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Okay I have to say that I have accomplished a lot of things that I did not know I a the ability to do after "all to define is to limit" I was able to start exercising more I lost 30lb/15.6kg and finally truly embrace this journey that I am on. But I still want to keep this going as I start to fully accept the person that I am. With that being said I want try to kick it up just a little more to start the new year. Diet/ Fitness Quest: I want to work at least 10-15 minutes a day Eat a serving Vegetables at every meal Minimize soda consumption by start with no more that 2 sodas per week Life Quest: Not use the use the snooze but at all. I just to remember every try counts and most of all I have to just start. Good Luck to everyone

Hey, to everyone here. As the progress one I am trying to maintain the focus on things that I tried to do in the past but failed a see through to the end. One of those things is my health and focus on journey to become a better version of myself. With that being said I am ready to be more focused on this challenge than before. So here are my Quest to complete during the next 4 weeks: Fitness/Health Quest Only have dessert one per week. I have realized that over the past few years I have indulged to much at work and with friend. Which has lead me to not work out as much as I would like. Get back to working out. I started doing this before but life got in the way. But I would like to say no more. Limit the amount of fast food to traveling only/ limit myself on the menu This one will be one of the harder ones because: we have clients come in and provided us with lunch I work near a lot of these types of restaurants I also work long odd hours as the weather warms up Finally the level up life quest: To stop hitting the snooze button on the alarm when it is time to wake up. This one is specifically hard because it forces me not be a slow moving turtle in the morning and possibly make not in a hurry as much through life. If you have any advice on how tackle these I am always open to it.

Hello to everyone that reads this. I know that I am late posting but I wanted to establish what I have already started on in this challenge. Like always 3 health and 1 level up goal. To add what I have been doing. My Health challenges: 1 serving of a green vegetable per day No soda (okay I have been cutting back on this item and now feel it is the right time try to push this challenge) Replace the previous with 20ox/1L of water a day. Level up goal: I need focus on having a fresh start everyday no screens after 9:30pm everyday Like is said that I know that I am late to posting but so far I been doing pretty well on the my this challenge except with the lack of screens after 9:30pm but still working trying help create that as a habit. Encouragement and advice is always welcome.

Hey, I have finally decide that it is time to hit the reset button when it comes to my health, and well being. Had quit a few stumbles in the past year but slowly making progress towards smashing my goals once again.

Arrow training The Arrow is one of my big inspirations. How olliver queen, no good play boy, rich kid and party boy became one of the strongest superheroes by just training is an inspiration. So since had a big gap since last time it is time to start again. I will pick up my training, continue where i left off and this time beat my personal demon. My training will exist of 2 parts. Strength and Endurance. The strength part will be done in the gym following one of their programs. I will HAVE to go to the gym 2 times a week and finish the workout. The endurance part will also be done in the gym. This will consists of increasing my running speed on the treadmill. At this point i am at 8 KM/h for 15 minutes, as soon as i reach 10km/h i will start working on increasing the running time. The goal is 3 times a week, but 2 times is accepted. Less then 2 is not. As an extra motivation i will have to track my food intake except in the weekends. I will use my fitbit to know if i ate to much or not. I will make a daily post here where i lett people know if i made it or not.

I have a lot going on right now and trying to put my health first. Which can become difficult when you are so not used to doing so. But anyway so far I have some ups and downs with the challenges. I also know that I have a long way to go to get were I want to be. With that being said. Here are my goals for this challenge. Fitness/ Diet goals: Working out a least once a week Drinking 1 pint of water before each meal to see if I am hungry Stop drinking coffee (well the way that I drink it is really bad for me) Level Up goal. Work on my passion project at least twice a week (I want to start a food blog but right now it is in the baby phase) You encouragement has been very welcoming and greatly appreciated.

