Challenge of the Living Dead - TEAM EXPLOSIVES! [CLOSED]

sineadgrowden

im going to do more steps to night seems i didnt lose much weight this week hopfuly our team will win! hope all of ur weight losses were better than mine

we have got this team :explode:

i think this lil guy shuld be our team symbol :explode: (what u guys think??)

sineadgrowden

cant weight to see what team has won

DeviantDarkwolf2

i think this lil guy shuld be our team symbol :explode: (what u guys think??)

LOL Totally our lil mascot!!!:explode: woot!!!

annacataldo

WHAT??!! The challenge is over today???? I thought we had until monday 9pm est (which would be 6pm pst--my time)...?????

Im at 2200...I rested today and yesterday so I would beable to do several hundred tomorrow (monday).

Do I weigh in today too??? Or is that tomorrow???

Im so confused!! I swear it was monday at 6 cuz what's her face went to michigan tuesday and needed final numbers monday...??

Ugh. Well my weight today was 264.6, which means I lost 5.4 pounds (sw: 270), but if I have until tomorrow then ill wait to give a number cuz ill prob lose more.

annacataldo

Uhm...its still sunday my time, can I do more? Its monday on east coast.

ACowboyKid

Challenge is up guys! Keep sending in your totals and stuff to the forum for the captains! =]

CHALLENGE OF THE LIVING DEAD --- WEEK II

My Word is still down so excuse bad English, spelling issues and stuff. Thanks!

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THE STORY

This room was your safety and outside that door was a nightmare. Venturing from the room was probably one of the hardest things you had ever done. Your heart was in your throat and racing. Every little noise of the building and the moans being carried up on the wind and through the broken windows of the building made you jump. You could feel the tension in the air as everyone waited for these ghouls to rip through the small group of 15 and shred them all to pieces. Except they never came. For some reason the floor was completely barren of the undead but they had been there. Bloody hand prints and spurts of blood stained the wallpaper and carpeting and shards of glass from broken in windows littered the ground. Occasionally as the group passed an open room you could see in the faint light from the windows you could make out the remains of something being torn apart but was not enough of a something to reanimate.

It didn't take long to come to the door that was the stair well. The small window in the door showed the pitched darkness inside due to the lights of the city going out a day prior. Well, other than the glowing room of the building visible through the safe room everyone had been in earlier.
"Its too dark. We can't see anything," whispered a voice from the crowd.
"Its the only way down," answered another.
"But what if they're in their?"
"We have no other choice. We just have to," and the person pushed the door open. Everyone held their breath but the only thing that swelled up through the darkness was the uneasiness accompanied by the silence and stale metal smell of the stair well. Whether the metallic smell was due to the building or blood nobody was sure. People then began heading down, hesitant at first but then soon everyone was racing down.

You could see through the door windows leading into the halls like the one you had come from above except these halls were not as vacant as the one above had been. In some you could see the occasional ghoul shuffling through the blood stained hallway, one had a group of at least twenty fighting to crouch on the ground shoveling the remains into their mouths. Others were stuffed full of the undead. Luckily the darkness of the stairwell shielded you from their undead eyes and the heavy doors kept your movements silent and your scent hidden.

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TEAM EXPLOSIVES (exit cobylea, enter Chelle_D)
Cobylea raced down the stairs and reached the floor first whipping around the corner of the stairs but suddenly a loud moan erupted from the darkness. Bloody hands seized her as a shredded and bloody ghoul latched onto her shoulder ripping her flesh. A scream erupted from her echoing through the stairwell sending pure terror into the hearts of every team member lost in the dark and confused by the echo. Suddenly the door to the stairs swung open and light flooded the dark stairs. Chelle_D raced through the door with a raised crowbar smashing it into the ghoul and freeing Cobylea who by now had fallen limp and conscious. Without a word Chelle_D raised the bar and brought it down making sure Cobylea would not become one of them.

