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Quick Introduction I'm Natalee, fun, funky, fabulous mother of 2 sweet little boys charting her course in waters rough and rugged. I've been struggling to get my fitness, specifically bodyweight fitness in order these last few months and it came to mind to visit this wonderful haven and lo and behold a challenge is about to start, so here I am. For the next four weeks my aim is to do all of four things Bodyweight train 6 days a week, actively rest on Sundays, a part of this bodyweight training will be a focus on improving flexibility. Improve my eating habits; I need to make healthier choices, increase protein intake and decrease the consumption of cookies. (Cookie monster Alert!!} Develop the program outline for my proposed physical education program. Listen to Bible and personal development audios daily. I'm short on time at the moment... working on work... but this is the outline and I will add an in depth breakdown of my goals, adding my workouts and diet plans when time permits. I feel really excited, NerdFitness has helped me before, and I have all confidence that sharing with you all will help me to LEVEL UP! Can't wait to meet you!

Overview / Motivation: I want to up my game with my overall fitness - strength, stamina and dexterity. I am still building up to my 5 seconds of courage to buy my Spartan Trifecta pass for 2018 so I want to keep building a solid foundation to be able to attack that massive challenge head on. I'm leveraging my challenge goals from last time and adding in some additional planks and increasing as many of my core lifts as possible to start breaking through some comfort zones. Main Quest: Work towards building my bench and squats to 250 pounds Side Quests: Average 6 Miles of Running / Week Points Potential: STA+3 Grading A= Average > 90% B= Average > 80% C= Average > 70% D= Average > 60% F= Average < 60% Average 180 Burpees / Week & Complete Daily Plank [Week 1: 1 Minute, Week 2: 1:15 Minutes, Week 3 1:30 Minutes, Week 4: 1:45 Minutes] Points Potential: DEX+4 Grading: A= Average > 90% B= Average > 80% C= Average > 70% D= Average > 60% F= Average < 60% Average 3 Weight Training Workouts / Week Points Potential: STR+5 Grading A= Average > 90% B= Average > 80% C= Average > 70% D= Average > 60% F= Average < 60% Life Quest: Read "On Becoming A Leadership Coach: A Holistic Approach to Coaching Excellence" Points Potential: WIS+3 Grading A= Average > 90% B= Average > 80% C= Average > 70% D= Average > 60% F= Average < 60%

Hi everyone, I'm happy this exists! Boy do I need accountability. So as hard as it is to put this all out there, I'm going to do it to get to a better place. I used to be a competitive skater. So. In. Shape. Now, not so much. That was 13 years ago and boy do I miss it. I stopped because of money and school. I had to make a decision. Fast forward to today: I have an illness that has been diagnosed that gives me all kinds of issues and makes me very sick and I have some kind of allergy/illness that we are working to uncover what it is, but it makes me exhausted, sick (a different kind than the other), and causes rashes on my legs. I am a slave to my crazy rotating schedule, 50 hr a week job (which I do love but makes my personal life really difficult to manage). I have been having bouts of depression because of the exhaustion/ sleep schedule/ rashes/ stress/ and general lack of sunlight during the winter. I've wanted to skate but I've gone and been so exhausted I needed to sleep a whole day to recover. My doctors wanted to put me on an elimination diet which they said was like a Paleo diet. Wanting to feel better I immediately went home and started this diet HARDCORE. (Before talking with the nutritionist, hehe.). I felt immensely better. I felt like I was running on rocket fuel. I had tons of energy. Then I met with the nutritionist and she took out some of the items to test for allergies. Since then my energy has crashed and I'm hoping that excersize will help me get some of that energy back. I can't afford a gym so I'm going to do this at home and hopefully I can get back enough energy to skate again. I can't wait to do a challenge, but they are already 4 weeks in so ill hop on board on the next one. I also want to learn to meditate and figure out how to fit taking care of my place into my life. It would be really nice to get to a place of balance where I can do activities I love again, instead of feeling like a slave to my work and house. I want to be happy guys! Here's to accountability

Dear All, thanks to this forum I have started my journey to improve my fitness. Since my first post in 2011 I am fitter, slimmer and stronger. BUT there is still something that bothers me a lot and while I do not expect to solve it in one day, I hope to get some feedback from you that can guide me towards the right direction. Since more or less forever I have a sense of anxiety and a sort of continuous fear that something bad could happen to me and my family. Those fears are almost always completely unmotivated but still they can occupy my mind for long time; Those fears usually are towards authorities or bureaucratic institution. I would spend nights thinking that for some reason my tax return form contains some mistakes and the tax authorities will hunt me down and get all my money (even if I had never had issues and paid a good accountant) Or I would start creating inner stories about something I did at work and for some reason I would get sued for some mistakes. The fact is that I have never done anything illegal or even remotely shady, but it is like I create lot of dreadful scenarios in my mind. I have consulted a psychologist and tried meditation but with no luck. Now the question. What are the strategies you have used to overcome your fears, and/or to stop the endless creation of dreadful movies in your head? I know it is little bit crazy to ask this kind of questions and I do not expect to receive a Freudian consultation on this forum ;-) but I was wondering if this is something you have experienced and what were your strategies to cope with it. Thanks!