October Week 2 Group Challenge - Hello October Triple Active
This week's challenge is an active one! Choose three activities for the whole week, to do daily or switch it up each day, but push yourself to accomplish just a bit more! Let's see what we can accomplish together!!! Post your activities daily and share whether you felt accomplished or perhaps, struggled a bit. Looking forward to see what everyone chooses to concentrate on this week! Also, post your pictures this week…whether you're working out indoors or outside, we wanna see those pics…don't forget the pets!! WE ALL LOVE PET PICS! Have an active, fun and TRIPLE ACTIVE week ahead!!! Can't wait to see your comments each day!
Jessica 🎃
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I've decided that I'm going to give myself a challenge by doing a Leslie Sansone DVD called Walk It Off In 30 Days. It alternates cardio with strength for 6 days a week. I did the firming this morning and increased my usual weights to 5 pounds.
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@virgoreader I love Leslie Sansone's programs…they're easy to follow, give you a great workout and really fun. Enjoy!! This week's challenge is to choose 3 activities per day, so besides the walk videos and strength exercises, make sure you have 3 different things each day, even if the other two are only a few minutes a day. Triple the activity, triple the fun AND triple the results!!! Post daily and let us know how it's going!!
Jessica
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Okay, thanks!
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@jessicakrall8 i have a tendency to over complicate things. What do you mean by chose three activities to do daily or switch up each day? Do I do three exercises each day and find three different ones the next day or do I find three exercises and do one a day and do the second the second day etc? My apologies for not understanding.
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i have a tendency to over complicate things. What do you mean by chose three activities to do daily or switch up each day? Do I do three exercises each day and find three different ones the next day or do I find three exercises and do one a day and do the second the second day etc? My apologies for not understanding.
No problem…good question! You can choose 3 activities to do daily (the same ones every day for the whole week) or you can change the activities and switch it up every day. Just remember to report in daily and clarify your choices.
Hope that helps to clarify. Never apologize for asking questions!
Thanks for joining and supporting my challenges!
Jessica 😎
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My 3 activities will be running or walking, strength training (not every day) and yoga (I will try to get up earlier to do a quick morning yoga every day)
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My three things:
- Cycle at least 8.5 miles plus walk at least 1 mile each day
- Short yoga/stretching session each morning
- Tuesday/Thursday: 1 hour of tai chi
- Monday/Wednesday/Friday: one hour of combined strength/cardio
- Other days: a mix of swimming and water aerobics
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My 3 activities: walking, strength training, HIIT cardio.
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I'm hoping to mix up the activities in the week & lengthen the time of each activity daily.These will include dancing,walking,swimming & walking.
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I'm going to do walking, strength exercises and dancing I think…thanks for the idea, @izzyred9400 !! Hope you find a way to upload your photos…perhaps @frankwbrown could help with ideas to help you post them from your phone…he's our techy guru…
Jessica
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- 1 mile walk
- Dr Jo Full Body Stretch
- Pushups (Mayo clinic says 10?)
The walk is an ongoing goal. I have tried adding the daily stretch and pushups before but haven’t been consistently successful yet. If at first you don’t succeed…🤷♀️
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My 3 activities this week:
1. Plank (I'm doing a 30 day challenge that gets progressively longer)
2. Stretch
3. Walk (hopefully a little further each day)
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My activities each day will include walking, jumping jacks, and for the 3rd activity I will alternate strength training, yoga, or dancing.
I've been doing 10 jumping jacks per day to help counter anxiety, so I'll start with 10 on Sunday and add 5 each day so by Saturday I'll need to do 40 jumping jacks. I think I can do it 😅
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My three activities will be:
Mon./Wed./Fri. - 30 minutes of Leslie Sansone's Walk it off in 30 Days DVD
Tues./Thurs./Sat. - 30 minutes of firming from the same DVD
I also plan to add a short walk or bike ride and maybe some wall pushups or wall planks.
Faith
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My three exercises will be
1) walking/running
2) jumping rope
3) pushups and sit-ups
My substitute exercise will be a stationary bike.
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My daily three goals this week will be…. 10K steps each day, plank challenge & Yoga challenge.
I am a work in progress with “beginner “ abs so these will be done the best I can. Progress not perfection, right? 😁
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I anticipate my 3 activities will fluctuate since Florida weather tends to be unpredictable this time of the year. So, for Sunday, my 3 activities are:
Aqua aerobics (1 hour)
Personal strength training session
Developing and practicing choreography for a new Zumba routine (which I hope to post soon)😊
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Meant to post this earlier and somehow it got erased and I didn't hit "post"…not sure where my head was this morning…So…
Good Afternoon, y'all:
Been quite productive so far today…got up a little late, but that's what the weekends are for, right?! Did some work around the house…cooked lunch and relaxed a bit. Did some laundry, cleaned up the kitchen and bathroom…played with Betty…because I can't NOT do that!! She follows me around with toys. I bought her a Halloween costume and ordered her a new cat tree as there's one that needs to be replaced. Gotta see if I can get the neighbor to help me put it together…might just try it myself, even though I'm really not good at it. We'll see. I am excited to get her a new one as I'm sure she will love it. She loves to climb and cats always love a new scratching post.
