Gimme the Skinny - August Challenge Team 21 - (closed group)

u2fergus

Are we still weighing in today or are we waiting til the end of the month?

I'll report in my weight today, but I'm REALLY hoping we can report again on Wednesday. I should be done retaining water by then, and I'll be SO sad if I don't get to hit my challenge goal because of stupid TOM today.

u2fergus

I did my 5K today in 54'55". I'll probably do another on Tuesday, but I have a class Tuesday night, so I wanted to make sure I get this challenge in, just in case I can't on Tuesday.

Today's fun fact: I have never measured the exact distance of the path I usually take when I walk on the trails near our house. I discovered today that the distance from our house through the trails and back to our house is almost exactly 5K. I had to walk about .05 miles (halfway past our house to the stop sign and back) to get the rest in. Nobody else cares about this, but I thought it was kinda cool.

Also... I just finished 200 jumping jacks and 200 crunches. That fulfills my 1,000 jumping jack pledge for the week and gives me 1800 total crunches for the week.

szczepj

Just cranked out 400 more crunches. Just kinda felt like it.

mommaski4

Oh my U2fergus! You were an exercising machine today! I am tired just reading everything you did today. :yawn:

Excellent job on the 5k too.

u2fergus

Thanks, mommaski!

Ok... finished my challenges for today:

200 jumping jacks
100 crunches
10 burpees (had to do modified)
10 mountain climbers
10 globe jumps
10 squat kicks
10 zigzag hops

I'm pleased to say that I was able to do them all at one time without stopping to rest in between. The only type of "rest" I did was I had to break up the jumping jacks a little bit. I did 80 in a row, then did 20 crunches, then did 30 more, then did the other exercises, then did 40 more, then did some more crunches, then finished them up. Since I was really only "resting" by doing burpees or globe jumps or crunches or whatever, I am going to go ahead and say I did them without stopping. Wow, Gary was right... I really CAN do more than I thought I could! :happy:

u2fergus

Just read Gary's post today... I guess I didn't do the challenge correctly because I couldn't manage 200 jumping jacks all in one consecutive set. Oh, well... I did the best I could. :sad: It's more than I could do on August 1, anyway, so I'll be happy with that.

tagrady

:bigsmile:

Are we still weighing in today or are we waiting til the end of the month?

I'll report in my weight today, but I'm REALLY hoping we can report again on Wednesday. I should be done retaining water by then, and I'll be SO sad if I don't get to hit my challenge goal because of stupid TOM today.

OK guys, your captain is back in action. I had some sort of stomach bug on top of having Lasik and it really put me out of commission this weekend! I'm back to feeling like myself and got the OK to work out again!

I know I have a lot of messages to open & return to you guys.

Some clarification, I'm sorry I had everyone send me the stats yesterday, little goof on my part from habit. We are turning in our final numbers/weights on wednesday. So I'm going to update the spreadsheet with all the info from yesterday, then if anyone has a better weight, completed more jumping jacks, miles, or crunches by wednesday, please put that in your wednesday in-box message.

After I update the spreadsheet today, i'll let you know how far off we are to getting the bonus points and maybe we can pull through as a team in the next two days to get er done

tagrady

ok, girls,

some stats so far...

so far biggest loosers....drum roll please...

kcgslp 1.9%
tagrady 1.9%
u2fergus 1.4%

We had some great efforts on the team challenge SO FAR by:
mommaski4
Sharesb
szczepj
u2fergus
lmmiller1
tagrady

Unfortunately, I don't know if we'll be able to pull off the team challenge? I guess it's up to us.

we killed the crunches, did 1700 extra
we need 200 more jumping jacks, which is easy I can do today.
the bad part is, we still need 47.5 miles, which I don't know is reasonable to do in 2 days. we have about 11 active members that actually check this forum and that would mean an additional 4.32 miles out of each one of us.

I still don't have counts from a few people, but I doubt it's going to add up to 47 miles unless heofon had another amazing week

What do you think....can we do it? I know I can do another 5 miles If I put my mind to it...
(OMG, i just read tomorrow is a 5k with 3.2 miles, this might be rough!)

