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No one is obligated or expected to actually read all of this lol. Just wanted to log everything for my daily workouts and basic plans. It changes often, so I'll be updating and revising here and there. The more I do a routine, the more I find gaps, or things I need to adjust and will do so as they come. Also, any outdoor activities or swimming, or other adventures that happen away from home gym I will share in thread to keep track of my activities with pics 💖 'MOON'DAY - ELEMENT OF WATER 5:00 AM - Wake 5:10 AM - Monday's Meditations: Moon energy, healing, self love, focus on feminine energy, and water energy. Accompanied by: Moonstone, rose quartz, snow quartz, clear quartz, selenite 6:30 AM - Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes or 5 Miles +2 for additional minutes or miles 7:00 AM - Strength Training - Light Full Body Workout 7:30 AM - Core, obliques workout (Coincides with Monday - Moonday, Goddess energy) 8:00 AM - Shower, then quick breakfast. EGGS. ALL THE EGGS. 8:45 AM - Leave for work 9:00 AM - Arrive at work 12:00 PM - Lunch followed by 10 minutes of meditation. 12:30 PM - Back to work 3:00 PM - 5 minutes of jumping jacks and stretching in back office to perk up and get blood flowing again. 5:00 PM - Released from the land of the dead - I mean work. (It's a cemetery. Literally the land of the dead so it's actually legit af.) 5:15 PM - Home. 6:00 PM - Head to the home dojo. Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes with 3lb weights, 5lbs, and 10lb kettlebell. Strength training with kettlebell and body weight exercises for 15 minutes. Core focused exercises for 15 minutes. 6:30 PM - Cook dinner/Eat 7:30 PM - MCT Protein Blast with Collagen >Insert mundane $#!% here< 8:30 PM - Recumbent Bike for 20 to 30 minutes with highest resistance for the day. Yoga/Tai Chi/ Qi Gong/ Meditation Accompanied by: Moonstone, rose quartz, snow quartz, clear quartz, selenite 9:30 PM - Read for 20 minutes, something inspiring and uplifting, comforting, and familiar. 10:00 PM - Set intentions for Tuesday manifestations, review planetary orbits, visualize my day, write keywords for how I would like to "feel", and how I can do something with that day to improve that. Journal for 10 minutes. 10:30 PM - Bedtime 🌊Bonus points today for taking a swim indoors or outdoors or just spending time with or by a natural body of water. +8 👽✨Bonus points for taking telescope out and spending quality time with La Luna +5 WARRIOR TUESDAY - ELEMENT OF FIRE 5:00 AM - Wake 5:10 AM - Tuesday's Meditations: Warrior energy, Mars, Masculine energy. Focus on strength, courage, empowerment, honor, loyalty, protection. Accompanied by: Smoky quartz, black tourmaline, obsidian, carnelian, pyrite 6:30 AM - Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes or 5 Miles +2 for additional minutes or miles 7:00 AM - Strength Training - Light Full Body Workout 7:30 AM - Shoulders, Back, Arms (Coincides with Tuesday - Mars Day - Warrior Energy!!! YEA!!!) 8:00 AM - Shower, then quick breakfast. EGGS. ALL THE EGGS. 8:45 AM - Leave for work 9:00 AM - Arrive at work 12:00 PM - Lunch followed by 10 minutes of meditation. 12:30 PM - Back to work 3:00 PM - 5 minutes of jumping jacks and stretching in back office to perk up and get blood flowing again. 5:00 PM - Off work. 5:15 PM - Home. 6:00 PM - Head to the home dojo. Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes with 3lb weights, 5lbs, and 10lb kettlebell. Strength training with kettlebell and body weight exercises for 15 minutes. Arms, shoulders, back focused exercises for 15 minutes. 6:30 PM - Cook dinner/Eat 7:30 PM - MCT Protein Blast with Collagen >Insert mundane $#!