The 2016 Healthy Habits Thread

[Ivy]

It's a white tiger. I'm Seigfried. Or Roy. I forget.

 

[violet_crown]

I need to get my shit together and set myself up on Habitica. :<

I've been putting it off until I finish the move to my new place this weekend. Things will hopefully be less cray then.

 

[EJCC]

It's a white tiger. I'm Seigfried. Or Roy. I forget.

Hopefully whichever one wasn't mauled!

 

[Frosty]

i have uh, well I amjust going to say dog but i think it is a wolf. and a snowman hat...obviously

 

[kyuuei]

Woke up, and started to be lazy.. then said "Nah" and went hiking to a waterfall I've already been to but had fun anyways! If it was warmer I would have been able to cross it. Summer goals plz.

Now some soup and sandwiches and salad.

 

[Ingrid in grids]

I joined a new gym today which offers a lot of yoga, pilates and barre. I can't wait to start classes.

I need to get my shit together and set myself up on Habitica. :<

I've been putting it off until I finish the move to my new place this weekend. Things will hopefully be less cray then.

Ooh. I just signed up to this. Anyone keen to make a TypeC party?

EDIT: Nevermind, just saw that there was already a TypeC party.

 

[violet_crown]

I joined a new gym today which offers a lot of yoga, pilates and barre. I can't wait to start classes.



Ooh. I just signed up to this. Anyone keen to make a TypeC party?

YES! Im starting my account tomorrow. THEN I WILL HAVE A TIGER TOOOOO!

 

[Ivy]

Join the typoc party by sending me a pm with your user ID and I'll invite you. It's a long string of characters, not your login or email. I'll post the directions on how to find it in a bit.

 

[Frosty]

Join the typoc party by sending me a pm with your user ID and I'll invite you. It's a long string of characters, not your login or email. I'll post the directions on how to find it in a bit.

I now have a cotton candy tiger, which actually Trumps whatever Ivy has in my humble opinion.

 

[Ivy]

The User ID is a long string of characters. Here's how to find it:

Once you've found your prospective new home, you'll need to provide them with your user ID:

Go to the Settings menu.
Select API.
Copy the code in the "User ID" box and give that to a party member.
When you receive an invitation, there will be a small banner on top of the Party tab saying that you are not part of a party. This banner holds your party invitation, which you can accept or reject.

 

[EJCC]

Question regarding Exercise Challenges for [MENTION=2]Ivy[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4939]kyuuei[/MENTION]:

What do you do if you can't keep up with the pace? :<

(This hasn't happened to me with BodyRock yet but has happened with others before, so I figure it's only a matter of time)

 

[HongDou]

I'm on Habitica now

Here's my current list (I was angry you couldn't see other people's - I wanted to be nosy):

Will probably add more as I remember it

 

[Ivy]

[MENTION=4945]EJCC[/MENTION] I take a break and don't sweat it.

 

[Ivy]

Actually, I don't usually do "challenges" in the first place because I don't find the pace sustainable for me.

 

[Galena]

I just saw Ivy's invite and joined the party. Skeleton cactus mount is my life goal now, kthx.

 

[kyuuei]

Question regarding Exercise Challenges for [MENTION=2]Ivy[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4939]kyuuei[/MENTION]:

What do you do if you can't keep up with the pace? :<

(This hasn't happened to me with BodyRock yet but has happened with others before, so I figure it's only a matter of time)

How is BodyRock btw? I was looking at it with some interest when y'all posted it earlier.

..Hmm. when I can't keep up the pace. I change the challenge standards. I step down slowly, in levels.

