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Hello, this is my first page of my Daily Battle Log, so don't have a whole lot to share as of right now, or nothing to show on training since I am on Newbie status and still a recruit. So far, I had started yoga last week which is the second week of the challenge. The first week was used mainly to get ready to go, food wise, picking out my kettlebell training program which my instructor had made for me some time ago. My diet of choice is paleo. I find a lot of the foods on the paleo diet are much more filling for me and I don't go overboard and eat too much. I have the Primal Blueprint Cookbook and have been taking a lot of my recipes from that. Starting today, I am going to quit drinking soda (I am attempting cold turkey and will record whether I was successful for the day on the battle log.) I honestly do think that soda is really sabotaging my efforts in losing weight/getting healthy efforts. My ultimate goal is to get in shape enough to become a StrongFirst Girevik kettlebell instructor one day. As of right now, I am too out of shape, don't have the strength of stamina to go through the course. I am hoping from my membership from Nerd Fitness is to gain the motivation to achieve that ultimate goal. Wish everyone the best of luck. Will hear more detailed info from me tommorow!

I am a newbie, wannabe Ranger. But have been doing a lot. I work in Federal Law enforcement running around in the desert and mountains. I also am a CrossFit LV1 and LV 2 coach with 5 other certs. Why do I hurt? Well...last night I did the "Prison Workout" with a twist. You do 25 burpees, jog 25 yards then do 24 burpees and so on down to 1. The twist is that I added 10 sit ups per round. It comes out to 350 burpees and 250 sit-ups in just under 40 minutes (for me anyway) I had some athletes beat me by a few minutes and a few athletes take up to 55 minutes. Either way, it hurt. During the challenge I have a few goals. Modify my diet to cut out most "bad" carbs and sugar Up my cardio and get leaner. I lift weights, but for cardio, I lift weights faster. Stay off of the Copenhagen snuff. It's been 5 weeks since I had one, but the temptation is still there. So in general, I want to be a bad ass Ranger and keep up with the youngsters (I'm 44) Look forward to hearing from you all.