% here< 8:30 PM - Recumbent Bike for 20 to 30 minutes with highest resistance for the day. Yoga/Tai Chi/ Qi Gong/ Meditation Accompanied by: Smoky quartz, black tourmaline, obsidian, carnelian 9:30 PM - Read for 20 minutes, something empowering, heroic, courageous 10:00 PM - Set intentions for Wednesday manifestations, review planetary orbits, visualize my day, write keywords for how I would like to "feel", and how I can do something with that day to improve that. Journal for 10 minutes. 10:30 PM - Bedtime 🔥Bonus points today for having a sacred fire and/or fire scrying, incense making, smoke scrying +5 👽✨Bonus points for taking telescope out and spending quality time with corresponding planet +5 MERCURIAN WEDNESDAY (Weigh-In Wednesday) ELEMENT OF AIR 5:00 AM - Wake 5:10 AM - Wednesday's Meditations: Messenger, Intellectual energy, Mercury, Masculine and Feminine energy. Focus on outward energy. Promoting positive thought patterns, banishing negative thought patterns, contemplate how I use words with myself and others and if I do that in the healthiest most positive way and how I can improve that today. Accompanied by: Ametrine, obsidian, pink botswana agate, lepidolite, clear quartz 6:00 AM - Weigh-In 6:05 AM - Log weight, set new goals, make any necessary changes to nutrition and fitness plan, make grocery list and write out meal plan. (Wednesday's Mercurian Energy is great for all the intellectual, mathy, tedious stuff. Here's to Gemini's and Virgos!) 6:30 AM - Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes or 5 Miles +2 for additional minutes or miles 7:00 AM - Strength Training - Light Full Body Workout 7:30 AM - All limbs lifting and resisting today, and breathing exercises. (Coincides with Wednesday- Mercury Day - lungs, hands, arms, legs, feet) 8:00 AM - Shower, then quick breakfast. EGGS. ALL THE EGGS. 8:45 AM - Leave for work 9:00 AM - Arrive at work 12:00 PM - Lunch followed by 10 minutes of meditation. 12:30 PM - Back to work 3:00 PM - 5 minutes of jumping jacks and stretching in back office to perk up and get blood flowing again. 5:00 PM - Off work. 5:15 PM - Home. 6:00 PM - Head to the home dojo. Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes with 3lb weights, 5lbs, and 10lb kettlebell. Strength training with kettlebell and body weight exercises for 15 minutes. Arms, shoulders, back focused exercises for 15 minutes. 6:30 PM - Cook dinner/Eat 7:30 PM - MCT Protein Blast with Collagen >Insert mundane $#!% here< 8:30 PM - Recumbent Bike for 20 to 30 minutes with highest resistance for the day. Yoga/Tai Chi/ Qi Gong/ Meditation Accompanied by: Ametrine, obsidian, pink botswana agate, lepidolite, clear quartz 9:30 PM - Read for 20 minutes, something witty, clever, intellectual, thought provoking, science related topics such as theoretical physics, astronomy, etc. 10:00 PM - Set intentions for Thursday manifestations, review planetary orbits, visualize my day, write keywords for how I would like to "feel", and how I can do something with that day to improve that. Journal for 10 minutes. 10:30 PM - Bedtime 🌌Bonus points today for writing a short story or poem. +6 👽✨Bonus points for taking telescope out and spending quality time with corresponding planet +5 JOVIAN THURSDAY - ELEMENT OF AIR/FIRE 5:00 AM - Wake 5:10 AM - Thursday's Meditations: The day of the "Luck Planet" Jupiter. Philosopher energy. Divine wisdom. Abundance. Wealth. Luck. Accompanied by: Amethyst, smoky quartz, clear quartz, Preseli bluestone, carnelian, obsidian 6:30 AM - Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes or 5 Miles +2 for additional minutes or miles 7:00 AM - Strength Training - Light Full Body Workout 7:30 AM - Hams and Butt day (Coincides with Jupiter- Jovian Thursday - Thighs and butt. I have to admit that the biggest planet getting butt day is hilariously ironic) 8:00 AM - Shower, then quick breakfast. EGGS. ALL THE EGGS. 8:45 AM - Leave for work 9:00 AM - Arrive at work 12:00 PM - Lunch followed by 10 minutes of meditation. 