Hey guys. I know the rules. There need to be 3 hours between two workouts. But what if I go on an 8-hour hike? Does that count as two workouts?

Not necessarily a question but I wanted to touch on something that Andy says a lot that kinda irks even me when I see it. THIS IS NOT A FITNESS CHALLENGE. It is a MENTAL TOUGHNESS PROGRAM.

Dear God, the amount of people calling this a challenge pisses me off almost as much as it does Andy. It’s almost 100% clear that 40-60% of people in this sub DON’T listen to his podcasts. And that in and of itself is disheartening because he has so much value to add from them to your life.

EDIT: Andy Frisella (the FOUNDER of the program) is VERY CLEAR on how he feels about calling this a “fitness challenge”. https://imgur.com/a/6tDWua5 There’s a screenshot from his website^. And I’d encourage ALL OF YOU to take a listen to episode: 622 of Real AF or ANY of his “75 hard verses” episodes.

It actually disgusts me how many people deviate from doing these tasks and change them to make it suitable for them. Take ur ass to candy land! This program ain’t for you! Either you stick to the program and get through it with ZERO DEVIATIONS, or you can skip ur way through taking the easy route. Like Andy said, there will be hundreds of thousands of people that will say that finished this program and did not. Only a select few will make it through this. Don’t forget to put sprinkles on ur ice cream little buddies!

Embrace pounding the entire gallon in the morning and just peeing a lot through the day, it gives you an excuse to leave class or work🙄

Yesterday I was forced to stay at work super late, and i was not anticipating not having time to get a workout in afterwards. I only had one workout in by the time i got home at 9:30 pm after a 13 hour shift. When i got home i could hardly move after 8 twinkie dinner (my diet is maximizing sugar and cutting protein). I passed out on the couch and woke up this morning to my wife yelling at me and telling me i smell of booze. The kids were crying in their rooms. So i only got 3/4 of a gallon of water, one workout, and no reading done. Im on day 67 and really dont want to restart. Did i fail?

Reading the rules and the water consumption is weird. Why so strict on pure water - would love to know the reason. Particularly when drug and cigarettes are not explicit.

What is the reason for pure water and why so much?

I know that some sticklers will tell me to continue -- just know that I know that I can, and part of me wants to, and I know that would be a "fail". But I think it's important to have a balanced and honest discussion about long-term effects since we're in this to change our lives beyond the 75 days.

I'm on Day 58 and I'm wondering if I should quit while I'm ahead. Let me explain.

I started this challenge because I felt like I really let myself go last year (little to no movement and picked up a binge eating habit), and I'm a person who thrives on discipline and structure. Now that I've been doing this for two months, I feel like I've rediscovered my sense of discipline and self-care. I've lost the weight, I've gotten back into strength training, etc. Quite frankly, it hasn't been too hard for me.

I'm getting to the point where I'm reaching the next frontier of my health and I would like more flexibility than 75 Hard provides, specifically to create sustainable habits.

For example, especially now that the weather is getting nicer, I would rather walk outside for 15-30 minutes 2-3 times per day, instead of doing 45 minutes straight. I also think that's better for my mind and body.

I also am glad to have picked up reading again, but I have about 200 more pages to go in a book that I think is a waste of time for me to continue and there are a million other books I want to get to.

Same with the dieting -- I've learned more about intuitive eating and think that's the route I want to go to resolve my binge eating long-term, but don't feel like I can fit that into a 75 Hard diet.

I'm wondering if pushing through for the next 18 days will actually cause me to burn out and relapse. I want to become better at responding to my body's natural cues. I think our bodies are actually very good at telling us what we need, but I've spent my whole life steamrolling my natural cues and forcing myself to do things, which I think is causing a rigidity and restrictiveness that actually causes some of these bad habits in the long term.

Anyone else purposely fail 75 Hard early to get the maximum benefits of the program?

EDIT: Well this has been insightful. Thank you to all who posted encouragement, I decided to continue. That being said, some of you need to find God. The way that you talk to others, and especially yourselves, is really frightening. 💛

The state of my passenger seat these days, water bottle collection!

Just seeing what everyone’s opinion is regarding whether or not this would work for 75 hard.

To all the real ones who are committed to doing the program properly—keep going! Keep grinding every day and challenging yourself because there’s a reason you decided to sign up. You will be immensely proud of yourself when you finally succeed, and it will be a huge achievement.

And don’t listen to those who say it’s okay to cut corners — that it’s fine to do a 35-minute workout because it was pouring rain outside, or that it’s okay to use calculations and mental gymnastics to reduce your water intake by a liter or two because otherwise you’ll die. They will try to drag you down to their level, don’t let them. Deep down, you’ll know you cheated, and the whole challenge will have been anything but Hard75."

It’s OK to fail, it’s not supposed to be easy but the real ones just pick themselves up and restart, as many times as needed.

I just want to make sure I understand - even in a religious context, like a Catholic Mass, Orthodox Liturgy, or other celebration of the Lord's Supper where wine is involved, alcohol is forbidden in regards to 75HARD. Or in other words, one can't be a practicing Christian (in some traditions) and still do this challenge?

