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Hallo Ich suche NerdFitness Mitglieder aus Deutschland. Ich fände es toll wenn man sich austauschen und unterstützen könnte. Was hat dir NerdFitness bisher gebracht? Was sind deine Ziele? Was tust du im deine Ziele zu erreichen? Ich freue mich über jeden Beitrag!

Hi, everyone! I 'm Nat, 28, student, born and raised in Germany, living in Malaysia but currently back home. I just joined the Academy today and I am pretty excited to get started! Also, this is my first forum =) I am here because I know that I could be in better shape. The problem is that I just don't know how to get there on my own. It's not that I need to lose weight, I think my weight is considered healthy. However, I don't feel healthy, I don't feel comfortable in my own skin - not yet at least. As a student I usually spend many many many hours in front of my laptop and indoors and to be honest, I don't really feel the need to engage in some physical activity or to just go out and do something. I am quite content with binge-watching whatever, except for some periods (usually lasting two to four weeks) where I work out somewhat consistently (running, yoga, bodyweight exercises). Only to reverse back into my not-doing-anything routine. The result: skinny limbs with no strength, while chubby around my midsection. Also, I don't have a healthy relationship with food. This is a realisation I just made recently, or better, one that I only now have come to admit. This is the first time I actually vocalised this thought. So, I seek comfort in food. I rely on food to pick me up when I feel stressed or down. And of course, I don't turn to vegetables for that. And finally, around February this year, my skin started to go crazy. I have had oily/combination/acne-prone skin since puberty hit, but it was pretty much under control until earlier this year. I moved to a tropical, very humid climate back in August, but oddly enough, my skin started acting up only half a year later. Besides changing my skincare routine, I tried cutting out all kinds of food that could cause or enhance inflammation and drank litres and litres of water, but nothing really helped. Although it is slightly better now, I am sure that I can further improve the state of my skin by actually nourishing it with good food stuff. My what: Feel comfortable and confident in my body! My why: I visualise what the result will look like: no more slouching, but perfect posture, no more fatigue, but feeling energetic, no more skinny-chubby combo, but an overall strong and healthy body. I am going to be that person and for that, I have to start today! My how: Establish a healthy relationship to food, engage in physical activity and develop overall healthy habits in my life My detailed action plan: Improve duration and quality of my sleep. Find support through this community and ideally have someone check in on me from time to time. I think accountability will help me out tremendously. Learn to eat healthy, to stop when I am full even though it is super delicious, and to say no to things Educate myself about nutrition, workout and habit-forming (currently on the latter) I am so excited about this because I am going to feel confident in and with my body! I am grateful that I stumbled across NF and if you have any advice for me, I am open to suggestions and nudges in the right direction! And if you'd like to know more about me, feel free to ask (although I am pretty sure that you have enough reading material about me with this)! Nice to meet you, fellow nerds =)

