de·cid·u·ous: shedding its leaves annually

A take on a fitness blog documenting my story. I'm hoping to become fitter, where I define fit as being able to do activities I want to do, like running, rock-climbing, swimming, etc. I'm not concerned about losing weight, but increasing muscle mass, energy, and practicing being kind to myself. Oh, yeah, and I'm Liz.

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January Week 2

It’s Wednesday D:

I was supposed to run more than one day last week, but I did noooooott...... soooooo, whelp. I did end up climbing for a total of 3 days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday).

I started this week off on Sunday with climbing outdoors :O :O. Climbing outdoors is dangerous because 1) you don’t know where the holds are! You make the holds yourself out of surfaces that are bArElY sticking out and 2) even though I was top-ropping and when you’re on a rope, you’re pretty safe, the fact that there’s HARD rock beneath you to fall on fucks with your nerves.

On another note, I ran 4 miles on a treadmill yesterday and haaaaated it. And preceded that with some light squats for form and bench press.

I’m hoping to boulder indoors today and maybe squat again, right after I get a hair cut P: 

Wish me luck internet void

-Liz :*

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True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

This Is What ‘Self-Care’ REALLY Means, Because It’s Not All Salt Baths And Chocolate Cake | Thought Catalog (via discosangfroid)

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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed  (via becoming-vverevvolf)

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Be the change you want to see. Re-rack the fuckin’ weights!

[deciduous--me]

Goals and Habits

Ok, so, on my way to being a fitter, better me™, I have a couple of goals, but Goal 1 is this:

 Run a half-marathon this year (2018):      Speed here doesn’t really matter. I just want to be able to do it. I’m currently following a couch to Half-Marathon (13 miles) in 10 weeks program. Once the 10 weeks end, I’ll probably work on ramping up speed then, but for the most part I am not training for a specific time

Habits I want to try forming:

Rock Climb 2x a week: 

I already have been climbing (mostly in gyms) off and on for 2 years now, but I want this to be more of a commitment to myself. This is a habit that I’m fairly excited about because the only way to improve is to routinely climb. And I am excited, and looking forward to being able to feel improvement when I’m on a wall.

Weight Lift 2x a week: 

I already lift on and off, but I want to take my time and work on my form. I do fairly traditional lifts (squat, deadlifts, bench press, shoulder press, etc.), but my squat needs a lot of work. I don’t necessarily care about the weight I’m lifting (or... at least I’m trying not to care on this one), and I want to work on consistently having good form, so I don’t fuck up my back in 10 years. I think that’d be nice

Progress so far:

I consider yesterday my Day 1. I ran 3.4 miles at about a 12 mph pace to my rock climbing gym and then bouldered for an hour + a half. I’m feeling sore today, but overall good about what I’ve done.

I know the hardest part isn’t starting, but keeping it up, so wish me luck Internet void!

-Liz 

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First post, best post?

So unfortunately when I’m starting this coincides very closely with the New Year, but I don’t want to be a Resolution-er. The reason, I don’t want to be a Resolution-er, is because I think a lot of people do Resolutions wrong, where when I say wrong here, I mean making too ambitious goals too soon. 

I want to change my behavior and form habits that will help me have a long, healthy life, full of energy. I’m not here to lose weight (although increasing density and reducing volume would be rad), and what I do, in terms of training, week 50 of this year shouldn’t be the same as what I do week 1. Because, as I try to work on my fitness™, I mainly want to work on building habits. I want to easily wake up, and eat a healthy breakfast and go to the gym or get outside without having to drudge myself up and double think things. I want it to be part of my routine. 

What I see wrong with most Resolution-ers is that they set the goal to be fitness goddess™ and typically don’t set realistic goals to get there. Then, when they don’t achieve their goal, are made at themselves. Improving my lifestyle involves also being patient with myself, and understanding habits are formed little by little. I want to be kind to myself. I want to care for myself. 

Ok, this ended up being a bit more rambly and long than I originally hoped, so I might end here and discuss what I’m doing in my next post. 

Anyways, thnx Internet void

-Liz