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I'd contemplated starting a Battle Log for some time now, but wasn't sure of the point.

 

The point is here!

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^ yup, right there.

 

I have completed my personal training sessions and have achieved my secondary goal weight. So Chapter 1 is complete.

Now I have to learn how to go solo, and what I want to do next.

 

Step 1: Starting Nerd Fitness Academy

I joined last month, but I'll be using it as my new path. I was categorized into Level 4, and I want to defeat the previous bosses before I really start progressing. I just hit week 6 emails, so I'll be actually going through those starting now.

 

Step 2: Workout Accountability

If others are with me I will work out when sick, on shark week, etc., but I'm prone to making excuses when I'm solo. I need to learn how to not.

Sundays: with brother and husband

Week 1: MWF - husband has personal trainer on F, so I will meet at his gym

Week 2: TTh - husband has personal trainer on T, so I will meet at his gym

So danger days (DANGA!) are M, W, Th, and I have one W per month when I have to be somewhere by 6, so this makes it especially difficult.

On the easier side, my gym is in the same parking lot as my car, so at least there's no excuse there. I'm at a local chain, and will be upping my membership so I can go to any location at any time.

 

Step 3: Goals

I need to figure them out. I'm happy about maintaining the weight, but would like to adjust my fat/muscle percentages (they're about even right now) and if I gain more weight in muscle, huzzah! I also want to get to chinup/pullup, and increase mah gaiiiinz, but unsure how to go about doing that quite yet. I'm feeling pretty good at my current nutrition macros, and I'm good at keeping track, so there may be adjustments but for now I'm leaving that alone.

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Monday 7/25: I did the thing! ^_^

 

NFA 4B, Variant

 

- 10 min elliptical at level 14 (+1 from normal, woot!)

 

- 2 15# kettlebells step up (20in height) each leg x 10 (x8 on last set)

- 40# barbell strict press x 8

- 40# barbell bent over row x 10

x 3

 

- 75# lat pull down x8

x3

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Day two Wednesday complete! This time I used google keep to track while I was working, so easier on the reposting results :) 

 

NFA 4B Variant

 

3 - 95 115 125 r deadlift x10

Set

3 - "Ring row" 70/75# x10 (using a cable machine, but same movement)

3- Push up x8

Set

3 - side plank 30s each side

Set

3 - Low to high plank x 6 each side

Set

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Didn't gym Sunday (sad), we're doing a major house cleaning, definitely got a workout in. Will post in a min on today's ^_^

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Back squat 90# 3×8

Set

Bench press 50# 3×10 (try@55 next time)

Set

Deadlift 115# 3×10

Set

Assisted pullup -70# 3x8

Set

Slider low plank jacks 3×20

Slider low plank saw 3×10

Slider low plank mountain climber 3×20(40 last set]

Set

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GOODNESS WELL OK I GUESS I FELL OFF THAT.

 

Not really really?

 

I went to GenCon, and was really anticipating finding a gym and/or doing active activities at GenCon to have it count, but wound up on heavy antihistamines and prednisone and a trip to Urgent Care (allergic reactions, weee!). BUT we walked A TON, I did exercises in the bathroom one morning (push ups and side bends and squats). That 8/2 exercise was the morning we left, so I feel pretty good about that.

 

Following posts for catching up exercise on days following GenCon ^_^

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Tuesday 8/9

 

Had a lady stop me on the way to DW's gym which delayed me for half an hour so I didn't get a full hour in (either she really needed the help or she really needed the scam, but I'm an optimist so helped out either way).

 

Warmup: Elliptical at lvl 14 for 10 min

 

Assisted pullup x 10 @ 70, 60, 65, 65

 

Set x 3:

10 knee pushups

10 low plank body saws

 

Set x 3:

16 40# walking lunges

PS - I know what nothing is called, so bear with me XD

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I still owe for last week, I didn't get to go to the gym today so modded NFA bodyweight level 4:

Lateral Jumping Squat - 6/10/10/10 reps

Bodyweight Pushup - 5 reps x4

Military press 8# - 10 reps x4

Bodyweight Squat - 10 reps x4

Divebomber Pushup - 5 reps x4

Holeeeeee crap divebombers are crazy and I probably did them poorly but they're done o.o

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Ok so last Thursday (8/11)

 

I trolled my friends ^_^

 

There was a meme floating around facebook (10 jumping jacks for a share, 5 squats for a comment, 2 situps for a like). I *knew* people were going to comment extra for the squats, so I told them in advance only one comment per person would count. Since I knew people were going to do it anyway, I added an extra 10 pounds of weight per comment :D

 

And I also hit the Beserxes NFA boss while I was at it, 'cause rawr.