I did some walking earlier and some dancing…still gotta do my strength exercises, but will do that a little later. From the posts above, you guys have already been busy too, today…wow! The aqua aerobics @nancyinmiami sounds like a blast!!! @gillis1118 your plans are inspiring…I envy your ability to get up and down from the floor for the yoga poses…someday!! 😊 @19shmoo69 What kind of stationary bike do you have?? It's nice to have choices…variety…I get it!
Thanks for sharing your plans for the week/day…enjoy yourselves!!! Gotta go hang up some clothes.
Jessica
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The weather was awful this morning so I just walked to the supermarket & got the bus back.
Walking 13 mins
I went for a swim & went in the sauna & jacuzzi
Swim 40 mins
I didn't dance as planned so went on the stationary bike after my swim
Cardio 12 mins
Tomorrow I'm on a group walk in the morning around a lovely park & I am doing a Dancefit class in the evening.Think I will do some stretching tomorrow think I will need to.
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Hey, hey, hey!!!
I also enjoy walking with Leslie Sansone.
My 3 activities will be:
- Exercise 30 minutes everyday.
- 30 day plank challenge.
- 30 day sit-ups challenge.
More than likely, I will do some dancing too. I will be doing at least 10,000 steps a day. I will also do strength training twice this week. After reading all your week activities, I want to do the jumping jacks challenge and yoga challenge too. Lets see what I actually get accomplished….hehehe.
Today, I did my 30 minute exercise. I already got 11,102 steps. I did my first day plank(10 minutes), sit-ups (10), jumping jacks(10) and yoga challenge. @gillis1118 - I'm not flexible enough for that back bend(skipped) and I also needed to modify that downward dog.
💪Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪
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Today I walked/sprinted, danced, and did 10 jumping jacks.
I'll try to remember to take a picture tomorrow 😊
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GROUP CHALLENGE SIGHUP
Hopefully I'm well enough this week to do this challenge.
My 3 are step machine
walking
squats
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1 mile walk ✅
Dr Jo Full Body Stretch ✅
Pushups (Mayo clinic says 10?) ✅
I was only able to do 2 girl pushups with proper form, so now I have a starting point. It has been a couple decades since I had to do them and I was never very good at them. I don’t think my upper body strength will allow me to increase that number this week but I will keep at it until I work up to 10. After all it’s 2 more than I have done in years
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Sunday
Only managed 2 of my 3 activities: walking and strength training.
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Sunday is my rest day but today will be a Leslie Sansone workout, a short stationary bike ride and some ab exercises.
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I enjoyed reading all the activities posted in response to this week’s challenge!
I’m focusing on this part of your description @jessicakrall8 “… but push yourself to accomplish just a bit more!”
Activity 1: Cardio
I’m alternating my cardio activity between rowing and running, starting with rowing on Sunday.
Activity 2: Stretching/Flexibility
This is something I really need to improve. I’ll take the yoga challenge above, and increase the repetitions each day. It starts with 30 seconds (10 seconds x 3) so I’ll end the week holding each pose for 100 seconds.Activity 3: Strength
The plank challenge is a great idea. I’ll do an ab workout everyday and end with a plank, holding a little longer each day.
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Sunday 10/5 —
Cardio: I rowed for about 45 minutes
Flexibility: 30-seconds for each pose
Strength: 20-second hold for the plank
I forgot to turn on my watch until about 10-15 minutes into my sculling activity, but I’m glad I remembered so I could register at least 20 minutes needed for one of the Garmin watch October challenges that @frankwbrown will surely achieve (20 activities for 20+ minutes). I got “credit” for 36 minutes of Garmin activity. I practiced various skills after the cardio piece to “accomplish just a little bit more.”
I’ll add 10 seconds to the plank each day, too.
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Good morning
My 3 activities will be:
- Yoga
- Pilates through my new app - Align
- Walking
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For Sunday:
I took a walk & did yoga/stretching early in the morning before helping to teach Sunday school to 3-5 yo
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Monday ; I had a very active day today.I went on a 2 hour group walk but unfortunately left my mobile phone at home so couldn't track my walk.
When I got home I swept all the leaves from my back yard.Then tidied up my front garden by pulling out some plants that had gone a bit wild.About an hour altogether.
I went to my Dance fit class 45 mins plus 15 mins walking there & back to the gym.
Tomorrow may be a bit difficult to plan as I'm at the hospital for an MRI scan.Then I'm on a coach trip to see Blackpool lights & a fish & chip supper with 2 girlfriends.I will do some walking & maybe dancing & some cardio.
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