August 2013 Fitness Challenge

melkadee

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:

paintlisapurple

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:

TheMMan

I'm in. This will give me something to shoot at. I'm a teacher and when school starts, I become more sedentary

TheMMan

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.

Susan0279

I am in and ready to go!

Brie4me

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:

TAMayorga

I'm in! :bigsmile:

Leigh_b

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:

onwarddownward

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.






Jan

AndiGirl70

I'm in! Now let's see how many attempts I need to get the damn ticker in here and working! LOL

TheMMan

I've never used the Ticker Factory. Can anyone explain how to use it and embed it into a post?

Thanks

mycrazy8splus1

excellent! I'm in!

rachypompa

I'm in!

MinMin97

In B4 the lock......oh, wait!
J/K.
In!

TheLaser

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!)

DMH1963

Gonna try!

rachypompa

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

Yay!

AndiGirl70

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!

Leigh_b

Goal: 10,000

Balance: 10,000

Today: 195

Remaining: 9,805

mycrazy8splus1

Aug 1:

CTCMom2009

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!