[Alanna]

1 hour ago, Gemma said:

Nice. Very nice! 

Twisting bear is rapidly becoming one of my favorite movement patterns. 

 

Thank you . It is one of my favourite movements too! I feel like it needs some sort of impressive sound effect for every rep.  

 

Week 1, Wednesday:

🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜⬜⬜ [Strength workouts]

🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜⬜⬜ [Log workouts]

🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜⬜⬜ [Bonus: Locomotion]

 

❌🦵❌🟨⬜⬜⬜ [Routine]

⬜🦵🦵🦵⬜⬜⬜ [Bonus: early start (10:30 am)]

 

🦵🦵🦵❌⬜⬜⬜ [Supplements]

 

Garden:  

🌻🌿🦚🌷⬜⬜⬜ [Post in my challenge]

🐿️🌸🌱 🐝⬜⬜⬜ [No processed sugar]

 

Whoops - forgot my supplements. Getting my act together on the routine side, though - I earned my extra time and spent an hour chipping away at the thesis. Super tired and looking forward to just having a regular work schedule soon. 

[Harriet]

Garden is looking good! Such a wholesome, encouraging set of emojis 😊

[Scaly Freak]

1 minute ago, Harriet said:

Garden is looking good! Such a wholesome, encouraging set of emojis 😊

 

I especially like that there are animals in the garden.  

[Alanna]

23 hours ago, Harriet said:

Garden is looking good! Such a wholesome, encouraging set of emojis 😊

 

23 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

 

I especially like that there are animals in the garden.  

 

I am having way too much fun choosing the emojis for it!

 

And the rows of legs in my other tracker are gloriously silly, as expected.

 

Week 1, Thursday:

🦵⬜🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜ [Strength workouts]

🦵⬜🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜ [Log workouts]

🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜⬜⬜ [Bonus: Locomotion]

 

❌🦵❌🟨❌⬜⬜ [Routine]

⬜🦵🦵🦵🦵⬜⬜ [Bonus: early start (10:30 am)]

 

🦵🦵🦵❌🦵⬜⬜ [Supplements]

 

Garden:  

🌻🌿🦚🌷🦎⬜⬜ [Post in my challenge]

🐿️🌸🌱 🐝🍄⬜⬜ [No processed sugar]

 

I actually started working at 8:30 am today and was super on track with my routine, but had to deal with super stressful house stuff around the time I was going to start my workout. Didn't get to it until about 7 pm in the end 😬. Have the feeling that winding down tonight may be tricky with the stress.

 

The non-mobility parts of the workout:

• Practice
  • front scales (3 minutes with rests)
  • back scales (3 minutes with rests)
  • elevated deep lunge (on box of books): bw x 5 x 3, each leg. These make Bulgarian split squats seem easy 😅. First time trying them - they are kinda like beginner shrimp squats, but with extra range of motion. It's a little tricky making sure I don't vary the assistance from my other leg when it is on the ground, but I videoed a set and it seemed decent. It's also a nice exercise for this cycle since it has a balance component, too.

Spoiler

https://gmb.io/bodyweight-leg-exercises/

• Push
  • Bulgarian split squat: bw x 8 x 2 each leg

No DB deadlifts yet - still working on building up the work capacity for the extra volume. Unilateral work is tricky from a cardio perspective because it feels pretty much like doubling the number of reps since I do left and right back to back. 

 

 

[Epsilonte]

2 hours ago, Alanna said:

I actually started working at 8:30 am today and was super on track with my routine, but had to deal with super stressful house stuff around the time I was going to start my workout. Didn't get to it until about 7 pm in the end 😬. Have the feeling that winding down tonight may be tricky with the stress.

Yay for starting early!!

Could you already deal with the house stress? ❤️ 

[Alanna]

45 minutes ago, Epsilonte said:

Could you already deal with the house stress? ❤️ 

 

We actually have done everything we can (we got some paperwork together a few days ago because we thought this stressful situation might arise), but we're waiting on other people now until next week. Waiting is hard because there is nothing we can do at this point to feel like we have more control! 

[Emissary2Ornj]

When you do the scales, are you doing reps for 3 minutes or holding as long as possible?

Hope you can unwind!!! I've been enjoying nighttime chamomile tea lately....

[Rebel Pilot Gar]

Hope the house stuff works out and that you hear back soon. Waiting and not being able to do anything further is quite stressful.

 

Great job on the goals so far!!

[Mad Hatter]

11 hours ago, Alanna said:

And the rows of legs in my other tracker are gloriously silly, as expected.

I love them! 

