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Main Quest To live a healthy and balanced life by exercising and trying to eat healthy. My motivation In honor of Nerd Fitness’s 10th birthday, I thought I’d be nostalgic as well. So, for my 36th challenge here, I’m going back to the Warrior’s Guild to focus on strength training. It’s been over a year and a half since I was with the Warrior’s Guild and that challenge was not successful. The only one I’ve failed! I started here back in 2014, after having dropped weight and started a fitness routine on my own. However, with Nerd Fitness, I honed my focus and added muscle. For this challenge, I want to get back to my Warrior roots and lift all the heavy things! I’ve maintained the 1200 calories per day, M-F with blow meals on the weekends and have been going to the gym for about 45 minutes M-F, but I’ve found loopholes and caved in more than I should so I’m still keeping to that calorie count. And as I enjoy doing themed workouts, and in the spirit of nostalgia, I’m going back to one of my earliest themes with Murphy from the Dresden Files as my mascot. I realize it would’ve been simpler to go with a Game of Thrones theme, but as I feel that’s a poor example of fantasy, I went with something better. Smaller Quests 1. Ironborn - muscle definition from Darebee.com I enjoy weight lifting; it makes me feel better about my body and it has real-world, practical uses too. For this quest, I’m going to follow another Darebee fitness program. I like bicep curls, so the Ironborn challenge seems right up my alley. This will be a different sort of strength training because it focuses more on getting to muscle fatigue rather than getting to a high number of reps by adding more weight. I’m sure I will be very, very stiff for 30 days! Scoring: x/30 days Reward: +5 to STR (+1 for every 6 days completed) 2. Animal Flow To off-set the strength training, I will be going back to Animal Flow for movement practice. I think, in addition to the Ironborn workout, this will help keep me from being too stiff as it will encourage me to stretch and focus on how my body is moving. Scoring: x/25 days Reward: +5 to DEX (+1 for every week completed) 3. Read I feel like I’ve fallen behind in how often I read. It doesn’t seem like I make enough time to do so any more, so I haven’t been getting through as many books as I’d like. And since my to read pile is enormous, I need to get on that! I want to read for at least 20 minutes a day, M-F. Scoring: x/25 days Reward: +5 to WIS (+1 for every week completed)

Hi everyone First challenge as an assasin, I'm really excited to join you guys, one of my long term goals is to achieve the muscle up. I like hiking, bouldering, mountain biking and rocking the shit out of my guitar and mic. my motivation comes from an almost 3 years long battle with weight, I've lost almost 30 kgs in the course of those 3 years with ups and downs but I'm still dropping weight, I'm also getting married this october and hell yeah I would like to rock some kind of abs during my honeymoon, beside I made a promise to my girlfriend (my nutritionist, how convenient right?), I told her I will look like mother effin THOR (chris hemsworth, she loves that guy) by december 2017 jajajaja very long time I know but that is one hell of a body. Word on the street is that your mini challenges are awesome so I'm really looking forward to them, i hope I'll be up to them. I'll keep my main quest as in my past recruit challenge. so here are my goals and stats. CURRENT STATS: Height: 1.87 m Weight: 88.6 kg Body Fat: 17.7 % MAIN QUEST: Drop to 15% body fat for October (my wedding and honeymoon) GOAL #1: Drop to 16.5% body fat at the end of the challenge GOAL #2: Get from 6 pullups to 8 pullups GOAL #3: Keep my lifting weights and increase them if its possible, I will set a 20 lb increase goal. Squats: 150 lbs DONE Dead lift: 130 lbs Bench: 130 lbs My diet is a paleo based with milk and it hovers around 1800 and 2000 kcal daily and involves a very special relationship with beer jajajaja I have quit on it for a time now but I do love a beer, I've even brew some myself. I will try to keep myself away from beer as I've been doing so far but I cant promise anything Thanks guys