Grayspeed Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 So I've been pretty obsessed with the Spideyfit YouTube channel lately... What's not to love about a Spider-Man cosplayer who does fitness videos? In the below video Spideyfit states there are 3 important skillsets needed to become your own superhero. Strength, flexibility, and endurance. So I'll be basing my fitness quests on these principles. The focus this time around will be on maintaining existing habits and building new ones. Quest 1: Strength I'm currently following a programme based on the Start Bodyweight basic program, but slightly modified to suit my needs. After about 3 weeks I'm already seeing/feeling more progress than I've had in the last 6-8 months. Clearly something is working! The goal here is simply to ensure I do my resistance workout at least 3 times a week. Depending on how the days fall, I may get in 4. But the idea is to never go below 3 session a week. Quest 2: Flexibility Every day I will spend at least 5 minutes working on stretching and/or mobility. **The amount may increase to 10 minutes if 5 proves too easy.** Quest 3: Endurance Perform two intense cardio sessions per week, lasting 15-20 minutes or more. I get a good amount of low impact cardio from walking, but I'm slowly moving over to a more speed focussed approach rather than the endurance stuff I've been doing the last couple of years. I will probably be rotating between interval sprints on an exercise bike, working on increasing my 5k trail run time, or doing hill sprints. Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Spend 30 minutes a day doing some form of adulting. The time isn't super important, it's really just there to make sure I actually do some form of meaningful or useful adulting. Tasks will likely include job searching, cleaning, organizing financial stuff, and a myriad of all the other fun adulting tasks that everyone loves and enjoys! I will be on holiday from the 20th - 27th. These days the time will be reduced to 10 minutes. Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! The last few quests I've been sharing a daily awesome, it's been super fun and uplifting, but doesn't really fit the main challenge this time around. Instead I will post a weekly highlight reel of various little bits of happiness and win that I have encountered that week. Assassin's Guild Minichallenge ..TBA.. 6 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Jessebel Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Spideyfit! I had not been familiar, so thank you for the introduction. Good luck with your challenge! 2 Quote Link to comment
RogueLibrarian Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 I am intrigued by this so-called "Spidered Man" fellow and his fitness plan. Are you doing gym rings workouts? I've just started trying them -- they are damn hard, but fun! 2 Quote "We can be heroes" Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 1 hour ago, RogueLibrarian said: Are you doing gym rings workouts? I've just started trying them -- they are damn hard, but fun! I plan to pick up a set soon, it's something I've wanted to try for ages now. 2 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
RogueLibrarian Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 I got a set from Amazon for something like thirty bucks that have been just what I needed to get started. 2 Quote "We can be heroes" Link to comment
Suzaqu Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 I too will have to research this spideyfit youtube, I'm intrigued! I'm excited for the highlight reel, I love the daily awesome you have been doing. And of course, adulting is everyone's favorite thing Where are you going on holiday? 1 Quote Current Challenge 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2016 11 hours ago, Suzaqu said: I too will have to research this spideyfit youtube, I'm intrigued! I'm excited for the highlight reel, I love the daily awesome you have been doing. And of course, adulting is everyone's favorite thing Where are you going on holiday? Heading on a mini roadtrip down to the south of the country and back, should be pretty fun. The recent release of Pokemon Go should add to the excitement too Getting workouts in shouldn't be too hard either, may have to make some adjustments though. As I'll be at Star Wars Celebraton this weekend, my challenge will start on Monday the 18th. 1 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Suzaqu Posted July 15, 2016 Report Share Posted July 15, 2016 3 hours ago, Grayspeed said: Heading on a mini roadtrip down to the south of the country and back, should be pretty fun. The recent release of Pokemon Go should add to the excitement too Getting workouts in shouldn't be too hard either, may have to make some adjustments though. As I'll be at Star Wars Celebraton this weekend, my challenge will start on Monday the 18th. Yesssss, catch all the Pokemon! I'm so mad the game came out after I did my two long trips this summer, I could have had so many pokemon! That sounds like a fun trip, and Star Wars Celebration sounds like a great way to kick off the challenge! 1 Quote Current Challenge 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 Link to comment
