8/15-8/21 CRUNCH WEEK CHALLENGE

helloclaire

I have definitely fallen off the treadmill, as they say, and have gained at least two pounds back. Monday I am starting back 30DS (but instead of everyday I will be doing it every other day, with sprint/walks on the days I don't do it), trying to keep intake down, et cetera. I realize that this first week back on it will be the hardest and I'm looking for those who are also interested in making this week a tough, Whipped into Shape sort of a week!

Here are the rules of this Crunch Week:

- Keep under calories all seven days of the week.

- Keep INTAKE to no more than 20 calories over or under your daily goal, regardless of exercise.

- Exercise every single day of the week, not including light walking (2mph) or household chores (cleaning, food prep, etc.). This is Crunch Week for a reason. If you do these, great, but you should also be doing some other type of exercise. For me this will be the 30 Day Shred and sprint/walk's.

- Daily Challenges: these are additional challenges for you to complete! They are not that hard (will be cake for some of you, so you can modify them).

Monday - 100 squats in sets of 10 or more
Tuesday - 20 total minutes of jumping jacks
Wednesday - 10 total minutes of sit-ups
Thursday - 150 squats in sets of 10 or more
Friday - 20 total minutes of jump rope (w/ or w/o jump rope)
Saturday - 20 total minutes of sit-ups
Sunday - Burn more calories than you did on whichever day you burned the most

They all can be split up. I like to do one-minute jumping jacks in the bathroom, so on a day like Tuesday I'll have to figure out how to do 20 minutes total. You cannot count these in for what you did for other exercises (like you can't count the jumping jacks you did in 30 Day Shred, etc.) For jumping jacks/ jump ropes/ sit-ups I put them down as "minutes" so you can log it. You can time yourself using a stopwatch. However, if you are doing them separately (like I know I will be), make sure you log them separately, too. For example, I will probably end up doing one-minute jumping jacks twenty times throughout the day, so I will log each minute separately, since you burn more calories by doing them non-stop. Please do note that these little challenges aren't really for burning massive amount of calories - it really is to make your lifestyle in general more active.

I don't know how many, if at all, of you would be up for this since it is pretty specific, but I will definitely be trying to stick to it because it is an important week for me. Even if you don't get to fulfill everything, it's fine, just keep going!

Here's to a fantastic Crunch Week!

AlexzKT

I would totally be down if I wasn't going camping Tuesday-Thursday, and I AM NOT about to bust out exercises up there, since this is going to be with my vet school class as part of our orientation (weird, right?)... and the last thing I need is for them to think I'm some crazy exercise freak. First impressions count! Haha.. I'm sure you can understand (:

helloclaire

Of course!! And I don't expect many people to do the same as I plan on doing since it's all very strict and specific, I just wanted to put it out there at least