Down by 20

I just joined a 30-day challenge, and so far the biggest struggle has not been sticking to the eating plan or getting in a workout every day. The biggest struggle has been coming up with clearly defined, measurable, reasonable goals. 

Obviously, the goal is to loase weight. But that has been my goal for the past two years and I bounce up and down and all over the place. 

I needed a performance goal, but I had no idea where to begin to come up with one. There are general skills goals, like, “I would like to get into krav maga,” or “I would like to go back to dancing ballet.” But again, neither of those is specific. 

Here is a way to simulate pull-ups for training even if you don’t have the space to install a pull-up bar in your home (or, if like me, you’re scared to try finding the pull-up bar at the gym). This method wraps the bands around staircase spindles, but you can also get a cheap door attachment at a sports store and pull the bands from the door! 

Goal: 

Current state:  

(as I dangle helplessly from the bar)

Long way to  go.

Even the cat is better at it than I am: 

Made it all the way through my first Krav Maga class after not having touched martial arts for over a year!