Elleica Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Great challenge goals. I'm learning something new here. Will be following along again 1 Quote Epic Character | 4-Week Challenge: Current | 2 | 1 | Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Challenge, begin! Quest 1: Strength Week 1: 0/3 workouts. It is hot today. Will have to have an early morning workout tomorrow. Quest 2: Flexibility Week 1: 1/7 days. Quest 3: Endurance Week 1: 0/2 cardio workouts. Should hopefully get to do some beach sprints later this week Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Easing back into things after a weekend of Star Wars epicness, I kept it simple and did a bit of vacuuming, cleaned/fixed a desk fan, unpacked my travel bag, and started packing again for a week away. Which sounds like more than it actually was when you type it up Week 1: 1/7 adulting "sessions". Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! This should be at the end of each week, but week 0 as so much fun I had to share some of it. Pokemon Go has been so much fun! Seeing kids willingly play outside, me somehow being able to talk to complete strangers at pokestops, and just generally having a fun time. Also, this. http://www.sciencealert.com/pokemon-go-is-reportedly-helping-people-with-their-depression I went to London and only had one (very minor, don't worry) panic attack on the Underground! Star Wars Celebration was amazing. Such an amazing atmosphere. Had so much fun, saw some awesome stuff/people, and learned some valuable lessons for next time. Was my first real convention, and I can't wait to go to another. Bonus SWC highlights: Creatures and Droids of The Force Awakens panel. Gareth Edwards (director of Rogue One) crashing the concept art panel Q&A dressed as a stormtrooper. Crazy cosplayers. Warwick Davis and Ray Park re-enacting the lightsaber fight from The Phantom Menace in hilarious fashion. Our hotel was petty great, too. My girlfriend is a hotel deal finding ninja. 3 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Suzaqu Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Get it! Great start to the week! Did you cosplay? I'd say it sounds like you did a bunch of adulting, especially with losing the weekend to epicness! 1 Quote Current Challenge 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2016 22 hours ago, Suzaqu said: Get it! Great start to the week! Did you cosplay? I'd say it sounds like you did a bunch of adulting, especially with losing the weekend to epicness! I didn't cosplay, but I have come away with a serious case of lightsaber envy.. So many awesome customer sabers there. If I did a cosplay It'd have to be very light as I struggled with heat just in jeans and tshirt, I have no idea how people survive in robes and masks! I was very tempted by some Stormtrooper helmets though... Quest 1: Strength Week 1: 1/3 workouts. It was even hotter today.. Luckily I got most of my workout in before the temperature really got up. Quest 2: Flexibility Week 1: 2/7 days. Quest 3: Endurance Week 1: 0/2 cardio workouts. Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Went on a last minute shopping expedition to get stuff for holiday. Also did checks on car before trip. Forgot to get petrol. *facepalm* Week 1: 2/7 adulting "sessions". Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! N/A Assassin Mini: Did 2 circuits. It's damn hot today, I wanted to do more but I started feeling very wobbly. 2 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 22 hours ago, ~ Eli ~ said: Also this: *when you encounter a swarm of bugs while running* Travel day, so a bit of a boring update. Quest 1: Strength Week 1: 1/3 workouts. Modified workout plan to suit current lodgings ready for tomorrow. Quest 2: Flexibility Week 1: 3/7 days. Almost forgot, updating this thread reminded me about it! Quest 3: Endurance Week 1: 0/2 cardio workouts. There's some mean looking hills around where I'm staying right now, should make for a fun workout. Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Does 5 hours of driving count as adulting? Researching local bus routes and buying tickets. I wouldn't usually count this, but I'm on holiday. Week 1: 3/7 adulting "sessions". Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! N/A Assassin Mini: Should finish my circuits tomorrow. 2 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 Quest 1: Strength Week 1: 2/3 workouts. Quest 2: Flexibility Week 1: 4/7 days. Quest 3: Endurance Week 1: 0/2 cardio workouts. Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Blew it today. Week 1: 3/7 adulting "sessions". Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! N/A Assassin Mini: Circuits done 1 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 So, I came to the realisation that questing while on holiday was a bad idea. So I took a break from all of this and just enjoyed adventuring and getting away from life for a few days. As we were doing over 10,000 steps a day and climbing over various rocks and stuff (and doing the odd set of pushups!) I was still active. So I'm in no way disappointed with the physical aspects of the break. The adulting was a bit frustrating at first. But a week away with your significant other is not the time to be job searching or organising finances. Basically I've just had an active rest week. Which is pretty awesome. Questing will be back on tomorrow, and I'll probably post a bit of a highlight reel/recap of the past few days just for fun. Now I need to catch up on all the new Comic Con news and unpack. 3 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
