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Hello! Back again. This challenge is focused more on life balance than particular fitness goals. Sooner or later, I will start adding pics and gifs. Goal 1 Sleep! Establish a routine that will allow me to sleep reliably and for a sufficient amount of time to support everything else in my life. Grading will be eyeballed or I will come up with a better grading system later. I have been collecting suggestions to help with this goal into a list and will trying as many as possible except maybe the ones involving pills or alcohol. Feel free to make other suggestions! The List: Breathing exercises/pre-meditation/Moving through space/Blue light meditation - breathing exercises so far Wind down time - knitting/cross stitching/audiobook or journalling Get curtain rod installed that will support heavy curtains Switch to morning workouts renew inhaler prescriptions at the after-hours clinic - done and they do help Reading before bed - try again, this time with non-fiction. Starting with The Sordid History of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus. cold pack on the back 20 to 30 min before bed get up after 15 min and handle a chore/snuggle cats Use a sleep monitoring app - trying Sleep Cycle Monitor and Alarm Clock Try F.lux - changes light from monitor depending on the time of day - installed. White noise - started with rain sounds Calming music Stop staying up later on the weekends, may be affected by neighbours who are not so early to bed Do not turn lights on at night unless absolutely needed to get to the bathroom/kitchen. Lower temp in bedroom - already done Pre-bed bath continue stretching or yoga before bed drink less water in the evening increase thiamine & tryptophan intake - dubious, research this first Drink of alcohol before bed - would rather not melatonin - would rather not Binaural beats Stayfocusd/rescuetime to cut down on computer time Goal 2 Train! Target 5 hours/week of exercise; mostly between Judo, strength training, and yoga. Walking does not count. I am being more flexible about workouts this challenge. If I get shoulder strain again, I may compensate with extra yoga instead of strength training or sub in some cardio kickboxing if I have to miss Judo. I may find I need to decrease working out some to support the sleep goal but hope not. I have a few options for strength training workout configurations and am contemplating others. Goal 3 Recover! Incorporate Prasara Yoga - learn 2 flows (beginner versions) by the end of the challenge. It will at least theoretically improve performance and will hopefully end up being relaxing and help with sleep. Time spent on this is included in my workout time for the week. I picked up a beginner package with 6 flows. Each flow has three variations: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Root is the most basic flow so I will start with that. It has very detailed instructions on getting the form of each asana. There’s no required order after Root, so Ocean will probably be next as it includes the shoulders and wrestling/grappling is listed as being one of the activities it supports. My shoulders are my weak point so this is ideal. If I can learn a third one in that time, I will certainly do it. Note: I first learned about this form of Yoga when Nymeria posted a link to one of the flows in her challenge back when I was hanging out with the Assassins. Goal 4 De-clutter my life! Cut down on chronically overcommitting to things and trim the unimportant activities so that I can work, sleep, workout, keep a reasonably clean apartment, have a social life, and still have some unscheduled time at least a few evenings/week. Grading: Free time on 1 night/week = C, 2 nights/week = B, 3 nights/week = A. ONE online course at a time - dropped both for now Less time on internet - drop Reddit altogether - this was free time but it was wasted free time. Do something better. limit overtime - as much as I can anyway Trim workout and shift to 30 min morning workouts worry less about the chores, do a bit each day instead Cut down on daily sites to check - done There’s much more great TV than I will get to watch. Get over it. Calorie tracking - very useful and does not use much time - keep Evaluate other things I commonly do and trim anything that does not add some form of value to life.