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Mia Garlock
Oct 26, 20224 min read

50 Days of Valkyrie Squad

I can’t believe it. Fifty Days of Valkyrie Squad, fifty days of consistency, dedication, discipline, of putting myself first and prioritizing movement and strength. 50 freaking days! I’m so proud of myself, proud of my Valkyrie Sisters and how hard we have been working.


When I mentioned in Discord, that today marks 50 days of Valkyrie Training, several of us who all started at the same time chimed in with progress reports. We all are vastly improved in balance, strength, endurance, confidence, stamina. We’ve all lost some weight, our clothes fit differently, our husbands are obsessed with our improvements just as much as we are. Those of us who run or pursue other physical activities have noticed marked differences in our sports.


After a few Valkyries mentioned weight loss, I began to feel curious about my own. My scale has been hidden from me since I started training, because I’ll obsess unhealthily about those numbers, even though in my head I know they don’t mean what I’ve been taught they do. The body type I long for weighs more than I think it does, more than I’ve been taught to believe. So I dragged out my scale, and I calculated 3.5lbs for clothes. The last time I weighed myself was right before Squad launched in September, and I had lost 15lbs from Geek Gym, so I started Valkyrie Squad at 214.8lbs. Today, 50 days into training, I stand at 200.4lbs. I haven’t weighed in at less than 220lbs in six years. Cue the water works, my eyeballs are leaking some sort of fluid. I am in shock, and filled with insane pride and wild unleashed joy. I may have danced around my bathroom, hallway, living room, and kitchen.


I think about 2-3 months ago and the person I was. The shadow that I had become, so sad, and so lost, and so angry. I had abandoned myself and all my dreams and any hopes that I had for a better life, a better future for my family. I was so depressed, I didn’t recognize myself anymore. I didn’t see myself in the mirror anymore. Valkyrie Squad brought me back. When I see my reflection now, I know that face. I see myself, I see that spark in my eyes when I smile and I see all the hopes and dreams I thought I’d lost. I found me again, and that’s more valuable than any number I could put on my body. I see myself, and I like what I see, I like the feelings my reflection gives me these days. More than strength, Valkyrie Squad has given me myself back, and I’ll never stop being grateful.


So this morning, I woke up this morning so, so, impossibly sore from boxing drills yesterday, and I don’t know if the rain has lent a hand in that, but I was second guessing myself and if I wanted to do today’s Total Body workout or make it a mobility and yoga day. I slept in a few hours because it was raining when I got up at 5 and it wasn’t stopping, and it’s still raining now. But then I counted the days and realized that today is day 50, so I’m gonna put my whiny voice away and get to it.

I got my new headphones late last night, the Amazon driver being creative about where to stash the box so it wouldn’t get soaked, which meant I had to get soaked to find it. Worth it, as much as I miss my green headphones, the sound quality in these ones is way better.


Total Body Strength for 30 minutes today, and despite all my excitement over my progress and that today is 50 Days of Training, I was full of trepidation pushing play. I’m already so sore, and these Total Body workouts have consistently kicked my ass and left me sore in the extreme. I’ve also not done this particular Total Body workout before as we’re now in Blade, Day 3, so I’m feeling a bit like a wuss and am scared. If I go into the Blade channel on Discord and go back through, I can see other Valkyries and their comments on Day 3 and I’m getting the distinct impression that I’m going to be crawling off the mat.


And I was not wrong. I worked out inside today because of the rain outside, and I was gasping for breath during a few moves, swearing through those gasps for more than a few moves, and gritting my teeth to do just one more rep before we moved on to the next one. My arms are feeling very noodly and heavy about now, and typing is even a bit slow for me, simply because my arms protest any kind of function. My legs are still on fire, and I’m sitting down, explain that one.


I still have to walk Yrsa, in fact she’s yelling at me to get my ass in gear and get our walk going. I’ll have a lot to talk about on our Warrior Walk, I am kind of excited for that part at least. Standing is going to take me a minute or two though, I have to give my legs a pep talk first.

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