The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby jimmy » Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:14 pm

IronMike wrote: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! :)


Hi again,
ok.
These days,I have three free days per week. But I experienced and understood that something should be done.
So, My target is that to walk at least 30 minutes per day :)
how is this?
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby IronMike » Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:08 pm

jimmy wrote:
Hi again,
ok.
These days,I have three free days per week. But I experienced and understood that something should be done.
So, My target is that to walk at least 30 minutes per day :)
how is this?

Welcome jimmy, you've been added. Good luck on your goal!
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby Cerebral_Arbitrage » Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:59 am

Cerebral_Arbitrage wrote: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.


I've been meeting my monthly PFC challenge goals in:
[ ] Read 120 pages
[ ] Review Speakly, Clozemaster, and Anki every day
[ ] Log my food for 31 days

Although I watched 20 hours of video in January and February, March was a total bust with something like 4 hours. I am going to try for 15 hours of video in April. I also need to revise my exercise goal. For now, it will be the stretches my Physical Therapist recommended until I can come up with something different.
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby tungemål » Sat Apr 16, 2022 1:19 pm

The fit polyglot:

I have been disciplined and exercised 3 times a week. In two weeks I plan to run a 10k race. I haven't gotten as far as I would like fitness-wise, but I have managed to overcome injuries, which is great.

Language practice: I've been travelling in Germany and Spain lately and used both languages. I got inspired and started a new book in Spanish. But, I'll return to Dutch now, which has been shelved for a few weeks. My original plan was to focus on Dutch and get a good working level in that language.
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby IronMike » Sun Apr 17, 2022 1:11 am

tungemål wrote:The fit polyglot:

I have been disciplined and exercised 3 times a week. In two weeks I plan to run a 10k race. I haven't gotten as far as I would like fitness-wise, but I have managed to overcome injuries, which is great.

Definitely let us know how your 10K goes!
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby IronMike » Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:09 pm

Found a new pool not too far from work and not too far from our future (2 months!) home. Look at this beauty:

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When set up as a 25 yard pool (most often) it has 22 lanes. When set up as a 50m pool, it has 10. :o

I joined on my recent birthday because it gave me an old-guy discount, then went in and swam straight for an hour I was so excited. Then yesterday I stupidly went and swam 5000 yards straight. I say stupidly because I hadn't swum that long straight in almost a year. And last evening and so far this morning I'm feeling it! But God that pool is so pretty. :lol:

Lifting-wise, I'm switching back to my 3x a week sked since I'll be swimming more with the open water season coming up. I believe I'm on track to do 135lbs overhead press, and I think I can get to 350lbs deadlift by the end of the year. We'll see.

Language-wise, I already knocked out the 3/3 in Russian. And I took the upper level. That 2 of my 3 Language challenges. As for another DLPT (L challenge #3) it'll most probably be in BCS as I start my class next Monday. That would mean I'd actually complete the L part of the Polyglot Fitness Challenge!
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby Cerebral_Arbitrage » Tue Apr 26, 2022 3:26 pm

IronMike wrote:Found a new pool not too far from work and not too far from our future (2 months!) home. Look at this beauty


A gorgeous pool indeed. I am jealous!
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby tungemål » Fri Apr 29, 2022 3:14 pm

My 10k race went fairly well. I got a personal best, and it was pretty exhausting. I was hoping to achieve a time under 45 minutes, but I ended up with 45:04. All in all I'm happy.

The first 3 km I went out in an optimistic tempo. After 3 km I probably slowed a bit. Between 5-7km is the critical part - One is tired and it's hard to motivate one self to keep the pace up. It's mostly mental. But then I found the flow, and the last km was the fastest one.
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby tractor » Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:14 pm

Sentrumsløpet, tungemål?
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Re: The 2022 Polyglot Fitness Challenge

Postby IronMike » Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:51 am

Congrats, that's a great time!
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