So it's 3 weeks into the new year how are you doing with your New Year's resolutions?
I always give myself kind of vague resolution so I don't need to be super strict because then it's too easy to say that I messed it up so there's no point continuing
This year my resolutions are
1. get back into swimming
2. Continue my 10,000 steps a day which I have done for over 3 years now
3. Pass the comp Tia Network plus exam
4. Change up my lifting regime into something more enjoyable so I will be more consistent with it than I was last year
5. Clean my apartment at least to the point that when I bring home twinks from Grindr or Jak'D I'm not embarrassed when they see my house
I found a gym on top of this mountain
When giving yourself New Year's resolutions don't give yourself incredibly strict ones if possible. For instance if you bench press 100 kilos and you want to bench press 140 kilos don't make 140 kilos your goal. Make your goal to bench press more.
If you can run 5 km in 25 minutes and you want to run it in 20 minutes don't make that your goal just make your goal to be consistent with your running and to get a faster time.
The only reason to be strict is if you need specific numbers for a job or a competition or some real reason.
It's also important not to punish yourself if you fail your resolution at some point. The goal is to run 5 km three times a week and one day you feel really sick and you can't run for two or three weeks that's not a good excuse to just cancel the whole resolution. You should get back into it when you can because running 5 km three times a week 40 weeks of the year is a lot better than doing it for 0 weeks of the year.
Poor advice. Set yourself realistic goals but make them specific and quantifiable, otherwise you don't know if you actually achieved them or not. Wooly shit like "improve fitness" can mean anything depending on how you measure it.
And it doesn't automatically follow that failure is a reason to beat yourself up. Aim for the stars, even if you fall short you'll have reached the moon.
why are you in korea?
Because it is the easiest way to get a decent paid English teaching job.
>3 weeks into the new year how are you doing with your New Year's resolutions?
Mine were simply improve my cardio and lose bf% both are going well. To all the resolution haters time is a canvas to weave on and it worked out well to wait until after Christmas and NYE celebrations to start aggressively cutting.
I dont need resolutions
News years resolutions
>join a gym after 5 year hiatus
Done
>Lose fat and gain muscle
First signs of body change already coming along. Crazy how quick muscle memory works
>buy first property and move out for good
Checked out 4 apartments on the weekend and they were all trash
>get over gf and start dating again
Wanna get apartment first. Frick bringing a girl back to my rents place. No progress.
>pass amateur radio license
Done some study. Should be easy to get for me
>pass CCNA
Done no study! Can't do everything at once
>practice some looksmaxing
Been getting more sleep and doing a skincare routine that makes me feel handsome on the inside at least
>Frick bringing a girl back to my rents place. No progress.
pointlessly restricting yourself
True
I'm still getting over my ex and I'm just using that as an excuse to give me time to work on myself. Honestly I just don't feel like pursuing anyone right now
It appears to me that you are a gigantic homosexual, since you can not tolerate discomfort towards yourself. Setting specific goals IS the number one factor to success in your new year's resolutions. Failure is not bad. Failure teaches you to keep going.
how the frick do you bring in twinks looking like that??
Guys will literallt frick anyone and anything with a pulse
this lukewarm behaviour........... can get you far if you stick with it, BUT it will be much slower, tbqh
I started working out with this type of mental cope, and it worked to get me to stick with it, but I wasted quite literally 2 years and barely being halfway where I wanted
Read 10 books. I'm slow.
Book titles?
I haven't planned them, just any 10. I won't tell you which one I'm reading now because someone will spoil it. However, the other one I'm reading in parallel is Global Economic History by Robert C. Allen.
Fair. I’ll have to look into Global Economic History, thanks for mentioning it. If you’re into that topic, there’s a few good ones I can recommend.
Spill.
It’s mostly the classics, but:
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Nicolas Oresme, De Moneta
Guido Hülseman, The Ethics of Money Production
Murray Rothbard, Anatomy of the State
Ludwig von Mieses, Human Action
Eichenberger, How global Currencies work
And if you’re interested in crypto, Saifedean Amous, The Bitcoin Standard and Principles of Economics.
Thanks, anon!
>. I won't tell you which one I'm reading now because someone will spoil it.
Dumbledore dies, you're welcome
>lose some weight
3.1kg/2.8% fat lost. About 1/5th of my target.
>fix diet
On track.
>workout 3x a week
Average 6x a week so far.
>fix looks
On track. Finally got new glasses and about half my wardrobe starts to fit again. Will need an upgrade though.
>dry January
On track, but ngl those beers in the fridge do look tastier by the day.
>rail the wife more often
On track.
I made a resolution to self-study math and get into C programming. I'm on linear equations right now, very happy with myself.
Did that incel loser go to Korea?
For me it was more about gaining the means to start than starting specifically during the new year, but alas
>start working out again
I have been pretty consistent, and have gotten stronger
>get a part time job and keep at it
started on the third
>make more connections with strangers
>find a girl to fall in love with
>learn to cook more good food
>get back to language learning
>get consistent at learning to draw
GET OUT OF MY GYM REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>lose weight
I'm down 5kg since new year, so on the right track
>save money after trading away life savings
Started working more and stopped buying anything unnecessary
>get IST
Have been at the gym 5 days a week
>stop being depressed
Have started bipolar medication and sleeping more
>be more creative, paint, make music etc
This is the hardest one, but working on it
Nice one, anon!
>trading away life savings
Shitcoin casino?
Thank you! No, index futures. At least I learned a lot about economy and investing.
>futures
Anon…
Have you considered losing weight, you fat frick
Ive fallen off really bad
First week of the new year I was extremely sick and the past 2 weeks Ive just fallen into trash habits. Im still lifting hard but my diet is ass and I havent been working towards my goals. This weekend really hurt spending it alone again I dont have any copes for why Im not taking action
Decided to take another off drinking for January. Prepared for finding a new job and did interviews. Getting my lifts back up after only maintaining over the Christmas season. Planning on running again once it's not icy everywhere.
HEY SCOOTY
I FRICKING HATE YOU SO MUCH. EVERY TIME I SEE YOU SHITTY LITTLE FAT FACE I ASK MYSELF WHY ARE YOU STILL ALIVE.
GET YOUR SKINNY FAT ASS OFF THIS EARTH
my resolution was
>getting better at hockey by doing push/pull/legs and getting more ice time
my progress
>torn ac joint when snowboarding
it's all good tho. i'm gonna have surgery soon and will be back on track.
I'm back at a regular gym
>still haven't gone back to my hobby gym, still have anxiety
I have been dropping weight on the scale consistently after minding what I eat, getting sleep, working out fasted
Taking nearly daily walks and my new fitness band helps, I really like all the data that comes in
I am owning my appearance and appreciating that I am a good looking man, just some women are more forward than others and that helps a socially moronic me. One week into Jan a hot blond (8/10) messaged me on fetlife to meet and her hotel bar and we recorded a bunch of clips for her man to enjoy. Today I'm doing the same. You can make it too anons.