Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/30/14

One more day until the monthly check-in!

FFV – Part 34: Assault on the Barrier Tower

Summary: Gilgamesh’s forces attack the fleet, but we fight them off. We take a submarine to the tower that maintains Exdeath’s barrier, and split off from Xezat. We defeat Atomos atop the tower and destroy the barrier, but Xezat dies. I get unexpected Galuf feels.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/29/14

FFV – Part 33: Gathering the Magic

Summary: Somewhat uneventful session. Mostly wandering around Galuf’s world to meet interesting monsters, use them to zap Bartz in interesting ways, and learn their magic for my blue arsenal. The Gil Turtle repels us from its cave, and we meet up with Xezat.

Blizzard - Week 2: Setting Pace

This week, I started up in the two Blizzard games, World of Warcraft and Diablo III.  They are fundamentally different games, and immersive in fundamentally different ways.  I love them both.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/28/14

Exhausted.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/27/14

FFV – Part 32: Psychotic Communication

Summary: We move through Quelb to Bal. Krile directs us to fly for council to the sage Ghido. Just as we arrive on Ghido’s island, Exdeath summons an earthquake that destroys it. We move onto Surgate, home of the absent king Xezat.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/26/14

FFV – Part 31: Rock and Roll

Summary: The mountain of Drakenvale. I learn how strong this party is against the undead. We gain a new ally in a pun-slinging Golem, and we fight a giant plant monster that sadly does not sing. I learn a thing that should probably have been obvious about making Blue Mage work. I become unreasonably excited about the possibilities.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/25/14

FFV – Part 30: Where Wolves?

Summary: We enter the town of Quelb. All the residents are in hiding at first, suspicious of us, but when they emerge we see it is in fact a town of werewolves, one of whom was Galuf’s fellow Dawn Warrior. Another Dawn Warrior: Bartz’s dad. Some stuff around town and then pushing onto Drakenvale.
 

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/24/14

FFV – Part 29: Good King Galuf

Summary: Galuf’s Castle, “Bal.” And I do mean Galuf’s castle; he’s the king. It turns out that a wind drake can get around Exdeath’s barrier, but Krile’s is on death’s door. Our next quest: head to the deadly Drakenvale to get some.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/23/14

FFV – Part 28: A Multitude of Moogles

Summary: MOOOOOOGLES!! We find a moogle in the forest, follow it into a waterway, and we save it from an undead tyrannosaurus rex. Yeah. We then follow it to the forest moon of Endor… ahem, the forest home to the north, and meet up with Krile.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/22/14

FFV – Part 27: Shield Blocked

Summary: The shield dragon. The frigging shield dragon. I try and eventually give up, moving onto more pleasant things, like a chocobo forest.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/21/14

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/20/14

FFV – Part 26: The Pirate Dances

Summary: The party rests up and explores the town of Regole. We then move south to experience brutal and bloody death in the Sealed Castle of Kuza. The one upside? It wasn’t at the hands of a Trap Door.

Coldrun Enters the Blizzard

I'm starting a weekly segment of casually playing up a few games from one of my favorite companies: Blizzard.  Nothing major, just felt like rolling up some random characters fresh in Diablo III and World of Warcraft.  (You can also find me around in Hearthstone occasionally bouncing around.)

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/19/14

FFV – Part 25: Big Bridge

Summary: We escape from Castle Exdeath for one of the most wondrous sequences in the series: the Big Bridge. The combat wasn’t anything special, but two amazing things lift it up: the music and Gilgamesh. We meet up with Krile, but a force field from the castle knocks us away from her to the land of Gloceana.

