\m/ Jarric is METAL \m/

[Jarric]

 

 

Some of you with particularly good memories might remember that I did a challenge with a very similar title last year. That's because the time has come again when I get to go to Download Festival.

 

 

 

First and Foremost

As you can see I have an awesome line-up to see in a couple of weeks, so I need your recommendations on who I should check out this year. All recommendations are more than welcome, and I will try and see as many of them as I can!

 

 

Actual Challenge Stuff

Plan

For those of you who followed last time, I ran a format based on "actions per day", lovingly pinched from an NF blog article. Basically anything I do which is a positive self-care action - whether that's exercising, eating well, looking after my money, getting some sleep or taking care of my mind - earns me a point. I just aim for as many points as I can reasonably earn every day.

 

Workouts

Full workouts count for 5 actions because a.) they're something I particularly want to focus on and b.) they take a lot longer to complete than most other actions. Because of the way this challenge works there's no rigid structure to my main workouts, but there is a plan for these and for some other bits I want to focus on. No penalty for mixing it up or moving things round if I want though!

 

The Plan:

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Main workouts in Blue, Other bits in Gold

 

Monday - Lift, Balance & Ankle Strength

Tuesday - Run, Pull-ups

Wednesday - Lift, Balance & Ankle Strength

Thursday - Run, Pull-ups

Friday - Lift, Balance & Ankle Strength

Saturday - Parkrun, Pull-ups OR Bouldering

Sunday - Long Run, Pull-ups OR Bouldering

 

Lifting is following the Juggernaut progression. Running I really need a proper plan for, and I'll make a separate post about that when I get the chance because I need some help there. Pull-Ups I'm trying to get to 5 sets of 5, which I'm confident I can hit this challenge if I'm consistent. Balance & Ankle Strength is a glorified way of saying "standing on one leg practice".

 

 

Stuff Wot I Can Do

So although there's no limit to the different things I can do to earn points, I found it useful to have a cheat sheet of the kind of things that earned points to help get my numbers up. So we have:

 

Morning Routine

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• Up with my alarm (no hitting snooze!)
• Brush Teeth
• Hayfever Meds
• Bullet Journal checked
• +1 bonus point for hitting the full routine

 

Evening Routine

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• TV off by 10
• Work clothes laid out
• Workout clothes laid out
• Teeth Brushed
• Hayfever Meds
• Bullet Journal set up for next day
• In bed by 10:30
• +2 Bonus points for hitting the full routine

 

Stuff to Avoid

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• Spend nothing all day
• Buy no food or drink all day
• No soda all day
• No caffeine after 4pm
• No caffeine all day
• No processed food all day
• No alcohol all day
• Don't be late all day

 

Stuff I Can Do

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Move

• Main workouts [+5]
• Pull-ups
• Balance practice
• Daily dare
• Go for a walk
• Walk to work
• Talk the stairs somewhere
• Skill work (handstands, l-sits, deep squats)
• Yoga
• Stretch after exercise

 

Consume

• Healthy/pre-prepped meal
• Grocery Shopping
• Meal prep (1 point per meal prepared)

 

Mind

• Meditation/Mindfulness
• Update bullet journal
• Update on here
• Encourage someone in real life
• Affirmations in the mirror

 

Adult

• Clean for 25 minutes
• Run a wash and hang it out
• Any major personal paperwork type task

 

 

And that's it! I've been pretty bad at keeping up on here so I will make an effort to be better this go around. Aside from when I'm at Download (Thursday week 2 to Monday week 3) when I will be totally off the grid, earning no points and feeling no guilt about it!

 

 

 

[Broba Fett]

Following af. 

[fleaball]

Following! I'll leave the music advice to people who know about these things.

[deftona]

Hnnnng I am so jelly. Download Festival is the best festival in the UK and I am sad I will miss Aerosmith unless there are still tickets? I bet there aren't tickets... 

 

 

I think you're probably already planning to go and see everything I would recommend, but NXT Wrestling is there too so that's my wild card recommendation. 

[jonfirestar]

Not jealous at all  thats a lie.

 

There is a pretty sweet lineup this year! 

[Charlie_Quinn]

Following for METAL!!!

[Wild Wolf]

Fuck yeah dude!!! Look at that tasty lineup?!?!

 

Man...I dunno where to even start, TBH. Lemme just list some names I saw that gave me a metal chubby:

• Of Mice and Men
• Steel Panther
• Five Finger
• Coheed & Cambria
• Airbourne
• Sum 41
• Red Sun Rising
• Sick Puppies
• Machine Gun Kelly
• Rob Zombie
• and of COURSE, System of the Down. Holy Hell.

Jarric, I'm mega jealous brother-but also, I'm VERY excited and stoked for you from a "rocker's perspective". This is gonna be one helluva festival!!

 

Any bands you could suggest to me for new listening? I'm ALL for growing my Rock Library  

 

Wolf

[Laghail]

Here for the steel panther memes.

