Its time to

Level Up Your Life

in the
Nerd Fitness 6 Week Challenge!
Thats right everyone, this challenge were going back to the foundations of Nerd Fitness and
turning life into a real life role playing game.

Now, before you moan and groan, keep an open mind and remember that this is Nerd Fitness,
and were going to have fun with this.

If you havent already you should probably read this post, which is one of Steves greatest and
what this is based off of:
http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2010/05/10/real-life-role-playing-what-is-your-profession/

Table of Contents
Step One: Figuring out your starting point
Picking a Race and Class
Once you have picked a Class, please officially sign up for the challenge here:
Attribute points
Step Two: Deciding where you want to be
Set Goals
Assign Attribute Points To Goals
Step Three: Set up Your Challenge
Create your thread
Introduce yourself to your guild members
And figure out who your guild leaders are
Update Your Signature (if you want)
Individual Challenges
Guild Challenges
Help your Fellow Challengers Out
Step Five: Grading and Winners
Grading Yourself and Awarding Attribute Points
Picking Guild Winners
Picking Overall Winners
Prize
Challenge Checklist!
 Step One: Figuring out your starting point
The first thing everyone needs to do is pick a race and a class.

Picking a Class

Your Profession, or Class is important as this will determine what group you fit into
challenge-wise. We have seven classes to choose from (sorry - you cant make up your own.)

Class Focus Example

Warrior Strength Powerlifting, Olympic

Lifting, Strongman

Scout Endurance Running, Biking, Swimming

Ranger Mix of Strength and CrossFit, Multi-class

Endurance

Assassin Bodyweight or Acrobatics Parkour, rock climbing,

gymnastics, bodyweight
strength

Druid Yoga, Meditation Yoga, Tai Chi, Ballet

Monk Martial Arts MMA, Kung Fu, Tai Kwon

Do

Adventurer Everything - Learning Weight Loss, Beginning

Fitness (have not chosen a
class yet)

More info on each of the professions can be found here (I didnt want to take up the entire post):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Tsv4_dNRCUMdLuceVtXYP7uSM0SZDEAonoCQ26U
xKs/edit

If you want to, you can pick a race too - but it doesn't mean anything, it's more for fun (so like, I can say I'm a
Viking Warrior instead of just a Warrior :) )
Your race can be anything you want - its more for fun. A few ideas:
Human, Elf, Pixie, Troll, Ogre, Dwarf, Gnome, Orc.
Ok, so now that youve picked a race and a profession, we need to go over Attribute Points.

Attribute points
Attribute points are simply points that state out what your strengths (and therefore weaknesses
are)

In this challenge, we have six attributes:

Strength (STR) - physical strength
Dexterity (DEX) - agility and speed
Stamina (STA) - Endurance and Energy
Constitution (CON) - ability to resist damage and disease
Wisdom (WIS) - intuition and sense of things around himself
Charisma (CHA) - force of personality and physical attractiveness

You will start out with 15 points that you can distribute across the six attributes as you see fit. To
make this the most realistic though, please choose the points that reflect your current situation.

Step Two: Deciding where you want to be

This is where the challenge comes in!

Set Goals

Decide on three diet and fitness goals and one life goal that you will declare to be complete at the
end of the 6 weeks.

These goals should be measurable and realistic (well, really they should be SMART goals -
heres a bit on how to not suck at goal setting: http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/01/03/how-to-
not-suck-at-goal-setting/)

A few example goals would be:

*Run 5K without stopping
*Squat 250lbs
*Cut out soda completely
*Pay $1,000 towards debt

Can you have more than four goals? Yes. However, the more goals you have, the harder it will
be for you to be a rock star and complete all of them.

Assign Attribute Points To Goals

You will have the potential of obtaining 15 attribute points per challenge. These will be split up
between your goals.

You will decide on your own what attribute points to assign to each goal, based on the type of
goal and what is involved.

There is a bit of strategy involved here - you want to put the most points towards either:
the goal you know youll do better on, or
the goal you need the most work with and encouragement to complete

So using our goals from above, lets assign attribute points.

1) Run 5K without stopping

Since this is all endurance, we are going to assign 5 points to Stamina (STA)
2) Squat 250lbs, 5 times
If this was for 1 rep, I would assign all points to Strength. However, since its for
5, theres a bit of endurance involved, so Ill assign 3 to Strength (STR) and 2 to Stamina
(STA)
3) Cut out soda completely
Since this is a diet and health, Im going to put 3 points towards this and have
them all go towards Constitution (CON)
4) Pay $1000 towards debt
Im going to say this is a wisdom issue. Since Ive already used 13 points, Im
going to take the last 2 and place them here. 2 for Wisdom (WIS)

If at the end of the challenge, you achieve these goals, you can add the attribute points to your
character (more on this later)

Notes:
*No more than 5pts per goal
*Every goal must have attribute points associated with it
*You really decide what attribute points, but people may make suggestions
*This is where having less goals is better - less goals to spread out the points between. (Hey,
look, strategy! :) )

Step Three: Set up Your Challenge

Create your thread
Please create your thread in the Challenge Forum set up for your Class Guild. (If you are a
Warrior, theres a Warriors Guild Challenge area, for example)
In the thread, include:
Background information on yourself (as much as you want/dont want). This
should basically tell your characters story - where youre coming from, and where you
want to go.
Your starting attribute points, and any other starting info (like starting weight,
starting lifting numbers, etc)
A starting photo or video (only if you want, but I recommend you take them either
way, even if you keep them just for yourself)
Your goals and the attribute points associated with them
How you plan on achieving your goals

Once you have created your thread, please officially sign up for the
challenge here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?
formkey=dFRoQXVHb0w5VDZybGxuU1htYVVoOGc6MQ

This is simply a organizational thing that will make things a million times easier for us :)

Introduce yourself to your guild members

Theres a general chat thread in all guilds - go introduce yourself and help eachother set up your
goals, figure out whats going on, etc.