"Who are you!?" Shouted someone from the team but before Chelle_D could answer someone from the team shouted "Their coming!!!" Surely the commotion had alerted the horde. A scream erupted from the group and someone began to cry seeing ghouls running towards the lobby doors smashing into the glass. "Follow me!" someone shouted and the team bolted from the stairway, down a hall to the left and out into a back ally behind the building out into the infested street swarming with undead.

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RANGED/EXPLOSIVES
The team raced out of the stairwell terrified to emerge but more scared of remaining in the darkness. The lobby was full of the undead which quickly took notice of the living meal entering their domain. A moan erupted from a ghoul and the heads of the creatures rolled, dead eyes fixing on the group. "Go go go!" shouted someone from the team as they started pushing people towards a hallway to the left and out through the back alley and out into the infested street swarming with undead.




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CHALLENGE:

This week we have two options to choose from for challenges seeing as we have many different people of different physical abilities. Option A will be easier for those who are not as fit but it will take longer. Now if you already do these tasks in your routine or in your daily life then please tag these on as addional workouts seeing as this is suppose to be a challenge and not doing so pretty much makes it pointless. Also please choose a weight that works you, everyone is different and some will find 5 lbs difficult while others may find 35lbs difficult. Also all of these exercises can be done with items from your home but weights will make it work better for you.

Option A. You'll be walking through the city to escape into the countryside. You must walk 5 miles daily from the weapon supply store off to a small cottage just outside suburbia which will be the team's safe house. Meaning that this week you'll be traveling 35 miles total at a walking pace. Please try to keep it around dog walking pace around 3mph. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, since those deciding to flee faster will be attracting the attention of more of the undead horde before they even know there are others you'll be fighting off fewer zombies. You'll be required to do 30 reps of one arm dumbell rows, dumbbell streight punch and cross wood chops every other day in addition to your regular strength training regemin (easily divisable into 3 sets of 10 reps, modify as you see fit).

Option B. You'll be running through the city to escape into the countryside. You must jog 2 miles daily from the weapon supply store off to a small cottage just outside suburbia which will be the team's safe house. Meaning that this week you'll be traveling 14 miles total at a jogging pace. You will be attracting the most attention of the undead horde since you will be the first traveling through the city drawing their attention. You're required to do 45 reps of one arm dumbbell rows, dumbbell streight punch and cross wood chops every other day in addition to your regular strength training regemin (easily divisable into 3 sets of 15, modify as you see fit).

ALSO, everyone must decide their weapon for this week meaning they choose their own individual mini challenge for themself. Like for example, if I were to decide I wanted my 'weapon' to be to drink more water this week then I will call it my sledge hammer. Then when I complete my workout for the day I will say I ran and that I used my sledge hammer for the day. Every week you can change your weapon or goal that your weapon represents. Just a fun idea. Please submit your mini goal on your team's thread for the captain to keep track of then please update it as you would your regular physical challenge showing if you completed it every day of the week or not. This is you arriving at the weapon supply which will not be written out.




HAVE FUN GUYS!
Please let me know any questions that you guys have because I want to make sure that everything is clear. Also I am releasing this a bit early instead of 6a since I decided to head to the gym.

annacataldo

I am very sad to say, that I will be deciding later today if I need to get eaten by a zombie or not. I want to be in this more than anything, but I can't walk 35miles and if the challenges keep progressing at this rate then I wont beable to do them either ;-(

For those who don't know, I flipped a car 4x almost 4years ago, didn't have access to physical therapy, and started my weight loss journey because I was in so much pain I couldn't walk a block without needing a pain pill...the doctors that they thought losing weight would help, and it has, but I just began excercising less than a month ago and there's just some things I really have to take slow and can't push myself due to an injury, not because I don't have the stamina or the energy...doing 35miles is beyong pushing my capabilities..I can't walk a mile without being in pain...I could push for 10miles, maybe by some miracle do 20...but 35... I don't want to let my team down or need other ppl to pick up my slack, or anything else...I can do all the dubbell stuff and what not just fine, but anything involve mass use of my hip is pretty painful. I just managed to do the stairs without my hip hurting too bad, which is why I think I could push myself to do some walking...but 5miles everyday with no rest days is big.

