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WEEK FOUR: LET'S RACE DOWN UNDER!
CHALLENGE #1: JUMPING ROPE (10 points)
AT LEAST THREE TIMES, 10 MINUTES EACH (30 MINUTES)!
Due to my bulging disks, I'm using a modification from the video - knee lifts w/arms at 90°, using one pound weights.
10/30 minutes
CHALLENGE #2: ARMS (10 points)
TOTAL ARM EXERCISE (11:55 minutes) WITH WEIGHTS
Completed x
AMAZING ARMS QUICK BURN WORKOUT (7:51 minutes): WITHOUT WEIGHTS
Completed M, 11/7/16
THEN CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE & REPEAT (as a 3rd video)
Completed x
CHALLENGE #3: “The Beauty of Color!” (5 points)
EAT TWO DIFFERENT COLORS PER DAY FOR FIVE DAYS.
YOU MUST USE AT LEAST FIVE COLORS (RED, ORANGE, YELLOW-ORANGE, GREEN, GREEN-WHITE, WHITE-GREEN, BLUE, RED-PURPLE, BROWN)!
M: white-green, onion & Romaine Lettuce & pickle + yellow-orange, an orange + red, tomato + brown, wheat sub roll
Minutes/Miles
7 Nov. 228 minutes (173 minutes walking + 7 minutes AMAZING ARMS QUICK BURN WORKOUT + 10 minutes 30 Day Abs + Legs + Glutes Challenge + 27 minutes day 2, level 2 30 Day Shred + 10 minutes jumping rope w/modification + 110 second plank)
BTW, I've seen Finding Nemo, own the DVD, love it & watch it to this day!
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I'm impressed with all of you who already knocked out the jump rope challenge! The high impact of regular jump rope will be too hard on my joints, so I'm going with modifications. I did the first 10 minutes in the pool after aquasize today and plan to do another 10 tomorrow. Jumping rope movements with the water resistance was actually quite a good workout! I may do some of the remainder with the high knees and arm circles shown on the video. (Basically jump rope movements without the rope.)
The colors for food shouldn't be a problem for me as I normally eat a highly plant-based diet.
Monday -
zucchini, arugula, peppers, kale, cabbage, brussels sprouts (green)
mushrooms, banana, rice (white)
beans (brown)
tomato (red)
radicchio, cranberries (red-purple)
I also ate a corn tortilla (yellow), some cod fish (white) and some turkey (white-ish). It's easier to categorize the fruits and veggies than grains and proteins.4 -
Monday: 297 minutes4
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Yes, I've decided that jumping rope pretty much sucks, and I've had to modify mine too because jumping is not kind to my back or my knees. And I'm super uncoordinated. I might end up going with some of the alternative exercises instead if it is too bad (probably the high knees one too, and maybe something else). Trying to gut it out on the jump rope though...I'd like to get better at it, but I'm emulating more of the second video (what not to do) than the first. Of course, I only have a length of rope, not a real jump rope with handles, so that could be some of my issue.
The arm videos were also killer on my shoulders - especially the second one (and I typically do my arms and leg strength training on MWF, so two days in a row for arms isn't great). I need to do one of the videos again (probably the first one), since I looked at the alternative, and a lot of those moves were bad for me too. I did some Radio Taiso to stretch my arms and shoulders after those videos (Thank goodness for last week's challenges!!). Will have to wait to do the extra video until tomorrow, even though I wanted to knock out the challenge today. But at least I'm 2/3 done!!
This is a rough challenge week, IMO, and I was all excited about Australia, but I have to say the challenges aren't very user friendly for me this time. The alternatives only aggravate other parts of my body, so they aren't really that helpful. The food thing is so freaking confusing without a single designated chart to use. The latest link she posted has dairy on the chart/write up, but when she answered my question in the Q&A thread, she said the challenge was only for fruits, vegetables and grains/legumes...so now I have to wonder, which is it?! *Continuing to bang my head on my desk* I'm sure I'm over-thinking it...I could overthink a plate of beans...but IMO just set a standard and have us all adhere to it, don't give us 5 different options for trying to figure out the color stuff and have us hope that we got it right. I mean, I'm not really going to have an issue meeting the goal even if it is most restrictive to fruits and veggies and grains, but it bothers me when things are so wishy washy/confusing.