Level 1: The full work out, to the best of my ability.
Level 2: Handicaps. Leg day, then a HIIT exercise the next when my legs are sore? I do alternative movements and low-impact training, or I completely skip an exercise that isn't suited for my body and keep going. When you do enough work out videos you get the hang of knowing which things are the 'easier version' of other things. (My favorite saying of all time.. no one is going to jump out of a work out video and beat you up for just walking in place the entire time. If that's all you did and could do, you got up and did it still.)
Level 3: I change the timing. If I'm doing... sayy... a 30 day challenge. And a work out is 45 minutes one day.. but I see a week from now that there's a 15 minute work out on a day I will have more time. I switch them. I write down which ones I switched. Sometimes that fixes a LOT. Switching rest days and smaller-time days.
Level 4: Re-evaluate the challenge. Maybe I bit off more than I could chew if I'm doing ALL of these things and they're not enough. So maybe if it's a 30 day challenge, I should lengthen it.. make it 40 or 60 days with more rest days or stretch days in between. A challenge is a challenge, and you're doing this for yourself to get stronger. No need to give up when you can just work it more into your own life. Recently I have done this, making 3 1hr work out days, and 2 30 minute days and 1 15 minute day. This works with shorter things too... 3 days of 5-day challenges that are 1 hour long, and then I select a 5 day challenge of 30-minute long videos, and synthesize them and make multiple challenges out of it. It made a big impact to have the 1 hour work outs on my off days and the smaller timed days on my work days. I really wanted to P90X it up before Japan, so I might do that March-April + a 30 day yoga challenge recycle, but for now this system is working really well for me.

.. If you're still not keeping up with it.. there's a mental block there somewhere. either you hate what you're doing or how it makes you feel after.. or you're on a self-destruct sequence and you really need to look back at why you're doing this for yourself in the first place. To me, challenges are fun and rewarding and make me feel like I'm a superstar. Some people are just stressed out by them no matter how relaxed they can be.

I'm on Habitica now

Here's my current list (I was angry you couldn't see other people's - I wanted to be nosy):

Will probably add more as I remember it

YAAAYY!! !! My lists are a mile long.. but basically hygiene-related things are on dailies (cleaning myself up, cleaning the house a bit, etc.), and a huge list of things I can do or not do (like eat healthy or junk food? I don't click anything for in-betweeny stuff... and whether I avoided using my phone while driving..) and a forever list of to-dos from some of the challenges + my own stuff.

 

[EJCC]

Thanks kyuuei and [MENTION=2]Ivy[/MENTION]!

How is BodyRock btw? I was looking at it with some interest when y'all posted it earlier.

I only did the beginner 5-day challenge -- finished it today! -- so I don't know if I've done enough to give it a fair assessment. Especially because I've never done anything like this before, and I've never done HIIT before. That being said, my verdict is as follows:

- Made me sore everywhere, but in a good way. Each day was a great workout
- The stretch day -- day 3 -- was not very good. Doing yoga from my app would have been much more effective.
- Requires Strongly suggests that you use specific equipment, that I think they sell, so that product placement was annoying -- I wish it had been a no-equipment-required bodyweight workout.
- Squats every day. Why do I want to do squats every day? That doesn't make sense.
- Big fan of the trainer and her incredibly awkward midwestern-ness! It was adorable and a nice change of pace from the average workout video person with no personality.

Tomorrow they're going to send me some kind of weekly plan via email? I'll let you know how that looks.

And if you (or anyone else) has any similar short-bursts-of-energy intense beginner day by day workout recommendations, then let me know!

 

[kyuuei]

^ you know me, youtube.com type in fitness blender 15 minute or 30 minute work out and you'll see a host of things I like for short exercises.

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Love this spread. Also, while I disagree with some things, I really liked the bit on snacks preventing eating bad foods. Definitely true the other day, I had no access to my food from staying at a friend's house and literally begged my boyfriend for a cheeseburger. Bought a good host of things the past couple of days. I have to clean out the kitchen.. I wasted an entire bag of vegetables, bacon, pork sausage, all on a box of expired cooking stuff. It really pissed me off.. but then I realized I really should have been cooking things from scratch anyways and.. whatever. Definitely got some snacks and on the right track again.

I'm trying to re-vamp my cooking style, it's a slow work in progress.
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...st-all-in-one-seasoning-system?ref=nav_search I'm trying this spice system and seeing how it goes.

A quick work out + some stretching while the fire was still going this evening.. Then I cooked some food, ate decently, cleaned up some clothes and started some laundry to check things off the blocks on Habitica.. that game is pretty addictive, you start coming up with things to start doing to level up.

 

[EJCC]

I am becoming one of those exercise people. And I have no regrets.

Can't wait to be swole AF.

 

[rmrf]

Been really making an effort to have more health promoting behaviour, this year. So far, I've been keeping up with daily exercise, doing about an hour of walking at the park, lost a couple of kilos, given up tobacco smoking and replaced it with e-cigs. Also for the most part, have been going to sleep before midnight and waking before 11am. By far the healthiest I've been in years!