Aimless Avenger- Challenge 2- For the love of sweat...

[aimless]

Still pumped from my first challenge... and want to make sure that momentum doesn't go to waste! I may be mixing Avengers and X-men here... but hey, it's all out of the Marvel Universe, so it's allowed, right??

 

Name: Aimless 

Level: 2

Race: Centaur

Class: Scout

Starting Stats: 

STR 5   .   DEX 3.8   .   STA 6.2   .   CON 4   .   WIS 6.8   .   CHA 3

Weight: 123#   Neck: 12.75"    R bicep: 10"   Chest: 36.25"    Waist: 32"   Hips: 36"    R thigh: 20.75"   R calf: 12.5"

 

Fitness Goals:

FLASH-style

• Build up to a love of RUNNING... (do 18 total runs) (+1STA)
• Continue c25k program to completion- On w5d1 now. (+1STA, +1DEX)
• Be able to run 5K without stopping by the end of this challenge. (+1STA)
• Transition to c210K program. (+1STA)
• Find and sign up for my first organized run. (+1CHA)

HULK-style

Expand strength training

• Do an average 2 workouts per week (12 total) (+2STR)
• Bodyweight workout- squats, pushups, lunges, rows, plank, jumping jacks
• Try free weight training- deadlifts, squats, rows... 

Diet Goals:

AQUAMAN-style

• Drink more water- track it, and goal is >1 liter per day (+1CON)
• Continue gluten-free, refined sugar-free, corn-free, soy-free nutritional plan. (No points, cause it's a cheat-goal... I already do this)
• Meal-planning- Just DO it- It makes life flow so much better if I have a weekly plan BEFORE I go to the grocery store. It ensures we have nutritious, yummy dinners and leftovers to take to work so I'm not having to compromise quality. It also saves last-minute store trips and the stress of getting out of work and not knowing what I'm making for dinner that night... makes me less grumpy too! (+1CON, +1WIS, +1CHA)

Level-up my life goal:

STORM-style

• Declare WAR on the paper clutter tornado already! ...We've lived in this house 13 years... and have NEVER had a workable system for all the papers... there's important papers mixed in with all the crap papers and junk-mail. It's taking over the house and my sanity, so it's time to tame the tornado already! (+3WIS)

 

Bonus items:

• Do a 3-minute plank
• Do 20 push-ups without stopping
• Go 1 week without coffee
• Go 1 week without alcohol
• Find and get to a yoga class
• Make and deliver a meal to a family who may need it
• Do a recumbent bike workout

[Hammlin]

No kidding about the clutter! It's crazy making for sure! I will be right there with you on that one. Time to reclaim our domains!!!!

[18ck]

The Superhero battle rages on!

Nice goals. I'm with you on the clutter - it does my head in!

[bgvanbur]

Nice goals with a theme.

 

Paper clutter seems to add up so quickly if you don't work on it regularly.  For us, we have a crate with hanging folders in our bedroom anything that is important or currently adding new papers.  In the basement we have a filing cabinet for the older folders that are not needed often.  Now that we are caught up on the paper clutter, we just make sure once a month everything gets filed where it needs to go and seems to work for us.

[aimless]

No kidding about the clutter! It's crazy making for sure! I will be right there with you on that one. Time to reclaim our domains!!!!

Ugh... Unfortunately here the paper clutter is only the tip of the iceberg... but I figure I have to start SOMEWHERE... and with taxes right around the corner, it seemed like the smart choice for me....

 

The Superhero battle rages on!

Nice goals. I'm with you on the clutter - it does my head in!

Yes... I had to keep the Superheroes going! Not nearly as well thought-out as yours, but it'll do! (Although I really DO think my new favorite superhero is Spezzy.... I should have included her...)

 

Nice goals with a theme.

 

Paper clutter seems to add up so quickly if you don't work on it regularly.  For us, we have a crate with hanging folders in our bedroom anything that is important or currently adding new papers.  In the basement we have a filing cabinet for the older folders that are not needed often.  Now that we are caught up on the paper clutter, we just make sure once a month everything gets filed where it needs to go and seems to work for us.

See... That's EXACTLY what I need... some kind of system... really ANY kind of system that we will USE! I'm tired of needing the last 2 years' Personal Property Tax receipts, and having to hunt for them for 3 days....

