3rd time is the charm

[Aldethar]

Saturday was a lot of cleaning and Sunday was rest.

I did do day 9 this morning and I am happy to report that I am down to 112 Kgs. It is a slight improvement, but a improvement I am happy about

 

[graoumia]

Saturday was a lot of cleaning and Sunday was rest.

I did do day 9 this morning and I am happy to report that I am down to 112 Kgs. It is a slight improvement, but a improvement I am happy about

Congratulations, you definitively can be happy of that, you are on the way

 

[Aldethar]

Thank you @graoumia , I am taking each day as it comes and try not to be hard on myself.

Yesterday I did not do any training. The bed was to comfy and the cat was sleeping on top of me so it wasnt an option to get up

Today I did day 10. My shoulders are burning a bit from the exercises Baseline program.

The next step is to slowly incorporate some stretches now

 

[Aldethar]

Day 11 done from both.

I am starting to enjoy the exercises but will need to get up a bit earlier so I can do some stretches

 

[Aldethar]

Day 12 done. Woohooo.

Starting to get into the swing of things shoulders still burning when I do the exercises, but all good.

 

[astro_lizard]

Happy Birthday!

 

[Mamatigerj]

 

[NightWolf714]

Happy belated birthday!

 

[graoumia]

Happy belated birthday!

 

[Aldethar]

Thank you everyone for the wishes

I know I have been quiet for a while but there where some things happening in the background on and off.

I did restart Square One as well as Arms of Steel a few times but seem to stop half way.

I restarted it again and finished day 2 yesterday.


The one thing that I did notice is that I get bored or that I dont find it challenging enough (even though it is). So I am busy looking at making my own small program for the evenings.

I would be following the 100 pushup routine but will add various exercises and use the same progression.

For instance I would do goblin squats with a 16kg kettle bell and use week 1 as progression. Still figuring out all the exercises though

 

[Bracelet]

Keep going!

 

[Aldethar]

I did day 3 of the 2 programs yesterday and day 4 today.

Yesterday evening I also did the following:
Pushups 6-6-4
Kettlebell deadlift 6-6-4
12KG dumbbell rows 6-6-4

For now I am not worried about progression from that till I start properly next week Monday

 

[Aldethar]

And day 5 done. for both.

For tonight and next week the following is my target for Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Week	Focus	Push-ups	Goblet Squat (16 kg)	KB Deadlift (16 kg)	DB Row (12 kg / arm)	Wrist Trainer	Plank
1	Form & base	3×10	3×10	3×10	3×10	3×15 s squeeze	3×25 s

 

[Aldethar]

Friday was interesting with the exercises. I got some of them done but didnt want to overdo it.

Sunday I was working for around 6 hours on my car... and with working I mean help my mechanic friend. So although I didnt do most of the heavy lifting I was still on my feet and felt it the next day.

Today I finished day 6 of the 2 programs I am doing.

My diet is not 100% there yet, but making it work

 

[Aldethar]

Finished day 7 last week thursday and day 8 yesterday.

I am not off to do day 9

 

[Aldethar]

I finished day 9 yesterday and did day 10 today.

Arms of steel I did to completion with giving a nice burn to my shoulders.
Square one I only did level 1. The squats finished me of. The other issue is that going into summer, the room I exercise in gets incredibly hot. So will need to remember water next time

 

[Aldethar]

Day 11 done.

I had no issues with either of those days as it was mainly arms. So I think my weight is definitely a large problem when it comes to me performing leg exercises, but it is also something am working on... again

 

[Aldethar]

Day 12 is done.

Had a bit of a break over the weekend with me looking over my cheat food over the last few months.

So busy trying to train chat GPT to be my companion for food

 

[Aldethar]

So I finished training my ChatGPT companion.

I add my items that I eat every day and it adds up the calories and macro nutrition.
At the end of the day it gives me a summary, as well as a weekly projection if I continue eating like this.
Once I start my intermittent fasting it will also tell me my eating window for the next day.
I have a cheat budget that resets every week of 1050 calories (150 daily)

At the end of every week it will tell me how my micronutrients look and what I should be eating next week in order to balance it.

The issue is that when I cheat I think to myself, I messed up my diet for the day... but I dont realize that that one day I messed up my full week as I sometimes eat a large packet of sweets worth 1500 calories.

Lets see how it goes.

 

[Aldethar]

Day 13 done.

I had no issues with the arm one, However only did level 1 with the legs as my sciatica started to kick in

 

[Aldethar]

Day 14 done for both programs.

With the new chatGPT program I am really starting to see what the issue is why I am not losing weight. So hopefully it will get under control now

 

[Aldethar]

Day 15 of both done.
Today was a bit more of a difficult one as it was stretching and it is one of my least favourite things.

Maybe I need to look up some dynamic stretches instead of static ones

 

[Aldethar]

Day 16 done.

It has been a while since I got this far. Stomach is already starting to cramp a bit so it was a good workout. Also did some stretching which my body did not agree with

 

[Aldethar]

I didnt post in the last few days as I do my exercises at work and usually have to run of for some errants.

Wednesday - Day 17 completed
Thursday - Day 18 completed
Today - Day 19 done

Overall I feel pretty good.
I created a sort of tracking program to "gamify" my progress.

So there are 3 segments. Flexibility. more static exercises (pushups) and more explosive movements like burbees.

This is the one for flexibility. I am not going to do the other ones as yet, but whenever I do a test I will post the results here

 

[Aldethar]

I did day 20 over the weekend and day 21 today.

I did the flexibility test and I am red in almost every aspect.
Other than that I need to figure out away to stay on track with eating as well as I keep lapsing