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Since the last challenge was I mayor success, here I am again. The most important part is still getting at least 20 minutes of moving in each day. However, I gonna add a few more things this time. Waking up shouldn't be this painful, right? Since I started to go back to the gym, I stopped doing yoga as often which my body doesn't like so I will do either yoga or DeFrancos Agile 8, four times a week. Being old sucks. Yoga or DeFrancos Agile 8 four times a week What's that spindly thing holding up your head? I lost a lot of seize on my neck, it's not even funny, so I gonna gain it back by hitting it three times a week. I can do this at home so it shouldn't be that hard. Train my neck three times a week How much energy is too much energy? I have a problem which might be worse than me getting drunk daily (which I'm over). I drink far too many energy drinks and it takes away from my well being and increases my anxieties (might be just a nocebo tho) but with a resting heart rate that's damn close to 3 digits, I definitely shouldn't drink them. Also shitting liquid fire isn't nice Drink as few energy drinks as possible

Morning/Evening all,.. depending on your timezone I'm new to these parts.. 38 years old 178 cms. Technical Writer for the mining industry in Perth. So this means for six to eight hours a day I'm on my behind. Trying desperately to get a chance to move. Decided enough was enough. Was going to go the easy way and get the gastric sleeve, but my new doctor hates the idea until I've tried everything, and he put me back on an old firend that worked hit and miss in the past, Duromine. I'm at some ridiculous weight now. Too ashamed to even know for certain. I know when I started this journey a month ago i was well over 136 Kilograms which is,.. I dunno in pounds. I'm pretty sure there are lighter bombs than me in most countries ordinance lists.. Was a 3XL in shirts. The last month I've been working on it I've lost a full shirt size and comfortably wear a 2XL shirt. Not T shirt, a shirt. . Goal it to hit an XL before Australian winter sets in. But,.. I have a lack of direction in the gym and I think its starting to show. I've used machines plus freeweights and I have ratcheted things up over the past few weeks in terms of weight setting and actual weights used and a workout that would take me half an hour is now down to twenty minutes. Which is cool but worries me at the same time. still the same level of intensity, just doing things a lot faster. Diet wise. I try and be as Palaeo as I can be but on a budget with a family its a bit hard at times. Generally though I do the best I can. Carbs are a rare commodity here. Plus generally on these meds they taste gross and feel gross if not while eating them definitely while digesting. As from the tag list... I'm carrying enough battle damage to look like the human equivalent of the hero Viper from Battlestar Galactica... A ruptured disc in my neck with bone growing over the rupture, (which if i workout too hard for my neck muscles, sets off the most excruicating headaches known to man and I don't have vicodin. Takes a gram of ibuprofen on occasion to dull the pain to tolerable levels) Torn right knee meniscus, L5 to S1 vertebra seem to have fused, snapped all four of the tendons in my left foot in 2007 and had a evulsion (the tendon literally ripping out with the bone stuck to it) plus Sciatica from my work. So I am very cautious with my workouts, as much as I so desperately want to push myself.. there have been times when I've forgotten the meds and I can feel the abused bits of my body creaking and whining for me to stop. Which I do because by the time I hear it, it's usually too late and I'll spend the rest of my day with a sore knee and a cranky demeanour. Sick of being this fat. Had a gutful, pardon the pun. Hate hating myself. I hate fat clothes. I hate feeling ashamed at the beach. Want to be around for my sons's thirtieth. Don't want to die of heart attack in my forties. And the only person who can do anything about it is me. And I'll keep fighting until I can't. Once upon a time,.. I had abs... Anyone else trying to shed some with a few injuries?

Hello all, I started doing BJJ and the first thing I noticed, especially on the no-gi day where we started from standing, was how much my neck is getting pulled on and how much my back is working. I've been doing yoga and pull-ups for a while, as I have a rounded back that I'm trying to correct. But, I have hurt my neck once before pretty badly in the past. A real bad strain. I was wondering if any grapplers out there had tips for strengthening and protecting the neck and back? I know bridging is popular among grapplers, but I've read a lot of negative things about it, such as it over-develops the back neck muscles at the expensive of the front ones and leads to bad posture and injuries down the line. A secondary question is: I was considering beginning Starting Strength 2-3x a week to build a more structurally sound frame in hopes of injury prevention while doing BJJ. I've been doing bodyweight and KB work-outs for about a year now, but I feel like I could probably build a stronger back and neck if I started deadlifts, heavy squats, and doing some supplemental grip/neck stuff like farmer's carries. It seems like in the wrestling world, 3x5/5x5 weightlifting programs are mandatory, but in BJJ from what I've read, there's mixed feelings about heavy lifting. Obviously I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, but I'm interesting in hearing from more experience grapplers.