But we are the Fab Five, and this too shall pass, and I will still get them all done!! Thanks for allowing a little bit of ranting. Hugs all around. High Fives too!
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@b3achy - Yes, it can be confusing and some challenges can be difficult, but it very difficult for the race leaders to make everyone happy each week. I will say that from my experience in the last race, they want this to be fun and motivating and at the same time challenging.
Don't overthink it, for the food challenge, the goal is to be eating healthier foods, which in most cases are fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. The color chart kind of forces us to not just eat apples and corn for 5 days and call it good, but instead to maybe try new foods or get us out of our normal behavior/comfort zone and try something else. I think I also saw Dark Chocolate and Wine on one of the lists as well, but I don't feel those are in the "spirit" of the challenge.
On the physical challenges, if the alternative options also are an issue, then send @hawkins410 a PM and offer up another doable exercise/workout. They want everyone to succeed in this, but we still need to work for it.4 -
Week 4: Let's Race Down Unda
Challenge 1: Jump rope or Hopscotch 30 minutes
Challenge 2: Total Arm Workout, Quick Burn Arms, repeat favorite
Challenge 3: 2 colors per day x 5 days- 5 different colors
Day 1: Brown (Pinto Beans), Green (Cilantro), White (White Corn Tortillas), Yellow (Lemonade)
Total colors used: 4
After reading the Q&A thread on this challenge, I'm more confused than ever. White, tan, brown, white-green, green-white, no yellow? Bananas are white, not yellow, but not in the original picture? I guess I'll just post what I think I eat and you can all correct me if you don't agree and I'll try to make up anything that is missing Saturday/Sunday after I post for verification.
Minutes:
Monday - 45 minutes
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How do you log being glued to the tv full of red wine & brie?!?!4
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MiamiSeoul wrote: »How do you log being glued to the tv full of red wine & brie?!?!
I would log it as exercise minutes since your heartbeat probably goes quite high watching this drama
Though the Wine & Brie will probably even it out...
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For the challenges:
#1: jump rope:
5/30 min done - but I would like to switch to the alternative since I really get a headache from all this jumping (it feels like my brain is thrown around hard in my head.. no fun... ) You think that's acceptable for me to switch?
#2: total arm challenge:
1/3 done
#3 eat the rainbow:
3/5 days
Mon:
Red-purple: strawberries
brown: oats, flaxseed, chia
Tue:
Red-purple: strawberries
brown: oats, flaxseed, chia
Wed:
Red: Tomatoes
Green: cucumber
Red-purple: strawberries
Brown: oats, flaxseed, chia
#4 Personal challenge week 4:
2/7 - 90mins workout daily
So offtopic now:
I'm curious: What do you think will be outcome for today's election? Who is your favorite?
I really think Trump is an a** - and definitely wouldn't vote for him. But in all honesty - even though she would be the first female president of the USA I don't like Hillary Clinton as well.. Don't know but I feel that she's the typical rich, white woman that is to far from the "normal" world to begin with... Honestly she reminds me of Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls..
If you think it's to political - feel free to ignore 3 -
KatKat1209 wrote: »For the challenges:
#1: jump rope:
5/30 min done - but I would like to switch to the alternative since I really get a headache from all this jumping (it feels like my brain is thrown around hard in my head.. no fun... ) You think that's acceptable for me to switch?
#2: total arm challenge:
1/3 done
#3 eat the rainbow:
3/5 days
Mon:
Red-purple: strawberries
brown: oats, flaxseed, chia
Tue:
Red-purple: strawberries
brown: oats, flaxseed, chia
Wed:
Red: Tomatoes
Green: cucumber
Red-purple: strawberries
Brown: oats, flaxseed, chia
#4 Personal challenge week 4:
2/7 - 90mins workout daily
So offtopic now:
I'm curious: What do you think will be outcome for today's election? Who is your favorite?
I really think Trump is an a** - and definitely wouldn't vote for him. But in all honesty - even though she would be the first female president of the USA I don't like Hillary Clinton as well.. Don't know but I feel that she's the typical rich, white woman that is to far from the "normal" world to begin with... Honestly she reminds me of Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls..