While leaving my apartment this morning, hand already on the door handle, I turned around, dodged my cats and marched into the bathroom to pull "Level Up your life" from the toilet reading pile. Then I walked out the door. So, this is the first day of my new life and I am spending it by writing a forum introduction in "How to use Outlook" class, before running out for a meeting with manufacturer representatives. That's my life. I have been hanging around the fringes of Nerd Fitness for about two years now, I am a member of Nerd Yoga (sad story, more on that later) but I haven't DONE anything, really. A bit on myself: My name is Kat or Fussel (Fluffy for the non German crowd). I am 37 years old and at some point in my life studied archeology before I had to give it up and do something that involves earning money... I restarted everything and now am a backoffice corporate account manager in IT. Basically, I sell a lot of computers. I was born with a mild case of Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome and spent my life slower, weaker and more injury prone than my peers. It would be a lie to say, I didn't let it stop me. I got used to being too fragile to be badass. Luckily not in my head and luckily the Force works without a strong body. 13 years ago I developed a bad case of rheumathoid arthritis that drove me into depression and at some point close to suicide. Funnily, the knowledge that suicide was an option kept me going when shit got real bad. I got my stuff together and my body back into something resembling working order. Like that it worked ok-ish until, 4 years ago, I started feeling that after 20 years, it was time to stop smoking. Gosh darn it, that was hard! But I've been clean for 3 1/2 years now and for 2 1/2 years now, I finally have the feeling to be able to breathe for the first time in my life. But that packed on some pounds. I shot to 180lbs with the help of cortisone and the lack of nicotine. I dropped a good bit of those already (163 lbs at present) but it's hard. So hard. Due to my body not working right, whenever i seem to have found something I can do... I need to stop. At any given time some appendix is not working right, feet, knees, hands, elbows..... you get the gist. And that is the one thing I am sorely missing on nerd fitness. I started with nerdfitness yoga (which I love) but with a brutally inflamed left wrist for the last 9 months, training is out. I wanna do the wall handstand. I just can't. I wanna do curls, but I can't grip a barbell. I love my kettle bell, but guess what...? So I stuck to leg strength, excercise bike... trying just to do something. Anything. Sadly, the only thing I can seem to stick with are my 3 mile walks home from work. There are times when I'm sorely doubting my gym membership. So, where are all the creative cripples with the workarounds at? Is there a group? A Mailing list? Anything? But that's not the only problem I have. Number two is motivation. The friends I train with are super inconsistent and it's extremely hard to keep going on my own. Accountability... I am totally looking for people to keep me on track. As we're all, probably. But aside from that: come talk to me! Tell me, how my use of the word cripple is totally inappropriate (I know you thought it, but sometimes owning it, is all you got). Come talk to me about Star Wars, about LARP (that's what I'm training for), crafting (sadly, spinning is off limits with the hand, but right now, I am building a new post apoc outfit!), music (guitar is, guess what, off limits atm), movies (just saw Magnificent 7. Holy shit!) and all things food and fitness. I'm looking forward to this new day and whatever it may bring As for goals? Short and sweet: run 5 k by new year and write a book. Greets from Germany, Fluffy

Take a good look, because that is just ONE of the awesome places I'm going next month. So, I totally fell off during the last challenge. Had some old issues come back up and kick my ass real good. Knocked me off my feet for a couple of weeks and set me back hard on just about every one of my goals. The only thing I was able to hold on to was the control over my diet, which has been pretty okay. I've managed to keep making my own lunches regularly, and keeping my caloric intake down has kept me hovering right around the 200lb mark. Fortunately, I've also managed to mostly hold on to my routine of getting to class. It's become almost the background noise of my life... doesn't matter how much the day sucks or how awful I feel--if I can walk, I make it to Kung Fu and do the best I can. I've also done some regular-ish walking around the office park at work, trying to keep my activity up in a low-bodily-impact manner until my body decides to stop being a bitch. I'm now two weeks from departure on my five-year-late European honeymoon. Wife and I have been planning this trip for the past 18 months. We'll start by flying into Copenhagen, Denmark, and spending two days there before hopping a train (which, I kid you not, gets on a BOAT) which will take us to Germany for the remainder of the two weeks. In Cologne, we will attend the final farewell concert of our favorite German band (Unheilig), and then set off for a week in the Moselle river valley. We'll cap things off in the place pictured above, by attending a Medieval Market (and meet up with a certain other Rebel!), and generally enjoying quiet German village life for a couple of days. Since the issues that are plaguing me still have not subsided, and I'm leaving in two weeks, I'm not really going to be pursuing a challenge-as-such this time. The next fortnight will be filled with a whirlwind of preparations, packing, printing, and making sure that everything is in place so that I can leave my house alone for two weeks without any problems. In that time, I will still be attending class of course, at least until 9/2. (I might go on 9/5; it will depend on how well I do packing that weekend.) In happy news, there is a tentative plan for my first sash testing(!) this Saturday. I'll confirm it tonight, but Sifu wants to test me before I leave, and there's very little time left for that! So, I'm not dead, and still very much looking forward to my upcoming travels. I miss you guys--once I get back, I'll be hanging out here more again as I try to sort out post-trip blues and get my life back on track again =)

...a man with three buttocks. Now that I have your attention: Hello everybody! After following the Newsletter for quite a while, I decided to join the Academy and at the same time made myself an account for the forums. While I've been using the Facebook-Academy-Group quite a bit, I never really used the forums. Not only does the new quest system push me towards the forums, I have also realised, that the forums will help me. I'm not big on blogging and I don't want another account to keep track of and I can't always find my own posts on Facebook in the group. So I will try to use the forum as a blog to keep track of my journey and for you to hold me accountable. I promised an introduction, so here it goes: I am a nearly 35 year old married electrical engineering student from Northern Germany. Seems old to be a student? Yes, but I after school I completed a three year IT-Training and a total of 8 years military service (the last of which I was already enrolled in university). My next education goal (after the bachelor in electrical engineering) is to become a teacher (electrical engineering and English). Sportswise I am normally active in the Academy workouts and after the summer holidays (which would today) I want to respawn in Judo (again). I say normally, because I broke a toe a few weeks ago and I am still in healing... My goals are general fitness, flexibility/higher range of motion, overall strengh and a black belt in Judo (I am currently on brown). Other than studying and sports (in the little time left inbetween), I enjoy RPGs (pen and paper!!!), Heavy Metal and Hard Rock music, going to shooting club. Have I left anything out? Any questions? Feel free to ask... See you around.

