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Hi everyone! I'm Fridelisan, and I'm all new to this guild. While poking around and reading on all the guild forums, this seemed like a really nice place to hang around. I hope to find my inner assassin while spending some time here, getting to know all of you. My primary goal right now is to get stronger, so that I can progress in my pole- and aerial silks classes. I'm way to weak to do any of the more difficult tricks, and I can't even invert on silks. That's why I'll continue to build on my first challenge. So with any further adoo, my goals for the next 4 weeks: 1. Go to at least 3 workouts a week. I'm currently on a schedule where I do pole on mondays, aerial silks on wednesdays and yoga on fridays. But to build stength, I'll try to go to a interval gymnastics strength workout o thursdays on my uni gym too (which is something that I tried for the first time last week, and I just wanted to lay down and die afterwards. Ugh, that's hard). 2. Eat a minimum of 80 g of protein every day. So I started using MFP a couple of weeks ago and realised that I don't eat as much protein as I thought I did. While 80 g isn't as much as I actually need, it's still much more than I usually manage to eat each day. My average daily intake is 78 g, but it varies from ~50 g to ~115 g. So protein intake is absolutely something that I have to work on. 3. Drink at least 1 liter of water each day. I suck at drinking. I mean, I can go a whole day without drinking anything at all. So I have to step up my game if I want to get all the water I need. Especially when the recommended water intake is ~2 liters a day (although this includes water from food). But I'll start with something that I think I will manage, and then increase the amount later on. Life goal: 4. Meditate for 10 minutes every day. After taking up yoga I realised that I enjoy taking some time and just be in the moment. I feel super relaxed and can focus better afterwards. That's why 10 minutes of meditation every day will be great for me. I started using Mindspace yesterday, and I love it! It absolutely helps me focus! Oh, and I heard you liked cats around here.

I started a week ago with the rebellion and I am loving this. This will be the second challenge post I have made, and I need to make some adjustments from last week. Here is a small dose of me: Age: 28 Height: 5' 11 5/8" Weight: 166# Neck: 38 cm Biceps L/R: 33.5/32.5 cm Chest 98.5 cm Waist: 84.5 cm Hips: 90.75 cm Thigh L/R: 56/56.5 cm Master Quest: Improve my health in general while developing my willpower, diligence, positive attitude, and love for life. Mission #1: Activity I will do at least one 10" BF walk EOD for 3 weeks; then at least one 10" BF run EOD for 3 weeks. F: 0 or 7 walks/runs/week C: 1 or 6 walks/runs/week B: 2 or 5 walks/runs/week A: 3 walks/runs/week A+: 4 walks/runs/week Mission #2: Strength I will do at least one BBWW EOD for 3 weeks; then at least one ABWW EOD for 3 weeks. F: 0 or 7 workouts in a week C: 1 or 6 workouts/week B: 2 or 5 workouts/week A: 3 workouts/week A+: 4 workouts/week Mission #3: Health I will not eat any food from work (nurse's eat like crap); I will eat paleo at least 5 days/week. F: 0 days/week C: <3 days/week B: 4 days/week A: 5 days/week A+: 6-7 days/week Life Quest: Execute a move to MD while finding cheap storage for our things in MT (<$32/month). Motivation: Mild but constant pain and subconscious fear. Pain in the neck, back, hip, knee, and shoulder. Fear of sleeping--thinking I'll wake with pain; fear of trying--thinking I'll fail; fear of serving--thinking I won't find peace. I have put an upper limit and incentive not to over-achieve d/t the fact that I end up with stress injuries and I want this to really stick, not just for a season, but for a lifetime. "...see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order." ~King Benjamin