If you think it's to political - feel free to ignore
Hot topic - maybe a little too hot for this group. You make an interesting point; however, you fault Hillary for being wealthy but don't lump Donald in that category? He claims to be a billionaire, although we'll never know since we never saw his tax returns.
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I'm laughing about the color challenge right now - just at me - not about the confusion others are experiencing. My husband does all the cooking. I didn't even tell him about this color challenge because he always cooks a wide variety of food (all from scratch - he's amazing). So tonight I look down at my plate and what do I see - cauliflower, sautéed mushrooms, baked potato. ALL WHITE. Unbelievable. I had a yellow apple for a snack today so voila - yellow!!!!
My calves have been screaming at me all day from all the jump rope yesterday. Glad I powered through it and finished though.
The arm workout is AMAZING. I have weak upper body strength so I very much appreciate that challenge.
@MiamiSeoul your comment about red wine cracked me up. Must admit - I wondered the same thing!5 -
MiamiSeoul wrote: »Hot topic - maybe a little too hot for this group. You make an interesting point; however, you fault Hillary for being wealthy but don't lump Donald in that category? He claims to be a billionaire, although we'll never know since we never saw his tax returns.
Sigh.. I guessed so...
Though I'm not exactly blaming Hillary Clinton for being rich (and I'm blaming Donald Trump for a lot more not just being rich). I don't think that being rich is bad - just saying that the picture I have of her just seems so far off from being down to earth and understanding for the problems of the majority. But that's simply my personal impression.
If I were from the US I wouldn't be happily voting for her (but I would!)
Maybe that's because I like the current President and First Lady too much - they are fabulous (not perfect - nobody is) and how they rock their last weeks of Presidency.. just awesome 2 -
biketheworld wrote: »I'm laughing about the color challenge right now - just at me - not about the confusion others are experiencing. My husband does all the cooking. I didn't even tell him about this color challenge because he always cooks a wide variety of food (all from scratch - he's amazing). So tonight I look down at my plate and what do I see - cauliflower, sautéed mushrooms, baked potato. ALL WHITE. Unbelievable. I had a yellow apple for a snack today so voila - yellow!!!!
My calves have been screaming at me all day from all the jump rope yesterday. Glad I powered through it and finished though.
The arm workout is AMAZING. I have weak upper body strength so I very much appreciate that challenge.
@MiamiSeoul your comment about red wine cracked me up. Must admit - I wondered the same thing!
Haha.. well luckily you had the apple before - maybe tell your husband about this part of challenge for tomorrow not that you're only eating green tomorrow.. 1 -
Rainbow food list:
Monday- green lettuce
red- radishes, raspberries
orange- orange, yellow peppers, carrots
purple- cabbage
white- bananas
Tuesday-green celery, cucumbers( skin on)
brown- whole grain
red- promegranate, raspberries
white- onions
No jump rope yet!
Arm challenge- started but not complete
Minutes- Monday-110 minutes
Tuesday- 89 minutes
* Still not feeling up to a 100%.
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Tuesday colors: red apple, orange carrots, green beans and green peas, yellow corn, and orange orange (haha).4
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Tuesday: 246 minutes2
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Great job everyone! Keep it up... We need to stay unified as a team in this endeavor, so I think we should leave politics out of the conversation. Kat, I appreciate your insight on the view from outside the US, but our country is so divided right now and I've already seen hurtful things said on FB that I don't think it will help if we begin that discussion on here.4
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Sorry team, but I am unlikely to get the 20 points from the exercise challenges. I had planned to do them today, but after a night of little to no sleep thanks to a vicious stomach bug, I have spent most of the day in bed recovering. I'm still a bit tender but much better. I leave for holiday tomorrow and there is very little chance I will get to those things while I am away. The food one is no problem.0
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CaptainBoing wrote: »Sorry team, but I am unlikely to get the 20 points from the exercise challenges. I had planned to do them today, but after a night of little to no sleep thanks to a vicious stomach bug, I have spent most of the day in bed recovering. I'm still a bit tender but much better. I leave for holiday tomorrow and there is very little chance I will get to those things while I am away. The food one is no problem.