Hey all! Since my last introduction mysteriously vanished, I just reintroduce myself: I am Marc, I am in my early thirties and I am part of this community since February. I have no pressing issues I need to address right now but quite a few things I want to change. I am practicing German Ju-Jutsu since 2008 and I have earned my 2nd masters degree in it in July. I am also a certified coach in Ju-Jutsu. To further improve my art I've also started training in Kali Silat Evolution, which is also a fun martial art to practice. I am a big believer in calisthenics, though I lack the discipline to keep up a training regime. I am just in a "implement healthy habits" mood, (again) and the reset of the questing system was a pleasant coincidence. If you have any questions regarding Ju-Jutsu I am happy to help. You can also ask me regarding calisthenics and stretching - at least I am educated in those fields Apart from Martial Arts I like Bouldering and I always wanted to take a shot at Parkour. So I would deem myself a Monk-Assassin. My goals so far: I want to lose around 20 pound (or exchange it with muscle) Establish a daily workout routine Increase my flexibility (First goal: http://breakingmuscle.com/video/5-flexibility-standards-you-should-be-able-to-meet-video, Epic goal tbd, high kicks are certainly a part of it) Increase my physical strength using Calisthenics Movements (I am a fan of Ross Enamait, Al Kavadlo and Convict Conditioning), goals tbd Increase my stamina. I am huffing and puffing after a short period of strain which inhibits my ability to perform my art under stress. Goals tbd, but since Martial Arts are often anaerobic, I will work with HIIT stuff to get going. If you want to connect with me, you can reach me in Fitocracy under the same nickname as here :-)

Hi there from Germany! Guess what - I am new here. I found this forum and page by accident. We do not have pages like that in Germany - at least AFAIK. I am 30 (going to be 31 in a few months), female and have to cats and a boyfriend. My weight is currently too high to mention *lol* no seriously - it is somewhere around 83kg and I my height is about 171cm give or take one centimeter... I started losing some weight a few weeks ago but as I got older since the last time I tried (I was 16 back then and lost about 18kg withing like NO time...) I just realized it got harder as well - not only is it harder to stick to my diet but I have something called a working-life as well that tends to fuck with my goals regularly (I am a teacher and there is LOTS OF CHOCOLATE and stuff lying around in the staff-room) *lol* I wanna be honest - I need some encouragement to stick to that goal of getting back to about 70-72kg... Especially because I actually LIKE myself the way I am - I just do not like how unsporty I am (and the fact that every kilo I put on makes the motorbike suit fit worse and the motorbike slower!). I did running a few years ago and I loved it - but my knees are giving up on me, so I am afraid I will have to stick to short distances here... I might need to find another sport to do here... Another goal would be to create something like a work-life-balance. I tend to work A LOT (talking about 10-12 hours a day here...) and my friends started to complain about that months ago - but I did not listen. It did not do me any good. The next year will not be the easiest one, because I was asked and so am going to become class teacher of a really difficult class - what means even more workload... I need to learn to focus on relaxing again or I am pretty sure it will burn me out one day - just because I love my work that much... I don't know if you know what I mean...? TL/DR: My goals are... ...getting fit again ...create a work-life-balance Cheers! Mieze

Hi there, I will move to Berlin-Lichtenberg next week and I would like to do some regularly sports beside my NF workouts I do at home. That's why I just thought it's a good idea to ask here. Is someone from Berlin here who wants to play some weekly Badminton/Squash/whatever with me? I will live near S-Nöldnerplatz. Best, Til

Hi all, the second Spartan Race event in Germany has been announced, it will be in Cologne, right in my neck of the woods. http://de-de.spartanrace.com/spartan-sprint-koln-20140628 So i´ll run ,probably volunteer as well. I think having a team NF starting there would be cool. Anybody willing to join? Kilian