[Epsilonte]

8 hours ago, Alanna said:

Waiting is hard because there is nothing we can do at this point to feel like we have more control! 

I feel ya... 

You could try to spin this to "We have done everything possible, now we lean back and drink tea and chill" (so with some positive mindset in the background) if you want.  Less about loosing control and more about sitting back after you already did everything. 

[Rookie]

17 hours ago, Alanna said:

And the rows of legs in my other tracker are gloriously silly, as expected.

They look a bit like little chicken legs LOL

 

Fingers crossed on house stuff ❤️ As much as I hate the hurry to wait sort of feelings.. It is better knowing you have done everything you are supposed to. 

[Scaly Freak]

7 hours ago, Epsilonte said:

You could try to spin this to "We have done everything possible, now we lean back and drink tea and chill" (so with some positive mindset in the background) if you want.  Less about loosing control and more about sitting back after you already did everything. 

 

I am so going to steal this and do my best to apply it the next time I am in this situation.

[Emissary2Ornj]

The leg graphics are fabulous. Definitely turned out quirky in a good/enjoyable way.

 

8 hours ago, Epsilonte said:

You could try to spin this to "We have done everything possible, now we lean back and drink tea and chill"

Thank you for sharing that perspective shift! So many applications.

 

 

 

[Alanna]

18 hours ago, Emissary2Ornj said:

When you do the scales, are you doing reps for 3 minutes or holding as long as possible?

 

 

Reps! I did play with holding them for a few seconds, though - I'll have to ease in to it since holding it makes my quads cramp. It's probably great practice for the position needed by pistol squats.

 

18 hours ago, Emissary2Ornj said:

Hope you can unwind!!! I've been enjoying nighttime chamomile tea lately....

 

Tea at night usually backfires for me - I would have to pee a lot 😅

 

16 hours ago, Rebel Pilot Gar said:

Hope the house stuff works out and that you hear back soon. Waiting and not being able to do anything further is quite stressful.

 

Great job on the goals so far!!

 

Thank you on both fronts! 

 

10 hours ago, Epsilonte said:

I feel ya... 

You could try to spin this to "We have done everything possible, now we lean back and drink tea and chill" (so with some positive mindset in the background) if you want.  Less about loosing control and more about sitting back after you already did everything. 

 

Well, I did think of a few more things to do today 😅. I wish I could chill, but it's not the not-being-able-to-do-stuff that's causing the stress as much as the fact that how this plays out will impact our lives so much over the next 5, 10, 20 years, and also determine how much energy we need to spend on sorting out housing over the next year. And we've been in a state of housing uncertainty for about half a year now. It would be easier if the housing market wasn't so ridiculous, as then we'd be more confident that we could get another house if this one fell through. 

 

But I will try to practice this mindset on smaller stressful things so I can start weathering the bigger stressors more gracefully!

 

5 hours ago, Rookie said:

Fingers crossed on house stuff ❤️ As much as I hate the hurry to wait sort of feelings.. It is better knowing you have done everything you are supposed to. 

 

Thank you ❤️. I just want to finally have a stable home and be able to do simple stuff like choose paint colours and have a cat or dog.  

 

2 hours ago, Emissary2Ornj said:

The leg graphics are fabulous. Definitely turned out quirky in a good/enjoyable way.

 

11 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

I love them! 

 

Legs for daaaaaays .... literally 😆.

 

5 hours ago, Rookie said:

They look a bit like little chicken legs LOL

 

 

Haha I can't say that's the aesthetic I'm going for for my own legs!

 

Week 1, Friday:

🦵⬜🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜ [Strength workouts]

🦵⬜🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜ [Log workouts]

🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜⬜⬜ [Bonus: Locomotion]

 

❌🦵❌🟨❌🦵⬜ [Routine]

⬜🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵⬜ [Bonus: early start (10:30 am)]

 

🦵🦵🦵❌🦵🦵⬜ [Supplements]

 

Garden:  

🌻🌿🦚🌷🦎🌾⬜ [Post in my challenge]

🐿️🌸🌱 🐝🍄🍀⬜ [No processed sugar]

 

As anticipated, sleep last night was poor. I ended up reading a lot. I'm a decent amount of the way through Goldenhand, but I decided to skip the parts from another point of view because most chapters were ending on cliffhangers and it was really frustrating. So I've basically collated the book by POV. I'm going to go back and read the parts I skipped and treat it as a short story/novella. 

 

Put a four leaf clover in my garden because I could use some good luck right now. 

