The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

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The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby IronMike » Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:55 pm

Hello

I believe I told you all how happy I was to see that this challenge was continuing when I came back to the forum late last year. So, I wanted to make sure I kept this thing going. So here's 2022!

The rules:

The rules are super simple. You just need to have a minimum of one fitness challenge and one language challenge to complete during 2022. You can have more than one if you want.

A language challenge can be as big or small as you want it to be. You might want to reach a certain level in a language (either by passing an exam or through diagnostic testing), or it could be to read a novel in your target language, or to have one language exchange a month...

Same goes for the fitness challenge. You might want to train for a marathon, or get a certain number of steps per day, beat your previous PB in a sport, begin a yoga practice... It's also fine to add health-related goals too, they don't necessarily have to be sport-related if that's not your thing. You might want to establish a meditation habit, or do meat-free Mondays...

You can change your challenge at any point if life gets in the way (injury, family commitments, pandemics...), just post it on this board to let us know.

Let me know if you want to join! :)
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby IronMike » Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:56 pm

Participants in 2022:

Cerebral_Arbitrage
Deinonysus
jimmy
jmar257
IronMike
Mista
MisterVimes
Radioclare
tungemål
Ug_Caveman
Vordhosbn
zenmonkey
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby Cerebral_Arbitrage » Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:15 pm

Hi IronMike! Thanks for posting this and giving us the motivation to get our language learning and bodies in top shape. I am in! I seriously messed up my back in 2021 and feel as fragile as newborn Bambi covered in spider bites. My ultimate dream for 2022 is get back to hiking, but this will depend on my rehabilitation progress and what my back is willing to do. Because of this, I am sticking to 15 minutes of exercise daily. Basically, it means doing the things my Physical Therapist tells me to do. I am also going to keep an eye on what I'm eating. My activity took a nosedive in 2021 and I need to be mindful of my food needs rather than wants. In the future, I would love to expand this, so I'm hoping I can have changing physical goals? Maybe make a different physical goal every month? My 2022 Language Goals were easier to make and are mostly focused on input. Good luck to everyone!

Total Language Goals for 2022
[ ] Read 1000 pages
[ ] Watch 200 hours of video
[ ] 365 days of Speakly, Clozemaster and Anki

Polyglot Fitness Challenge for January!
[ ] Read 120 pages
[ ] Watch 20 hours of video
[ ] Review Speakly, Clozemaster, and Anki every day
[ ] Log my food for 31 days
[ ] Do my exercises for 15 minutes a day.
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365 Day Challenge: 0 / 365
PFC - Daily Vocabulary Review: 0 / 365
PFC - Read 500 pages: 0 / 500
PFC - Watch 120 hours of video: 0 / 7200

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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby Radioclare » Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:02 pm

I'd like to join too :) My main language goal is at least 30 minutes of Russian every day. My main fitness goal is to get 10 000 steps every day. I very nearly achieved that in 2021, so hoping it's going to be doable in 2022. If I fail, my Plan B is to try and at least get 70 000 steps per week.
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby IronMike » Sun Jan 02, 2022 4:49 pm

My goals, pending me changing them as usual:

Language goals:
L1: 3/3 on Russian DLPT
L2: If L1 happens, take at least one upper level DLPT (Oy! The headache...)
L3: Take DLPT in another language this year (vague enough?)

Fitness goals:
F1: 250 miles of swimming
F2: 135lbs for 1RM of military press
F3: 350lbs for 1RM of deadlift
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby zenmonkey » Sun Jan 02, 2022 6:17 pm

Why not.
Doing a language challenge already so let’s add the fitness component.

Get back to running.
Couch to 5K to 10K programs.
Get back to 15K runs.
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby Mista » Sun Jan 02, 2022 7:54 pm

Last year, I ran 10K for the first time, and somehow and somewhere in that process, I started thinking, maybe I could do half-marathon too? I’m not planning to do that this year, but I am planning some activities which might prepare me to do it the year after.
One of my favorite activities is orienteering. I don’t do competitions, but a casual variant, where the posts are available through the whole season (usually April-October, but there are also winter posts), so you can go and get them whenever you want. This is very popular in the Oslo area, and has become increasingly so during these two Covid years, since it is one of very few activities that has never been shut down. I found over 800 posts last year, and would like to aim for 1000 this year, and one of the things I would like to do more is to combine long distance running and orienteering to get at some of the more remote posts. A session like this would be something like running 5K on a dirt road (with audiobook) – find 3-4 posts – run 5K back to civilization. I’d like to try doing that once a week once spring is here.

As for competitions, I have already registered for the same 5K and 10K races that I did last year, both in September (two weeks between). But I have also registered for something new: a 36 K skiing race in March. In connection with that, I have also registered for a skiing course. Although I know very well how to ski, and don’t doubt my ability to complete 36K, I think I could gain a lot in terms of completion time by improving my technique, as I’m not really used to moving fast on skis. Crossing my fingers that it won’t be cancelled due to the Omicron beast.

Physical goals:
- complete the 5K faster than last year
- complete the 10K faster than last year
- complete my first skiing competition (I may set a time goal as the event approaches)
- find 1000 orienteering posts
- weight: lose 1 kilo per month from now until my competitions in September

Language goals:
- Complete the 365-day-challenge with at least 360 days
- In the SC, reach 5 books and 5 films in 10 languages by the end of the year
- In the SC, maintain an average of 60 minutes of daily listening each month
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby IronMike » Tue Jan 04, 2022 10:53 pm

Mista wrote:One of my favorite activities is orienteering. I don’t do competitions, but a casual variant, where the posts are available through the whole season (usually April-October, but there are also winter posts), so you can go and get them whenever you want.

Me too! Nice to see another orienteer here. I don't do competitions either. I bring my wife and dog* and we make a (2-3 hour) day of it.

I also just learned that there is such a thing as amateur radio direction finding orienteering, where you follow the beep beep of a transmitter till you find the control! There's a small, 5-control course coming up at the end of the month here that I might try.

*Interestingly, I tried doing this once with just my dog and not my wife (she was traveling) and holy crap, that was not easy. Poor guy wanted to enjoy, smell things, take his poop, and some of the controls were in very woody, tangly areas, just didn't work. I'll only do it with my wife from here on out (if we're bringing the dog, I mean).
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby MisterVimes » Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:23 pm

I'm a few days late, but I would like to join as well!

Language goals:
- 365 day challenge (30 minutes of Hebrew daily) - mostly the goal is to keep trying, as I will definitely miss a few days
- Get Hebrew to (at least) A1

Fitness goals:
x Finish Yoga with Adriene's 30 days of yoga in january
- Keep a daily yoga habit going - I know I will miss days, but the goal is to not give up
- Complete C25K (and actually run 5km in 30 mins)
- Keep a 2-3 times weekly running habit going - again, I will miss days/weeks but I will keep getting back on the horse

I may add fitness goals later on if I see myself doing Couch to 10k, for example.

[Edited for clarity and realism]
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby tungemål » Sat Jan 08, 2022 12:19 pm

I'm in.

At the moment I'm almost more interested in fitness than in language learning. But I don't think there is a sport forum with a polyglot fitness challenge, so...

Fitness challenge:
I run, and I've finally overcome some injuries. My aim is to build up fitness slowly and participate in a race in the spring. I'm running 3 times a week, in two months I hope to comfortably be running 10km 3 times a week.

Language challenge:
I decided to brush up my Dutch. Goal: to read one book in Dutch. After, that, I'll probably practice with podcasts and youtube. But for now I need to get comfortable with the core vocabulary.
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