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About me: Ex-army (left due to injury) and currently in University and am in early 20's My injury has made me very unfit and makes it difficult to become fit again. I have two years left in University. In this time I want to become fit and happy with myself again before graduating. I love games such as Final Fantasy XIV online and the Kingdom hearts series My build: I have quite alot of muscle mass but my sudden inactivity caused by my injury has lead me to gain some weight on top of this. I managed to maintain my muscular strength in spite of my injury particularly in my upper body and arms. It is my lower body and cardiovascular ability that has declined. This was as I went from being able to run 30 miles with heavy kit on to nothing because of my injury. For reference, when I weighed 98kg I wasn't fat and had a very minimal amount of belly fat. During my long period of inactivity I gained over 22 kilograms. I have managed to lose some of this through eating well. Currently I weigh 115kg. My main quests: - Graduate University - Get back to the level of fitness I was at in the Army - Be happy with myself again (haven't been in 3 years) My first challenge goals: 1 - Try and weigh under 100kg (currently 115kg) To do this I want to: - Push myself hard to get to the gym and not spend free time only on games - Eat very well like I did on my previous diet 3 years ago - Drink a lot - Stop getting sad about the amount I can do compared to how I used to be. I will try and do a little better each workout or at least the same. 2- Allocate a balance between work, recreation and fitness Background - I am a full time University student and have a part time job. My degree requires to me do additional unpaid work for experience as well, so it's like balancing two jobs and University. To do this I want to: - Try allocating specific hours for this - Record how I think each week has gone and make changes accordingly 3- To start with try and focus on doing well in the first term of 2nd year University starts up again in September. To achieve this goal I want to: - Allow enough time to complete work with as little stress as possible. - Focus on gaining as much experience as I healthily can to make getting the job at the end easier - Balance my degree with fitness, recreation, relationships and jobs etc. I saw that the next challenge starts September 5th. Because of this I will give myself an extra week and set this as a six week challenge

I'm pretty sure that if Ubisoft keeps releasing new AC games on annual basis, at some point we are bound to end up with a female protagonist. And, because you never know with these amazing bastards, they may as well call it Start Anew. The protagonist will be called simply Anna, or Igi; she will be a bookworm, a young (eighteen years old - hence the number of the game!) woman equipped with pretty well-rounded education, but also with lack of interest towards her body. She will be ambitious, stubborn, lively and eager to plummet headfirst into any adventure, whether delievering a speech at a Youth Parliament or waterskiing. And she will have dreams beyond her reach, beautiful, vivid, colourful dreams that won't let her sleep peacefully, dreams of seeing more, climbing higher, running faster - feeling more than humanly possible. And then she'll discover the Assassin's Path. So yeah, are you ready to start? The story is not about being perfect from the beginning - like you start with Ezio. Or Altair. I don't have a lifetime of training behind me, I never even tried parkour or climbing. But I will. I will. One step at a time. STARTING DATE: 14.02.2014 (look, what a fine combination!) My goal until 24.02.2014: stay with NF community, continue research on the best types of exercises for beginners, think about how I want to start eating healthy - realistically, not with some major changes at the beginning. On 24th February I'm planning to enroll into 6 Weeks Challenge under the banner of, obviously, Assassins. Exercise routine until 24.02.3014: on Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays - Beginner's Bodyweigh Workout with Beginner's Stretching on the rest of the weekdays: Interval Training Side quest: - learn about parkour some more - limit the amount of time spent in front of the screen - take my medicines Motivation: If you only have a second of time... Just take a look. Read it. Please, I guarrantee you won't be disappointed. William Ernest Henley, Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.