nordentipwel - A Norse battle log

[nordentipwel]

Hi nerdfitness !

 

I've completed my 1st challenge at the begining of this week so I've decided to start loging my stuff. That seems to be a cool habit here

I'll post about what I eat, how I'm training, which game I'm playing and stuff like this.

 

A STORY

 

I'm a designer working in the videogame industry (for Ubisoft) since 2005. When I started, my weight was around 130 pounds. At the begining of 2014 my weight was at 191 pounds. Over 8 years I took 60 pounds ! THAT'S TERRIBLE. That needed to stop and change fast.

 

I started to workout and eat better on Jan 6th. I discover nerdfitness around Jan 14th and that was a total revelation.

I took all information I could find on this awesome website. I've learned stuff about bodyfat and I found a life goal. Be around 10-12% with muscle definition.

 

I started to eat paleo right away (you know Steve is really convincing ! haha)

I started to do bodyweight workout level 1. After 2 weeks, I changed to bodyweight level 2.

 

The goal for my 1st challenge  was to be at 175 pounds, from 191. That was not that easy for the melting was pretty fast, good for me .
I've started my 2nd challenge on monday Feb 17th.

So I'll see how it goes.

 

MEASUREMENT (Feb 19th)

 

Weight: 170.5

Body Fat: 17%ish

 

Wrist: 7in

Bicep: 12in

Waist: 34in

Hips: 36in

Torso : 37in

 

PROGRESS

 

The progress I made so far with pictures

 

[nordentipwel]

Feb 19th

 

FOODS

Lunch: Homemade spicy chiken and vegetables soup

Dinner: Mix of spicy italian saussages with vegetables

Desserts: grape and honeydew

Drinks: Water

 

TRAINING

My girlfriend was already sleeping so I was not able to use the bar. So my workout for today was 3 sets of

 

16 pushups

20 dumbell rows for each arm (with a dumbell of 20lbs)

13 lunges for each legs (adding 20lbs with a dumbell)

23 reverse crunches

40 sec of jumping jacks

 

BONUS

I meditated for 15 minutes after the workout. Oh, how I miss you meditation

[nordentipwel]

Feb 20th

 

FOODS

Lunch: Homemade spicy chiken and vegetables soup

Dinner: Beef cubes with brocoli and mushrooms

Desserts: grape and 3 bread slice with peanut butter (In yo' face Paleo.... well...)

Drinks: Water and 1 homemade fruit cocktail

 

TRAINING

That was my soft training day.

 

20 minutes of running

 

BONUS

10 minutes of meditation

 

 

GEEK STUFF

I'm currently playing Bravely Default on the 3DS

[nordentipwel]

Feb 21th

 

Day of hard work and hurry...

 

FOODS

Lunch: When to the restaurant and ate a fancy burger with cheese and french fries (that was my cheat meal of the week)

Dinner: Homemade with chicken, brocoli and tomato

Desserts: Nothing

Drinks: Water

 

TRAINING

Like I said earlier I was in a hurry.

 

2 sets of

 

16 pushups

4 chin up

20 sec side plank (each side)

 

 

Not a great day sadly

[nordentipwel]

Feb 22th

 

FOODS

Breakfast/Lunch: Scrambled eggs, bacons, grapes and 1 bread slice

Dinner: Homemade chicken with shrimps and vegetables

Desserts: Two homemade oat cookies

Drinks: Water

 

TRAINING

20 minutes of running

 

BONUS

10 minutes of meditation

I was able to do 1.5 pull-up. YAY.