Okay the last challenge went some where but not as well a I have hoped. But a least I started somewhere. So this time I am going to try to step it up in some areas but take it back a notch in others. My fitness /Diet Quest: Walk to achieve 8,000 steps in a day Eat at least one vegetable per meal Reduce drinking of soda to a maximum of 3 times per week ( usually drink about four) My Level up goal: Set aside 5 dollars a day in an account where I cannot touch (you got to have a rainy day fund) Like last time I will try to keep you posted as through out the challenge.

Ryuu Apprentices with the Arrow 5/22/17-6/30/17 (7 Weeks) 500/500 hp + Health potion: 1 I've had some some ups and downs over that past few challenges but mainly I have been moving forward. Slowly but forward. I think the four week challenges are a little short to really see and achieve some good progress since I normally slip up on the weeks in between them, so for this challenge I will be focusing on long term consistency. The end of the school year 6/9 and the Tough Mudder 6/10 will be bumps during this challenge as will my two week long summer jobs: Teacher Leader for the NASA Teacher Institute 6/19-23/17, and Teaching a Metal Smithing Art Camp 6/26-30/17. Though since I will be out of town during the last week of my challenge it's going to be very difficult and I'm hopefully that I can keep up my goals. Since I've been re-watching the Arrow I decided to make this Challenge Arrow themed. If you've never seen the Arrow its pretty good but I especially like it for the workout scenes that Stephen Amell does, whenever I watch him do his workout in the show it always makes me want to do some crazy workouts too. That and his body= #goals lol Hopefully one day. For this challenge I've decided to keep the HP bar because I like it and I think it helps keep me honest and get a good overview of the quality of my challenge so far, but opted to drop my small goals/ fun money and video game time hours like I've done in the past, not because they weren't useful just that they were really time consuming to implement and keep track of. Goal One: Train my Body I'll be continuing my Gymnastic Bodies Foundations One, Stretch series, Movement, and Handstand training for this challenge but reducing the volume of my movement and handstand courses and focusing more on the upper body, lower body, and core workouts to try and increase my overall strength. Upper Body, Lower Body, and Core workouts x3 per week (one each) = __/3 = ___/ 21 Front Splits, Middle Splits, and Thoracic Bridge Stretches x3 per week (one each) = __/3 = ___/ 21 Movement and Handstand Workouts x 1 per week (one each) = ___/1 = __/7 & = ___/1 = __/7 Missed Planned workout on set day -10hp, missed workout for the week -25, Flawless week +25hp Goal Two: Fuel my Body I've had some pretty good success the past two challenges tracking everything that I've eaten in MFP for all seven days and then trying to stay +/- 200 cals of my goal so I will be continuing that this challenge in hope to really solidify it as a habit. I have also noticed that I've begun to drink a lot of diet sodas, mostly as a free "reward" or when I get home from work and am super stressed. I know that diet sodas are not caloric bad but they can't be good for my body so for this challenge I'm going to reduce my consumption of them and for at least the last two weeks abstain from them completely and see how I feel. Track my Nutrition in MFP x7 per week =___/7 = ___49 Be +/- 200 of 1610 cal goal x6 per week =___/ 6 = ___42 Days without a Soda W1 x 3, W2 x 4, W3 x 5, W4 x 6, W5 x6, W6 x7, W 7 x 7 = ___/38 Craft health potion (+50hp) = 6days at goal [for this challenge they can be non-consecutive] , Healthy Choice +10hp, Bad Choice -10hp, Bad Meal -25hp, Bad Day -100hp. Goal Three: Increase my Activity For this challenge I'm going to try to increase my overall activity by getting 10,000 steps most days of the week and if my feet will let me sprints/ intervals twice a week. Also what kind of Arrow challenge would this be if I didn't have an archery goal therefore I'll be trying to get out and shoot 2 times each week. 10,000 Steps x6 per week = ___/6 = ____/ 42 Sprints x2 per week = ___/2 = ____/14 Archery x2 per week = ___/2 = ____/12* Excluding the last week of the challenge since I'll be out of town* Missed Step goal -10hp, Missed weekly sprints/ Archery -25hp, Flawless Week +25hp Goal Four: Upgrade my Arrow Cave Quiver I'll be continuing my tracking goal, which I think is critical to success, especially the weekly reviews to track my progress. Plus I'll be adding in a few addition sub goals to upgrade my life outside of my workouts. I think the no video game day will initially be hard (mostly to try and find what to do on that day) but after I can get over the initial hump I think I'll really like what I'm able to do and accomplish on those days. I'm not sure if 3 additional sub goals inside this goal is going to be too much but we'll see how I do for the first week and if I have to adjust then I'll adjust if necessary. Track and encourage others x 5 per week =____/ 5 = _____/35 Read for 30min+ x 5 per week = ____/ 5 = ___/35 No Video Games day x 1 per week = ____1= ____7 Throw away some piece of useless clutter x 5 per week = ___/5 = ____35 Missed Record or Read -25hp, Missed Video Game Free Day -50hp, Flawless Week +25hp. Loot! For this challenge I'm going to award myself cold hard cash ($) at the end of each week based off of my grade for each goal per week. I can either spend this money or save depending what I ultimate want to buy. Some things that I'm looking to possibly get include: Running Shoes or some Archery Block(s), possibly saving up for a new bow. A+/100% = $5 A 99-90% =$4 B 89-80% =$3 C 79-70% =$2 D 69-60% =$0 F >60% = -$5

