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8 hours ago, sylph said:

5-week challenges now. Was there a discussion thread somewhere about why the switch? Especially since it seems there's still a break week in between?

I was a bit curious about this myself. It basically feels like we're back to the 6week challenges of yore lol

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8 hours ago, sylph said:

5-week challenges now. Was there a discussion thread somewhere about why the switch? Especially since it seems there's still a break week in between?

The new 5-week challenges are a result of a discussion among the GLs.  The 4-week schedule was causing a lot of us to burnout trying to keep up with forum resets.  And it doesn't line up with the calendar year, so we have to add extra bye-weeks or change the challenge length periodically.

 

Our plan through the end of next year (2020), it to have 5-week challenges with a bye-week in between, with a 3-week Holiday challenge around December each year.  It's the best compromise we could come up with to lessen the stress on the GLs, give everyone a consistent schedule, and, as a bonus, it fits evenly into a 52-week year.

 

Feel free to let us know what you think though.  We'll definitely take it into consideration.

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11 hours ago, Anim07734 said:

The new 5-week challenges are a result of a discussion among the GLs.  The 4-week schedule was causing a lot of us to burnout trying to keep up with forum resets.  And it doesn't line up with the calendar year, so we have to add extra bye-weeks or change the challenge length periodically.

 

Our plan through the end of next year (2020), it to have 5-week challenges with a bye-week in between, with a 3-week Holiday challenge around December each year.  It's the best compromise we could come up with to lessen the stress on the GLs, give everyone a consistent schedule, and, as a bonus, it fits evenly into a 52-week year.

 

Feel free to let us know what you think though.  We'll definitely take it into consideration.

Seems like a good change to me. Four weeks felt a bit short.

 

Thanks for the info!

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17 hours ago, Anim07734 said:

The new 5-week challenges are a result of a discussion among the GLs.  The 4-week schedule was causing a lot of us to burnout trying to keep up with forum resets.  And it doesn't line up with the calendar year, so we have to add extra bye-weeks or change the challenge length periodically.

 

Our plan through the end of next year (2020), it to have 5-week challenges with a bye-week in between, with a 3-week Holiday challenge around December each year.  It's the best compromise we could come up with to lessen the stress on the GLs, give everyone a consistent schedule, and, as a bonus, it fits evenly into a 52-week year.

 

Feel free to let us know what you think though.  We'll definitely take it into consideration.

 

I don't feel strongly either way, but yeah, the 4-weeks felt shortish. 

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19 hours ago, Snickie said:

So.... Do we have a discord channel? 

We do not. The forums used to have an IRC channel, but it's since gone dark. If folks want to start up a chat, feel free, but do note that it would be unofficial. :)

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So making my own routines and sticking to them is taking more time and energy than I want to expend currently especially in this season of no external deadlines. Google Play has suggested apps to me by Leap Fitness Group. They're mostly very highly rated. I'm specifically looking at the home workout app and their women's app (since I am still weak and scrawny lol). Has anyone here used them? Are they worth the massive amounts of ads they're reported to spawn? Are they as good as their ratings?

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Hi Assassins. ONCE AGAIN I am coming back here to say that I miss you all a bunch and I hope I can manage to jump in for the next challenge.

 

Things have been tumultuous over the last few months! My job has been hectic! My step-dude has been to and from camp weeks on end requiring lots of driving during the work day! Family health things! My cross-fit coach got a full-time job and shut down his practice and I don't have a 5x a week exercise regimen any more! I am at a crossroads and am trying to decide what to do with my body! I miss the easy decision to just roll out of bed and go to a 5AM class close to home! We moved to a new office with a more open floor plan and I can't figure out how to goof off on the internet during the day without everyone knowing (ok jk this is not really a huge concern)! I accidentally formed a community action group to fight over-development in my small town and I've been so slammed with public meetings and presentations all the time!

 

mostly these are not terrible stressors but I'm having my typical assassiny-style problems with over-commitment and over-ambition and lack of time to do all the things but you have always been the right place for me to work out my focus on body and health so I guess what I'm saying is I'll see you in September!

 

(PS I am a huge fan of not-4-week-challenges. I always have a slight week 3 or 4 slump and a 4 week challenge never gave me a chance to recover in week 5 and finish strong like the 6 week challenges did. YAY.)

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HI KAYJAY!!!!

 

16 minutes ago, karinajean said:

My cross-fit coach got a full-time job and shut down his practice and I don't have a 5x a week exercise regimen any more! I

WHAT! RUDE!!! 

16 minutes ago, karinajean said:

I accidentally formed a community action group to fight over-development in my small town and I've been so slammed with public meetings and presentations all the time!

Gosh, that sounds very busy and as someone who does a lot of public meetings, exhausting.

 

16 minutes ago, karinajean said:

mostly these are not terrible stressors but I'm having my typical assassiny-style problems with over-commitment and over-ambition and lack of time to do all the things but you have always been the right place for me to work out my focus on body and health so I guess what I'm saying is I'll see you in September!

Excited to see you back! I'm not sure either where you are going to make the time for these things, but I believeeee.

 

16 minutes ago, karinajean said:

(PS I am a huge fan of not-4-week-challenges. I always have a slight week 3 or 4 slump and a 4 week challenge never gave me a chance to recover in week 5 and finish strong like the 6 week challenges did. YAY.)

YAY! 

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12 minutes ago, raptron said:

HI KAYJAY!!!!

 

HI RAPTRON!

12 minutes ago, raptron said:

WHAT! RUDE!!! 

 

I KNOW he's like pursuing his dream to be a phys ed teacher and I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN EVENTUALLY but I guess I thought maybe there would be more of a struggle for him to try and have early morning classes AND be a teacher but no he is a much more reasonable and moderate human being than I am I guess.

 

12 minutes ago, raptron said:

Gosh, that sounds very busy and as someone who does a lot of public meetings, exhausting.

 

there are so many meetings between town board, planning board, action group planning, community info sessions... it's too much, to be honest. I think it will need to continues to proceed at ridiculous pace until after the elections in November, and maybe then it can calm down a tiny bit.

 

12 minutes ago, raptron said:

Excited to see you back! I'm not sure either where you are going to make the time for these things, but I believeeee.

 

I'm like tinkerbell, all I need is your belieeeeeves and I will succeeeeed!

 

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1 hour ago, RogueLibrarian said:

@karinajean HI BABE it's good to hear from you!

 

I'm kind of in the same boat wrt keeping up very well on the forums lately, as you can tell from my challenge posts...

 

maybe we should storm this castle together!!!

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For anyone who is, or is not, partaking in castle storming, can I interest you in a fantasy football league?

 

We tried to get one started last year, but failed for various valid reasons. This year, we're trying again, and we need more people. We have a league thread in the off-topic forum where you can report interest and ask questions.

 

 

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