jammon1372 Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 Hello All,To break my habit of lurking and being unaccountable or unknown, here’s my introduction. I’m a 41 year old father of 5, I work in IT as a network engineer, am currently working on completing my degree and let myself get REALLY out of shape and put on allot of unhealthy weight (236.8 pounds). Ten years ago I was serving in the military, leaving for Iraq and a very healthy and active 182 pounds, during the course of the year there I started smoking again and when I returned home I let myself become sedentary and honestly plain old lazy. I realized I had become so unfit that I wasn’t really playing with my kids much anymore and my weight and low fitness level was preventing me from enjoying life in general. I knew I had to make some changes, long story short I’ve ended up here. My main goal is increase my fitness level and lose weight as a result. I’ll measure my level by the following standards which are pretty specific to my interests:Perform 25 consecutive pull-upsPerform 100 consecutive push-upsSquat 300 poundsDeadlift 300 poundsRun two miles in under 14 minutesComplete Cross-Fit workouts in reasonable timesEarn my black belt in karate As a beginning I’ve started to track my workouts of three days a week. I haven’t adopted a full paleo or primal diet but I’m cutting out as much processed food as possible while increasing the quality of the food I eat and quit drinking soda completely. I’ve also started taking karate classes and being more active. Quitting smoking will be a big one and I am working toward that now, I’ll be setting a date soon. Current Challenge Level 1 Dwarven Monk Str: 3 Dex: 3 Sta: 2 Con: 2 Wis: 3 Cha: 2 Link to comment
Duality Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 Hi jammon1372, it seems you've set your goals, they seems very challenging, but if you know you're capable of reaching them, do it! I recently quit smoking, for me, it was a mind over matter, I just told myself to stop and one morning woke up and threw the rest in the garbage and stopped. I must've been the most irritable person for a few weeks, but everyone managed to cope! DO IT! It's not 80% diet, 20% exercise, it's 100% diet, 100% exercise. Give it your all. My journey (Date - Total - BF % - LBM) 2012-01-01 - 242 - 35% - 157 2013-12-15 - 172 - 10% - 155 2016-05-01 - 231 - 25% - 173 Link to comment
umbongo Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 Awesome goals, Jammon. I thoroughly look forward to seeing your progress, brother. Umbongo Ethereal Druid - Level 1 The Witch Doctor Trials, 1. | Con 4 | Sta 3 | Wis 3 | Str 2 | Dex 2 | Cha 1 | -Maiaverepauradiessere senzapaura- Link to comment
jammon1372 Posted May 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 Thanks Guys, these are definitely long term goals. I have some intermediate and short term goals also but I didnt want to write a book on my first post Best of luck to you on your journeys as well! Current Challenge Level 1 Dwarven Monk Str: 3 Dex: 3 Sta: 2 Con: 2 Wis: 3 Cha: 2 Link to comment
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