12:30 PM - Back to work 3:00 PM - 5 minutes of jumping jacks and stretching in back office to perk up and get blood flowing again. 5:00 PM - Off work. 5:15 PM - Home. 6:00 PM - Head to the home dojo. Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes with 3lb weights, 5lbs, and 10lb kettlebell. Strength training with kettlebell and body weight exercises for 15 minutes. Hamstrings and butt focused exercises for 15 minutes. 6:30 PM - Cook dinner/Eat 7:30 PM - MCT Protein Blast with Collagen >Insert mundane $#!% here< 8:30 PM - Recumbent Bike for 20 to 30 minutes with highest resistance for the day. Yoga/Tai Chi/ Qi Gong/ Meditation Accompanied by: Amethyst, smoky quartz, clear quartz, Preseli bluestone, carnelian, obsidian 9:30 PM - Read for 20 minutes, something philosophical, financial and budget planning, entrepreneurial 10:00 PM - Set intentions for Friday manifestations, review planetary orbits, visualize my day, write keywords for how I would like to "feel", and how I can do something with that day to improve that. Journal for 10 minutes. 10:30 PM - Bedtime ⚡Bonus points today for participating in any kind of arts for 1 hour. +6 👽✨Bonus points for taking telescope out and spending quality time with corresponding planet +5 VENUSIAN FRIDAY - ELEMENT OF WATER/EARTH 5:00 AM - Wake 5:10 AM - Friday's Meditations: The day of love. Love, compassion, self love, marriage, friendship, mother energy, healing from water energy, stability and growth from Earth energy. Accompanied by: Amazonite, rose quartz, clear quartz, snowflake obsidian 6:30 AM - Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes or 5 Miles +2 for additional minutes or miles 7:00 AM - Strength Training - Light Full Body Workout 7:30 AM - Chest, abs, leg day (Coincides with Venus- Venusian Friday - Chest, breasts, do I even need to add womb here lol, legs) 8:00 AM - Shower, then quick breakfast. EGGS. ALL THE EGGS. 8:45 AM - Leave for work 9:00 AM - Arrive at work 12:00 PM - Lunch followed by 10 minutes of meditation. 12:30 PM - Back to work 3:00 PM - 5 minutes of jumping jacks and stretching in back office to perk up and get blood flowing again. 5:00 PM - Off work. 5:15 PM - Home. 6:00 PM - Head to the home dojo. Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes with 3lb weights, 5lbs, and 10lb kettlebell. Strength training with kettlebell and body weight exercises for 15 minutes. Chest, abs, legs focused exercises for 15 minutes. 6:30 PM - Cook dinner/Eat 7:30 PM - MCT Protein Blast with Collagen >Insert mundane $#!% here< 8:30 PM - Recumbent Bike for 20 to 30 minutes with highest resistance for the day. Yoga/Tai Chi/ Qi Gong/ Meditation Accompanied by: Amazonite, rose quartz, clear quartz, snowflake obsidian 9:30 PM - Read for 20 minutes, something romantic, or about friendship, companionship, motherhood (even though I'm not a mom, I can't resist a Gilmore Girls - esque tale. I do happen to still be a daughter ) 10:00 PM - Set intentions for Saturday manifestations, review planetary orbits, visualize my day, write keywords for how I would like to "feel", and how I can do something with that day to improve that. Journal for 10 minutes. 