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RelleK
United States20 Posts
Exercise: aprox 5 mile run. 30 situps/ pushups/ pullups Diet: Breakfast: Bannana w/ water Lunch: Pork Rib w/ french frys Dinner: taco's w/ refried beans Mood: Start: excited End: disgruntle (from computer crashing) Crash count: 8 Goals: Get used to using the f-series for location hotkeys Number of games: 7-6 (6 losses to crashes) practice: 9 practice games Isolation Day: no | ||
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CallMeLukas
United States39 Posts
Also, the exercise can be broken up as well. I'd recommend splitting cardio and strength training. I like to go for my run and be able to work really hard, then wait 45 minutes or even an hour or two. That way I don't have to worry about killing myself again with pull-ups and ab workouts. Keep it up ya'all | ||
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Lousy!
Canada73 Posts
All in all, looks like a good idea! | ||
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
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Nafa
129 Posts
Today the total time i spent in the Starcraft 2 world was over 11 hours. However, i watched the gsl so thats why the hours look so high. Actual time spend ingame myself was 7 hours 30 minutes. 2. I went for a bikeride, a little over an hour. At the end i was pretty beat, this was to take a break after 4 hours of practicing starcraft 2. Got the nicest doms in my upperbody from lifting yesterday, didint bother much while playing though. 3. Breakfest: Ill just refer to theese shakes as "healthshakes". I had a healthshake Lunch: a mix of potato and meat, again a more of a finnish food. Dinner: potatoes, salmon and Salad. For desert a tiny bit of icecream After the bike ride: another health shake Last meal of the day: 3rd health shake 4.Excited mood at beginning of day, i was looking forward to gsl and playing starcraft2. After the session tired but happy at everything i got done today. Tired because its so late obviously. 5. A total of 28 games. 6. Todays goal was to find a style that i like in TvZ. and i ended up with bio as its fun to play and a great way to be aggressive and learn to macro during aggression. It's something i was quite bad at in the past, so that'll be my main focus for the next 2 days. TL;DR excited, pleased with myself for doing all the practice and exercising. Looking forward to new season tomorrow where ill tear up ladder all day long. PS: a picture that shows off the timer i use to keep time of my practice, so ill make sure i get the 6h 25mins. Its always on top and easy to pause so i wont get the fake feeling of playing for 6 hours, when in actuality ive taken breaks every game to browse liquid and infact only played 5 hours. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/fjaVG.png) | ||
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RelleK
United States20 Posts
Exercise: aprox 15 mile bike ride. Diet: Breakfast: Bannana Cherios Lunch: Grilled Chicken Wrap Dinner: SLEEP! Mood: Start: Nervous End: Relaxed Crash count: 2 Goals: focus on macro/ not get supply blocked Number of games: 7-3 (2 crash) practice games: 6 Isolation Day: Y Notes on the day: Since yesterday I crashed so many times it messed with my rating, got placed in silver. But yet still facing gold or platinum players. Either way today was a pretty good day, overall only lost 3 games, while crashing on 2. Also today was my one of my isolation days where i just grind-ed. Also had to work extra hours at work only resulting in 6 hours of practice with the work out. Overall I'm feeling kinda sore and already feel the pain of the week starting to come on. I also feel very edgy and starting to get irate at the littlest things in my play. Not sure if its from work, the long hours, or both. | ||
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L_Master
United States8017 Posts
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CallMeLukas
United States39 Posts
On June 13 2012 06:27 Lousy! wrote: Have you considered writing / copying your daily progress to a different blog you make especially for this? And then add links to everyone's journals in the OP, that way they'd be easier to find and keep track of. All in all, looks like a good idea! I feel like we would get called out for spamming, but I could be wrong. Day 2 Did a 4 mile run in about 27:50, then ab work out. My diet consisted of peanut butter sandwich on wheat bread, lots of water, protein shake, a large bowl of cheerios, a sub from Subway, and a piece of pie. I started the day in a really good, I was excited to see where I could get placed at the start of the new season. Finally got placed into platinum! w00t and I was able to stay in the top 8 by the time I logged off. My win percentage on the ladder was 54% However I ended the day in a bad mood. Lost a couple games in a row to Protoss deathballs. Fuck them and their lasers. Normally I just brush it off, but for some reason the very last game frustrated me a lot. I think I was just getting tired. Clocked another 7.5 hours. On June 13 2012 14:46 L_Master wrote: If it's not too late count me in as a community participant. Going to give this a go. Yes you can! The rest of us will just be finishing earlier. | ||
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L_Master
United States8017 Posts
Did a 4 mile run in about 27:50, then ab work out Nice clip. What are your PRs? | ||
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CallMeLukas
United States39 Posts