And figure out who your guild leaders are

Every guild has from 1-4 guild leaders. These guild leaders will be helping you throughout the
challenge, setting up mini challenges for your guilds, and helping pick winners in the end (so
theyll actually get picked! :) )

Your Guild Leaders are:

Warrior:
Bigm141414
Pat G
Corey D
Ranger
KnightWatch
Crooked
Nightlight
Assassin
Ryan Sannar
Nuke The Unicorns
Monk
 Spauracchio
Scout
Barefoot Dawsy
Josh_C
So Late So Soon
Druid
Spezzy (looking for a Yoga master to replace me!)
Adventurer
67Alecto
Matilda117
Chammy
JBarduhn

Update Your Signature (if you want)

Ive updated my signature to reflect my challenge and attribute points.

To update your signature, go to the gray bar in the header, click on "Forum Actions", then
"Edit Profile" and then on the left in the side bar you'll have the option to edit your signature

Spezzy
Viking Warrior - Squad (squad name)
STR: 5 DEX: 2 STA: 2 CON: 2 WIS: 2 CHA: 2
fun quote about how Im going to win the challenge
Current Challenge: Challenge Link

Step Four: Participate in Challenge

Individual Challenges
Over the next 6 weeks, update your challenge thread with whatever you want thats challenge
related. This could be workout logs, food logs, rants about challenges youre facing - anything!
Some people prefer to update daily, some weekly - it really doesnt matter.

The most important thing that I want to stress is that its more important to actually be working
towards your goals than it is to update your challenge thread.

Guild Challenges
Every week or so your guild leader will put out a challenge for everyone to participate in. For
each challenge you successfully participate in, you will get one extra attribute point to go
towards your final number.
Some guilds will be split into squads (if there is a larger number of participants) and other guilds
the entire guild will work together as one. Its up to the size of the guild and the guild leaders.

Help your Fellow Challengers Out

It is always encouraged to help your fellow challengers out by reading and commenting on their
threads! Even if its just a hey, great job! or a hey, better luck next time - knowing
someones reading along and cares really does make a difference.

Step Five: Grading and Winners

Grading Yourself and Awarding Attribute Points
At the end of the challenge, give yourself a grade on how you did achieving your goals. Then,
based on how you did, award points. Partial points are allowed.

A - 100% B - 75% C - 50% D - 25% F - 0%

So using our goal examples from above, lets grade ourselves.

Goal Attributes Grade Attributes

Assigned Awarded

Run 5k Stamina, 5 B (made it 4k) Stamina, 3.75

without points (5*.75)
stopping

Squat 250lbs Stamina, 2 C (Squatted 250 3 Stamina, 1pt

5 times Strength, 3 times) (2*.5)
Strength, 1.5pts
(3*.5)

Cut out soda Constitution, A Constitution, 3

3 (3*1)

Pay $1,000 Wisdom, 2 D (paid $250) Wisdom, .5

towards debt (2*.25)

For a total of 9.75 points

To help with the math, here is a chart:

 Picking Guild Winners
Guild leaders will pick a winner from each guild. They will choose based on the following
items:
Points awarded at the end of the challenge
Weekly challenge participation
General participation and helpfulness

Picking Overall Winners

After a winner from each guild is chosen, we will put up a vote and everyone on the forums can
vote to pick the winner of the challenge out of the winners from each of the guilds.

Prize
Guild Winners get stickers
Overall Winner gets a t-shirt or tank top

Challenge Checklist!
Set up your Character
Pick a race
Pick a Profession
Sign up in the sign up sheet here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?
formkey=dFRoQXVHb0w5VDZybGxuU1htYVVoOGc6MQ
Distribute your starting attribute points

Set up Your Challenge

Pick 3 Diet and Fitness goals and one life goal for the challenge.
Assign attribute points to each of the goals
Set up your challenge thread in your guilds section of the challenge
Introduce yourself to everyone

Participate in the Challenge

 Update your progress on a basis youre comfortable with (note: DOING is more
important than POSTING about it)
Participate in Guild Challenges
Participate in others challenges (offer advice, encouragement, etc)

Finish the Challenge
Grade yourself based on an A-B-C-D-F grading scale
Award points based on the grading system listed in the rules

F.A.Q.
Q: Will these points carry over from challenge to challenge?
A: If this works and we decide to continue, they will. That means that people with more
challenge experience will have more points to start out with. Starting points do not affect the
challenge at all - they are just a cumulation of points earned throughout challenges.

Q: I dont see any levels here. Where are the levels so that I can level up?
A: Were all starting at level 1. For now, every 6-week challenge participated in will be a level.

Q: OMFG....?
A: Its coming. No, this wont replace it. Again, this is just a test to make the challenge a bit
more fun :)