Neffie
Posts: 6
A Mountain Log
Hello beautiful people, I hope you all have a lovely day!
This is going to be my infrequent checking-in diary. Infrequent not because I train infrequently, but because when I´m done with fabulous Darebee workouts in the early morning, I usually rush to complete my daily tasks. While I workout daily, I will only scribble here when I get the time or feel like I have something nice to share (please forgive the stream-of-consciousness format).
I´ve discovered Darebee by a very lucky (for me) chance in the early spring this year. I had an account at Reddit – for exactly a week, before I fled that AI-infested place – and found Darebee mentioned there. Came here and fell in love, because I strongly prefer home and bodyweight workouts over gym and other alternatives.
For several months I did whatever daily workout was presented (or from the workouts library), but although those are great, I lacked the structure, planning and visible progress – goal, motivation, results – that the Darebee programs offer. When I switched to those, I never looked back. They are amazing! It´s like training with a personal trainer. You know exactly what to do, there is a change every day to keep things interesting, but following a certain path that yields a reward in the end.
Everyone is different, but with individual workouts my silly brain did this: Oh, what a nice workout of the day. But I don´t quite like this exercise... why are there so many / so few reps of this and that? Let´s look for another workout. And then another. And then another.... (Too many choices, lol! I am not capable of dealing with too many choices.) With a program, I know exactly what workout is today and tomorrow and it is to be undisputed, to be done to the best of my ability – and I hold myself accountable and do it as it is written.
So far I´ve finished (at level 3) Athena´s playbook, House of the Valkyrie and Super cut. Loved them all. Currently I´m running (mostly at the same time) the Bootcamp and the Total body strength+.
Also finished today the Iron legs challenge. It was incredible. After the whole month, the last day wasn´t really difficult for me. I am feeling the positive change this challenge had on my leg performance – hiking (walking/jogging uphill) is definitely easier somehow, it takes measurably less effort and I´m faster without breaking any extra sweat. I will be doing this challenge again some other time, but with extra 2x2 kg dumbbells.
I wonder what the September challenge will be. But looking around the archive of Challenges, I found "The Miner" and that is what I want to do next month. Digging for diamonds (and finding worms instead) had me laughing and I just have to do it. And it aligns with my current goal: get off the knees and do real push ups for the first time in my life.
In the past months, thanks to Darebee, I worked my way up to doing 3 - 5 sets of 20 knee push ups with ease (failing at 30). I´d like to complete The Miner with 3 x 5 "proper" push ups a day and earn my "jewels". (A year ago at this time my right forearm had been in a cast and a sling, having been broken in 3 places. I only got full strength back thanks to Darebee and its many planks – I never did those before and yet those proved to be crucial for my recovery.)
Okay, let´s go and finish with the stats for today.
August 31st
Program Total body strength+: Day 10 done
Monthly challenge Iron legs: Day 30 done
Walk: 12k, 130 meters elevation
This is going to be my infrequent checking-in diary. Infrequent not because I train infrequently, but because when I´m done with fabulous Darebee workouts in the early morning, I usually rush to complete my daily tasks. While I workout daily, I will only scribble here when I get the time or feel like I have something nice to share (please forgive the stream-of-consciousness format).
I´ve discovered Darebee by a very lucky (for me) chance in the early spring this year. I had an account at Reddit – for exactly a week, before I fled that AI-infested place – and found Darebee mentioned there. Came here and fell in love, because I strongly prefer home and bodyweight workouts over gym and other alternatives.
For several months I did whatever daily workout was presented (or from the workouts library), but although those are great, I lacked the structure, planning and visible progress – goal, motivation, results – that the Darebee programs offer. When I switched to those, I never looked back. They are amazing! It´s like training with a personal trainer. You know exactly what to do, there is a change every day to keep things interesting, but following a certain path that yields a reward in the end.
Everyone is different, but with individual workouts my silly brain did this: Oh, what a nice workout of the day. But I don´t quite like this exercise... why are there so many / so few reps of this and that? Let´s look for another workout. And then another. And then another.... (Too many choices, lol! I am not capable of dealing with too many choices.) With a program, I know exactly what workout is today and tomorrow and it is to be undisputed, to be done to the best of my ability – and I hold myself accountable and do it as it is written.
So far I´ve finished (at level 3) Athena´s playbook, House of the Valkyrie and Super cut. Loved them all. Currently I´m running (mostly at the same time) the Bootcamp and the Total body strength+.
Also finished today the Iron legs challenge. It was incredible. After the whole month, the last day wasn´t really difficult for me. I am feeling the positive change this challenge had on my leg performance – hiking (walking/jogging uphill) is definitely easier somehow, it takes measurably less effort and I´m faster without breaking any extra sweat. I will be doing this challenge again some other time, but with extra 2x2 kg dumbbells.
I wonder what the September challenge will be. But looking around the archive of Challenges, I found "The Miner" and that is what I want to do next month. Digging for diamonds (and finding worms instead) had me laughing and I just have to do it. And it aligns with my current goal: get off the knees and do real push ups for the first time in my life.
In the past months, thanks to Darebee, I worked my way up to doing 3 - 5 sets of 20 knee push ups with ease (failing at 30). I´d like to complete The Miner with 3 x 5 "proper" push ups a day and earn my "jewels". (A year ago at this time my right forearm had been in a cast and a sling, having been broken in 3 places. I only got full strength back thanks to Darebee and its many planks – I never did those before and yet those proved to be crucial for my recovery.)
Okay, let´s go and finish with the stats for today.
August 31st
Program Total body strength+: Day 10 done
Monthly challenge Iron legs: Day 30 done
Walk: 12k, 130 meters elevation