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Since a short while i have been rewatching Arrow on Netflix and refound one of the most inspirational Rangers out there. Oliver Queen AKA the Arrow. This guy trained himself to be one of the most brutal survival machines out there. In order to get myself on the same path i will have 3 main goals. Goal 1: Nutrition. The base for any endeavor in either gaining or losing can be found in nutrition. My goal is to Lose weight. In order to do this i will Use a foodtracker and a prerequisite trainingsplan on there in order to keep my KCAL consumption on the right place. Goal 2: Excercise To boost my weightloss and train my endurance and strength. I will excercise a minimum of 4 times a week. 2 times running 2 times lifting at the gym. 5 would be the optimal ammount right now and to this i would add 1 more running day, this is dependent on my personal life and school. Goal 3: The Connections The Arrow has connections everywhere and friens helping him. Nerd Fitness will be my connections. I want to get more involved in the community. I will do this by joining the ranger guild hall chat and the ranger challenge this week.

The Hunter Quest One: Parkour Once Per Week (Minimum) = +1 DEX, +2 STA "I am constantly in need of eyes, ears and most of the times, someone to help me chase the runners. I am only one, so I tend to prioritize my targets, but this way I can cover more ground. Meaning, you'll cover ground for me and chase the ones who flee from me." Similar to my last challenge, I didn't get to actually train once per week. So I'm sticking to this until I can do it, and slowly increase the frequency as soon as I can. Quest Two: Drink 1.5L of Water = +2 CON "I'm going to teach you survival kid, and let me tell you, while I was on that island my number one priority was staying hydrated. So you'll follow my footsteps and do the same" I used to drink a lot, but lately I feel like my water consumption has been lower that what is recomended, lower even for someone who trains a lot in the outsides. So now I'll carry a 1.5L bottle of water that I need to drink everyday. Quest Three: Commit to the Air Alert 3 Program = +2 STR, +1 STA "Let me tell you something, if you want to catch the runners, that you're legs need to be on peak performance. While on the island I had to jump from rock to rock, run uphill and do all sorts of stuff. You are not on the island. Yet, you will train as if you are." Since I am getting pretty serious with the parkour training, I figured I needed to get back/increase my jumping power and leg strength. So I decided to re-do the Air Alert 3 Program. Let's see how this goes. In the off days I'll probably do my Groot Upper Body, just so I don't get completely uneven. Life Goals: Quest Four: Studying = +2 WIS, +1 CHA "I am not letting some punk control my company nor my city. I am to become mayor of Starling, and for that I cannot be just another dumb guy with a suit and gadgets. I need to know my way around the world. So I want you to grind through some books and ask questions when you don't know the answers. This will help you get better with people and dealing with your own failures. But talking about this reminded me as well to tell you to..." College is coming along, and I was never really a fan of digging the books. However I know this is necessary and can be an "acquired taste". So I am going to study everyday for 15 minutes minimum. At the end of each week I am going to evaluate myself and see If I can increase the minimum time. Quest Five: The List = +2 WIS, +2 CHA "... never forget your goals and ambitions. I used to have a pretty defined path I needed to follow. And in order to not lose track of myself I scratched some names of a list I had. You're going to make a list as well. This will surely