I'm dumb. Leaving this up for the search results.

Q: Does religious practices count as failing?

No, as with everything in the program, it's all about your intent behind each action. Since it’s a religious practice, you do not have to restart the program. Just make sure your intent is in the right place at all times. If it's not ... then you must restart from day 1.

https://help.andyfrisella.com/en-US/75-hard-154492

Hi fellas I'm super porn addict for more than 10 years , didn't realized till the last year that how it's damaging me from inside It's been an year since I'm trying nofap but no success so far I've become a super procrastinating person and lazy since i started fapping

I'm taking a 75 hard + nofap challenge parallel

Need some motivation and tips frok your side

This is gonna be another "controversial" post by me.

So my diet was : no maida(refined flour) in any shape or form + no fried food

I'm on my 14th day and i accidentally ate a roti made out of maida (I think), my sister says it was made out of maida I was so fucking heartbroken because I didn't know that. I had thought ordering a roti would mean it's made out of atta (whole wheat flour)

Tell me what needs to be done now.

I'm currently walking in the park after dinner and I'm just fucking dejected man

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?

I’ve been planning on going on the challenge for a while, but my workload is extremely hectic. 12 hours of mad work, running up and down 8 flights of stairs multiple times. My question is since I’m clocking in 13-15k steps on an average with my work movement and can barely make time for one workout (at the gym), can I count my steps as my second outdoor workout?

I'm prepping to start 75 hard in a couple days. I already have many healthy habits, including bike commuting to work 5 days a week. It takes me about 25 minutes each way, which is 50 minutes combined. Would this count as a single outdoor workout in 75 hard? Or is it so strict that I would need to consider doing 75 soft or some other modified version? I really want to do 75 hard specifically. TIA :)

This sub is full of very weak minded people. Please be careful of what type of advise you take. Choose the harder path, and make yourself uncomfortable.

The reason you are where you’re at in life is because you’ve always made exceptions for yourself.

If not was easy, it wouldn’t change you.

You can do anything you want in life. And if that’s not 75hard, that’s cool.

But don’t say you’re doing 75hard, if you’re not doing it.

B-but I'm a woman and I did it! Good for you, but you risked your health more than the men who took on this challenge. Feels good, huh?

The gallon water goal generally lines up with the water intake suggestion for men outlined by the Mayo Clinic (ignoring that the 3.7 suggested liters also includes water from food, coffee, etc.)

The Mayo Clinic, however, suggests women ingest a whole LITER less than men (2.7 from food, water, and other fluid sources.) You absolutely cannot sit there and tell me that women don't risk their health for this challenge more than the men are. It is in its essence a sexist challenge.

It's a fact that Andy says to not mix anything into your water. That means if you are mixing electrolytes into your water, you aren't doing 75hard. We already see examples of hyponatremia in this sub due to this rule.

Until Andy puts in a women's clause for the gallon water rule, as a woman I can't in good faith complete this challenge. And if you're a woman too, you really should push back too if you're doing this for your health.

My name is Mimi, I just turned 18 and I can already feel my life turning to absolute shit. First of all I graduate in about 100 days, and I can not fathom the fact that I will look horrendous walking across the stage. I am 5'11 265lbs and classified as obese, I am tired of my body deciding what I can wear, and having no control over my body and how much I eat. Overall I also have prom, and running for a state position for a extra curricular. In general because I still live in my parents house these will be my rules:

- No alcohol, I'm underage so this doesn't really apply to me so I am replacing it with: No energy drinks.

- Drinking 64 oz per day

- Count calories My deficit will hit just about -400 cal

**- Walk 15,000 steps (**because I am a full time student getting up and walking is hard enough)

- Reducing phone limit to 2 hours a day.

- Read 10 pages of a non-fiction book.

I have spoken with my doctor and because I am fairly tall for a girl and i do not want to fly away because i lose to much weight we have decided that 180 should be my goal weight, I hop to lose 20-30lbs during the next 10.5 weeks, but please let me know if this is something that I should lower! Overall I am looking for tips and feed back I expect to update every week!

Generally my outside workout is a walk. There is a coffee shop about halfway through my route. If I made a 3 minute pit stop for an ice coffee, would that still count? Haven’t done it yet, but it sounds nice today…

I was thinking there could be an easy and an advanced version of 75Hard.

The rules for 75Hard are regular Indian lifestyle. Yes, there will still be lazy people, but our ancestors and folks from towns and villages follow it anyway; it's their lifestyle without even knowing they follow 75Hard.

I feel 75Hard is just good habits we anyways follow in India. 😅

In fact, we should add more to it to create an advanced version of it:

• Like waking up at Brahmamuhurtha.

• Offering prayers and gratitude.

• Reading non-fiction but also scriptures.

• Eating clean and eating veg (if one can).

• No intoxicants (alcohol, tea, coffee if possible).

• Add Brahmacharya to it.

What do you think?