{"id":305,"date":"2016-07-03T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karenmcmullan.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2024-01-06T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T09:12:18","slug":"training-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karenmcmullan.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Training Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick check in.<\/p>\n

Training is going really well. Mostly because I’m doing something – anything – positive for my health, but results help. \ud83d\ude42 I’ve lost ~20 pounds and move and feel so, so, so much better. It’s great. I’m still VERY new to this – training, tracking, all of it – so I’ve made a study of Calisthenic Movement’s YouTube channel<\/a>, scouring the comments and cataloguing the videos. It’s been very educational.<\/p>\n

I’ve written pages of feedback to CM about my experiences, good and bad, some of which I’ve seen come out in videos they’ve produced. I like to think I contributed, but I’m sure they get tons of feedback from their viewership and clients. This picture went along with a testimonial wrote for them and I liked it well enough to make it my profile pic pretty much everywhere.<\/p>\n

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I was laughing because the dang phone kept falling over.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(SIDE NOTE: Before this, my profile picture was of me at E3 from 2001 or 2002 at Katana on Sunset. These pictures are fifteen years apart. Whoa.<\/p>\n

I live in Los Angeles now and wouldn’t have foreseen that then. Strangely, I haven’t been back to Katana. I love Japanese food and as I recall, Katana was good.\u00a0)<\/p>\n

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Those were some good times!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m still coming from such a low baseline level of fitness, even the Level 1 Program is intense for me. I don’t really feel I have the experience or judgment to make changes to the program, so after some discussion with Sven and Alex<\/a> (they are Calisthenic Movement), we decided that a program tailored to my level of fitness (low), experience (newb), and goals (basic) was the way forward.<\/p>\n

These tailored programs are their OPT programs – Online Personal Training. They ask for current abilities, what equipment you have access to (for me: dip bars, rings)\u00a0 I set my goals at:<\/p>\n