Im pretty upset.. I love all my new friends, and having the weekly goal and being in the team but Idk what else to do :sad: what do u guys think I should do??? ;-(

DeviantDarkwolf2

Holy heck I am going to find the new challenge hard. I will be going with option (A) as there is no way I can jog that distance I have only started C25K :ohwell: But 5 miles is 8km and the most I have walked is 5km. Not to mention it is the middle of winter here :frown: If only I had a treadmill!!!

annacataldo

Holy heck I am going to find the new challenge hard. I will be going with option (A) as there is no way I can jog that distance I have only started C25K :ohwell: But 5 miles is 8km and the most I have walked is 5km. Not to mention it is the middle of winter here :frown: If only I had a treadmill!!!

If I had a treadmill id try the mission, but when I live in middle of the country with nothing but hills all around me, then its hard for me..I can't excercise from home with the challenge, I have to go into the city...and I don't have a car... ... maybe ill just down a bottle of pain pills and walk home from work...that's only about 9miles, only partially uphill... its my summer goal to walk the mile and a half to my boyfriends house (all uphill, nothing flat)..been trying to work up to the mile and a half...been aiming to low I guess.

gnoccola

I am very sad to say, that I will be deciding later today if I need to get eaten by a zombie or not. I want to be in this more than anything, but I can't walk 35miles and if the challenges keep progressing at this rate then I wont beable to do them either ;-(

For those who don't know, I flipped a car 4x almost 4years ago, didn't have access to physical therapy, and started my weight loss journey because I was in so much pain I couldn't walk a block without needing a pain pill...the doctors that they thought losing weight would help, and it has, but I just began excercising less than a month ago and there's just some things I really have to take slow and can't push myself due to an injury, not because I don't have the stamina or the energy...doing 35miles is beyong pushing my capabilities..I can't walk a mile without being in pain...I could push for 10miles, maybe by some miracle do 20...but 35... I don't want to let my team down or need other ppl to pick up my slack, or anything else...I can do all the dubbell stuff and what not just fine, but anything involve mass use of my hip is pretty painful. I just managed to do the stairs without my hip hurting too bad, which is why I think I could push myself to do some walking...but 5miles everyday with no rest days is big.

Im pretty upset.. I love all my new friends, and having the weekly goal and being in the team but Idk what else to do :sad: what do u guys think I should do??? ;-(

That's so sad. This chalenge is creating a nice group.
I don't know if it is going to be harder from now on, may be there will be less walking involved. May be for this week the team can pick up your load. Do you guys think it is possible? Should we ask for it?
I decided to run, not walk. But, I can walk an extra 20 miles this week for Anna (may be more).

DeviantDarkwolf2

Okay I am not going to let this challenge get me down :grumble: I will conquer and destroy these zombies!!!! So I will try my best and you will all have to cross your fingers and toes for good weather for me!!

Now if anyone as wondering what a cross wood chops was here's a link to show you. I will be using tin fruit as my weights hahaha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuiEZWIHWrA



We can do this!!! As the weeks progress no doubt there will be challenges that some of us cannot do as much of but it should even out. If I can I am willing to do a bit more for the team. Anna you are part of this team no matter what!!! You will not succumb to the zombies!!!!!

Oh and my weapon will be a Molotov Cocktail and I am going to use the idea of water as I suck with my water intake.

POWER UP TEAM EXPLOSIVES!!! :explode:

makena78

Anna, I would never suggest you go spend money for this challenge. but it might actually be a good investment for you. Have you heard of Leslie Sansone's walk at home DVD's? I have the 5 mile walk and it's awesome when you're just starting to get fit. I hurt my back when I was 19 and this video helped me get some strength back. You follow her but you do it the way you feel is best for you. Kinda dull background and I mute her voice after a few times and just listen to my music. And you can stop at any mile. As you get better you can add hand weights which she doesn't use. but great workout. And it's all in your living room. think about it.

makena78

I will be using my elliptical for this challenge. But does anyone know how long it would take to jog 2 miles? That will help me figure out how long and what lvl to go on elliptical.

annacataldo

Anna, I would never suggest you go spend money for this challenge. but it might actually be a good investment for you. Have you heard of Leslie Sansone's walk at home DVD's? I have the 5 mile walk and it's awesome when you're just starting to get fit. I hurt my back when I was 19 and this video helped me get some strength back. You follow her but you do it the way you feel is best for you. Kinda dull background and I mute her voice after a few times and just listen to my music. And you can stop at any mile. As you get better you can add hand weights which she doesn't use. but great workout. And it's all in your living room. thinabout it.

