April 23 Weekly Challenge: Make Your Week Harder
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themedalist
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Theme: Exercise and Movement
Challenge: Make Your Week Harder
Let's get moving!
Dr. Mike Evans is a physician who has produced and narrated a series of white board videos on various health topics. One of the concepts he promotes is “Let's Make Our Day Harder” by looking for ways to add a little more movement into our day. Since this is a natural lead-in to Sit Less Boot Camp, let's extend his concept to a full week. Let's look for opportunities to be more active throughout our week.... by taking the stairs, parking further away, and adding a few more steps here and there. With a little practice, it's easy to do. And it can make a big difference in our health.
This Week's Challenge: Watch Dr. Evans' video and then find and implement ways you can be more active throughout your week. Practice these small actions and see which are a good fit for you and something you can sustain.
Challenge: Make Your Week Harder
Let's get moving!
Dr. Mike Evans is a physician who has produced and narrated a series of white board videos on various health topics. One of the concepts he promotes is “Let's Make Our Day Harder” by looking for ways to add a little more movement into our day. Since this is a natural lead-in to Sit Less Boot Camp, let's extend his concept to a full week. Let's look for opportunities to be more active throughout our week.... by taking the stairs, parking further away, and adding a few more steps here and there. With a little practice, it's easy to do. And it can make a big difference in our health.
This Week's Challenge: Watch Dr. Evans' video and then find and implement ways you can be more active throughout your week. Practice these small actions and see which are a good fit for you and something you can sustain.
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And it’s Move It Monday!
Please post your Monday workout here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10637806/move-it-monday-weekly-challenge
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I love this! Today is a rest day for me but I intend on making my day harder. I will come back this evening and add what I did today.6
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Awesome suggestions. I sometimes take the stairs at work, and I park a little further away then I used to. I will try to take the stairs more often, and I'll park a few spots down from where I do now. I'm also going to try for that 15,000 steps a day that Amish women walk. I currently have my goal at 10,000 and 4-5 days outta the week I actually make it. but I'm going to push myself even more.5
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I got off the bus two steps early today and walked much more deliberately. I hit 10k steps about 2. I will try and keep it up all week.7
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I'm a tad bit late this week but I am going to park farther away from my job this week. I take a walk during my break already, so I think I will take a walk after dinner with my husband. I'll do it by myself if he doesnt want to. Lol.3
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Love this challenge.
I park further away, always on purpose
I have changed my morning routine and now instead of sitting to use my laptop I get moving. Use the laptop before bed.
Stopped procrastinating, making myself do the chores and things I need to do instead of complaining about it.
Started strength training again.3 -
Agh, i forgot to park further away, but I'm about to run (drive) to another building for some work and I'll take the stairs -
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Yesterday I made many, many trips up and down the stairs to put things away. Monday is my big weekly cleaning day. All clutter that accumulates during the week gets put away. I usually stack items on the first stair and take things up as I make trips up stairs. Instead of stacking I climbed the stairs each time I had an item that needed to be put away. I also brought up individual loads of laundry instead of waiting to finish all the laundry and then bring it up in a basket. I put each load away as I brought them up from the basement. It was fun and a way to keep the body in motion.
I also park as far back from a business as I can to get more steps in. Dave and I are in couples therapy and he takes the elevator up 3 floors and I take the stairs. He surprised me and walked down the stairs with me last week.
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Wow @PinkyPan1, your steps count must be awesome! I'm still trying to improve. Yesterday I was so tired, I didn't even make 10K, but I'm going to keep going. It improves my mood I don't have any stairs but I'm sure there is something I can do at home to increase my steps. 4
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I like reading your updates! Parking further away has another advantage too: your parking skills can be mediocre as mine are and it doesn’t matter because there are lots of parking spaces and not a lot of competition.7
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I have got off the bus early every day so far, I am making myself walk more, I have more steps in the past few days than last week 5
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My hubby has a classic car, so parking at the end of the lot has been part of my life. But I've improved upon that now by intentionally parking in the farthest lot. I think you idea, @aobhro ,of getting off the bus a couple stops away is brilliant. I'm also chatting with my daughter's as we walk now.6
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Fantastic posts! Thanks for all the suggestions.2
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I've been taking the stairs at work more. There is one building that I work in sometimes with three stories. Taking the stairs used to kill me. Now it's not so bad. Not easy, but not bad.
Plus - non-scale victory - I can do full jumping jacks!!7 -
I have this week used on my steps and on Thursday I really stepped it up on the treadmill walked over a half mile at a faster pace.5
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When I was growing up, my Dad always made life harder in order to get more exercise. My parents have been such good examples. He always parks in the first spot he sees (usually the farthest away) in a parking lot, and when I moved into my college dorm on the 11th floor of the building, we carried all of the furniture, clothes, etc. up 11 flights of stairs instead of using the elevator
Now that I'm an adult I like to make my life harder as well. This past fall we jumped into the busy world of having a milk cow, and I got so busy milking, making cheese, and caring for her that I didn't always have time to exercise. So when I filled her water tank with buckets, 5 gallons at a time, I would run the 150 meters back to our house and do burpees or jumping jacks while someone inside filled up the buckets. I would be sweating buckets by the time I had her 100 gallon tank filled.
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MmamabearR wrote: »I've been taking the stairs at work more. There is one building that I work in sometimes with three stories. Taking the stairs used to kill me. Now it's not so bad. Not easy, but not bad.
Plus - non-scale victory - I can do full jumping jacks!!
Stairs and jumping jacks are both great accomplishments!
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susie_q1968 wrote: »I have this week used on my steps and on Thursday I really stepped it up on the treadmill walked over a half mile at a faster pace.
Wonderful, @susie_q1968! You certainly have embraced our challenge this week!1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPuRLil4c0