10:30 PM - Bedtime ♥️Bonus points today for taking a bubble bath with essential oils, candles, flowers, music. Treat yourself. +6 👽✨Bonus points for taking telescope out and spending quality time with corresponding planet +5 SATURNIAN SATURDAY - ELEMENT OF EARTH 5:00 AM - Wake 5:10 AM - Saturday's Meditations: Father Saturn, Capricornian energy, the teacher Accompanied by: Amethyst, citrine, or ametrine, smoky quartz, rainbow obsidian, black tourmaline 6:30 AM - Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes or 5 Miles +2 for additional minutes or miles 7:00 AM - Strength Training - Light Full Body Workout 7:30 AM - Focus on mobility and joint health today as well as breathing exercises (Coincides with Saturn- Saturnian Saturday- joint health, flexibility, breathability) 8:00 AM - Shower 9:00 AM - Breakfast - Chia bowl with berries, a mini-chaffle size of palm(an egg waffle) with tomatoes, peppers, onions. 1:00 PM - Lunch followed by 10 minutes of meditation. 6:00 PM - Head to the home dojo. Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes with 3lb weights, 5lbs, and 10lb kettlebell. Strength training with kettlebell and body weight exercises for 15 minutes. Flexibility and low impact focused exercises for 15 minutes. 6:30 PM - Cook dinner/Eat 7:30 PM - MCT Protein Blast with Collagen >Insert mundane $#!% here< 8:30 PM - Recumbent Bike for 20 to 30 minutes with highest resistance for the day. Yoga/Tai Chi/ Qi Gong/ Meditation Accompanied by: Amethyst, citrine, or ametrine, smoky quartz, rainbow obsidian, black tourmaline 9:30 PM - Read for 20 minutes, something insightful, educational, motivational, self improvement, even home improvement! (Do some Dad things. Done.) 10:00 PM - Set intentions for Sunday manifestations, review planetary orbits, visualize my day, write keywords for how I would like to "feel", and how I can do something with that day to improve that. Journal for 10 minutes. 10:30 PM - Bedtime ☮️Bonus points today for learning a new trade, or for researching *opposing* political views. +8 👽✨Bonus points for taking telescope out and spending quality time with corresponding planet +5 SOL SUNDAY - ELEMENT OF FIRE 5:00 AM - Wake 5:10 AM - Sunday's Meditations: God, Sol, Sun, Divine Masculine energy, Leo energy, Fire, self love, ego Accompanied by: Citrine, smoky quartz, clear quartz, pyrite, shungite, lemon quartz, carnelian 6:30 AM - Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes or 5 Miles +2 for additional minutes or miles 7:00 AM - Strength Training - 10,000HP Full Body Workout!!! GO HARD BISH. YOU A STAR. Literally, be a star. It is "Sun" day after all ) 7:30 AM - Focus on total body, calisthenics, then follow up with something light and calming such as stretching, slow flow yoga, Qi Gong (Coincides with Sol- Sunday- perfomance, endurance, stamina, and cool down, plus a bit of "ego check" ) Fuel the fire, then cool the fire. 8:00 AM - Shower 9:00 AM - BIG BREAKFAST TODAY YES. 10:00 AM - Go say hello to the sun. Take in that glorious fk'er. Get outside and get some D. Vitamin D. 1:00 PM - Lunch followed by 10 minutes of meditation. 6:00 PM - Head to the home dojo. Recumbent Bike for 20 minutes with 3lb weights, 5lbs, and 10lb kettlebell. Strength training with kettlebell and body weight exercises for 15 minutes. Flexibility and low impact focused exercises for 15 minutes. 6:30 PM - Cook dinner/Eat 7:30 PM - MCT Protein Blast with Collagen >Insert mundane $#!% here< 8:30 PM - Recumbent Bike for 20 to 30 minutes with highest resistance for the day. Yoga/Tai Chi/ Qi Gong/ Meditation Accompanied by: Amethyst, citrine, or ametrine, smoky quartz, rainbow obsidian, black tourmaline 9:30 PM - Read for 20 minutes, something insightful, educational, motivational, self improvement, even home improvement! (Do some Dad things. Done.) 10:00 PM - Set intentions for Monday manifestations, review planetary orbits, visualize my day, write keywords for how I would like to "feel", and how I can do something with that day to improve that. Journal for 10 minutes. 10:30 PM - Bedtime 🌄Bonus points today for going on a hike, going fishing, bird watching, boating +10 If it's raining and you still do it, +3 more cuz you rock and stuff. 👽✨Bonus points for taking telescope out and spending quality time with corresponding planet +5