I have heard of it before, yes. Never looked into it before. How long does the 5mile dvd take?

annacataldo

I will be using my elliptical for this challenge. But does anyone know how long it would take to jog 2 miles? That will help me figure out how long and what lvl to go on elliptical.

Im also wondering how long it takes to jog two miles, I jog in place for a couple minute at a time here and theere...if I knew it took 10minutes to jog a mile, I could do several sets of couple minutes joggin to equal a couple miles a day.

DeviantDarkwolf2

I will be using my elliptical for this challenge. But does anyone know how long it would take to jog 2 miles? That will help me figure out how long and what lvl to go on elliptical.

That's a fantastic idea and at least you could spread it out over the day. I just googled it and seems that 12 mins per mile is what a beginner can do. I actually might do it this way as it's school holidays here and there is no way my kids would go on a massive walk with me. I'll enquire with a CowboyKid to see if this would be okay.

sineadgrowden

ok i just joged 5.01km (3.1 miles) in 15.12mins 114cals on elliptical

hope that helps

xxx_Pink_Princess_xxx

HI guys Im really sorry Im going to have to drop out the challenge (- team explosives)!

I thought I would have time to take this on, but its too time consuming on top of all my other classes I already attend.

Im so sorry! I hope u guys having an awesome time doing the challenge and would still like to be friends xxx

LASH3S

Good Morning everyone.. sorry.. Weekends are a little hectic for me to get on here ... My name is Hannah..and I'm from Southern Ontario (Canada). My weight loss this week was 3.8 lbs. I didn't do as well on the stair challenge as the rest of you all... and for that i apologize. I will gladly pick up extra miles for anyone that would need them this week. For the jogging? Can we do that on the elliptical? If we can.. i might do the jogging one.. if not.. walking is for me. I haven't decided what my personal weapon will be.. but it will definately be the water thing.. i SUCK at water intake too.. especially on the weekend.

Sorry to see you leave Princess!!! I find it hard to find the time as well... but just remember that YOU are important enough to MAKE the time!!!

One note ... walking and jogging in place do burn as many calories!!! I don't see why that wouldn't count. I went to a seminar last week given by a personal trainer that specializes in training with obese people.. and that's one thing he has all his clients do.. jog in place.. you don't even have to lift your feet off the floor.. as long as you're doing the motion... you're burning calories... something to think about!

Chelle_D

Good morning, everyone!!!

My weight loss was 4 lbs (Woot!!!). I'll have to ponder the weapon, but I'll definitely have to walk. Knee issues require that one.

Here's to a fabulous week!!!

scantrll

My name is Sara and I live in the Memphis, TN area. Go Team Explosives! :explode:

Today's weigh in was disappointing to me, but I know its not a true weight because TOM is supposed to hit either tomorrow or Wednesday which means for the last couple of days I'm retaining water like crazy. But here it is: 210.8. :frown: I'm sorry guys for letting the team down by gaining 1.4 pds. next week will be better.

Alright, my weapon of choice are concussion grenades. My personal mini challenge will be to do at least 30 minutes of stretching a day. I'm really bad about stretching and I want to become more limber.