 

Did anyone else realise we have guild emojis? I'd never scrolled down the emoji list far enough to see them!

 

[Scaly Freak]

5 minutes ago, Alanna said:

Did anyone else realise we have guild emojis? I'd never scrolled down the emoji list far enough to see them!

 

No! That is awesome! I especially approve of how the Warrior emoji is the larger one  

[Alanna]

8 minutes ago, Scaly Freak said:

No! That is awesome! I especially approve of how the Warrior emoji is the larger one  

 

I was also amused by the size discrepancy - is that a comment on how Warriors are all about those muscle gainz??

 

[Scaly Freak]

Assassin and Warrior....?

 

[Epsilonte]

2 hours ago, Alanna said:

Did anyone else realise we have guild emojis? I'd never scrolled down the emoji list far enough to see them!

 

OMG they are so shiny!! 😍

[Rebel Pilot Gar]

The guild emojis are fun

[Alanna]

On 2/18/2022 at 8:00 PM, Scaly Freak said:

Assassin and Warrior....?

 

 

Haha, pretty much! but I will confess that I have not seen or read GoT

 

22 hours ago, Epsilonte said:

 

OMG they are so shiny!! 😍

 

4 hours ago, Rebel Pilot Gar said:

The guild emojis are fun

 

Indeed! Although they would be a bit big for a tracker 😅

 

 

Week 1 Recap

🦵⬜🦵⬜🦵⬜🦵 [Strength workouts]

🦵⬜🦵⬜🦵⬜🦵 [Log workouts]

🦵⬜🦵⬜⬜⬜🦵 [Bonus: Locomotion]

 

❌🦵❌🟨❌🦵🦵 [Routine]

⬜🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵⬜ [Bonus: early start (10:30 am)]

 

🦵🦵🦵❌🦵🦵🦵 [Supplements]

 

Garden:  

🌻🌿🦚🌷🦎🌾🦉 [Post in my challenge]

🐿️🌸🌱 🐝🍄🍀🍑 [No processed sugar]

 

Saturday: Oof, I am tired. But I'm less stressed about the house stuff because the vendors aren't worried about the delay. I still want to get things sorted and moving asap, but we have some breathing room. 

 

My training session today was a light day for upper body pull movements and a heavy day for push-ups. Besides the push-ups, I kept the workout extra light in volume and intensity so I didn't overdue it. Main parts were

• Practice: prone swimmers for 2 minutes, with rests
• Push:
  • push-ups: on the ground x 4 x 3
  • inverted row scapular shrugs (overhand grip on one dip bar): bw x 8 x 3, with a short pause at the top of the rep. These probably aren't technically scapular shrugs, but I figured I can carry over pull-up progression strategies to inverted rows, too.
• Play: cross-step bear for 1:30 min. I did it backwards for the first time, too, which was interesting to figure out coordination-wise, but doable. 

As for the week overall: 4/3 strength training sessions, 3/2 bonus practice of locomotion movements, 4/7 for keeping to my routine with 5 bonus early starts, and 6/7 supplements. Still getting things together on the routine side, but I suspect that issue will solve itself soon when my workload lightens. And I also got to completely fill out my garden! 

[Scaly Freak]

1 minute ago, Alanna said:

Haha, pretty much! but I will confess that I have not seen or read GoT

 

If you do decide to start watching the show, do yourself a favor and stop watching after the last episode of Season 6. Seriously. Please trust me on this.

[Alanna]

Just now, Scaly Freak said:

If you do decide to start watching the show, do yourself a favor and stop watching after the last episode of Season 6. Seriously. Please trust me on this.

 

Even in my Game-of-Thrones-free bubble I managed to hear about the extremely disappointing end to the series. To be fair it's probably not going to be my thing - I noped out of the book when

Spoiler

they started killing off the dire wolf puppies

 

[Waanie]

5 minutes ago, Alanna said:

As for the week overall: 4/3 strength training sessions, 3/2 bonus practice of locomotion movements, 4/7 for keeping to my routine with 5 bonus early starts, and 6/7 supplements. Still getting things together on the routine side, but I suspect that issue will solve itself soon when my workload lightens. And I also got to completely fill out my garden! 

Great job!💪

[Alanna]

Just now, Waanie said:

Great job!💪

Thank you! 🦵

[Scaly Freak]

6 minutes ago, Alanna said:

 

Even in my Game-of-Thrones-free bubble I managed to hear about the extremely disappointing end to the series. To be fair it's probably not going to be my thing - I noped out of the book when

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they started killing off the dire wolf puppies

 

 

Ah yes, that made me very sad.