August 2013 Fitness Challenge
melkadee
Posts: 5,598 Member
Here’s the challenge:
Burn 7000 calories in the month of August!:smokin:
The goal is to burn 7000 calories. You choose the workout! :happy:
That’s about 225 calories a day.
Please feel free to set your own goal. Depending on your exercise regime (cardio, strength training, etc.), you may be burning more or less than 225 calories a day. The goal here is to challenge your body and mind.
Let’s support each other.:drinker:
You can use tickerfactory.com to create a ticker or just record your daily workout as follows:
8/1 – 363 calories
8/2 – Rest Day
8/3 – 216 calories
Total – 579 calories/ 6421 calories to go
The challenge begins August 1, 2013 and concludes August 31, 2013.
Are you in??? :flowerforyou:
Oh yeah! :bigsmile:
Burn 7000 calories in the month of August!:smokin:
The goal is to burn 7000 calories. You choose the workout! :happy:
That’s about 225 calories a day.
Please feel free to set your own goal. Depending on your exercise regime (cardio, strength training, etc.), you may be burning more or less than 225 calories a day. The goal here is to challenge your body and mind.
Let’s support each other.:drinker:
You can use tickerfactory.com to create a ticker or just record your daily workout as follows:
8/1 – 363 calories
8/2 – Rest Day
8/3 – 216 calories
Total – 579 calories/ 6421 calories to go
The challenge begins August 1, 2013 and concludes August 31, 2013.
Are you in??? :flowerforyou:
Oh yeah! :bigsmile:
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I'll bite, but I have surgery on the first so I'll be a late starter. (But... I WILL start none the less.) Great challenge! :glasses:0
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I'm in. This will give me something to shoot at. I'm a teacher and when school starts, I become more sedentary0
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You can also use MFP to track your calories burned. If you go to reports, it give a bar chart for calories burned. For the past 7 days, it provides the actual, numerical values. For the past 30 days, you'll have to estimate the values.0
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I am in and ready to go!0
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This would be a lot easier for me to achieve if I could do cardio (still nursing a muscle injury), but I'll give a try anyway. :drinker:0
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I'm in! :bigsmile:0
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I am in... and promise to be better about tracking my progress this time around... I totally whiffed on the June challenge :blushing:
This week I begin training for a half marathon so I will be putting in a lot of mileage in August. I usually aim for 2400 calories/week but with the extra mileage I'll probably be over 3,000 some weeks.
I'm going to set 10,000 as my goal and see what I can do... want to make it a good challenge but not impossible :happy:0 -
Hi, I am in for the challenge! I swim every day, which is a good burn. I used to rate my swim as "vigorous" but I have cut it back to moderate to avoid over-estimating. I usually get in two miles a day.
My goal is to burn 30,000 calories in August. Here is my ticker, I won't update it until August starts. My last challenge was 60 miles of swimming in July, but due to a week long vacation, I don't think I will get my mileage in. :ohwell: But I feel that I have done well overall.
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I'm in! Now let's see how many attempts I need to get the damn ticker in here and working! LOL0
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I've never used the Ticker Factory. Can anyone explain how to use it and embed it into a post?
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excellent! I'm in!0
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I'm in!0
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In B4 the lock......oh, wait!
J/K.
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I'm in! My baby is almost 3 months old & it's time to make my comeback. I will need to reset my heartrate monitor tomorrow morning for more accurate calculations. (Alas, it's set to a fitness time when I ran a 1:38 half marathon, so obviously that's different... for now!)0
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Gonna try!0
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I'm not sure how many kcals I'm aiming for ... I'll do some sums tomorrow ...
I'm in New Zealand, so I guess I'm first to post!
1st August 622 kcal
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Yay ticker worked! Now to try and get the calories burned. I strained my quadricep a couple days ago so need to find alternative calorie burning options for a couple weeks while it heals. I'm not giving up!
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Goal: 10,000
Balance: 10,000
Today: 195
Remaining: 9,8050 -
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I'm going to give it a shot! I'm finally up and about, sort of, after a knee injury... I guess I should wear my HRM now during my physical therapy sessions!0
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My goal is to burn 11,000. I tried the ticker but was not able to make it work; my computer at work wouldn't download it without administrator privileges. :grumble:
And I'll be off to a weak start; I usually use my phone app pedometer and I am at the limit of my data plan 'til Aug. 6, so I'll be using my crappy wrist heart monitor. :sad:
So how does this work if we don't have a ticker? Do we post our daily Calorie burn daily?0 -
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Yay Mel! She helped me get my ticker for our challenge! Now, how do I stop my regular MFP ticker from showing? Just click and delete? And then do we go to tickerfactory to update?0 -
TAMayorga, you will have to go back to tickerfactory.com to update each time. I'm unsure of how to delete the MFP ticker.0
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Well, I'm not off to the most auspicious start!! Woke up late, so missed my morning workout and it was raining so couldn't ride my bike to the train station. Now I just found out that tomorrow' boot camp is cancelled! So I have to rely on myself! Never a good thing!
Oh well, I will do some elliptical tonight and set my alarm to get up and get a good workout in the morning!
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I had to reconfigure my ticker.
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I am having some serious misgivings :huh: about my ability to burn 10,000 calories this month. I have to put on the big girl pants and go for it!!!
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12 hour day at the office - the last day of the summer semester! The next few days I'll be doing some "unstructured exercise". I'll be helping someone build a structure. No HRM so I'll have to estimate the cals. At least I'll be outdoors and active!
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did an ab and squat challenge this morning and did a hike and a walk in the afternoon.0 -
Nice burning!
I didn't manage to get any exercise done today, up in the night with my baby boy and so my exercise time was taken over by much needed sleep!
I have decided to go for 10,000kcal
1st 622
2nd 0
remaining: 9378
And goodnight!0
