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January Week 5 Mini Challenge

luvs_choc8
luvs_choc8 Posts: 788 Member
edited February 12 in Social Groups
Monday Mini Challenge:
Food: Stay within your calorie limit and have a no sugar day.
Cardio: Do 125 jumping jacks. See how many you can do without stopping for the first set and then spread out the rest throughout the day.
Strength: Do 150 crunches (3 different kinds). Again see how many you can do in the first set and then spread out the rest throughtout the day.
Water: drink at least 64 ozs today.

Tuesday Mini Challenge.
Food: stay within your calorie limit and make sure you eat at least 3 vegetables and 2 fruits.
Cardio: Do 30 minutes brisk walk.
Strength: do 150 squats. The trick today is to see how many you can do in the first set and then spread the remainder throughout the day.
Water: drink at least 64 ozs today.

Wednesday Mini Challenge:
Food: stay within your calorie limit and make sure you are eating enough protein to help repair the muscles damaged from exercise.
Cardio: Do an interval workout. 5 minute warm-up, 1 minute jog, 2 minute walk, X6, 5 minute cool-down
Strength: do 100 push-ups and again try to see how many you cab do in the first set and then spread the remainder throughout the day.
Water: drink at least 64 ozs today

Thursday Mini Challenge
Food: stay within your calorie limit and make sure you are including lots of fibre in your diet. This will help you feel fuller and keep everything regular.
Cardio: Do 30 minutes brisk walk
Strength: do 10 sets of 10 side lunges with front arm raise.
Water: drink at least 64 ozs today

Friday Mini Challenge:
Food: stay within your calorie limit and make sure to keep your sodium intake below 2500. Try to avoid pre-packaged or prepared food.
Cardio/Strength: Do 30 minutes of aerobic activity. Try some knee lifts, butt kicks, jumping jacks, jogging, grapevines with some squats, arm raises, crunches, etc. Just keep moving.
Water: drink at least 64 ozs

Saturday Mini Challenge
Food: stay within your calorie limit and make good snack choices
Cardio: 30 minute brisk walk
Strength: do some extra crunches, squats, pushups, or arm exercise on the part that needs more.
Water: drink at least 64 ozs

Sunday Mini Challenge
Enjoy a day off because you deserve it.

I will be away for 2 weeks so feel free to post topics in this group, your success stories,your exercise routines, etc... let's be super motivating to each other!

Here's to an amazing week!

Replies

  • Yackma
    Yackma Posts: 21 Member
    Copy and pasting these into my Google Calendar. Thanks for keeping up "posted." :D
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    Monday Mini Challenge:
    Food: Stay within your calorie limit and have a no sugar day. = stayed within my calories but failed on "no sugar"
    Cardio: 70 minutes on the treadmill. In total, ran 6K & walked 1.5K.


    Tuesday Mini Challenge.
    Food: stay within your calorie limit and make sure you eat at least 3 vegetables and 2 fruits. = I think I was within a calorie range that was acceptable. It was a hungry day. I did eat 3 veggies and 2 fruit.
    Cardio: Did 1 hour of tai-chi
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