FFV – Part 24: Over the Rainbow

Summary: Rough landing in Galuf’s world. The party gets quickly kidnapped by Exdeath and his buddy/henchman Gilgamesh (GILGAMESH!). Galuf and Krile hold off their assault on Exdeath’s castle, and Galuf flies in on a freaking wind drake to rescue the imprisoned party. Galuf scares the jailer, Gilgamesh, away, to break the three prisoners out.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/18/14

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/17/14

FFV – Part 23: Prepare for Launch

Summary: The party changes their mind, and attempts to cross into Galuf’s world. Cid and Mid (who ran and hid) help them get the meteorites calibrated. The portal opens, and the party jumps through.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/16/14

FFV – Part 22: Goodbye to You

Summary: Galuf’s awesome granddaughter, Krile, saves the day. Except not. Exdeath emerges, monologues us, and heads off to Galuf’s world. Galuf and Krile take the last meteorite out of Saigon, and the rest of the party stays behind.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Gryffindor (Daily Log, 9/16/14)

The little things.

FFV – Part 21: The Ronkan Ruins

Summary: We get Ramuh, then move through the labyrinthine Ronkan Ruins. “King Tycoon” at the top has us fight a dragon-beastie guarding the crystal.

FFV – Part 20: Battlestations!

Summary: Cid and Mid have us pick up some adamantite to get the ship ready to move on Gohn. We get some and fight off the ubiquitous Adamantoise, then attacks the defense systems of Gohn in our airship.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/14/14

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/13/14

FFV – Part 19: Memory Lane in Lix

Summary: Lix. Bartz’s hometown. We get a bunch of flashbacks to kid Bartz here, and say hello to Cid and Mid beneath Crescent. We then fly back to Gohn, which proceeds to turn into a spaceship or something and fly up high above us.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log, 9/12/14

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log: 9/11/14

FFV – Part 18: Yo-ho, Boko!

Summary: A bit of a world tour in the airship, to meet interesting people and grab useful loot. First stop is Castle Tycoon, a trip down memory lane for both Faris (nee Sarisa) and Lenna. Next is the Pirates’ Hideout, where we see that kwehin’ bird Boko again.

Nerd Fitness Academy - Daily Food and Quest Log: 9/10/14

Nerd Fitness Academy – Fitness for Beginners: Part 3 (final)

#4: Complete the Recruit Workout

This.  Felt.  AWESOME.  In a sore and tired kind of way.

So we’ve been over the warm-up and the cool-down.  The bread slices of the fitness sandwich.  The meat is the workout itself.  The initial workout is what NFA refers to as the “recruit workout.”  Ideally, it is the following:

-10 push-ups

-15 bodyweight squats

-10 inverted rows

-20 bodyweight lunges

-15 second planking

Repeat three times (three sets in a row total).

I did the warm-up, attempted the workout, and then did the cool-down.  Sing it, cockatiel!

I did one set of these, and had to do knee push-ups since I couldn’t do any regular push-ups.  I did the inverted rows with a 12 pound weight.  After one set, my body said “enough.”  Upper body felt okay, but the groin muscles and muscles around the thighs were the kind of sore that made me concerned about muscle pulls. 

This was a start.  Finished off with a full cool-down, including my goofy-ass attempts at “downward dog.” 

#5: Choose Your Workout Path

There are three different workout paths:

-Bodyweight Brigade

-Dumbbell Division

-Barbell Battalion

To be honest, I thought dumbbells and barbells were the same thing.  I now learn that dumbbells are the lone weights you lift, while barbells are weights that (duh) go on a bar.

I want to do the Bodyweight Brigade path.  NFA suggests this for newbies anyway, so all good!

#6: Schedule Workout Reminders

Eventually, three days per week is my goal, but won’t worry about that at the moment.  I want to build good habits, starting small, and so will actually start with two days per week.  Wednesday and Saturday will be my workout days.

I don’t have a wall calendar at the moment. Instead, I’m trying out my iphone’s calendar.  Hopefully it’ll give me a little “DING” reminder or something like that.  I set out reminders for the next four weeks.

My plan is actually to keep building up in the Recruit Workout for this next month.  After that eighth workout, I’ll re-evaluate where I’m at, and whether I’ll start on the Bodyweight Brigade, Level One.