 

5/5 min ellip level 14/15
Bar hang 40s
Assisted chinup 10
16 knee pushups
12 jump squats
30 situps
30x Jumping jacks
9x5 bw squats
Chris/Tom :50x10
Gus: 70x5
David: 60x5

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Here's 8/14, which is my brother and I's usual Sunday trip:

 

Set X3:

Upupdowndown 30
Squat jack 10
Toe touch 20

 

Set x3:
Hollow hold kick 60
Side plank 30s each side

Bench press 55 3x10 (8 1st)
Overhead 50 x 8 x 1
Asst pullup 50# 1x8 55# 2x8 (so I increased my assist, 50 is still not enough - working on it though! this means I'm doing more than 90 on my own!)
Back squat 95 1x10, 85 1x10, 90 1x10 (I wasn't originally planning on doing back squat, but that rack is never empty so I went for it :D )
16 50# walk lunge (just one set, then I was ded.)

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Today was raaaawr :)

 

Thunderlord Oversquat was tricky, and I wasn't able to hang from the bar for 40 seconds... and then realized that I just deadlifted my max AND did goblet squats directly before, so uhh.. shouldn't do that. XD

 

Deadlift 115 x 5/135 x 5/155 x 4 <- that's my max, woot!

45lb Goblet squat 3x6

40 second bar hang (30 :P )
15 assisted chin ups (55lb assist)

Lat pull down 70 x 10 x 3

16 knee pushups (did a little more, Josh's PT had some advice so I did extras)

2x10 upright crunch machine

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8/21: SUNDAY, SUNDAY SUNDAY

Slider jacks x 20
High to low plank x 8
Mountain climbers x 20
Set x 3


Back squat x 10 @ 50
Bench press @ 55 x 10 x 2
Incline bench press 45 x3x6x4 <- hooooleeeee crap I'd never done these before and my muscles WTF'd, which is why I could only do three on the first one.
Leg press 90x10 180x6 180x10 <- this is wrong. The default on the bar is 112#, so this is actually 202 and 292... whewps? o.o

 

8/22: Monday

Missed >_<

I thought I was donating blood, but that's next week. 

Did some walking and stretching instead.

 

8/23: Tuesday

Rest day, did 50 bodyweight squats anyway.

 

8/24: Wednesday
Warmup 10 min @15


Bar Hang - 2 sets of 30+ seconds
Hip lift 50# 3x10
Assisted chinups/pullups 55# 3x10

Step Up - 8 reps per side (12lb)
Wall sit Military press 12# dbs 8
Bent Over Dumbbell Row - 8 reps 20#
Set x4
Walking lunges 20# dbs x16
 

8/26: Friday (today!)

Back squat 95/115/115 x5
Romanian deadlift 95/115 x 10 <- Husband's PT let me use his olympic bar. OOOOOOH, way better O_O
Deadlift 115 x 10


Captain chair lift/crunch 3x10

 

Dip hold 4x15s
Bar hold scapular pushup 2x10


Upupdowndown 2x8
Pushup 1x8
Box jump 3x20

Side plank 2x30s each

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8/28, went to gym with bro, sans husband:

Warmup @15 10min

Bench press 55# 10/8/6

Incline bench press 45# 8/6/4 - better!

Kettle bell 25/40/40 3x10

Kettle bell pass under high plank 10x3

Set

Tuck in jumps 10x3

Slider jacks 20x3

Flutter kicks 3x60

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8/30, did the Warmup for Parkour.edu parkour 101 series, then this:

Bicep curl 20/30/30

Step up 15lb dbs 3x10 each l3g

Med ball weight upover 15lb 3x10

Lean over with 15lb 3x10

Strict press 40lb 3x10

Walk lunge 40lb 3x10

Warm up: parkour 101

Bent over rows 40lb 3x10

Bar hang 30s x 2

Assisted dips 3x80asst

Cooldown: 5 min elliptical lvl15

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Just an update, as I haven't done any "official" strength training really since Tuesday (booooooooooo). But Tuesday maybe strained something in my shoulder with that strict press so I've been easy on it.

 

Thursday (9/1): Parkour warmups and some of the basic movement practice, then swimming! With a water dog, so lots of splashing XD

 

Saturday (9/3): PARKOUR! Still on class 1, will probably be for the next week or so. That was one hour

 

Sunday and Monday (9/4-5): Japanese Festival, so no strength training :< LOTS OF WALKING though.

