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Increase strength and range of motion. Remove fat and get stronger, faster and more ninja like. A was a little late to post my challenge for May 28-June 24th but I do have one !!! Here it is. 1) FITNESS – I will follow my exercise program that is 6 days a week 2) Training- I will get in my martial arts training 6 days a week 3) Nutrition – I will hit my daily nutrition target every day on this 4 week challenge. 4) Life – I will grow a garden and spend 15 min every day focused on improving my habitat.

After I spent the last six weeks in the forest with the Druids, learning to calm my inner torments and to control my emotions better, it's time to focus on the physical again - time to get physically strong, while continuously practicing my mental good habits. Because being strong is better than being weak. (I know, this is deep. Ha.) Let's get strong! And since I'm in a House MD binge period, let's this challenge be House-themed. Everybody lies. So do I. So I will set measurable goals, and measure and POST. I will disclose to the world what I am doing - the good and the BAD, and it will be painful. But it will show that I am accountable, that I am doing something. I will create posts for weekly results. Goal is to post every Monday (KST). Life is Pain. So I will hurt. Let's be ready to live with this pain rather than fear it. Because fearing pain is what prevented me from doing things so far. I'm excellent at watching life unfold, but I'm fearful of stepping up and getting hurt. NO MORE. Goals will be hard. I will hurt. There will be pain. Because life is full of difficulties. But we cannot control difficulties, we can only control our reaction to the difficulties. No more whining and postponing and more living! Nothing's ever right. So I will fail. I will eat that cake, miss that workout. But it's okay. What I will NOT do is gilt-trip me for that imperfection. I will expect it, rejoice when and if it doesn't come, but I will stop trying to be perfect. Just try to reach hard goals and do my best to reach them. And recognize that failing while doing my best is incomparably better than not trying. To put it in other words, from Humans of New York: “I used to be 300 lbs. I thought that when I lost all the weight, a light switch would suddenly flip on and I’d be driven and inspired. [Now I've lost the weight] but the self-judgment just shifted. Sometimes when I’m jogging, I’ll see a woman who is fitter than me, and I’ll think: ‘No matter how much I run, I’ll never look like that.’ It’s the same voice in my head as before. Only difference is now I’m better at telling it to shut the fuck up.†Doing things changes everything. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were. So let's change! Let's try, do new things, suffer a little, measure the results. And be happy about the process, embrace the experience. Let's go!