Unto the Breach (At Least Once More...)

[wjs]

That's right, the Bard* and my favorite bards** combine to create my new thread title. With a wjs twist, of course.

The 2025 plan has been made and for posterity, this is the initial form. It, of course, can be modified should that be necessary, but the hope and expectation is that it stays relatively as noted below.

Month	Exercise​	Challenge​	Program​
January	De-stress Challenge	Back & Shoulders	Foundation***

February	Knee-to-Elbow Crunches	Re:Center	Individual Workouts
March	Reverse Lunges	Upper Body Light	30 Days of LIIT
April	Reverse Angels	Better Legs	Individual Workouts
May	Arm Scissors	Cardio & Core	Total Body
June	Heel Taps	Warrior Arms	Individual Workouts
July	March Steps	Easy Abs	Arms of Steel
August	Prone Reverse Flys	Lower Body Blast	Individual Workouts
September	Elbow+Elbow Combos	Gladiator	Ronin's Blade
October	Push-Up Plank Hold	Hollow Hold	Individual Workouts
November	Side Kicks	Wall Sit	One Minute HIIT

December

Prone W-Extensions

Power Pose

Individual Workouts

*Billy Spear-shaker, or something like it.
**Clutch. This song**** is, interestingly, about Doctor Who. But also check out Hot Bottom Feeder, the best recipe for crab cakes*****.
***The one that's new to me, with the relatively speaking new revisions.
****Unto the Breach, of course.
*****They're from Maryland, what else would you expect their first song that's a recipe to be?

 

[Fremen]

Happy New Thread

 

[NancyTree]

Yay for a new thread, and good luck with your 2025 plan!

 

[Mamatigerj]

Happy 2025, @wjs!

 

[MadamMeow]

Best wishes for 2025. Happy New Year!

 

[wjs]

Thank you, @Fremen, @NancyTree, @Mamatigerj, and @MadamMeow. Happy New Year to all and to all a great month. Or something.

I have thought about what @neilarey posted this morning in her new thread. I just want to become a better manager and make a serious and good attempt at returning to my fitness level when I left Texas. The latter is the one I can be relatively sure can happen, as long as I can get my diet back in order after the holidays. The former, on the other hand, I'm having trouble with. Whether it's actually a thing I cannot be or just my impostor syndrome talking, I can't be sure.

The workout:
De-Stress Challenge Day 1, one hundred Punches
Back & Core Challenge Day 1, three sets of 12 Reverse Angels with thirty seconds rest between sets
Foundation Program Day 1 at level 3 with one minute rest between sets. I guess my standard cardio workout* prepared me for this one.








*Thirty minutes of step jacks and side jacks non-stop.

 

[wjs]

I've been thinking*, recently. I have realized that I have very few interactions with people that aren't in some way customer related, whether I am managing my store or the customer of another place of business. I also realize I don't know that that is going to change, at least when I'm working. I am planning a vacation out to Colorado later this year in which I will have more non-business interactions, but this is definitely not the norm. This is not to say that I'm necessarily lonely, as I am an introvert so non-contact time is very good for me, but it would be nice to have the time, desire, and someone to be with happen at the same time occasionally.

The workout:
De-Stress Challenge Day 2, one hundred Punches
Back & Core Challenge Day 2, three sets of six each W-Extensions and Prone Reverse Flys with thirty seconds rest between sets
Foundation Program Day 2 at level 2. My knees were not ready for reverse lunges. Still aren't, really.











*Me? Think**? Something must be wrong with the universe, amirite?
**Or overthink. Whichever.

 

[WolfDreamer]

I also love the Billy Spearshaker. Hamlet remains my favorite (I'm a basic bitch, what can I say), but Henry V is a very close second place.

 

[wjs]

@WolfDreamer: A Midsummer Night's Dream, here.

An aside related to yesterday's post. I chose this. I'm not one for bars or parties or other such events. I'm strictly "no new friends in the club" when out at a show. And I'm far too professional to actually hit on a customer or an employee of the store I'm in. So I have no real options for meeting people* and that's on me.

Today is all about failure for me. I feel like I'm always failing. It doesn't matter that my store made up for shortfalls at one of our sister stores. I question every day if I'm the right person for the position I have. I wonder if working out and modifying my diet is going to work this time. How people can trust me in the situations they do eludes me. No one** has ever believed in me as a leader previously, so how can I possibly be the right person for the job now? I wait every day to be told I'm no longer with the company and, honestly, I'm shocked every day when it doesn't happen. Most of the time, this doesn't come out because I learned a very long time ago how to hide what is really going on in my head.

The workout:
De-Stress Challenge Day 3, one hundred Punches
Back & Core Challenge Day 3, three sets of 12 Reverse Angels with thirty seconds rest between sets
Foundation Program Day 3 at level 3. Not fun, though, because of DOMS specifically in my quads concentrated at my knees.










*In whatever social context you wish to construct.
**Clearly, I mean in the context of my past supervisors and managers.