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75 Hard is a challenge of Mental fortitude created by Andy Frisella. For 75 days you have to agree to change the way you live. Every day you will have to grind through to accomplish the daily tasks which are: 1. Give up Alcohol. 2. Pick a diet and stick to it. If you cheat on your diet with anything you fail. 3. Take a daily progress photo 4. Read 10 pages of a non-fiction book, no audiobooks. 5. Work out twice a day for 45 mins each. One of those workouts must be outside. Anything less than 45 minutes and you fail. Go back to day 1. 6. Drink one gallon of water daily. I Filip Hajduk made myself the victim of this challenge. Starting February 1st 2021 I started 75 hard and this podcast is about my journey while trying to complete it. Who am I? I am just an average father, an average overweight person. Blessed with a wonderful 3.5-year-old son, a 6-month-old daughter, a business to run in real estate, there are a lot of challenges for me to complete these tasks on a daily basis, let alone for 75 straight days. I am 185 cm or 6'2 tall, 240lbs from January 1st. I am about 40 lbs overweight and I am tired of being that. In an attempt to take my health more seriously, I signed up for 75 hard and this is my Journey.
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Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Hi everyone,
Week 4 was one of my most successful weeks to date. I am generally no longer feeling sore, or super tired. The scale hit a low of 217 lbs! That's is right 217. That is the lowest weight I have been in the last 7-8 years of my life! Done 15lbs over the course of the first 28 days and I am downright excited!
The week in general was full of successes from many angles and a few interesting developments. I ran 3 full times, this time starting Monday morning with a run in the snow, seemly the last snowfall? Had a Wednesay evening run with my local running group, social distancing of coarse, which kicked my ass. Finally Sunday for no reason at all I shattered my best running speed ever.
While staying on top of my diet, I even had family join in on healthy eating, which is a first. In addition to some friendly help, my sleep was the best is has been. I had 4 days in a row of on average 8 hours of sleep. Backed up with solid rest, I am starting to feel great and ultimately powerful.
This week coming up, week 5, the David Goggins 4x4x48 Endurance challenge is coming up. It starts on March 5th at 8 pm where you have to run 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours, and I am beginning to get just crazy enough to consider testing out my new skills and try it!
Let me know how you guys felt once you crossed the 1/3 marker. For me, this is the best I have felt during the whole process!
Ps I am really feeling that intro soundtrack I found, so I left it playing at the end!
Enjoy the episode.
Filip
filiphajdkwinter@gmail.com
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Hi Friends,
The third week of 75 Hard has come and gone. I am feeling better, some people are calling me younger! I am looking a bit slimmer, all things are good in the world so far. This was a crazy weather week as it snowed a lot. So many days in the week I had to Workout at 6 am then play with the kiddos, then shower snow and finally get Oliver to daycare. Often I was in need of another shower by 930am. Here were my workouts during this week
Monday: Weights focused on legs and shoulders. Evening Walk
Tuesday: 6 am Weights focused on chest and Triceps. Evening Walk
Wednesday: 6 am Run, walk my son to school and walk to work!
Thursday: Weights focused on Back and Biceps, evening 8km run.
Friday: 6 am walk, shovelling snow and walking split.
Saturday: 830 am Skip rope and burpees, evening walk
Sunday: Walk and Abb Workout
Sunday was a tough day. My inlaws were over and made homemade pizza. I had to resist pizza right out of the oven. MY mistake was putting my food in the over after the pizza. I was really hungry and weak. This was the closest I got to caving and eating pizza aka something that would cause me to lose the challenge! I managed to hold on for a bit and devoured my Salmon, chickpeas, asparagus, sweet potato. Saved my ass to stay in the 75 Hard challenge! Phewf!
How did your week 3 go? Any crazy food temptations, or the elements complicating your week?
Filip
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Hi Everyone,
Week 2 had some noticeable changes, a little physical but a lot mental. There was a crazy moment altering day at the end of the week that I have not gone through in a long, long time! On the last day of the week, Sunday, Valentine's day, I was able to resist so soo much food and alcohol temptations, which kept my game ready for the best run of my life! I felt like I gained a new heart, avoid tons of sugary calories, instead, improving my cardio and endurance running at a new level.
The workouts of the week went like this
Monday: 6am Weights and 3pm Run
Tuesday: 6am Weights and walk
Wednesay 6am Weights and 9 am Show shovel, walk, pull my son to daycare split!
Thursday: 6am Skip rope and burpees
Friday: 6am Yoga and evening walk
Saturday: Basement Abbs routine, walk
Sunday: walk and evening Run
A few things to note.
1. I started to Look Younger
2. The Monday am workout and 3 pm run killed me. I almost went to sleep at 530pm. Might have to change that routine.
3. It snowed a LOT. A lot of extra shovelling in addition to these workouts.
4. Felt much better at the end of week 2 then on the end of week 1!
Enjoy and let me know how your second week went or is going!
Filip
filiphajdukwinter@gmail.com
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Hi Everyone,
I have started 75 Hard on Monday, February 1st (2021). It was definitely a tough week to get through. Completing the challenges were sometimes ok and sometimes difficult. However, at the end of the first week, my body was in A LOT of pain.
The week started out like normal with a few twists. Here was my routine,
Monday 6 am Weight lifting in my basement. 3 pm 45 min run.
Tuesday. 6 am Weightlifting. Evening walk
Wednesay 6 am Weightlifting. Evening Walk.
Thursday. 6 am Skiprob routine for 30 mins and the rest Burpees. Evening 45 min run. *** First real sense of accomplishment and personal sense of success. Was very hard!
Friday. Body felt dead but did Yoga in the AM and Walk in the evening.
Saturday. 6 am Run in -7C weather felt like -17C with the windshield. Drop off leftover Chinese food I was not allowed to eat on the run to normal people that were allowed!
Sunday 9 am Walk and Youtube pilates with my wife!
After Thursday my body was very sore for a few days, adding that four day of intense workouts did it. Everything hurt, the skip rob routine killed me. I faced my first challenge with food as my family bought Chinese food and I ate the diet version of it following my diet plan on Friday. I made a game out of dropping off the leftover Chinese food to my friends in the area all while running and conquering my fears of running or even exercising on a Saturday morning. It was pretty cold to boot, but anything is possible and I did it! At the end of the week my wife was feeling left out as I was going to sleep early and rarely hanging out in the evening for downtime, so I even got her involved in a tandem workout!
The first week was a success, I just hope these pains go away. Here we go again, week 2 ready to go! Man, 2 workouts a day, every day is going to take some time to get used to!
Enjoy! Let me know how your first week went in the comments if you want!
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Hello everyone,
My name is Filip Hajduk, a 35-Year-old overweight, yet proud dad. I live in the suburbs of Toronto Canada and I decided to try 75 Hard to spice up my life, complicate it even more during our pandemic times.
75 Hard is a program of mental fortitude created by Andy Frescilla that has really picked up in popularity as it has given many people a challenge that ultimately helps them lose weight, but more importantly learn to control their will power and build great habits for lifelong success. Here are the rules of the program.
For 75 days you must:
1) Abstain from Alcohol
2) Pick a diet and stick to it within reason. No cheat meals ever.
3) Work out 2x non consecutively for 45 mins per day, every day. One of those workouts must be outside no matter what.
4) Drink 1 Gallion of water daily
5) Take a daily progress picture of yourself
6) Read 10 pages of a non-fiction book.
You can see how this is going to be difficult, especially while I have 2 kids under 4! In this episode, I introduce who I am, why I started this program, what I hope to achieve and how I accidentally stumbled on it. Here we go!