Sorry to hear you weren't feeling well. Glad to hear you are feeling better, and hope you continue to feel 'more' better soon! Thanks for letting us know (and I'd recommend going ahead and entering zeroes rather than leaving them blank into the spreadsheet so we remember - you can always change it later until the spreadsheet closes), and now we can plan appropriately.1 -
@b3achy - Yes, it can be confusing and some challenges can be difficult, but it very difficult for the race leaders to make everyone happy each week. I will say that from my experience in the last race, they want this to be fun and motivating and at the same time challenging.
Don't overthink it, for the food challenge, the goal is to be eating healthier foods, which in most cases are fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. The color chart kind of forces us to not just eat apples and corn for 5 days and call it good, but instead to maybe try new foods or get us out of our normal behavior/comfort zone and try something else. I think I also saw Dark Chocolate and Wine on one of the lists as well, but I don't feel those are in the "spirit" of the challenge.
On the physical challenges, if the alternative options also are an issue, then send @hawkins410 a PM and offer up another doable exercise/workout. They want everyone to succeed in this, but we still need to work for it.
No worries, Rus...just needed to vent a bit. I know it's got to be super tough to put these things together.
I can suck up the physical stuff...I'll do the best I can, and that is all I can do...the videos were the worst physically for me due to a rotator cuff issue. Half of my gym workouts are arms, so I'm sure she would have probably taken that in lieu of the videos, but since I was already through them once, I wasn't going to bother hawkins about it, I'll just suck it up and do the first one again instead of the second one.
And what you saw with the wine, dark chocolate, yogurt and cheese being on a list she later promoted is what caused me to be a bit more frustrated after she said it was supposed to be only fruits, veggies and grains/legumes in response to my question. I think sometimes a little more explanation of the purpose of the challenge in the original write up rather than complete cutesy is more helpful. If the point is to get us to eat more fruits and vegetables, highlight that aspect rather than just saying 'colorful food'. My orange cheeses, yellow eggs, brown/pink meats and red wine are quite colorful (and mostly healthy) and food. Since I lean towards trying to get more proteins in my eating program for my health, proteins are as important to me (if not more) than just more carbs with fruits and vegetables. Fine, it's supposed to be a multi-color fruits and veggies focused challenge, so that's what I'll do. Again, no biggie, but a bit of consistency from the leaders up front and not providing conflicting information later is more useful than leaving it in our hands to make the call which is just going to make it harder on MissionEnforcer to verify it on the back end.
@MzManiak - I totally agree it is confusing and the binning isn't very consistent between the various lists (which is why I have had so many questions). FWIW, I'm going with Yellow for my banana vs white since I need a yellow I suspect it's our own best guess at this point and poor MissionEnforcer is going to have to verify the variety of personal calls. 1 -
Even though I agree the food lists are a bit confusing, I'm not concerned that MissionEnforcer is going to go over everyone's food list with a fine tooth comb. I'm sure it's just a verification that you listed foods in the spirit of the challenge rather than making sure your orange is orange or yellow-orange and listed in the proper category (whatever that is). If you eat a balanced diet, I'm sure you can find foods every day to fit the various colors.
Re: the exercise, I've done a lot of fitness challenges and I have no worries about modifying an exercise to fit my physical abilities. Never been kicked out or missed points because of it and I usually don't check with the leaders before doing the modification. Just my 2 cents!
So far for this week:
Challenge 1 - jump rope 15/30 (modified)
Challenge 2 - arm exercise videos 3/3 - complete
Challenge 3 - 2/5 with lots of colors
Minutes/miles:
Monday - 110
Tuesday - 452 -
Got in my colours again yesterday! For school snack we had a tray of cantelop, honeydew and watermelon At lunch I also had tomatoes and lettuce in my wrap.
I was too tired to do too much exercise last night. I went to bed at 9:30, so didn't get in as many minutes as I had hoped! But got up early for a run today and feeling better about it 3 -
Week 4: Let's Race Down Unda
Challenge 1: Jump rope or Hopscotch 30 minutes
A minute of jumping rope is really long! I was so winded I only did 5. I hate that I'm so out of shape.
