Counting carbs/calories is a drag. Obsessive scale stepping is a recipe for despair. If you want to count something, "days on habit" is a much better metric. Checking off days on a calendar would do just fine, but if you do it here you get accountability and support. Here's how. Start a new topic in this forum called (say) "Your Name Daily Check In." Then every N day post a "reply" to that topic as to whether you stayed on habit. A simple "<font color="green">SUCCESS</font>" or "<font color="red">FAILURE</font>" (or your preferred euphemism if that's too harsh) is sufficient, but obviously you're welcome to write more if you want. On S-days just register that you're taking an S-day. You don't have to do this forever, just until you're confident you've built the habit. Feel free to check in weekly or monthly or sporadically instead of daily. Feel free also to track other habits besides No-s (I'm keeping this forum under No-s because that's what the vast majority are using it for). See also my <a href="/habitcal/">HabitCal</a> tool for another more formal (and perhaps complementary) way to track habits.
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breadloaf
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by breadloaf » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:44 am
I want to shovelglove 2 times per week, and run 1 time, minimum. I'm not running in Arctic cold, so I may sub.
My routine:
21 reps PER SIDE, FOR TIME:
Shovel
Churn butter
Chop wood
Flip Lever
Fireman Chop
Swordsman Thrust
Stoke Oven
Tuck Bales
Scythe
Hoist Sack
Chop Tree
21 Pushups
Time through Chop Tree:
18:36
Couldn't do more than 3 pushups - this is an arm-heavy workout.
Looking to improve my time.
I did finish with 21 "girly" pushups.
I did a total of 42 churn butter, (21/side) even though I don't feel a difference.
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mrsj
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by mrsj » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:36 am
Hi, and welcome. Don't worry, you will start to feel a differenc and you will start to get stronger. It just takes time.
Nothing is impossible-only improbable.