Not sure if you're looking for anything specific so I'll give ya all of them lol 800- 2:09 1600- 4:53 3200- no idea lolz 5k- 18:09 4 mile- 25:30 | ||
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Nafa
129 Posts
Today i also watched the gsl, and my practice session was about 5 hours 40 mins total. Today I read alot of guides, and tore the ladder since it was the first day of the season. Exercise: i cut the grass today, took about an hour. Diet: Breakfast: Health shake Snack: Apple, a tiny bit of whole grain cereal (30gs or so) and some quark. Lunch: Same as yesterday, a mix of potato and meat. Dinner: A baguette sandwhich, aprox. the length of half a subway sub. Note: also ate 40g of pringles while watching gsl. Mood: Excited for gsl and new season during the morning time. After practice session, happy with todays ladder results. Number of games played today was 18. A nice 13-2 score to start off the ladder season with. Todays goal was same as yesterdays; learn to macro during aggression. Im still having quite some trouble with it, but i feel like i have made slight improvements with it. TL;Dr New season, yay. Gsl, yay. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/1fHuF.png) | ||
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RelleK
United States20 Posts
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CallMeLukas
United States39 Posts
On June 14 2012 07:51 Nafa wrote: Number of games played today was 18. A nice 13-2 score to start off the ladder season with. I'm confused, by 13-2 do you mean you won 13 games and lost 2? That seems really good. But then where does the 18 come from? Btw, we are in the same league. Interested in practicing a bit? anyways... Day 3 Pretty awful day to be honest. Woke up tired and not motivated in the least. Busted out a 4.5 mile run and I felt perked up after that. Unfortunately I slipped into frustration from playing. I had a shorter practice day due to some things I had going on. However I am still ahead of schedule: by the end of day 3, we should have at least a total of 19 hours and 15 minutes of practice time. At the moment I've practiced for 20.5 hours. Just... wow. Diet today was also shitty: Krafts Mac n Cheese, Culvers burger, left over pizza, ice cream, and chips and salsa. Earlier in the day I was planning on getting to the 6 hrs 25 min mark of practice by midnight but I'm just too tired. Calling it quits at 5.5 hrs. Ugh. that is all. | ||
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L_Master
United States8017 Posts
1. Practice: Total practice time 3hr 45 min. Pretty busy day with class and work, and not ideal management so didn't get to do as much practice as I would have liked. Played my placement matches, read up a little about PvT 1 gate expand, and then played a few more games in the evening. Went 8-1, with the game I dropped being to someone asking for the points. To be expected though playing bronzies. 2. Exercise: AM - 4M easy in roughly 31 min PM - 2M up, 4.25M tempo in 26:02, 2M down; total 12.5M Misc: 1.5M walk to class and 1.5M walk back from class 3. Diet Breakfast: 1 cup of life cereal and a banana Lunch: Generous plate of nachos (good homemade nachos with like ground beef, tomato, sauce, onions, peppers, mushrooms, etc.), PB&Nutella sandwich, slice of pizza, big bowl of grapes, serving of doritos chips, small slice of apple coffee cake, Dr. Pepper (8oz) Dinner: Chipotle Barbacoa Burrito, 4oz Dr Pepper, burrito with light barbacoa, easy rice, lettuce, tomato Misc: Approx 15 cups water 4. Mood - Mood at beginning of day = tired, heavy legs and super hungry (YAY for caloric restriction) but honestly still in okay mood, felt good after morning shakeout run. Good going into game session, a little bored w/placement matches because bronze people are silly TLDR - Before: Tired, After: Bored/Comfortable 5. Game Number: 9 games, some studying VOD/liquipedia 6. Daily Goal - Going to be a busy day, shooting for 15 games and some time studying VODs/liquipedia. Mostly want to focus on nailing build orders and getting a feel for SC2 micro. On June 14 2012 07:35 CallMeLukas wrote: Not sure if you're looking for anything specific so I'll give ya all of them lol 800- 2:09 1600- 4:53 3200- no idea lolz 5k- 18:09 4 mile- 25:30 I'm guessing your fairly new to running and/or a HS runner as your 800m/1600m times are vastly superior to your 5k, but you seem to have decent speed and some nice talent as running 4:53 off of 18:09 is quite respectable. Just keep running over summer and that 5k time will drop a TON by fall XC as 4:53 is equivalent to about 16:50 for the 5k. | ||
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Nafa
129 Posts
On June 14 2012 14:48 CallMeLukas wrote: I'm confused, by 13-2 do you mean you won 13 games and lost 2? That seems really good. But then where does the 18 come from? Btw, we are in the same league. Interested in practicing a bit? anyways... Yes i played 15 ladder games total and lost 2. The 18 comes from playing custom 1vs1s. The main reason for that high winrate is that i got mostly golds first, and then really bad plat players. at the end of the day i won against a few diamonds too. Edit: Unless you have an eu account i doubt we can practice toegether as i don't have a NA one. | ||
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L_Master
United States8017 Posts
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CallMeLukas
United States39 Posts
