In for the follow!
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I realized very quickly that I need to accept I’m deconditioned and that I need to ease back into lifting a bit.
I’m basically following the 5/3/1 Beach body challenge 5/3/1 for Beach Muscles
Today:
As for food, I plan on going relatively low carb.
My meals will look like this a lot. Ground Bison and Kale.
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Finished last night off with BBall practice with my son (those kids wear me out, man) and some Steak bites in a heavy whipping cream sauce w/ assorted veggies.
Busy work day today and am pretty sore…
Food for the day:
Breakfast: Bison & Kale
Snacks: Homemade beef jerky throughout the day (a couple of ounces), an apple, and an orange with cottage cheese.
Dinner: Taco salad w/ ground Turkey.
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1K row warm-up
3K row / 15-min
Food:
Protein Shake x 2
Apple x 2
Beef Jerky (finished my stash…)
Dinner: Homemade Pad Thai w/ Skinny Pasta (turned out pretty good).
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I keep seeing an ad for “gamifying” your training so I thought I’d try it. Instead of looking for an app, I put this grid together. I just started at zero.
Idk, could be fun.
I’m sure I’ll tweak it as time goes on. If anyone has suggestions I’m all ears.
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I like it. I’d swap the last tier to “demigod” personally.
Have you see @OwainGlyndwr’s training log? Some different but similar ideas; not so much the scoring but the actual activities/qualities to develop.
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I might do that. I was struggling to come up with the last one, lol.
I haven’t, I’ll check it out.
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This post lays a lot of it out
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That’s definitely pretty cool. I like it a lot.
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4k Row / 20 minutes
Food:
Left over Pad Thai
Date Night Dinner:
New England Clam Chowder, NY Strip, green beans, small lobster tail.
Snacks: An apple
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Thanks dude! I’m reading through your log now. If you have any questions about my approach or want to chat, I’m totally open to that.
@LoRez thanks for the tag!
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Made some more adjustments. This is an example template.
Added a 10th level that’ll be harder to reach than the first 9.
Had time today so I drew a goofy avatar for the first level.
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I really like the look of this dude. I think it’s a cool system and a neat framework for structuring training. I’ve seen pitches for gamifying exercise before, but I feel like something like this really narrows down to what your specific goals are and incentivizes following them appropriately. Like, half your XP in a given week is going to come from cardio and conditioning work, which is going to keep you from just lifting and calling that good enough. I like it.
I’ll be curious to see how it works out in practice. I’m sure you’ll find that some values need to be adjusted. For example, I took two of my own training weeks from the past month and did some rough math. One week I got like 45 XP because I set a lifetime PR. The other week was pretty routine, but I also got like 45 XP thanks to running, rowing, yoga, and HIIT. Of course, that’s me, not you, and I’m likely counting things differently than you, and maybe that’s not too fast since at that rate it’d still be 20–30 weeks to run through the levels, and all that—but it’ll be interesting to see what you end up tweaking as you go along and how things play out in practice.
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Thanks!
Ya, for sure. That’s the million dollar question. I think the progression is probably going to be to fast. I figured about 3/4 of a year to reach level 9, but you could easily reach it much sooner. That’s why I made level 10 harder, but I might just re-work the math to be more like an RPG where the XP needed to level up becomes much higher as you level up.
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Easy day, did 10 minutes on the bike 5.48m
Food:
Protein Shake x 4
Butcher cut Bacon x 4 slices
Dinner: Bison eggroll in a bowl (broccoli slaw)
Orange (1) + Cottage Cheese
Jerky for this week turned out pretty good.
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Week 1 Recap:
Down 7 pounds, let’s go!
Earned 24 XP
Progression:
This week I’m going to incorporate two individual add-on programs I grabbed during one of CTs sales. One is Chest and Delts, which’ll be an extra day (Saturday) and one is for forearms, which’ll be extra work on Monday’s and Friday’s.
The following week I want to incorporate a couple 3-4 mile walks. Eventually I wan to average 4-5 days of walking if not more. I’ve always found this helpful for leaning out.
Once it warms back up and I am lighter I want to start jogging again, but that’s down the road.
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Nice work! 7lbs is a lot.
How were your energy levels throughout the week? That was a lot of weight lost but clearly you were eating some good quality food.
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I felt pretty good honesty. I’ve got like 60lbs to lose and those 7 were mostly Christmas bloat so I don’t think it was a big deal really. The 2nd and 3rd week of a diet always seem the hardest to me.
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