I’m a nerd

Nerds are cool.  They make the world go round.

So I recently (about five days ago) joined an online fitness community called NerdFitness.  I found it quite by accident when I was googling for material to use in a presentation to an at-work healthy living support group.  What I found was an article about the 10 things that successful fit folks do.

In the process of reading the article (and, let’s be honest, correcting the grammar errors in it), I was introduced to the website and what they do here.  I recognized right off that parts of their “program” were not very compatible with what I am sold on doing, but also that much of what happens here is what I need—particularly the weekly challenges to add “quests” to my life, so that I can “level up” in my fitness.

Get it?  It’s like getting fit and staying fit is a video game, and my goal is to level up my fitness to level 50.  Along the way, we fight the “bosses” and do that by completing quests and doing exercises.  It also addresses nutrition and , most importantly for me, the mindset of a fitness winner.

So I bought into it.  It’s a one time fee and then I’ve got access to the group/materials/routines for life.  We’ll see.

This morning—my 4th day of tracking my exercises, I actually increased the weights I use on two of the routines, and added more.  And I’m not even all the way into the program (there’s a lot of time investment in learning and assessing and “on-ramping” before I really get to jump in.  I’m still learning, but these are exercises I know to do and I know are a good starting place.  Good for me.

I look forward to the challenges and quests.  I have developed a set of quests for my character ( Bear Keymaster), and assigned loot (rewards) for each of them—tools that will unlock when I complete a task or move to the next level.

And so, right now, I am player 1 in this game of fitness.  It feels good to have a plan and to be working on taking care of myself.

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