On June 14 2012 16:10 L_Master wrote: I'm guessing your fairly new to running and/or a HS runner as your 800m/1600m times are vastly superior to your 5k, but you seem to have decent speed and some nice talent as running 4:53 off of 18:09 is quite respectable. Just keep running over summer and that 5k time will drop a TON by fall XC as 4:53 is equivalent to about 16:50 for the 5k. I ran track and XC all four years of HS. I graduated in 2010 and hardly ran in 2011 at all. It was hard to find time and motivation when experiencing college for the first time. The past few months I've been trying to get back into running more, but for some reason I just dont feel as capable and motivated. I think having to run by myself instead of with a team is part of the problem. Today I'm struggling to even run a good 5 miles. On June 14 2012 19:03 Nafa wrote: Yes i played 15 ladder games total and lost 2. The 18 comes from playing custom 1vs1s. The main reason for that high winrate is that i got mostly golds first, and then really bad plat players. at the end of the day i won against a few diamonds too. Edit: Unless you have an eu account i doubt we can practice toegether as i don't have a NA one. Thats impressive! And no I dont have an eu account. Ah well.. | ||
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Nafa
129 Posts
Yet another day of watching gsl (MVP Faighting). My practice session was about 7 hours, i spent alot of time watching the Day[9] daily on bombers TvP, taking notes and then practicing the build. Ladder wasent as good as yesterday, but still not bad. 5 wins and 2 losses. I spent more time in customs today. In ladder im evenly matched against Diamonds and slighty favoured against plat. Perhaps ill get a promotion sometime, we shall see. Exercise: Weight lifting again, and also as light cardio i did some cleaning around the house. Diet: Breakfast: Whole grain cereal with fat free milk Lunch: Chickenbreast with tikka masala sauce and potatoes Dinner: A frozen vegetable mix with a small sandwhich and quark Last meal of day: Some noodles Note: Also drank another red bull, and ate about 50g of candy while watching gsl. I've also forgot to mention that with every meal (execpt healthshake) i also have a glass of non fat milk. I also drink lots of water during the day. Mood: Excited to see MVP in gsl, woke up feeling energetic instead of tired like the first 3 days. At the end of the day, still slightly energetic and happy with the new bomber build i do in tvp. I now have a nice macro build in each matchup. Number games today was 19. 5-2 ladder. Still rank 2 with 227 points. Todays goal was still the same: i feel like my macro has improved hugely compared to what it used to be on day 1, and i am much more aggressive than i was before. Satisfied and going to switch my focus on another thing tomorrow. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/I025i.png) | ||
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RelleK
United States20 Posts
Exercise: 2x 5k runs one in the begining of practice one at the end. Diet: Breakfast: nothing Lunch: grilled chicken wrap Dinner: spaggetti Mood: Start: Meh End: even more meh Crash count: 9 Goals: focus on macro Number of games: 1-5 (5 crash) practice games: Isolation Day: n Notes: After my series of crashes, I couldn't take it anymore. Closed down starcraft and studied replays all day. Especailly studdied socke's play from the mlg. Day 4: Exercise: Lifting weights/ situp/ pushup routine Diet: Breakfast: nothing Lunch: left over spaggetti Dinner: grilled pineapple and pork Mood: Start: Frustrated End: dissappointed Crash count: 2 Goals: focus on macro Number of games: 4-6 (2 crash) practice games: 3 hours in build order tester Isolation Day: y Notes: I'm starting to get really disheartened by my play. My wins are meaning less as I steam roll bad kids, while my losses are close bitter games that I either crash out of or lose because of one bad engagement. Either way, this challenge is starting to get to me and I loathe playing starcraft. Every fiber of me right now wants to quit. But yet I continue on. I know my mental state right now is affecting my play, but there isn't anything I can do about it, all I know I need to keep practicing. My biggest problem right now is I feel like I should be playing better than I am at the moment. My fingers are still playing at my normal APM (150-200) but things are either not getting done, or I'm watching myself make mistakes I know are bad. It's like watching myself play in third person in a way as my mind automatically does stuff I do not want it to do. Yet I feel its out of my hands and I'm only a spectator. | ||
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CallMeLukas
United States39 Posts
Exercise: - Mowing the lawn? not much to say for this today! Diet: - Lots of watermelon - Ham sandwich -Culvers fries - Chocolate Shake - Cheerios Goals: - Experiment with one base play/all-ins. - Fast max vs toss Games: - 10 ladder, went 4-6.  Wasnt too focused on one particular plan, ended up screwing around in a few games. - Something like 6 custom games. Lost a bunch to LucidDream haha Mood: - Not as tired as yesterday, but not as confident. The hours are taking their toll! I took long breaks today to hopefully relax and improve my mentality. I didn't feel like it worked. At the end of the day not much changed; dissatisfied. Notes: - Got around to playing customs with LucidDream (or L_Master on the forums). I prefer practicing in custom games, and encourage everyone to join us. No pressure from worrying about ladder points and whatnot, plus we can critique each other's play. | ||
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