Phoenix Riviera | The Phoenix Rises What defines us is how well we rise after falling... My last challenge I was unable to finish the last 2 weeks due to sickness and work stress... ...so this time I will use similar goals but build on them. Fire needs three things to survive: Fuel, Heat and Oxygen. That is what this bird needs to keep the flame bright in this challenge. Goal One | Fuel Fire needs fuel to stay fierce. For this goal, I will use MyFitnessPal everyday to make sure I eat less than 70g of sugar. I will also have a bonus part to this goal where I must have veges/fruit every day. Less than 70 g = A 70 g - 80 g= B 80g - 90 g = C Over 90 = F +2 Wisdom for eating smarter +2 Charisma for looking goooood when I'm done Bonus: Veges/fruit eaten every day +1 to Constitution Goal Two | Heat I need strength and balance to fly fast enough to create the heat. I will complete strength training body-weight exercises 2x a week plus yoga 2x a week. Body-weight x2 + Yoga x2 = A Body-weight x2 + Yoga x1 = B Body-weight x1 + Yoga x1 = C Less than Body-weight x1 + Yoga x1 = F +2 Strength +2 Dexterity +1 Charisma Goal Three | Oxygen Fire needs oxygen. To help the oxygen in my body I need to increase my water intake. I will aim to drink at least 1 litre of water a day. 2.0 litres = A 1.5 litre = B 1.0 litres = C Less than 1.0 litres = F +2 Constitution +2 Charisma +1 Wisdom Week 1 Less than 70 g = A 70 g - 80 g= B 80g - 90 g = C Over 90 = F Body-weight x2 + Yoga x2 = A Body-weight x2 + Yoga x1 = B Body-weight x1 + Yoga x1 = C Less than Body-weight x1 + Yoga x1 = F 2.0 litres = A 1.5 litre = B 1.0 litres = C Less than 1.0 litres = F

17 years ago a boy did his first set of pullups. He hung up a makeshift pullup bar in the house three years later, and he hasn't stopped since. Bodyweight exercises has always been a man's area of specialization. Whether it stems from natural causes (possessing a naturally high relative strength ratio), or years of practice (resulting from lack of athleticism and social skills that led to a lot of time spent doing pushups and Hindu squats), one will never know. But after addressing specific weaknesses, a man decides to come back to his roots. The League of Shadows could be where one truly belongs. THE QUEST A man names three goals. Way of the Flame: Agility. Mobility. Movement. A man must be able to maneuver oneself over, under, and through anything. Master the simple movements and move your body well. The goals are: 200 backflips, 10 total minutes in the flag, and body armor training at least twice a week in preparation for Memorial Day. (DEX +3, STR +1) The Body is an Anvil: Body composition and weight is a large component of relative strength. After a huge surplus the last few weeks, a man shall be performing a cut. The goal is to log one's calorie intake every day, and drop down to 140 lbs. by week 6. (DEX +2, CON +1, CHA +1) Cleansing Fire: A depressed assassin is pretty much just an emo kid: a useless, self-pitying loner wearing black. One of the strategies a man's therapist made him do to ward off depression was establish a routine of personal hygiene. The goal is to shower and brush one's teeth every day for 42 days. Besides, a lingering man-smell makes one easily detectable. (CON +4, CHA +1) And one will always try to wear black when training. SIDE QUEST Latino Heat: Complete 10 remaining modules of the Pimsleur Spanish Beginner Course, and start Duolingo. (WIS +2) THE MOTIVATION All men must die.