[huSTLer]

Love this theme! (Even if they're not all Avengers)

 

You and I actually have a couple of similar goals - to continue the momentum built up in running, and start strength training and experimenting with free weights.

 

I think clutter is a problem for everyone, so don't feel bad or guilty. The only rule for getting it under control is to create a place for everything, and then just make sure that everything winds up in its place ASAP. I have problems with the second part.

 

Good luck with all your goals! Let's kick butt!

[aimless]

Love this theme! (Even if they're not all Avengers)

 

You and I actually have a couple of similar goals - to continue the momentum built up in running, and start strength training and experimenting with free weights.

 

I think clutter is a problem for everyone, so don't feel bad or guilty. The only rule for getting it under control is to create a place for everything, and then just make sure that everything winds up in its place ASAP. I have problems with the second part.

 

Good luck with all your goals! Let's kick butt!

Yeah... took some Marvel liberties there!! 

[german]

Great goals and awesome theme, best of luck with this one, you are going to smash this!

[lrgart]

Great goals and awesome theme, best of luck with this one, you are going to smash this!

HULK SMASH CLUTTER!!!! 

 

Deadlifts were awesome.  Form was spot-on!

[aimless]

Great goals and awesome theme, best of luck with this one, you are going to smash this!

Thanks, German! I'm gonna do it, or die trying!

[aimless]

HULK SMASH CLUTTER!!!! 

 

Deadlifts were awesome.  Form was spot-on!

Thanks, babe! Those deadlifts and TRX rows are killing me... SO SORE! Guess it's good to work out muscles I forgot I had....

[aimless]

So far have done one run, and one weights workout... I'm working on bigger full-body movements that I haven't tried before, so I'm sore in lots of little places I forgot existed!! (Weird... like it's not supposed to hurt when you put on deodorant, right?!?!?) I tried deadlifts, and actually LIKE them! (shocker!) ...I'm starting at 45 pounds for deadlifts. Also pulling my body up row-style on TRX bands (my husband called them Renegade Rows, or something like that?) and doing throw-down squats with a 15 pound medicine ball. 

 

I found a 5K in September that I've actually convinced some girls at work to do with me (Dirty Girl Mud Run) here... and I'm signing up for a 5 mile run on April 28th... First organized runs!!! I'm EXCITED!!!

 

I also have the dining room totally torn apart with the beginning phases of the paper-clutter war. I told the kids to get comfortable eating dinner on the couch for the week, cause that's a project I can't put away and take back out. I'm finding all the hidden boxes/bags/etc of stashed papers and bringing them out to the light of day. I've already gotten rid of a 55 gallon garbage bag of junk, and have burned at least half that much again that had personal info on it. The war is ON!

 

I've gone over my 1L of water intake each day... averaging 1.5-2L. Yay! 

[lrgart]

WOOHOOOO!!!  I can't wait to get pictures for your Dirty Girls run! 

[german]

Awesome start Amy!

 

Organized runs work marvels, for me at least, it pushes me out of the bed to go out and run, there is no way I'll let myself down once I've signed up!.

 

Also, kudos on getting others involved, it creates a positive social pressure, which is also one of my favorite strategies.

[jfrankovich]

Great goals, and similar to mine.  Best of luck defeating the clutter!

[18ck]

Woo-hoo! Give that paper a taste of the cold steel! They don't like it up 'em*

The mud run sounds fantastic too - I love that kind if thing. Good choice - are the work buddies runners too or are you inducting them into a new world?

*references to 70s UK sitcoms probably wasted.

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[Pika24]

YOU REFERENCED X MEN?? I'm so proud! *single tear*

 

Great goals. I love how fired up you still are from challenge one. Send some of that enthusiasm my way, please!!

[NicoleCanoes]

If you have problems with the running a whole 5k or 10k, try switching your approach. I found an app for my phone that breaks it down into time intervals instead of distance intervals. Run until the music stops then walk until the music starts back up. Run time increases and walk time decreases at each level. At the end of the program you can run a continuous 45 minutes.

[aimless]

Awesome start Amy!

 

Organized runs work marvels, for me at least, it pushes me out of the bed to go out and run, there is no way I'll let myself down once I've signed up!.

 

Also, kudos on getting others involved, it creates a positive social pressure, which is also one of my favorite strategies.

Thanks, German! I'm kinda pumped about these runs... but they seem so far away... I may have to look for something a little sooner to keep the motivation up! I'm getting a little bit of slack from some of the people I've asked... but they're the ones who have been pretty unsupportive of this so far anyway... so just moving on to others who are more helpful!

