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Hey everyone, familiar and new I'm a 25-year-old guy living in Cambridge UK, and I like doing: gymnastics (floor and rings) bodyweight work football (soccer) weightlifting bouldering salsa dancing ...and because that isn't enough, I've signed up for a trapeze course, which starts next Tuesday I'm also training to represent the UK at mental calculation at two events in September and November this year. I did a lot of work on this in the Jan/Feb challenges and there will be a small amount during April in order to qualify. I also compose music - here's something I created during the previous two challenges - a piano arrangement of a metal song . Bad news is I need to care good care of myself in order to keep up with my job and these hobbies, so I'll have some goals to that effect. Also I've been lazy recently with workouts so I'm trying to fix that! Goal #1: move every day: my job requires me to spend lots of time sitting motionless on a chair, but I feel much better when I'm moving around. Therefore this challenge, every day I should warm up as if I were about to work out - so elevated heart rate and dynamic stretches, for example. For each of the 5 weeks this challenge, +0.25 STA if I do this on 5+ days and +0.25 CON extra if I do 7 days Goal #2: the list: once again, I have a glorified to-do list, with +0.25 stat points available for each. bar muscle-up: something I've been working towards for some time cartwheels: learn decent cartwheels on each side round-off: learn this gymnastics move front handspring: do this consistently on floor front flip: land this safely on floor front flip: bonus points for landing it on floor handstand walk: do a full 360-degree rotation in a handstand without immediately falling over handstand: 10 second static handstand change phone contract: I should be able to move to a cheaper one and I've procrastinated this for 3 months... cold showers: I've heard lots about the health benefits of these but it sounds ridiculous. Time to try it cold showers: extra motivation points for finding a system to stick to in the medium term. I'll need all the motivation points I can get because I love long hot showers... division calculation: I learned to divide 10-digit numbers by 5-digit numbers last challenge. Now I want to get super good at solving these. Want to get 10 correct in 9 minutes. division calculation: bonus points for getting 10/10 in 7 minutes calendar calculation: get back to 43 dates in a minute (previous PR was 44) calendar calculation: 45 dates in a minute square roots calculation: score of 330 again (previous PR was 330) square roots calculation: score of 360 mental calculation: get some scores verified in order to qualify mental calculation: get 40+ on calendar, 300+ on square roots and 10+ on division when getting verified Goal #3: auxiliary training: last challenge I made lots of progress with pull-ups, but not with other skills because I wasn't working on them. So I'm expanding this challenge so that each week I should be doing: 2 x handstand practice 2 x bar muscle-up training 2 x push-up training 2 x core training 1 x jumping training Each week I should do 6+ of these to get +0.25 and 8+ of these to get +0.50 stat points. Goal #4: rest properly: same as last challenge - sleep before 01:00 every day from Tuesday night until the last Saturday of the challenge (33 days). +0.25 CON for each week. 2 "cheat" days are allowed without penalty. Goal #5: eat clean: last time I ignored this completely. This challenge I'll just do a vague goal, graded subjectively. +1.00 CON available. Good luck everyone!