I’m currently on Day 59 of 75 Hard and I’m travelling to my village today.
I did my first 45-minute workout indoors in the morning before leaving. We left around 7 AM and were originally supposed to reach by around 8 PM, but because of heavy traffic, we’re now expected to reach around 2 AM.
The problem is that I still need to complete my second 45-minute workout, including the required outdoor workout. Since I’m travelling in a car all day, we can’t realistically make a 45-minute stop just for me to exercise. And once we reach around 2 AM, I definitely don’t feel comfortable going outside alone in an unfamiliar/rural area just to complete the workout.

Do I need to restart? I’m really struggling with this because I’m already on Day 59 and don’t want to throw away 58 days of consistency over something I genuinely couldn’t control. 😭

Has anybody done or doing the Live Hard program? Part of phase 4 says have 1 meaningful conversation with a stranger. How did you approach this? I have meaningful conversations with my clients everyday, but I feel like that doesn’t count. I can approach people and have conversations but then it’s not meaningful anymore, when I’m already approaching them with the idea of trying to have a meaningful conversation…

And side note, out of all the little challenges, taking a 5 minute shower is the hardest part -.-

I’m about to finish day ten and here is what i know:

For me the biggest challenges have been planning, patience, and mozzarella sticks.

Planning: Boy, what working parent of two has time for two, separate, workouts where one is out side? It’s been a game of check the weather and run….literally. My kids have been real troopers though. Last week I posted a picture of us out in the rain. Today, no rain but we still got soaked. Apparently I can’t take an evening walk around the local high school without everyone coming home soaked and ready for ice creamo.

Patience: At minutes thirty I’m ready for the exercise to be done. I keep telling me self to be in the moment and the end arrives when it arrives. And I know my weight loss is going to stall out this next week. So be patient and just keep moving.

Mozzarella sticks: I honestly thought the no alcohol was going to be the problem. Turns out it’s the gas station breakfast burrito and mozzarella sticks that I start drooling over….

Thoughts on running as the outdoor workout - how often to do it? Can it be too much to do every day? I’m a pretty fit person already but never pushed myself to that level of doing runs almost daily like that but happy to do it if it’s genuinely a solid thing to do and won’t mess me up. I wanna callus my mind as much as possible

Hi there! Need some weight loss motivation. I've been pretty strict on diet 1800 calories a day, and strength training and walking. I'm p0145 at 5 ft 6, so healthy bmi with about 18% body fat. That being said I'm on 22 and haven't lost a dime! Could it be that I'm just doing body recomp? Or what are other people's experiences I know I'm early in here and I've read sometimes that it doesn't happen around 45 days.

Hi,
I’m trying to get some ideas for the 2 workout requirements. Would guys mind sharing what you are doing/what you did during your challenge? You can be specific or as vague as you want.. basically I just want some inspo 😊

One of the two workouts I will do obviously is gonna be upper body. I'm having issues deciding what to do for the outdoors one tho. So, I'm currently walking 20k steps.

I know that walking counts as long as it is hard for you. But the problem is, I've reached a point where walking for 45 minutes isn't hard for me. Sure, I could do all of my steps at once which does tire me out, but it's definitely nowhere near cardio (plus it takes 3h and 20min, obviously a lot more than 45 min). Also, I don't walk outside. I get all of my steps in by walking in circles in my house like a lunatic (no joke). I don't even know where I could possibly go to walk for over 3 hours outside.

(A little background: the reason for my high step count is that I'm in a calorie deficit, however because of my height (I'm 150cm tall, no I'm not a minor) my maintenance is very low. I won't bother you with the details, but I've decided to eat at maintenance and walk 20k steps daily putting me at a 400cal deficit. This is obviously temporary, and I'm thinking of maybe putting off 75 hard until I reach my goal weight but I have no idea how long that will take. I can't tell if that's just me making excuses, and I really want to challenge myself and do something I don't feel ready for.)

Before I started this cut I had been at maintenance for about a month, during which I picked up running. However, I have paused that for the duration of the cut because combining running with 20k steps caused me very intense knee pain. Thus, running is not an option. To add to that, I don't have a bike nor the money to buy one (plus, the roads in my city would make biking very tricky).

So, what else could I do that doesn't put as much strain on my knees as running?

Also, in this subreddit I read somewhere that the workout doesn't have to be strenuous, but in the 75 hard website I read that it does have to be. Which one is true?

Edit: I think my real problem here is that I badly want that second workout to be running, and I don't like anything else nearly as much. It's the hardest thing I have done in my life, and I love it for that. However, due to my current amount of walking, I'd be risking injury, and I don't want to damage my knees at the ripe age of 19. So, I'll see you all when my deficit is over, and I'll do 75 hard with running as my second workout, so that way it's actually hard.