My plan is to do the 2 mile jog / 45 reps of weights. Please don't quit this game just because you don't feel like its not possible. Just do as much as you can daily (even if its just a mile or less a day)! As a team we managed to blow the steps out of the water, I think we'll be able to make up the slack. This is all about getting healthier yourself and these are challenges to do that. As long as you make a good faith effort, I know I will be fine with whatever number you put up!

annacataldo

Good Morning everyone.. sorry.. Weekends are a little hectic for me to get on here ... My name is Hannah..and I'm from Southern Ontario (Canada). My weight loss this week was 3.8 lbs. I didn't do as well on the stair challenge as the rest of you all... and for that i apologize. I will gladly pick up extra miles for anyone that would need them this week. For the jogging? Can we do that on the elliptical? If we can.. i might do the jogging one.. if not.. walking is for me. I haven't decided what my personal weapon will be.. but it will definately be the water thing.. i SUCK at water intake too.. especially on the weekend.

Sorry to see you leave Princess!!! I find it hard to find the time as well... but just remember that YOU are important enough to MAKE the time!!!

One note ... walking and jogging in place do burn as many calories!!! I don't see why that wouldn't count. I went to a seminar last week given by a personal trainer that specializes in training with obese people.. and that's one thing he has all his clients do.. jog in place.. you don't even have to lift your feet off the floor.. as long as you're doing the motion... you're burning calories... something to think about!

Yes, u can use an elliptical..it doesn't say it in the challenge, but if u go to the main thread, she made a side note saying u can use an elliptical if u have joint problems (unfortunetly for me, elliptical is harder on my hip and running or walking is easier).

I wouldn't imagine walking/jogging in place not being ok..I would however think that the jogging/walking in place without even lifting ur feet would NOT be ok. Jogging in place does burn alot of calories, as well as still help u gain stamina/endurance over time.

And did u finish stairs? Even if u didn't finish, I think most of us did extra so we got u covered, and if u did finish, then that is more than enough. Not all of us did 5000 stairs like some ppl lol. I did 2200 ( I thought we had today still to do stairs though, so planned to finish with 2500 to 3000 stairs, but oh well). I think its good that u did as many as u could.

annacataldo

My name is Sara and I live in the Memphis, TN area. Go Team Explosives! :explode:

Today's weigh in was disappointing to me, but I know its not a true weight because TOM is supposed to hit either tomorrow or Wednesday which means for the last couple of days I'm retaining water like crazy. But here it is: 210.8. :frown: I'm sorry guys for letting the team down by gaining 1.4 pds. next week will be better.

Alright, my weapon of choice are concussion grenades. My personal mini challenge will be to do at least 30 minutes of stretching a day. I'm really bad about stretching and I want to become more limber.

My plan is to do the 2 mile jog / 45 reps of weights. Please don't quit this game just because you don't feel like its not possible. Just do as much as you can daily (even if its just a mile or less a day)! As a team we managed to blow the steps out of the water, I think we'll be able to make up the slack. This is all about getting healthier yourself and these are challenges to do that. As long as you maake a good faith effort, I know I will be fine with whatever number you put up!

I know at least 3 of us lost over 5lbs, so we got it covered ;-) ull do fine next week. I lose the most while during TOM (which was last week) and stay the same, fighting over gaining/losing the same 2lbs over and over for the two weeks before my TOM. The w eek after 59' I generally lose a decent amount as well, so this next weigh in should be a good one as well for me. Grr my phone wont let me go back, where it says 59' that's suppose to be TOM, but on my phone I held down wrong button for caps lock and instead held down key for numbers/symbols instead of the letters.

annacataldo

Final weigh in 264.6
sw 270

I prob woulda lost more weight today if I wouldn't have woke up at 6am for some ungodly reason. Don't have to be awake till 8:30. I went to bed at 1am...I lose more weight after full nights sleep ;-(

annacataldo

I can't think of a weapon. I drink plenty of water. It can't be anything with fitness cuz ill already to pushing my limits to do the challenge, (if it were a easier challenge, I would say do my 30day shred video everyday, and the activity, but that is unrealistic for me to do both)... the only thing that comes to mind is eat clean for the week, but I just bought a bunch of bagel thins and sandwich thins, and my snack ideas were my special k crackers and cheese, and lunches were going to be sandwichs... so I think for this particular week I can't do clean eating cuz food will go bad and I wont have much to eat... hrmmm...