[nordentipwel]

Feb 23th

 

FOODS

 

Breakfast/Lunch: Went to restaurant. Ate scrambled eggs, saussages, potatoes, fruits and 2 bread slice with peanut butter

Dinner: Homemade chicken salad

Desserts: Grape and strawberry

Drinks: Water and 1 fruit cocktail this morning

 

TRAINING

3 sets of

 

16 pushups

16 squats (with a dumbell of 20lbs)

2.5 pull-ups (YAY )

25 knee step-ups

10 hanging knee tuck

40 sec jumping jacks

 

BONUS

10 minutes of meditation this morning

[nordentipwel]

Feb 24th

 

MEASUREMENT

 

Weight: 170.5

Body Fat: 17%

 

Wrist: 7 in

Bicep: 12.5 in (+0.5)

Waist: 33.5 in (-0.5)

Hips: 35.5 in (-0.5)

Torso : 37 in

 

FOODS

Lunch: Homemade spicy chiken and vegetables soup

Dinner: Beef skewers with bell pepper and an avocado/mango salad

Desserts: grape & 2 slice of bread with peanut butter on them

Drinks: Water

 

TRAINING

20 minutes of running

 

BONUS

12 minutes of meditation

 

I'm looking forward to next week. It'll be 2 months of training, I want to compare pictures . I know it won't be AS awesome as the 1st month but still.

[nordentipwel]

Feb 25th

 

FOODS

Lunch: Beef skewers with bell pepper and an avocado/mango salad and a few chedar cubes

Dinner: Pork ribbs and sweet potatoes (even if that was homemade, that was not super healthy...)

Desserts: grape & banana

Drinks: Water

 

TRAINING

3 sets of

 

17 pushups

16 squats (+20lbs)

5 chin-ups

25sec sideplank (each side)

45sec jumping jacks

 

BONUS

11 minutes of meditation

[nordentipwel]

Feb 26th

 

That was not a great day... After work I had to go to meet a guy for buying a new house. After than I had friends comming at my place for a D&D game and it lasted until 10:20 pm. I had to do my lunch for tomorrow after than so I had 10 minutes for "workout" before staying to my plan to go to sleep at 11....

 

FOODS

Lunch: Saussages with a salad with carrots and mushrooms

Dinner: Went to restaurant and ate fried chicken with french fries (cheat meal of the week!)

Desserts: strawberry and banana, 1 little piece of chocolate for dinner

Drinks: Water

 

TRAINING

10 minutes of running. That was the time I had before forcing myself to go to bed.

 

Bleh...

[nordentipwel]

Feb 27th

 

FOODS

Lunch: Chicken with mashed potatoes and carrots

Dinner: Italian saussages with vegetables

Desserts: strawberry & banana

Drinks: Water

 

TRAINING

3 sets of

 

17 pushups

15 squats (+25lbs)

3.5 pull-ups (It's going up ! )

25 knee step up

11 hanging knee tuck

45sec jumping jacks

 

BONUS

11 minutes of meditation

 

GEEK STUFF
Diablo 3 patch 2.0.1 was up tomorrow. It'll be REALLY hard to go to bed at 11 now...

[nordentipwel]

Feb 28th

 

FOODS

Lunch: Sausages and vegetables

Dinner: Went to the restaurant with my GF. Fancy burger with french fries

Desserts: banana & cantaloup

Drinks: Water

Other Crap: Went to cinema with after the dinner and ate lots of popcorn.

 

TRAINING

20 minutes of running

 

BONUS

10 minutes of meditation

[Edigo]

wow i am AMAZED at your progress up to now, i such a short time ! way to go :thumbs up:

[nordentipwel]

I'll post like every week for now. Because it's a little bit tedious to update the battle log and the challenge at the same time

And thanks by the way !

[Edigo]

how are you ? please give some news !

[nordentipwel]

I'm updating my challenge post instead ! I'll need to update this soon .
Things have changed (positively) since my last post.

[Buahaha]

Nice work! 

[nordentipwel]

So, 1 image worth 1000 words.

The progress so far. After a little bit more than 3 months.

[T2sarahconnor]

Look at those abs and arms.

You should feel great! Wow!

New thread coming soon?

[nordentipwel]

Thanks a lot !

And, oh, new challenge starts tomorrow... I've not any idea what to do