Discuss what went right and wrong in terms of goals from last week with comrades.
Did you run three times like you set out for?
Did you stretch every night before bed?
Did you miss your alarm Monday and it threw you off the entire week?
Share with us what happened, didn't happen, or could have happened for support and ask questions for guidance!
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So unless something happens between now and the afternoon for me I'll have gotten all my meaningful lifts in this week.
Missed my caloric goals yesterday, but should hit today-Sunday, so 6 out of 7 days is really good.
Just need to keep up the same stuff for two more weeks 'till I move.
I got up to walking for 30 minutes this week without having to use my rescue inhaler. :)
Everything here is in lockdown, so Ive been trying to train at home. Mostly calisthenics, with some cardio in the form of biking and/or running. I have around 15-20cm lefts to the floor of my front splits, and I think this isnt so much. Almost there. Probably will miss my goal to have it before the end of the year but only by a little. Middle splits is still far away but that was never my goal. Needle is a far away dream. Perhaps on my deathbed I will do it.
Ive been trying to work extra hard on posture, and back flexibility. Dont know if that works, but it sure feels good, and my back/upper body cracks in new and more liberating ways.
Now the bad: I got called thick today, and I dont know what to do about it. I cant avoid but think of it as being fat. At the same time my BMI is 24.9 and workout multiple hours per week, both pole and cardio, I have a little chub, but never really thought of myself as thick, and was always going for fit or athletic. I know the person who said said it as a compliment and meant it in the best possible way, but my brain is being a total asshole right now.
Was it "thick" or "thicc"? Cus thicc is a compliment (at least to me. Lol)
I guess I'm old I have no idea whether that's good or bad.
Working hard on my mad calisthenics skillz. For some reason, my pull-up max hasn't been the same ever since I had the covids two months ago. Also, I need to lose some weight, that'll make things easier.
I've been swimming a lot, really pushing myself and trying to burn fat. I do my calisthenics strength training routine, then swim for about 45 minutes, three times a week, and on off days I do some skill training with handstands and L-sits, plus core training.
Exercising every single day has so far been my go-to way of retaining my sanity this year.
I've made a lot of progress, but I've been struggling to sleep due to stress the last week and it's resulted in me taking 3 days off. Will power is just totally drained at the moment. Been cheating on my diet, not getting the exercise in, it's tough. Hopefully after I finish this project (next few days, tops) I'll be able to sleep again. Overall I'm down 12 pounds so far, and almost halfway to my target weight. Proud of that, and definitely committed to making this a temporary slump, not a new normal.
12 pounds is a huge accomplishment and little blips are totally normal. Just get back to the routine that was working for you as soon as you can and it'll be back to what you were doing in no time.
Yeah it's tough rn. Don't worry about running speeds right now, I think doing any form of cardio is a win at this point
i’ve been jump roping to supplement the fact that I can’t lift and haven’t been lifting since november because of lockdown again. my feet hurt because jumping rope on pavement sorta hurts man.... I just wanna be able to go lift some heavy weights again :(
I feel that. The only way I'm able to lift has been by going to a friend's place who has a set up outside. At least you're getting something in, though.
I put in a few days of extra activity earlier this week, which was good.
The storm we had in New England fucked up my leg and that being sore the last couple of days kept me from exercising (hard to exercise while I'm rocking a good limp)
I woke up today and felt better, so, I'll put in extra effort tomorrow and Sunday.
Deadlifted one day and biked another. I got a foam roller and lax ball and got halfway through the limber 11 for the first time yesterday - can’t wait to do that more. Diet has been cleaner and continuing to avoid being a fatass candy lard at work...every pass by the snacks without caving is a win!
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Did you stretch every night before bed?
Is there any particular advantage to stretching early in the day vs. later? I usually stretch in the morning.
Here's what I told all my old clients:
If you sleep in weird positions it can help you comfortably sleep in better positions more comfortably. Some people also find it relaxing/decompressing before bed.
Also, you go to bed (pretty much) every night. So its a set time of day to add it into your routine that is hard to skip where as in the morning if you wake up late/oversleep you can start skipping.
But like... Tangibly? Nothing significant.
I've been walking like 2-3 hours a day just walking the empty city at night listening to music/audiobooks/podcasts and doing c25k 3 days a week.
Like 2 months ago I water-fasted for a week and I basically lost my sense of hunger. I've been losing 1kg+ a week now.
So that's going well.
Planning to start doing weightlifting when I can run 5k.
Psychologically I feel like pure shit after finally realizing my childhood was traumatic and has heavily affected everything but today is okay.
This is gonna sound lame as hell, but if you've got a switch I love ring fit adventure for icy days :)
Hell yeah! Finally get to post in here. Just started the recommended body weight fitness routine from the Body weight subreddit this week. Excited to see where things go.
