Greetings from the Nomad

[Kaite the Nomad]

Hello everyone

 

I'm here because I've been looking for somewhere to help me out with my motivation which has been waning a little lately and help with confidence. A site that combines fitness with things like videogames and the idea of leveling is right up my street so I thought I'd join and start a character.

 

So, some info about me, Kaite is my name, I'm 30 (soon to be 31), female from the UK. 5ft 5 and about 9 stone or 126lb. I do exercise a bit currently but haven't set foot in a gym, athough I'm thinking about it. I do zumba dance fitness at home twice a week and assist a zumba instructor take classes once a week. I also do strength based exercies two or three times a week both with bodyweight and with some basic light dumbells, a barbell, and with a pullup bar. My current job is also fairly active (sometimes very) working seasonally at a vineyard - so I tend to eat quite a lot.

 

I'd like to take up mountain biking and do more cycling in general - I have a new bike but haven't done too much yet. And I'm also thinking about joining a martial arts class of some kind, maybe bouldering too, and just try out some things that might be fun and meet people whilst keeping fit. Possibly join a gym in town as well. Obviously that's all WAY to much to do all of it, but they're the ideas I have right now to help out with motivation and hopeuflly not stray too close to burn out. Getting a social element out of some kind of exercising is kinda important to me too as I feel I do too much alone.

 

I'm not quite sure what class I'd be just yet. I'm thinking maybe Ranger as I do a mix of activities or maybe Adventurer as I like to get outdoors and try new things. I've been surfing, kayaking, scuba diving etc which have been fun to try.

 

Uh so that's me, nice to meet you all

[Defining]

LOVE your idea/goals/interests - will look forward to seeing you around the boards.

[Kaite the Nomad]

On 12/02/2017 at 11:07 PM, Halo said:

I love that you weigh stones!  I had to look up the conversion. I'm 14.5 stones apparently. Is that a common term when you talk to people?  "My nephew is 2 stones;)"

 

Welcome!

Haha it is normal in the UK.. and weird - no idea why we do it. I always have to convert to kilos or pounds.

 

Thanks for the welcome guys

[Kaite the Nomad]

they kinda say that, even though it's not decimal. So 9.2 stone is really 9 stone and 2 pounds (a stone itself is 14lb). Babies are just in pounds.

[Miw_Sher]

Welcome! Loving the outdoors-focused goals. I have to ask by the way, is that you in the picture?  

[Kaite the Nomad]

Yeah it is lol, there's some photoshop upping the contrast and it was taken back in November when I was on something of a diet so yeah

[Lydiechan]

On 2/12/2017 at 1:24 PM, Kaite the Nomad said:

And I'm also thinking about joining a martial arts class of some kind, maybe bouldering too, and just try out some things that might be fun and meet people whilst keeping fit. Possibly join a gym in town as well. Obviously that's all WAY to much to do all of it, but they're the ideas I have right now to help out with motivation and hopeuflly not stray too close to burn out.

 

Those may be a lot to keep up full time, but they sound like awesome challenge goals to me - as in, maybe trying a new one every month?  That way you get to try a lot of new things without committing to them.

 

Also, I thought you just grabbed a stock/goal photo for your icon.  Color me impressed!  I would post a picture of my abs, but we've all seen Patrick.

 

[Kaite the Nomad]

But Patrick is awesome

One thing a month sounds like a good plan. I tried paintballing and geocaching last month and am making my first trip to a gym and a spinning class this Saturday - hoping I can still walk by the end lol. I just started a bullet journal so I'll try and plan it all out properly.

[Kaite the Nomad]

It's been over a week but it honestly didn't take me that long to recover from the spinning . It was a pretty demanding and sweaty experience but luckily I didn't get any aches or pains from it or suffer from cardiac arrest from pushing too hard which I have a tendancy to do.

 

I spent this weekend doing a pull up and ab workout as it had been a couple of weeks and woah do I feel it today. The fine weather this weekend made me twitchy to go out on my bike so I went on a 11.6km ride along the hilly country roads and woodland tracks and did a bit of geocaching.

 

Next plan is to contact some martial arts clubs.

[kevlar_from_kanada]

Welcome.  I like the positive energy and all the cool things you seem to want to do.  A subset of your list would be a good list for me.   

 

Jealous of this "fine weather".  It is -10 here in Canada!

[Kaite the Nomad]

Thanks -10 is cold, at least spring is on its way now. I swear it felt like it was about 20 out today. I was working outside this year in -5 which wasn't much fun I can tell you. At least you have ice hockey in Canada