vanvanitas
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Hey folks,
So my partner and I (both mid-30s) are almost halfway through the Foundation program and are already noticing big improvements. We both used to be reasonably fit from walking and biking everywhere as car-free 20-somethings; when we first started living together 6 or so years ago, we also started getting into archery and other target sports, barefoot hiking, and some bodyweight training, but then life happened, as it does.
We let ourselves go a lot when we had to move to more car-dependent places and deal with some health stuff involving long hospital stays. We did keep up with a good diet (our own carnivore-adjacent thing that my partner figured out independently over a decade ago and that we've continued to modify and experiment with together), and I like to think that sleeping and sitting on the floor at home has helped maintain some small degree of flexibility and strength.
Now life's in a better place overall and we've moved to a much nicer part of the province (northwest BC, close-ish to Alaska; it's remote, quiet, close to nature, and more affordable than down south), we've been trying to resume progress on all the life goals we had before. We also know things about ourselves that we didn't before (like we both have ADHD), so we're able to strategize better for actually sticking with things. We currently live in an apartment with 3 cats, do a lot of gaming and DIY stuff, have about 500 physical books we need to get around to, hope to live off-grid someday, and are really hoping we can get back out to a shooting range soon!
We found DAREBEE while trying to find good resources for bodyweight and dumbbell workouts, and were especially impressed with the website and the free-and-open philosophy of the project (we are pretty big on Linux and FOSS as well as knowledge-sharing in communities). Since we're enjoying the Foundation program so much (and are eyeing up some of the others), I thought I'd take a look at the community, and then thought I'd make an introduction since y'all seem pretty chill and wholesome.
Upper body strength is a weak spot for us both, as we noticed years ago when doing target sports (while drawing and aiming bows and firearms) previously. Weight loss has never been a concern for us, if anything we both used to be too skinny; we both have very stable and satisfactory body weight currently. Goal-wise, we're particularly interested in functional strength, flexibility, and coordination to support such activities as hiking, target sports, self-defense, and wilderness survival type stuff.
I'll see if I can get her to join here on the forums as well, but for now, well, that's us, almost halfway through Foundation and looking forward to what comes next!
So my partner and I (both mid-30s) are almost halfway through the Foundation program and are already noticing big improvements. We both used to be reasonably fit from walking and biking everywhere as car-free 20-somethings; when we first started living together 6 or so years ago, we also started getting into archery and other target sports, barefoot hiking, and some bodyweight training, but then life happened, as it does.
We let ourselves go a lot when we had to move to more car-dependent places and deal with some health stuff involving long hospital stays. We did keep up with a good diet (our own carnivore-adjacent thing that my partner figured out independently over a decade ago and that we've continued to modify and experiment with together), and I like to think that sleeping and sitting on the floor at home has helped maintain some small degree of flexibility and strength.
Now life's in a better place overall and we've moved to a much nicer part of the province (northwest BC, close-ish to Alaska; it's remote, quiet, close to nature, and more affordable than down south), we've been trying to resume progress on all the life goals we had before. We also know things about ourselves that we didn't before (like we both have ADHD), so we're able to strategize better for actually sticking with things. We currently live in an apartment with 3 cats, do a lot of gaming and DIY stuff, have about 500 physical books we need to get around to, hope to live off-grid someday, and are really hoping we can get back out to a shooting range soon!
We found DAREBEE while trying to find good resources for bodyweight and dumbbell workouts, and were especially impressed with the website and the free-and-open philosophy of the project (we are pretty big on Linux and FOSS as well as knowledge-sharing in communities). Since we're enjoying the Foundation program so much (and are eyeing up some of the others), I thought I'd take a look at the community, and then thought I'd make an introduction since y'all seem pretty chill and wholesome.
Upper body strength is a weak spot for us both, as we noticed years ago when doing target sports (while drawing and aiming bows and firearms) previously. Weight loss has never been a concern for us, if anything we both used to be too skinny; we both have very stable and satisfactory body weight currently. Goal-wise, we're particularly interested in functional strength, flexibility, and coordination to support such activities as hiking, target sports, self-defense, and wilderness survival type stuff.
I'll see if I can get her to join here on the forums as well, but for now, well, that's us, almost halfway through Foundation and looking forward to what comes next!
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