Most of my adult life, I can safely say I haven't lived on "easy" or "casual" mode, but neither have I played on Epic or Legendary difficulty either. I think a lot of people can relate to that: "enemies" don't just fall over dead after a quick poke with a stick, but neither do they roflstomp your ass in 2 seconds flat. I am going to be missing the first week of the next Challenge series, because tomorrow morning, I leave on a fire assignment: taking a 20-person Type-2 handcrew out, hopefully to punch some good line and/or lay down some fire in the goal of suppressing one of the several high-impact and destructive fires burning around the state. But quickly, back to that "easy mode", "legendary mode" comparison. One of my Epic Arc goals (taking place with several "sub-arcs" and resulting in a couple of level-ups worth of XP) I am setting for myself is to apply, be accepted to, and successfully complete, the 2014 fire season with the Redding Interagency Hotshot Crew's Fire Leadership Development Program, to give permanent career Fire personnel quality education and real-world experience in leadership and fire behavior, first-hand, as a member of that Hotshot crew. For those who don't really follow Fire, especially of the wildland variety (or who, upon seeing Orange County/Malibu/San Bernardino engulfed in flames for the umpteeth time, go "huh. California's burning again. News at 11. *click*), Hotshots are to Wildland Fire as the 75th Ranger Regiment is to the US Army (in case you were wondering, "Smokejumpers" are the "Green Berets/Delta Force"). These crews are the elite of ground-pounding Wildland Fire forces -- they go where no other crews dare tread, and take on the assignments no other crews can successfully accomplish. In our National Mobilization system, we "type" crews, engines, helicopters, Incident Management Teams, even individual overhead positions. In all of these cases except Engines (where "typing" refers to more to what specific job it's best at), "Type 1" is the best, most capable resource of its kind available. All Hotshot crews meet the National standard as "Type 1" handcrews. Earlier this season, the Yarnell Hill Fire claimed an entire Crew of them, minus their lookout. Even the most elite of elite sometimes lose, sometimes catastrophically. Up until now, my Fire career, all 9 years of it, has been spent mostly in Engine Companies (both structural and wildland), a couple years in Prevention/Patrol (which is, I have to say, the most fun I've ever had in the Fire Service), and a season as a Squad Boss on a Wildland Fire Module (a different type of "Type 1" crew -- smaller and designed to monitor/herd beneficial remote backcountry fires ignited by lightning), before bumping to my "cushy" Captain's job in the ECC last year. I have, to be honest, always been deathly afraid of Hotshot-type work. As an Apprentice, I was offered a spot on my Ranger District's Hotshot crew. I declined and asked for the Squaddie assignment on another District for my crew time requirement. Why? I was afraid. Afraid I wouldn't keep up, afraid I couldn't hack it, and afraid I'd let everybody down and be "that guy" that screwed the whole pooch for everyone. Hotshots work in rugged, steep, quite frankly "fucked-up" terrain. I am well-established as being Most Likely to End Up On His Ass in said terrain. Hotshots PT hard, just as hard as Rangers do. Even at my "best shape" of my adult life (which actually was pretty damn good), I still couldn't keep up with the slowest guy on the Shot crew. Hotshots work hard, cutting huge swaths of fireline through heavy brush, in 100+ degree heat, often cutting "hot line" or "going direct", working RIGHT along the fire's edge, adding another couple hundred degrees of heat. Generally, Hotshots are also some of the most fire-saavy dudes in the business -- and if you want to develop that level of "been there, done that" with fire behavior, you need to do a season or two on a Hotshot crew. I never believed I had it in me to be successful as a Hotshot... I didn't even think I could begin to hack it. A lot of unhelpful people fed into that mentality and belief, and thus it came that I denied myself the opportunity to even try. Thanks to Steve's articles, I've taken back that power, began PTing hard, watching what (and how much) I eat, and starting on the road to making that season with Redding's training program at least a possibility. Every journey, even of a thousand miles, begins with one step. Tomorrow, I am taking out a Type-2 Handcrew as a trainee Crew Boss (under the supervision of a fully-qualified one, of course) -- Step 1 happens first thing tomorrow morning. So now the question goes to the rest of you: What's holding you back? What's keeping you from living YOUR life on Legendary mode? Most importantly: What can you do to mitigate that, and make Legendary mode a possibility, then a reality?