25 minutes left
Challenge 2: Total Arm Workout, Quick Burn Arms, repeat favorite
Challenge 3: 2 colors per day x 5 days- 5 different colors
Day 1: Brown (Pinto Beans), Green (Cilantro), White (White Corn Tortillas), Yellow (Lemonade)
Day 2: Brown (Pinto Beans), Green (Cilantro), White (White Corn Tortillas), Yellow (Lemonade) ...leftovers
Day 3 so far: Brown (Pinto Beans), Green (Cilantro, Peppers), White (Grilled onion, raw onion, garlic), Yellow (pineapple), Red (tomatoes)
Total colors used: 5
Minutes:
Monday - 45 minutes
Tuesday - 60 minutes2 -
Great job everyone! Keep it up... We need to stay unified as a team in this endeavor, so I think we should leave politics out of the conversation. Kat, I appreciate your insight on the view from outside the US, but our country is so divided right now and I've already seen hurtful things said on FB that I don't think it will help if we begin that discussion on here.
Rus, yes I think you're right... I'm sorry for posing that question.. I'm simply a very curious person and didn't think it would be a bad question - I simply love to hear others opinions that might give me a new point of view or helps me understand! So Teammates - please don't be offended by my question or my blunt opinion. Sorry!4 -
Wednesday: 376 minutes
Rainbow foods: green spinach, green peppers, red/purple onion, black olives, red apple
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Got it for you @My_Butt! We were already at 100%, so yippie we're in Australia! But your extra time already gave us an addition 10% = 10 points! Well done!! (And you're currently on top of the power rankings for this week and 9th for the race). Fabulous!!
Busy week...sorry my numbers are so low, but working on knocking out the challenges. Should finish up jump rope tomorrow, and be able to log the food one on Friday.
Week 4 Status:
Challenge 1 - Jump Rope or Hop scotch - 30 minutes total (20 of 30)
Challenge 2 - Arm Videos x 3 - DONE!
Challenge 3 - Eat multicolors - Fruit, Veggies, Grains (ROY G BIV + White + Brown: 5 Days - 2 colors per day/5 colors overall) - 3 days done
-- Monday: Red - Mini-Gala Apple; Orange - Sweet Potatoes, Carrots; Green - Green Pepper, Celery, Green Grapes; White - Potatoes, Garlic, Onions. [4 colors]
-- Tuesday: Orange - Clementine Orange, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots; Yellow - Banana; Green - Celery, Green Pepper; White - Potatoes, Garlic, Onions [4 colors]
-- Wednesday: Orange - Clementine Orange, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots; Yellow - Banana; Green - Celery, Green Pepper; White - Potatoes, Garlic, Onions; Purple - Blackberries [5 colors]
"Mileage":
7 November - 75 min Strength Training = 75 minutes
8 November - 57 min Walking to Vote (2.75 miles); 20 min Arm Videos for Challenge; 5 min Jump Rope; 7 min Radio Taiso = 89 minutes
9 November - 15 min Jump Rope; 12 min Arm Video for Challenge; 45 min Gazelle (3.01 miles); 6 min Planks = 78 minutes2 -
geminiswede wrote: »So far, Monday: Green (Spinach, Cucumber, Avocado), Orange (Carrot), Brown (Whole grain sandwich thin), Purple (Raisin)
This should be pretty easy for me as I'm pretty sure I generally hit a ton of colors.
Tuesday: Green (Spinach, Cucumber, Lettuce), Red (Tomato, Strawberry, Apple? unless it's white)
Wednesday: Green (Spinach, jalapeño), Yellow (Sweet corn), Red (Tomato)2 -
Hey Team! I'm traveling to the Reef with you even though you haven't heard from me! Looks like everyone is doing so well!
Challenge 1 - Jump Rope (so far, 10 piddly minutes... )
Challenge 2 - Total Arm work out (1 of 3)
Challenge 3 - Eat multi-colors:
Day 1: red pepper (red), potato (white), eggplant (purple), cilantro (green)
Day 2: kale (green), carrot (orange), garlic (white?)
Day 3: cabbage (purple), onion (white), yellow pepper (yellow)
Day 4: quinoa (brown), , zucchini (green), apple (white?), tomato (red), black beans
Congrats, Butt, you're on the top of the board! You met your goal (and then some!)!
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