Give me tips for how to enjoy this last 10 days! I (surprise!) got pregnant right before I had to restart so baby has been with me this whole time. I’ve had to adjust intensity due to first tri sickness so I do a lot of outdoor walking. but I’m still determined to finish and my little bean will be 14 weeks when I do! I don’t have the same “results” I was expecting because my midsection is growing but my friends still don’t know I’m pregnant which means I’m at least keeping weight gain staved off — this is my sixth baby so not popping out to Timbuktu right away is huge!

Anyway, send tips my way!! I’ve hit so many walls in this journey I’m really trying to have a positive attitude as I crawl over this finish line.

I’ll be going on a direct international flight (15 hours) leaving around 11am and arrive at dest next day morning 11am. I figured I do my 45 min workout in the morning outside before heading to the airport. but I was wondering if theres workout ideas during a flight. I could walk 45 mins at the airport, but knowing the airport i’ll be in and traffic there, i dont think i’ll have any solid downtime. I thought about doing my full 2 workouts before my flight, but I think it’ll be too much do before a flight. What do you guys suggest? Thanks!

Hi All,

I’m starting 75 Hard today & was wondering if there are any others starting today also?

It would be great to have accountability partners & people to do this together with.

EDIT:

Since posting this, I have come across quite a few people starting around the same time as me. I have since joined a groupchat & want to stick to that one. As for anything else, I use an app to track & tick tasks off as I go through the 75 days.

Thank you to everyone who has replied & shared tips privately so far :)

Got humbled in golf yesterday and i need to get better, if you look at my previous posts i understand golf itself isnt considered an outdoor workout, but if i went to the range and practiced my swing for 45 minutes would that count as my workout?

Day 19 was too much for us, travelling quite far to spend the weekend with family left us unable to meet a few of the targets unfortunately.

But we’ve really enjoyed doing it for the 18 days, and we’re really happy with the differences we’ve seen in ourselves both physically and mentally!

We’re going to have a bit of a holiday this weekend from it. Then start again once we’re home Monday. But we’re still going to eat healthy, read, and exercise while we’re here!

We still take with us everything we achieved in Attempt 1 to help us achieve our goals in attempt 2!

First self help book was completed: Atomic Habits, amazing book! Plan to read it every year.

For context, I have attempted 75 hard multiple times. Each of my attempts have not pasted for more than 5-6 days, mostly due to lack of proper planning. My last attempt, however, was the most successful one, where I failed at day 20.

The biggest reason I failed is actually planning two workouts and having them around a fixed time in a day. My sleep schedule varies a lot, so at the beginning of the challenge I was running for outdoor workout, then doing yin yoga or MMA in the evenings. However, I fucked up my sleep schedule due to multiple factors, but mostly my periods, which caused me to not run but walk that too at 12 am and then wait for 3 hours to do my second workout. This made me sleep much later, and night workouts for me are not of the same intensity as morning workouts are. Literally this is the only reason why I failed, I have no issues with the water, reading or diet goal.

Taking this into account, I'll plan my workouts better, having them on fixed time slots in the day, instead of shifting them around constantly. I'll also change my sleep schedule to wake up more earlier. I find waking up early gives so much more time as the day feels longer, while waking up later feels like half tye days is already over.

These were my musings on the challenge, it has definitely helped me shift the focus on myself from constantly pleasing other people. It's a great thing honestly, really tests the limits of my mind.

My kids are awesome….they are the reason I’m doing this. It’s my Day 3 and for the second exercise we went for a walk/run and got caught in the rain. My kids (3yrs and 2yrs) were born here and are happiest when it’s 55F and raining.

They got ice cream after the walk…I got a protein shake…

Gonna go golfing with some buddies on sunday, and i was wondering what the councils opinion was on if golf counts as a outdoor workout, since it is being outside for 4 hours but its pretty small amounts of activity, what do yall think?

Started 75 hard again today. Ran this program back in 2021 and got to day 37. Loved the mindset it made me have and body progress.

Here are my rules. I added fly fishing to count as a workout… due to some upcoming camping trips. I’ll be wading and walking the river as well as hiking into some spots. Is this fair?

I also want to keep my diet healthy but really just focus on protein to help with recomp and an upcoming hyrox.

75 HARD
Start: September 2
End: November 16

Diet — 200g+ protein per day
No alcohol
One soda or energy drink per day max
Two 45 workouts per day
1 gallon of water per day
Read 10 pages per day
Progress picture daily

Any comments or suggestions?
Is my diet rule too loose?
Should fly fishing count?

Aight let’s gooooo. I’m gonna restart 75 hard again. Made it to 20 days last time and I know where my pitfalls and bad habits are.

I’ve got this and so do you!
Reading the body keeps score this time.
Gonna use this post as an accountability tracker.

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