Let me know guys...

u2fergus

Unfortunately, I don't know if we'll be able to pull off the team challenge? I guess it's up to us.

we killed the crunches, did 1700 extra
we need 200 more jumping jacks, which is easy I can do today.
the bad part is, we still need 47.5 miles, which I don't know is reasonable to do in 2 days. we have about 11 active members that actually check this forum and that would mean an additional 4.32 miles out of each one of us.

I still don't have counts from a few people, but I doubt it's going to add up to 47 miles unless heofon had another amazing week

What do you think....can we do it? I know I can do another 5 miles If I put my mind to it...
(OMG, i just read tomorrow is a 5k with 3.2 miles, this might be rough!)

Let me know guys...

Ok... we have until Wednesday night to complete all the extra miles, right? Heofon has been working on a final paper this past week, and he has another he's hoping to finish tonight, so I know he's about ready to burst from all the sitting. I think he could be persuaded to get in some good biking miles.
I am not sure if I can do biking yet or not (the nails went in right where I have to press down on the pedal, so I've been a bit reluctant to try biking yet), but I will see what I can do. I finished my 5K yesterday, so at the very least, I will do some extra walking today, tomorrow and Wednesday. Rather than pledge a particular number of miles, I think I'm just going to do as much as I can and hope that other people will pitch in, too. I know amongst all of us, we can DEFINITELY handle 47.5 miles in three days. We're Skinnies, after all!! :bigsmile:

heofon

You name the miles and I'll do them. It's 43 to my dad's house and back. I did this back in June. I'm planning on doing a leisurely 16 miles tonight, but I can crank it up to whatever we need. I've only done 100 jumping jacks so don't do any extra out of necessity. I'll do my 1000 today and tomorrow. I'm so pumped and energetic. Could it be the goji berries? (I like their alternative name: wolfberries)

szczepj

I'll do a bunch of extra miles today! No problem.

szczepj

I'll do a bunch of extra miles today! No problem.

tagrady

thanks guys! Love the team spirit!!

I'm going to start the sept challenge thread today, so be on the lookout in motivation & support boards for our new Outwit the Chubby team forum!!

here's the email I received so far from Garry:


Thank you for being a team captain. I have attached the points and rules of the September Challenge. For those returning captains there aren't any changes at this point. I'm in the process of setting everyone up with Google Docs so that you can edit the main spreadsheet online. This will keep my email free for questions etc... Feel free to contact me at any time. Please copy and paste these rules in your teams forum. If you've not created a team forum for the September Challenge please do so immediately. The forum should be named YOUR TEAM NAME (Closed Group)

I will send out the list of Week 1's challenges by Monday. Hopefully sooner. There will be 2 levels of challenges. A basic low impact workout and an advanced (BUSHMEN) high impact workout. Encourage your people to mix and match if they so choose.

Please remember this needs to be FUN! Encourage your people and have fun with the challenges. I would encourage you to create a gmail account if you do not have one and post your team spreadsheet on google docs under you email account. This way your team can update the spreadsheet on their own. It seems very simple. Make this as easy on your team and yourself as you can. IF someone drops from your team after September 1st and you have a replacement update it yourself and move forward. I do not need to be notified of drops or adds moving forward.

Once the main spread sheet is added you will need to open it up in google docs (i will provide instructions don't panic ) and add your teammates names. After that we get ready to RAISE OUR SPEARS AND GO TRIBAL!

Thanks for all you do and for allowing me to join you on this journey. We've seen tremendous weight loss results in August and I hope to see many more in September. Any questions at all please message me in MFP that is easier for me to manage from work.

Please pray for those that are being affected by Hurricane Irene.

Blessings,

Your Friend

Gary

and points rules:

RAISING OUR SPEARS IN SEPTEMBER AND WE’RE GOING TRIBAL!

Welcome and thank you so much for being a team captain for this MFP Challenge. I believe this is one
of the largest MFP Challenges to date and it’s all made possible by you! You folks really are ROCKSTARS!