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Tuesday (9/7):

 

Did well, but again feeling pretty lost on what to do. I'm sort of following NFA, but sometimes I can't do the exercises required or it doesn't match with what I want to strength train that day, so at the moment I'm hopping through all of the level 4 stuff to see if there's something that matches in all of them. I did get my exercises from my previous PT, so I could do those, but haven't gone through them either :P I also just ran into darebee.com, so might see if I can glean new input from that. And again, despite all the walking my legs were SCREAMING that they hadn't done enough. Fixed that with the leg press yesterday though :P

 

Warmup: 10min @ lvl15

 

Incline bench press @ bar# 10/8/6

Set
Back squat 50# 10/15/15
Bent over row 50# 3x10

Set

Asst dips 60# 3x10 <-ermagherd sherlders o.o
Scapular retraction 2x10 <- did not have it in me for a third

Set

Leg press 262/212/212 3x10 <- first round was difficult but possible, but only for one set
Set
Captain chair 3x10 <- mix of straight leg and bent leg

Set
Bridge w/med ball (15#?) 3x10
Low plank 30s 3x10

 

 

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Still going, but get confused a lot on what I should track here vs. what I should track in challenge.

 

I got to 135 on squat and 175 on deadlift, which was my goal for the year or ever so pretty happy with that. Need to figure out what the next goal should be. I'm kind of enamored with squatting my husband XD But that's 135, not sure if I can do that in a year.

 

Anyway, this weekend will be contemplating goals for the year and possibly narrowing it down a bit. A lot of my fitness goals are aligned (want to do pullups, handstand, parkour, and rock climbing, and increase my weight totals), I have some food prep I'm contemplating getting into and refining our budget, so those can go together...

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Found ya! Do you have a challenge this month or going to be updating here? Also, holy squats and deadlifts, batman! That's some crazy weight! When you deadlift that much, does it kill your hands? I'm DL'ing only 70 and every time the next day my forearms are so sore from taxing my grip strength. Tell me your secrets!

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@x Valkyrie x Hiiiiiiiii! ^_^ I'm working on my challenge as we speak :D

It kind of does. I was taught early on to really dig the calluses that form XD
I was having grip problems around 155, I asked in the forums and everyone said chalk is awesome and to work on some farmer carries to help grip strength! Working on pullups is also helping I think.

 

Ooh ooh, also, look up Mark Rippetoe, he came recommended by other NF people, he's got lots of good information online like this one:

 

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Most of this week has been walking - yesterday was a 6 mile walk (there's a bubble tea place that's almost exactly 3 miles from our house). 

 

I started back with my PT for a 10 week session today, the fun part is that he used to be a gymnastics instructor so is kinda happy about teaching me some basic handstand and mobility stuff. Gymnastics was something I wanted to take as a kid but never really got the opportunity, and there aren't any adult gymnastics classes in the area - the closest is an aerial silks class that I'm really interested in trying out, but I want to hit my fitness goals first, so it can be loot :)

 

And we got through 2x5 of 175lb on deadlift! It was really hard, but possible!

 

Sunday was gym with the husband's PT (he's letting me circuit with them). A lot of it feels kind of light (husband is about 8 months behind me with different fitness goals), but now that he knows I'm lifting heavier it's been steadily increasing. Husband and I are both at 135 on squat ^_^

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I skipped a bunch, whatever 🤗

FitNotes Workout - Wednesday 25th January 2017

Total Volume: 5,700 lbs

Total Sets: 15

Total Reps: 153

** Flat Barbell Bench Press ** (Group 1)

- 60.0 lbs x 5 reps

- 60.0 lbs x 5 reps

- 60.0 lbs x 5 reps

** Hip Thrusters ** (Group 1)

- 60.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 60.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 60.0 lbs x 10 reps

** Incline Dumbbell Bench Press ** (Group 2)

- 30.0 lbs x 10 reps [PR]

- 30.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 30.0 lbs x 10 reps

** EZ-Bar Skullcrusher ** (Group 2)

- 30.0 lbs x 10 reps [PR]

- 30.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 30.0 lbs x 10 reps

** Kettlebell Swing **

- 25.0 lbs x 16 reps

- 25.0 lbs x 16 reps

- 25.0 lbs x 16 reps

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FitNotes Workout - Thursday 26th January 2017

Total Volume: 7,685 lbs

Total Sets: 8

Total Reps: 53

** Elliptical Trainer **

- 10:00

** Deadlift **

- 95.0 lbs x 8 reps

- 145.0 lbs x 5 reps

- 185.0 lbs x 5 reps [PR]