help not to lose focus of this training, and of what you need to do." Going to follow the footsteps of Darth Yoga in the last challenge and actually do a list of what I need to do. I am a reeeeally forgettable dude, and I get lost in my own ideas of what needs to be done. This way, I'll see each evening what I need to do in the next day, order the list in a way that I can do it all sequentially and I hope this will make me much more organized and confident of my self, seeing that I am completing my tasks. This my seem like a lot of quests, but in truth, other than the Air Alert and the Parkour trainings, these quests only take up an average of 20 minutes of my day, and not that much effort. At least right now it does not seem like much. I'll probably skip the Mini's in order to be completely devoted to my quests, unless I truly believe it's helping me on my quests. BTW: Started the Air Alert today, and my only change was that I did the calf raises with 12 kg extra weight. Setting up my tasks right now, and gonna start the drinking and the studying tomorrow.

Hello, Assassins! This challenge is starting a bit late, given that I was "off the grid" for spring break to live for a few days in a rural farmhouse... long story... Since this is my first challenge with the Assassins' Guild, here's a little about me: - My previous challenge - My backstory TL, DR version: 24-year-old former (soon-to-be-current?) parkour enthusiast, Washington, DC inhabitant, with slightly insane long-term endurance running goals. I hope to get involved quickly and get to know more of you soon! Now, without further ado... Talos Builds His Arsenal This challenge will probably be a step down in intensity from my last, since I'll be kicking it off by finishing the big goal that most of the prior month was building toward - my first half marathon! With that out of the way, though, I'm hoping to build up my "arsenal" of bodyweight skills, now that I'm joining the Guild. For starters, I'm going to shoot for improving some basics that I've tried at in the past, but failed due to not having a dependable practice schedule. Reliability is something I improved on a lot with my last challenge, so I'm going to use this month as an opportunity to take another stab at these. Ideally, I'd like to post a video as proof of each of these! Skills: - Complete a round-off. A couple years ago I picked up a slight hip injury that really killed my ability to do some basic skills I used to enjoy, e.g., cartwheeling and round-offs. Previously I was working on aerials, which I would love (LOVE) to actually achieve in the future - but first I need this foundation. Thus, re-learning the round-off. - Five handstand wall push-ups. This is just basic strength improvement. My shoulder strength is one of my weak spots, so this will help with the next goal... - 15-second freestanding hand stands! 'Nuff said. Something I've tried in the past, improved on, but just never practiced enough to get good at. No reason I can't pull this off if I stick with it. Life: - Build 20 'mind palace' rooms. This one probably sounds weird, but I'm serious. Remember those scenes in Sherlock where he goes into a trance to pull up some random bit of information? That's actually a real thing; it's a memory training technique called the "Method of Loci", and it's been used to win memory championships and memorize huge amounts of texts. Anyway, it's a skill I've picked up and want to develop to a fuller potential - because let's face it . . . an Assassin's best weapon is his mind. Each "room" holds a handful of pieces of information, usually related. I have maybe seven or eight set at the moment, and am a bit rusty, so this will be a fun return to form. Oh, and I'll still be running and stuff, because long-term goals. But this will be a fun challenge.