If a team member is unable to fulfill their place a replacement can be made please update me with the
information.

September 1st Deadline

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Make sure you have contacted each team member and given them your forum post link
Obtain everyone’s starting weight as of September 1st or the night before
Post the weekly challenges to your team forum prior to September 1st and prior to each week
End of the week tally your teams points (this can be done daily if easier)
Add Bonus Points at the end of the week where applicable

The scoring is as follows. I hope this is simple. If you have questions I’ll answer them for you.

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1 point for each pound lost per team member
1 point for each team member who does their daily exercise challenge (1 point per member)
1 point for the other weekly challenges (water intake, staying under calories etc.) Each week
different challenge per member
(you will put 1 in the excel spreadsheet)
BONUS POINTS
o Daily Exercise – If every team member logs the daily exercise as doing it for all 6 days
Mon – Sat. You may award your TEAM an extra 5 points
o Weekly Challenges – if every team member log the weekly challenge as doing it for all 6
days Mon – Sat. You may award your TEAM an extra 5 points

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Each week you will email me your Team Name and your total points! This is all honor based so please
be honest and encourage your team to be honest.

That’s it. The next email coming later this weekend will be the team challenges. Let’s Step It UP in
SEPTEMBER AND GO TRIBAL!

Go Weapons of Mass Reduction!

Your MFP

Buddy Gary

u2fergus

I just noticed that Gary said part of the challenge was to get a friend to join the next challenge. I don't know if any of the people I mentioned it to have signed up for the challenge, but I did get somebody to join MFP itself (lavy2sj). Does that count for a bonus point?

tagrady

yes it does!

tagrady

wow, gary is quite the captain, he has Wappo Warrior teams 1-13!!!

that's insane!

u2fergus

Heofon just took off on his bike to ride 43 miles for Team Skinny tonight. All I can say is me and the 5-mile walk I had planned for tonight look like a couple of slackers now. :ohwell:

szczepj

43 miles wow! I just added 5.8 miles to our total So, I did a total of 16.8 miles I believe. Worth every drop of sweat! I also finished all our daily exercises and I did have someone join alicat844. She isn't logging as faithfully as I'd hoped but she's trying!

u2fergus

43 miles wow! I just added 5.8 miles to our total So, I did a total of 16.8 miles I believe. Worth every drop of sweat! I also finished all our daily exercises and I did have someone join alicat844. She isn't logging as faithfully as I'd hoped but she's trying!

You're absolutely right it was worth every drop of sweat! You're dropping pounds like crazy, szczepj!!! Way to go, SKINNY! :glasses:

u2fergus

Just added 5.13 walking miles tonight for the team.

heofon

Ok. I think we're good on the miles. I rode 44 miles this evening. 6 towns, 2 counties, and I visited my parents who live 20 miles away. Fun!

tagrady

Wow Heofon that's awesome. Now I look like such a slacker! I did 5 miles, plus those insane excercises yesterday and next to Heofon I feel like a chump! That's rediculous!!!!!!!!!

Great work guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kcgslp

Hello SKINNYs,

I feel like I've been away forever!!!! Let's just say that the trip to NY was memorable and leave it at that....

Of course you have to bring back souvenirs when you travel....I brought back an infection! So I'm a little under the weather and missed yesterday's workout completely between waiting at the airport and waiting at the urgent care.
(I called my doctor as soon as the plane landed and was told the 1st available appointment was in 3 weeks....time to find a new doctor)

Luckily I'm still off work so I am currently in between workouts....almost caught up!

heofon

(I called my doctor as soon as the plane landed and was told the 1st available appointment was in 3 weeks....time to find a new doctor)

Apparently the sign of a good doctor is not being able to get an appoinment with them. "Oh, he's a great doctor. You can't even get in to see him. Some people wait six months."

"Yes, but I'm bleeding profusely today."

"Do you know any so-so doctors? With bandages and such?"

u2fergus

(I called my doctor as soon as the plane landed and was told the 1st available appointment was in 3 weeks....time to find a new doctor)

Apparently the sign of a good doctor is not being able to get an appoinment with them. "Oh, he's a great doctor. You can't even get in to see him. Some people wait six months."