- 185.0 lbs x 5 reps

- 145.0 lbs x 10 reps [PR]

- 145.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 145.0 lbs x 10 reps

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FitNotes Workout - Saturday 28th January 2017

Total Volume: 5,050 lbs

Total Sets: 19

Total Reps: 200

** Elliptical Trainer **

- 10:00

** Inverted Rows **

- 10 reps

- 10 reps

- 10 reps

** Superman Angels **

- 5.0 lbs x 10 reps [PR]

- 5.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 5.0 lbs x 10 reps

** Squat Pull **

- 50.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 50.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 50.0 lbs x 10 reps

** Lat Pulldown **

- 55.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 55.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 55.0 lbs x 10 reps

** Straight-Arm Cable Pushdown **

- 25.0 lbs x 10 reps [PR]

- 25.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 25.0 lbs x 10 reps

** Dumbell Row, Pushup Position **

- 20.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 20.0 lbs x 20 reps [PR]

- 20.0 lbs x 20 reps

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FitNotes Workout - Sunday 29th January 2017

Total Volume: 5,780 lbs

Total Sets: 20

Total Reps: 193

** High Plank **

- 00:30

- 00:30

- 00:30

** Deadlift **

- 53.0 lbs x 8 reps

- 53.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 53.0 lbs x 12 reps [PR]

** Barbell Squat **

- 45.0 lbs x 8 reps

- 90.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 90.0 lbs x 12 reps [PR]

** Cable Fly **

- 15.0 lbs x 12 reps [PR]

- 15.0 lbs x 12 reps

** Assisted Pullup Band **

- 12 reps

- 12 reps

** Ball Pickup And Throw **

- 10.0 lbs x 15 reps

- 10.0 lbs x 15 reps

- 10.0 lbs x 15 reps

** Trap Deadlift And Farmer Carry **

- 65.0 lbs x 8 reps [PR]

- 65.0 lbs x 8 reps

** Leg Raises **

- 12 reps

- 12 reps

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Again, just a half workout. Holy cats my legs are already sore and its only been 5 hours. MAH HIP FLEXORS!

FitNotes Workout - Tuesday 31st January 2017

Total Volume: 3,840 lbs

Total Sets: 18

Total Reps: 651

** Squat Jumps ** (Group 1)

- 15 reps

- 15 reps

- 15 reps

** Forward Lunges ** (Group 1)

- 20.0 lbs x 16 reps

- 20.0 lbs x 16 reps

- 20.0 lbs x 16 reps

** Hollow Rocks ** (Group 1)

- 24 reps

- 24 reps

- 24 reps

** Mountain Climbers ** (Group 2)

- 30 reps

- 30 reps

- 30 reps

** Straight Leg Deadlift ** (Group 2)

- 80.0 lbs x 12 reps

- 80.0 lbs x 12 reps

- 80.0 lbs x 12 reps

** Hollow Kicks ** (Group 2)

- 120 reps

- 120 reps

- 120 reps

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Ill try to get about posting RIGHT after a workout, maybe that will work better.

 

This plus stretching at the end:

FitNotes Workout - Sunday 12th February 2017

Total Volume: 9,775 lbs

Total Sets: 32

Total Reps: 355

 

** Elliptical Trainer **

- 10:00

 

** Deadlift **

- 135.0 lbs x 10 reps

- 195.0 lbs x 1 rep [PR]

- 185.0 lbs x 1 rep

- 165.0 lbs x 5 reps

- 155.0 lbs x 5 reps

- 155.0 lbs x 5 reps

 

** Forward Lunges **

- 40.0 lbs x 12 reps

- 40.0 lbs x 12 reps

- 40.0 lbs x 12 reps

- 40.0 lbs x 12 reps

 

** High Plank Jacks ** (Group 1)

- 20 reps

- 20 reps

- 20 reps

- 20 reps

- 20 reps

- 20 reps

 

** Pull Up ** (Group 1)

- 75.0 lbs x 12 reps

- 75.0 lbs x 12 reps

- 75.0 lbs x 12 reps

 

** Hollow Hold Tuck Ups ** (Group 1)

- 13 reps

- 13 reps

- 13 reps

- 10 reps

- 10 reps

- 10 reps

 

** Flat Barbell Bench Press **

- 70.0 lbs x 5 reps [PR]

- 70.0 lbs x 5 reps

- 70.0 lbs x 5 reps

 

** Leg Raises **

- 20 reps

- 10 reps

- 10 reps

 

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