 

[starpuck]

Omg, what a lineup!    That is seriously amazing.

Plan looks good Jarric.

Following along!

 

[NeverThatBored]

Following along! I can't believe it's been a whole year since that challenge!

[Jarric]

On ‎27‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 4:28 PM, fleaball said:

Following! I'll leave the music advice to people who know about these things.

 

Good to have you!

 

On ‎27‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 5:24 PM, deftona said:

Hnnnng I am so jelly. Download Festival is the best festival in the UK and I am sad I will miss Aerosmith unless there are still tickets? I bet there aren't tickets... 

 

 

I think you're probably already planning to go and see everything I would recommend, but NXT Wrestling is there too so that's my wild card recommendation. 

 

Let me check that for you...

 

Yep, there's still tickets. So I'll be seeing you there, right?

 

I never seem to get to watch the wrestling, so I'll try and give that a go.

 

On ‎27‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 8:58 PM, jonfirestar said:

Not jealous at all  thats a lie.

 

There is a pretty sweet lineup this year! 

 

It is pretty awesome

 

On ‎30‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 10:23 AM, Charlie_Quinn said:

Following for METAL!!!

 

 

23 hours ago, Wild Wolf said:

Fuck yeah dude!!! Look at that tasty lineup?!?!

 

Man...I dunno where to even start, TBH. Lemme just list some names I saw that gave me a metal chubby:

• Of Mice and Men
• Steel Panther
• Five Finger
• Coheed & Cambria
• Airbourne
• Sum 41
• Red Sun Rising
• Sick Puppies
• Machine Gun Kelly
• Rob Zombie
• and of COURSE, System of the Down. Holy Hell.

Jarric, I'm mega jealous brother-but also, I'm VERY excited and stoked for you from a "rocker's perspective". This is gonna be one helluva festival!!

 

Any bands you could suggest to me for new listening? I'm ALL for growing my Rock Library  

 

Wolf

 

Awesome man, thanks for all the suggestions! I'll be adding those to my list.

 

Of those you haven't mentioned - Alter Bridge are SIIIICK and definitely worth a shout. And The One Hundred are a good up and coming band that I'd like to see more of.

 

 

18 hours ago, Laghail said:

Here for the steel panther memes.

 

 

Oh yes, definitely this.

 

16 hours ago, Starpuck said:

Omg, what a lineup!    That is seriously amazing.

Plan looks good Jarric.

Following along!

 

 

I know!  And hiii.

 

10 hours ago, NeverThatBored said:

Following along! I can't believe it's been a whole year since that challenge!

 

It's gone so fast, hasn't it?

 

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There will be a challenge update at some point, just trying to find more time to get on here. Soon guys!

[Garris]

Amazing line ups to go see, EXODUS!!

[Wild Wolf]

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

Of those you haven't mentioned - Alter Bridge are SIIIICK and definitely worth a shout. And The One Hundred are a good up and coming band that I'd like to see more of.

 

Saaaweeeeet! Thank you sir! I'm gonna check these guys out while I'm working through boring reports at work today

 

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

Awesome man, thanks for all the suggestions! I'll be adding those to my list.

 

I know thats a crap ton of bands to try and work a schedule around, but you'll have a friggin blast! 

 

Wolf

[doctorake]

Alestorm is awesome Pirate Metal.

 

Sabaton - MUST SEE. They are a great power metal type band with lyrics all about historical wars.

[jonfirestar]

2 hours ago, doctorake said:

Alestorm is awesome Pirate Metal.

Youtube autoplayed Alestorm the other day. I'll admit having to do a bit of a double take, but I agree they are fun and awesome

 

lots of bad language in the video

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[Jarric]

4 hours ago, Garris said:

Amazing line ups to go see, EXODUS!!

 

Hey, we have pretty similar names.

 

And thanks, on the list!

 

3 hours ago, Wild Wolf said:

 

Saaaweeeeet! Thank you sir! I'm gonna check these guys out while I'm working through boring reports at work today

 

 

I know thats a crap ton of bands to try and work a schedule around, but you'll have a friggin blast! 

 

Wolf

 

No worries. And no worries about that, seriously thank you Wolfman - you've now got your own colour on my set list!

 

3 hours ago, doctorake said:

Alestorm is awesome Pirate Metal.

 

Sabaton - MUST SEE. They are a great power metal type band with lyrics all about historical wars.

 

Good shout. I like both of those and my sister loves them both so will definitely make an effort to catch them.

 

52 minutes ago, jonfirestar said:

Youtube autoplayed Alestorm the other day. I'll admit having to do a bit of a double take, but I agree they are fun and awesome

 

lots of bad language in the video

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Hah, that's brilliant!

[Jarric]

A wild update appears...

 

Monday, W1D1

To give you some background, Sunday I went to a little private music festival with a few local covers bands playing. I tried to pace myself, but 10-12 hours of drinking took its toll somewhat! So Monday involved a good deal of sleeping and relaxing until mid afternoon. I dropped round to my parents' house to see my mum - she had her first session of chemo last week so I wanted to see how she was doing. She actually seemed really well, a lot better than I was expecting, although I appreciate she may be worse this week.