RogueLibrarian Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Sounds entirely sensible. Sometimes you've just got to revise a challenge plan midstream! Sounds like a great holiday. 3 Quote "We can be heroes" Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Quest 1: Strength Felt so good to be back doing proper workouts today. Week 2: 1/3 workouts. Quest 2: Flexibility Week 2: 1/7 days. Quest 3: Endurance Week 2: 0/2 cardio workouts. Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Job searching began big time today. Week 2: 1/7 adulting "sessions". Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! Open spoiler for some pics! Photos courtesy of my awesome girlfriend. Also, sorry about the size.. Spoiler Super cute dogs at the AirBnB place we stayed at. A not very good Spider-Man pose, seemed like a good idea at the time... Jellyfish. A freaking Rhino. Lighthouse. Beaches be pretty. We took a Pikachu with us... and had a lot of shenanigans.. Olympic rings statue for the 2012 Olympics. Assassin Mini: Started work on the Jungle World. 3 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
SnowOwl Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Love the pics! Looks like a great vacation! 1 Quote Race: Elf ~ Class: Druid Apprentice ~ Level: 12 Current Challenge 2015-2016 Challenges: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve 2018-2019 Challenges: (first one in progress) Link to comment
Suzaqu Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 Awesome highlight reel is awesome! Great job picking back up on questing after vacation, and realizing when sometimes you just need a rest week! 2 Quote Current Challenge 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 Quest 1: Strength Week 2: 1/3 workouts. Quest 2: Flexibility Week 2: 2/7 days. Quest 3: Endurance Interval workout of exercise bike. Week 2: 1/2 cardio workouts. Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Futile search for nice shirts for interviews and such. A bit more job site searching - getting real tired of people advertising part-time jobs using a full-time salary. Give me the truth, dammit! Week 2: 2/7 adulting "sessions". Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! N/A Assassin Mini: Should finish my pullups tomorrow. 3 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Manarelle Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 6 hours ago, Grayspeed said: Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Futile search for nice shirts for interviews and such. A bit more job site searching - getting real tired of people advertising part-time jobs using a full-time salary. Give me the truth, dammit! Yeah, sympathize with this. Job hunting is extremely frustrating. Best of luck to you on that. On 7/27/2016 at 2:07 PM, Grayspeed said: A not very good Spider-Man pose, seemed like a good idea at the time... Seemed like a good idea always. I hadn't even scrolled down to the caption and was already thinking "thwip!" 1 Quote Manarelle the Level 60 Amazon Assassin Challenges: 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, Current Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 Quest 1: Strength Week 2: 2/3 workouts. Quest 2: Flexibility Week 2: 3/7 days. Quest 3: Endurance Week 2: 1/2 cardio workouts. Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Trip to bank to sort out stuff for new savings account, also went around town looking for places advertising vacancies. Didn't find much, but I did make a good amount of progress playing Pokemon Go and picked up a couple of comics. Week 2: 3/7 adulting "sessions". Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! N/A Assassin Mini: Chinups finished. My arms are now toast. 1 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Suzaqu Posted July 30, 2016 Report Share Posted July 30, 2016 Definitely sympathize with the job search pain. Adult things suck! I just applied for a new savings account too, great minds think alike Now I just need to get it accepted. Way to go on the mini finish! 1 Quote Current Challenge 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted July 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 So, Saturday wasn't great for quest stuff. I had plans to do a cardio workout as well as some adulting and daily stretching/mobility. Not so much. Woke up way later than I like to and didn't do much until midday. Went out for a long walk/pokehunt with my girlfriend and then we went to the cinema with a friend. After getting back and making dinner I got really bummed out realising it was 8pm and I hadn't done any quest stuff. Uncharacteristically, I just gave up and watched TV. Fail. Today looks to be better, I've already spent over an hour job searching and even applied for something! Heading for a resistance workout after lunch, which will also include my mobility goal. Won't get the second cardio in for this week, but at least I was active yesterday . Quest tracking update to come later. 2 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
Grayspeed Posted August 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 Quest 1: Strength Week 2: 3/3 workouts. Quest 2: Flexibility Week 2: 4/7 days. Quest 3: Endurance Week 2: 1/2 cardio workouts. Quest 4 (life quest): Adulting Job searching and application. Week 2: 4/7 adulting "sessions". Bonus Quests Share the awesome - Weekly highlight reel edition! Many Pokemon Go adventures have been had. I'm loving this game! Although if they could fix the tracking system, buggy pokestops, and lack of interesting pokemon in rural areas - that would be great. Having a plan in place to find a new job is very motivating. I'm determined to find something. I can now to full range of motion on parallel dips without chest pain. Huzzah! Assassin Mini: N/A 3 Quote Level 19 Jedi/Assassin in-training. Challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." - Uncle Iroh Link to comment
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