 

Great goals, and similar to mine.  Best of luck defeating the clutter!

The clutter goal is the one I'm MOST worried about.... it's a HUGE undertaking... even when I narrowed it down to just the paper clutter for this challenge.... One step at a time....

 

Woo-hoo! Give that paper a taste of the cold steel! They don't like it up 'em*

The mud run sounds fantastic too - I love that kind if thing. Good choice - are the work buddies runners too or are you inducting them into a new world?

*references to 70s UK sitcoms probably wasted.

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LOL.... I'm going to have to look up that reference! Work buddies are a mixed bag... some runners, some not so much... The Mud Run I found is for cancer, and we have a close coworker who has been battling it this year, so it's hitting close to home for a lot of us... I think it's helping to get them interested, even if they don't run! I hope to get some running buddies out of the experience though!

 

YOU REFERENCED X MEN?? I'm so proud! *single tear*

 

Great goals. I love how fired up you still are from challenge one. Send some of that enthusiasm my way, please!!

Thank you, thank you *takes a bow* ....How could I grow up in our house and NOT be exposed to such things?? Some things I think I acquired through osmosis... Enthusiasm coming your way!

 

If you have problems with the running a whole 5k or 10k, try switching your approach. I found an app for my phone that breaks it down into time intervals instead of distance intervals. Run until the music stops then walk until the music starts back up. Run time increases and walk time decreases at each level. At the end of the program you can run a continuous 45 minutes.

So far the c25K app program has been working for me... I like that it uses my own music/playlist, and tells me when to walk and run... the intervals sound similar to your app too... I love that it takes the guesswork out of it. I never knew before if I was pushing myself too hard or not hard enough.... Isn't technology GREAT??

[lrgart]

You are a snow beast! 

[aimless]

Made it out today to run... sucked it up and did it in the snow because the weekend's jam-packed (one kid swimming in Districts far far away, another one competing in Solo and Ensemble and husband working all weekend) and I know it's unlikely another run will happen.

 

As it stands, I have now done my 3 runs of the week, so on track there. FInished w5d2 today... first time I've ever run an 8-minute interval... and *eek* looked at the next run, and it's TWENTY minutes in a row without walking!!!! (scary!)

Have done strength training twice... surprisingly to myself, I've been liking it!

Have met or exceeded my water goal every day so far... but have yet to take it that step further and try to limit my coffee or wine... need to get on that.

Followed my meal plan all week long, and have not had to make any 'emergency' trips to the store.

Continuing to work on paper clutter goal. Spent another 3 hours on it today... slow going there.

 

Stole and then altered fabulous spreadsheet to track goals and progress... LOVE it! (Um... from Haikoo, who I saw on Hammlin's thread, who stole it from someone else.... and someone before that.... it's getting around! It's the Rainbow Spreadsheet of Happiness!!!)

[huSTLer]

Sounds like things are going well.

 

For the 20-minute run, just take it really slow at first and you'll be absolutely fine!

[18ck]

Running in snow! I foresee great things for you - if you go out in the snow there's not much that'll stop you!

20 minutes - you'll cruise it!

[german]

You totally got this, just run and try to think of something else, and you'll be over the 20 minutes before you know it.

[aimless]

Had to come on and post.... I just ran TWENTY MINUTES WITHOUT A WALK BREAK!!!!!!! 

 

**Insert Rocky music here**

 

I have to admit... even with the encouragement, I really didn't think I'd be able to make it.... I've never run ONE mile all the way through, much less TWO!!!

 

 

 

Sounds like things are going well.

 

For the 20-minute run, just take it really slow at first and you'll be absolutely fine!

I kept this in mind FOR SURE... paced myself and just kept slogging along. Thanks!

 

Running in snow! I foresee great things for you - if you go out in the snow there's not much that'll stop you!

20 minutes - you'll cruise it!

And I made sure to get out there TODAY because it was 50 degrees, and is supposed to turn yucky again tonight or tomorrow morning! 

 

You totally got this, just run and try to think of something else, and you'll be over the 20 minutes before you know it.

Thanks! Music really helps me.... I tried to keep guessing how many songs I had left... So glad you all had faith in me... I REALLY wasn't sure! 

 

LOVE the support and how we all cheer each other on! THANKS all!