 

Afterwards I went to the gym just in time to find it shut (damn bank holidays!), so I came home and went for a short run instead. Ended up having a late dinner and a later night.

 

Points:

• Updated bujo
• Walked to shop for some fresh air (and, admittedly, soda and snacks)
• Run - 3 miles + 3 strides, 4 miles in all including the cooldown walk [+5]
• Stretched
• Home cooked dinner - pork chops with sweet potato
• Boiled eggs for 3 breakfasts [+3]
• No alcohol all day

For a total of 13 points.

 

 

Tuesday W1D2

Back to the new job after 2 days working last week and a 3 day weekend! Not too much to report. Lifted in the morning as a swap for the run I did on Monday; OHP day and I hit my work sets of 30kg (~66#) for 5 x 8. Dinner was a bit junk-y - sausage, chips and baked beans. Snooker match in the evening but I really wasn't feeling it and ended up losing 3-2 in a match I should really have had 5-0.

 

Points:

• Up with alarm
• Lifted [+5]
• Stretched after
• Walked to work
• Pre-prepped breakfast (boiled eggs and a banana)
• Walked home from work
• Grabbed groceries on the way home
• Updated bujo
• No alcohol all day

13 points total again.

 

Not the highest scoring start to this challenge, but it's early days yet.Just gives me more reason to try harder!

 

And finally, a gift for those of you who like Slipknot, comedy songs and lounge music:

 

[Wild Wolf]

57 minutes ago, Jarric said:

No worries. And no worries about that, seriously thank you Wolfman - you've now got your own colour on my set list!

 

Ohhhhhhhhh, swanky! What color??? 

 

35 minutes ago, Jarric said:

And finally, a gift for those of you who like Slipknot, comedy songs and lounge music:

 

OMG! That's amazing! I dunno if I can listen to Duality the same again lol-thanks for posting that, sir. I've never seen them live, put Corey Taylor and Stone Sour was badass. "Bother" live, with basically just Corey on stage strumming acoustic guitar, was incredible to hear.

 

Wolf

[jonfirestar]

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

And finally, a gift for those of you who like Slipknot, comedy songs and lounge music:

 

I like Slipknot and I like comedy songs, 2 out of 3 *clicks play*.... I'm not sure what I was expecting but that was kind of amazing  

[Jarric]

1 hour ago, Wild Wolf said:

 

Ohhhhhhhhh, swanky! What color??? 

 

 

OMG! That's amazing! I dunno if I can listen to Duality the same again lol-thanks for posting that, sir. I've never seen them live, put Corey Taylor and Stone Sour was badass. "Bother" live, with basically just Corey on stage strumming acoustic guitar, was incredible to hear.

 

Wolf

 

Pink, obviously! (Well, I just left the default, but it is actually pink )

 

Awesome! I saw Stone Sour once, but it was fairly early on and I didn't really know who they were at the time. Would live to see them again.

 

I have seen Slipknot ...3 times I think? They are every bit as good as you could imagine and then some.

 

19 minutes ago, jonfirestar said:

 

I like Slipknot and I like comedy songs, 2 out of 3 *clicks play*.... I'm not sure what I was expecting but that was kind of amazing  

 

I know, they're pretty cool. Definitely want to catch them this year for a bit of a laugh.

[Garris]

Current. Workout playlist

 

Metallica - I am evil

Metallica - Blitzkrieg

exodus - blood in blood out

carcass - cadaver pouch conveyer

3 " of blood - kill the orcs

slayer - you against you

Obituary - redneck stomp

[Broba Fett]

9 hours ago, doctorake said:

Alestorm is awesome Pirate Metal.

 

Sabaton - MUST SEE. They are a great power metal type band with lyrics all about historical wars.

 

6 hours ago, jonfirestar said:

Youtube autoplayed Alestorm the other day. I'll admit having to do a bit of a double take, but I agree they are fun and awesome

 

lots of bad language in the video

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For a very long time my workout playlist was purely Alestorm, Sabaton, and Demons & Wizards.  My favorite from the latter-est:

 

 

[Rhovaniel]

Ok, so for some reason I wasn't following, but I am now! Have fun at Download! The other half and I have been a couple of times, we loved it (though the first time we lost our car in the car park. Literally, had to go to another hotel and come back to search in the daylight ) so it's a shame we're not going this year. FFDP always put on an amazing show, but I wish they wouldn't be so rude to the security staff there... worth seeing, anyhow!

[Salinger]

Hey, im here for the ride system of a down are great live, you will have an amazing time  

[Terra]

I knew there was someone who I was missing...  It was you!  

 

I'm not much into this music anymore (bothers the co-workers and the kids cant listen!!!) but I'm sure it will be fun!!!  In the meantime, moar points!