Ok... no going out to eat..does that work? I generally eat out 2 to 3x a week; wether it be lunch, dinner, whatever, I just order really healthy.. or should I choose something I fight with everyday? Make sure I eat breakfast within 30min of waking up, maybe?

Chelle_D

For me, my weapon would have to be abstaining from ALL sweets. They're my weakness, so I can't think of a better weapon to arm myself with than to eat STRONG!!! My crowbar = NO SWEETS!!!

Jennyisbusy

I recommend getting a Leslie DVD I had one a long time ago and really enjoyed it. I saw them the other day and they were like $10. I think a 4 mile walk is like an hour, but maybe she has new options?

I felt bad when I read about the zombies getting Cobylea. Now we are losing our Princess too? :sad:

Ok guys this is a challenge - let's hit the road and see what awesomeness we can do!!!

I am going to aim for the 2mile jog, and my secret weapon will be water my goal is 9 glasses or 72ounces per day.

miw14

I can't think of a weapon either, but my mini-goal is to not binge eat.

scantrll

Ok, I just jogged 2.1 mile at a 4.3 mph pace. Off to a good start. Gonna do my candlelight yoga dvd and the weight challenge exercises too.

So you all know my name and where I live, now for a little back story about how I got to be the size I am...

In high school I was around 150 lbs, and was a Jr. Olympian in the sport of Fencing. In 1999, I won Silver for the under 17 foil and Bronze in the under 20 foil. It was amazing. But then the next year I tore up my left knee and had to have surgery to repair it. This was also my Sr. year and once I finally got to the point I could fence again, I just didn't really due to testing and then the excitement of college.

Well, crazy life stuff happened and by Summer of 2005 I was weighing in at 227 lbs. :noway: July of 2005 is also when I moved to St. Petersburg, Russian and lived till December of 2005. Over the course of those 6 months I got down into the 180's and I was feeling great. I did it through walking every where, every day and eating really, really well with no junk food or pop or anything like that.

Jan. of 2006 I moved back to Memphis and managed to keep most of the weight off (didn't really lose any more tho) until Feb. 2009. I got it into my head that I wanted to train for a 5k so I started "running" (ok, more like waddling! :laugh: ) when I got hit by a car in a cross walk. The person hit me from behind while I had right of way, and it broke my back (my L2 vertebra) and again messed up my poor, abused left knee. I literally couldn't do anything more than sit and lay down for about 6 months and I had to wear a turtle shell back brace and a hip to ankle brace. Needless to say I put back on most of the weight I lost in Russia, cause there was a great big pity party going on for a while there, let me tell ya!

While in that gear, I met my boyfriend. He completely overlooked all the craziness and saw ME. In December of 2009, he completed his first 1/2 Marathon in 2 hrs 22 mins. and I told myself, if he could do it, I could do it too! So 1 year and 2 weeks after the accident, in Feb. 2010 I finished my first 5k, in June 2010 I finished my first 10k (that's what my profile pic is from) and in December 2010 I completed the St. Jude 1/2 Marathon in 3 hrs. 22 mins. :drinker:

Sadly, over the course of this last year, I really didn't manage to lose any weight, which I think is due to my diet. So that's why I'm here. I KNOW I can finish whatever I put my mind to, I just have to made the decision to do it. I might not be the fastest one out there, but I don't give myself I choice in quitting.

That's my story as to why I am the way I am. I think if we're going to be surviving the Zombie Apocalypse together, its good to know your team! :explode: Go Team Explosives!

agreenmess

Hey everyone,

Im Nessy and im from the Isle of Man (the little island between England and Ireland lol)!!

Im going to try my best at this challenge, as it is we own two dogs and ive been slacking so much when it comes to being a good owner, so im going to try and get 2 walks in a day for them and as im off this week i can start getting myself into a rythem .

So sad to see you leave pink princess, we will miss you!!!!

Lost 6.2 pounds this week , is my first week back and on my diet properly (first time ever!) and im well happy i decided that i was going to aim for 2 pounds a week, so not to put pressure on myself so ive topped that by 4.2 pounds YAY!