Rejoice, for 60 DoD 2019 is finally here! I know you're as excited as I am, for this is going to be a content-packed 60 days, with many of you committed to write posts for our focus areas.

Before all that kicks off this weekend, let's go over the basics of this challenge again.

The idea of 60 DoD is to improve your life-process. What do I mean by that? Mostly, it's about habits - if get into a habit of lifting regularly, eating right, tending to your hygiene, dressing well, gaming your wife, tending to your finances, advancing your career, and enjoying your social life, you will not only see gainz in those areas, but you'll sustain those gainz. Many challenges will say something like "do 1,000,000 pushups by next Tuesday!" That's well and good, but what about after next Tuesday? Does it become 1,000,000 pushups every week? Do I only need to do 100,000 per week once the challenge is over? Instead, here we focus on changing your process for the long run.

So the content each week will give you new ideas about what the possible range of process might be for you. Your lifting goal might become, something like:

  • Lift M-F every week, with weekends off
  • Lift at 7pm each night, without fail
  • Do SL 5x5 until plateau, approximately 6 months from now
  • Switch to Arnold's Blueprint for 3 months
  • Create custom plan with some crowdsourced ideas from internet and gym bros after that
  • Revisit gainz and program every 3 months

Notice how the first two items are the most important from a process perspective. They are the "what" of it, while the other items are the "how". A wardrobe goal might be an initial purge of worn-out ill-fitting articles, followed by refresh every time the seasons change. Hygiene could be to start wearing cologne and pledge to change it out every 4 months. You get the idea. Notice how in these examples it's not "join the 1000 lb club" or "get 17 polo shirts," but rather a sustainable approach to staying awesome.

This thread is for your public declarations of intention in the 8 areas. You should have enough self-awareness to know what you need to be better at. Not everything has to be drastic change, as even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but we all have room for improvement.

This year, for those of you who declare in this thread and report on success at the end, I will be granting special flair to show your accomplishment. I will enlist some fellow mods to determine who we think is worthy based on your honest self-assessment, realism in goal-setting, and actual accomplishment in changing your life process.

So with that all said, let's get to it. There will be a couple of "Week 0" posts hitting between now and Sunday, which will help frame our philosophical approach to 60 DoD, (hopefully) helping you to answering the question, "Why even bother?"

Gentlemen, this is 60 DoD. Begin.

Edit: Just a reminder, this will end on 05/24/2019.