"Yes, but I'm bleeding profusely today."

"Do you know any so-so doctors? With bandages and such?"

Heofon really likes Brian Regan.

kcgslp

LOL!!!

My husband is a HUGE Brian Regan fan also...I'll have to share the post with him.

mommaski4

Okay....44 miles! Now I feel like a real slacker! Wow! And I was going to try for another 3-4 on the treadmill tonight and during my morning walk tomorrow. Guess I do not have to now. I might anyway IF I have time.

This week is killing me. Things have been hectic since the kids went back to school and back to activities. My daughter did not even do her 3rd grade HW yesterday. Had to write a note last Monday too. She usually does it in daycare but it is to write definitions for her spelling words, all 19 of them. She does not have access to a dictionary or to the internet there. Not to mention she is just learning how to use a dictionary. I have to help her with it. But we go right to Brownies on Mondays (I am the leader) and don't get home until 9. Then dinner, showers, bedtime. I feel like a bad mommy.

I also have to take her to dance after work tomorrow night. Then Thursday, look out!!!!! Volunteer in school before work, work until 6 but have a meeting at school at 5, so have to figure that one out. Then a meeting at 6 for science fair info, and a scout leaders meeting at 7. Grocery shopping to follow. All this while trying to pack up the camper to leave Friday morning for the long weekend. AND, managing to get my daily challenges in.

So, if I am not posting as much, please forgive me. It is going to be utter chaos between now and the weekend, but it will be oh so worth it when we are lounging on the river for the weekend.

But, please feel free to kick my butt into gear if I seem to slack off.

mommaski4

Hello SKINNYs,

I feel like I've been away forever!!!! Let's just say that the trip to NY was memorable and leave it at that....

Of course you have to bring back souvenirs when you travel....I brought back an infection! So I'm a little under the weather and missed yesterday's workout completely between waiting at the airport and waiting at the urgent care.
(I called my doctor as soon as the plane landed and was told the 1st available appointment was in 3 weeks....time to find a new doctor)

Luckily I'm still off work so I am currently in between workouts....almost caught up!

So sorry you brought back something so icky. Hope you feel better soon!

Hope you at least enjoyed most of your time there!

u2fergus

Okay....44 miles! Now I feel like a real slacker! Wow! And I was going to try for another 3-4 on the treadmill tonight and during my morning walk tomorrow. Guess I do not have to now. I might anyway IF I have time.

This week is killing me. Things have been hectic since the kids went back to school and back to activities. My daughter did not even do her 3rd grade HW yesterday. Had to write a note last Monday too. She usually does it in daycare but it is to write definitions for her spelling words, all 19 of them. She does not have access to a dictionary or to the internet there. Not to mention she is just learning how to use a dictionary. I have to help her with it. But we go right to Brownies on Mondays (I am the leader) and don't get home until 9. Then dinner, showers, bedtime. I feel like a bad mommy.

I also have to take her to dance after work tomorrow night. Then Thursday, look out!!!!! Volunteer in school before work, work until 6 but have a meeting at school at 5, so have to figure that one out. Then a meeting at 6 for science fair info, and a scout leaders meeting at 7. Grocery shopping to follow. All this while trying to pack up the camper to leave Friday morning for the long weekend. AND, managing to get my daily challenges in.

So, if I am not posting as much, please forgive me. It is going to be utter chaos between now and the weekend, but it will be oh so worth it when we are lounging on the river for the weekend.

But, please feel free to kick my butt into gear if I seem to slack off.

Mommaski... just reading all that made me tired. :frown: I really, really hope things calm down for you so you can not only get caught up, but have some time for yourself. And I thought I was busy! Wow.

kcgslp

So sorry you brought back something so icky. Hope you feel better soon!

Hope you at least enjoyed most of your time there!

Thank you Karin:bigsmile: !
I am doing my best and I guess NY wasn't ALL bad. I did get to see family, friends and even a Met game before the hurricane Irene hit !