-event (read the Car Back Loading principle for why). Post work-out for the Barbell program will be Luecine and Whey Protein shake. Sun - High Carb night (~200g) Mon - Low Carb night (~50g) Tues - Moderate Carb night (~150g) Wed - Low Carb night (~50g) Thur - Moderate Carb night (~150g) Fri - Low Carb night (~50g) Sat - Moderate Carb night (~50g) ***** Starting Body Weight is 72kg naked (approximate) ****** Any and all information that supports this program can be found in my Holocron which I keep up to date with any new data I stumble upon.

Well , to support myself in my endless struggle with my weight i have decided to record my progress. Of course hoping to forever change myself in an awesome assasin/elf! (because those are the most epic characters in every game i have ever played) I'm not really out of shape, however i'm not happy with how I look + I have a few Goals I definetely want to accomplish! And the only way to do that is to change my lifestyle + my diet. I started my diet with the following measurements : I'm 1.69 m and 19 years old. at my heaviest I was : 67 kg I started my diet at : 65,5 kg after 2 weeks in my diet I discovered Nerd Fitness and decided to track all my measurements every month, here are my first: 4 feb 2013 weight: 62,9 kg breasts:83 cm waist:67 cm hips:90 cm bum:103 cm legs u:59 cm d:36 cm arms:24 cm BMI:22,0 My weekly sportschedule at the moment: Monday: 9-10 pm - quick Callanetics (including 25 min of either squats/push ups/abdominal muscles etc.) Tuesday: 8 - 9.30/10.00 pm - Recreational Volleybal Thursday: 7.30-10.30 pm - Volleybal training (I train with 2 teams) Friday: 9-10 am - slower Callanetics (including 25 min of either.... etc.) Saturday:9.30-10.30 am - quick Callanatics (including....... etc.) This is how my schedule is at the moment, however i want to add weighttraining and things like that . (perhaps instead of Callanatics on Friday) Tonight I will ask the gym coordinator if he can make a weightlift training program for me! The Reasons/ Goals: - I started playing Volleybal at the end of October 2013 > I'm totally hooked and therefore I want to become better and better! And for that I need muscles in my arms/legs etc. - I have always been a sporty girl, never looked lean and mean however... (only in my mind XD) Therefore I want to create the perfect body that a sport lover like me deserves! - I want to be able to use my Wind-surf board again! (now I'm not comfortable with my body > damn wetsuit... ) - I want to go hiking in the scotish Highlands and for that I need a toned physique! - I'm quite interested in Parkour (I used to do gymnastiques, so I believe that my body could handle all the quick momevements etc. after I have more muslces) + I really want to try it out! - I have always wanted to try out something like Jiu Jitsu , and as with all physical sports you need some muscle for that! - I want to weigh 54 kg at 1 july 2013 - have a body fat % of 18 % - To be ably to jump 1 m upwards My diet etc.: Well first of I'm a vegetarian. (i do eat fish) I love dairy products > wich is only natural because I live in Holland XD Therefore I can't follow a total Paleo diet. (i could give up the dairy products, but at the moment i already have problems with low iron and low blood pressure and therefore don't want to change to much food's that i have been acquiainted with since birth) Still I will follow it for as much as I can. (Perhaps i will even go full paleo eventually) I count calories at the moment..... I know it sounds bad.. well perhaps it is > but at the moment it works for me so.. uhm.. don't have anything more to add.. Well good luck to every other nerd Fitness rebel > And as Claude M. Bristol says : 'to win you gotta stay in the game!'