Welcome to THE accountability team for Arrow fans. This is currently an Assassins team (but that might change). We're here to keep each other from FAILING THIS CITY. Yes. That just happened. Headquarters: We train together at an undisclosed location, located centrally in the Glades. We have everything that you need to train for anything you'll run into in Starling. We just made an addition of some closet-sized rooms with cots, for visiting vigilantes. Roster: Pathfinder (AKA "Volk") - "For ten years I was stranded on an (annoyingly allegorical) island with only one goal - survive. Now I will fulfill a promise I made to myself - to live a life I can be proud of and never look back. To do this, I must become someone else. I must become something else." Happienumber (AKA "Ravеи") - "Upon running away from a violent family at home, I was immediately recruited into a secret inteligence organization. After spending the rest of my teenage years in training, I discovered that the organization I thought I was working for was in fact a corrupted criminal ring. I abandoned my training and have been laying low, on the run from the ring's assassins. But now I know I must return to training, this time with the right side, if I am ever going to bring the ring to justice. " Cmhutch (AKA "the Nightengale") - No super powers here, but I've always had a knack for blending in, for moving about unseen or unnoticed. Thanks to that, I learn a lot--especially from the kinds of people, both good and bad, who like to keep their activities secret (how do you think I found Team Arrow?). Now I want to do more than just recon, though. I want to take action. And to be able to do that, I need to train. That's why I'm here. FiOWNya (AKA "Dauntless") - Backstory Placeholder Assignments: We need to take care of some business around Starling City. Pairing off is the best way to do this. We'll each work two names. Glades Patrol, Shift I Volk and Nightengale patrol the first shift. There's a lot going on in the Glades after the Earthquake, and someone needs to step in to clean it up. So we'll have two shifts of patrols. Glades Patrol, Shift II Dauntless and Ravеи patrol the second shift, pairing strength and parkour again. We'll see what bads you run into. Get a Line into the Police Station Nightengale and Dauntless need to use their flexibility skills to fit through a small window in the police station to get a line into their databases. They know we're hacking them now and it's getting harder to access the information we need. Get a Lead on Deadshot Ravеи and Volk need to talk to the Bratva to see if they can get another lead on Deadshot. This means Ravеи needs to keep up with her Russian to pass this mission, and Volk needs to brush up her people skills.

I have struggled with exercising since I came to college. I have probably used the gym a total of 14 times in 4 years. This is my last semester and I want to get on the right foot for when my whole world gets turned upside down after graduating. My inspiration is both having gained some skin in areas, not fitting into pants, and the show Arrow. If you haven't seen it yet, start now! It is the best thing ever! I have been an archer since the age of 8, where I first learn at summer camp. Archery has followed me through my life at camp and then to college where I started an archery club. After all of this though I don't practice ever and have lost the enjoyment of it after being in charge of it for so long. I have recently handed over the club to the new presidents and as soon as the weight was off my shoulders I was enjoying practice 10 times more. While in the end I want to gain muscle and improve on my archery skills I realize that my real problem is basic fitness and nutrition so that is where I am starting. Main Quest: Build a fitness habit. Goals: - work out 3 days a week - eat gluten free 80% of the time - get up at 7 every week day, and by 9 on weekends Included in the working out 3 days a week I am going to try out my local crossfit since the first few times are free and see how that goes. Otherwise working out at home or in the school gym. There is a suspicion from everyone I know that I might be gluten intolerant so I want to start incorporating gluten free food, to see how I feel without it. Last, the lazy mornings must stop, getting up at 7 I will either have an extra hour to do homework or simply get to class on time. As far as the weekends, sleeping in is overrated. Any help/suggestions are welcome! I will struggle with this.

So I have been watching Arrow a lot lately and the salmon ladder pull ups intrigue me. has anyone ever tried this or are you interested in it? what are your thoughts? I might try to make one.