RED TEAM.. 1/8

jennifun

Hello Teammates!

First, weigh ins need to be in to me by Wednesday afternoon (EST). I'll probably submit them all by 8:30.

Second, I will post a weekly challenge under 'Motivation and Support'. Just to warn you I can get a little competitive, so if I ever go to far please let me know! I think we should start the week by posting what our goal to meet the challenge for the week. Then check in when we have met the challenge.. For those of can't log-in everyday, do it when you can and keep us updated! From now on I'll also have them under the thread "RED TEAM~ WEEK 1".. that way it will be easier for us all to find!

OK, so for WEEK 1 (official)~ our challenges are:
4 days of 45 minutes of cardio
3 days of core/weights
Minimum of 5 glasses of water a day (this will go up each week until we get to 8~ my personal goal each day.)
Try 1 new thing this week (a new light food/recipe, excercise or something physical~ roller skating, ice skating, hang gliding, running, biking and share what you do!)

Sound good? Any additional suggestions for next week?

jennifun

Hello Teammates!

First, weigh ins need to be in to me by Wednesday afternoon (EST). I'll probably submit them all by 8:30.

Second, I will post a weekly challenge under 'Motivation and Support'. Just to warn you I can get a little competitive, so if I ever go to far please let me know! I think we should start the week by posting what our goal to meet the challenge for the week. Then check in when we have met the challenge.. For those of can't log-in everyday, do it when you can and keep us updated! From now on I'll also have them under the thread "RED TEAM~ WEEK 1".. that way it will be easier for us all to find!

OK, so for WEEK 1 (official)~ our challenges are:
4 days of 45 minutes of cardio
3 days of core/weights
Minimum of 5 glasses of water a day (this will go up each week until we get to 8~ my personal goal each day.)
Try 1 new thing this week (a new light food/recipe, excercise or something physical~ roller skating, ice skating, hang gliding, running, biking and share what you do!)

Sound good? Any additional suggestions for next week?

Bride092909

Sounds great to me,

I'm in!


Go Red Team!

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gingermoon

Sounds perfect!!

I'm soo excited to get this week going!!!!!!!! :bigsmile:

Michelle09

Got it! GO RED TEAM! :glasses:

waguchan

Wow. That is quite a challenge.

It will be very hard, but I will try to get 4 days of 45 min. cardio and 3 days of core/weights. It's difficult with my 60+ hour work week, plus 2 hour a day commutes, plus mom to a 2 year old and 10 year old.

QUESTIONS:
1. Does Boot Camp count as cardio or core/weights or both?
2. Does something that you haven't done in a very long while count as something new?

MrsTomy

Sounds good! 1 45 minute workout down!

tamlom

Sounds good! Thanks Jen

aodier

sounds fun and definitely do able! woohoo!

shoppie

Sounds good to me, though I am planning to tweak the rules and make it a minimum of 5 30 minute workouts - getting a straight run of time is hard as I have an 11 week old baby and a 2 year old round my feet!

What are you all doing as strength training - this should be a real test area for me as I'm rubbish at it and tend to just do cardio :embarassed:

Water should be fine for me as I'm breastfeeding and meant to drink 3 litres (12 glasses!!) of water per day!

Something new will help keep it interesting too!

So today, am already at 9 glasses of liquid and haven't got to tea yet (its 7.30 pm here, I'm in the UK). Have done 30 minutes on the lateral thigh trainer so that's another tick. My somehting new is a pork and apple mash recipe that I'm trying tomorrow - is low-fat so hoping its a goodey! :bigsmile:

As an idea for next week, what about something like everyone has to do at least 50 sit-ups on 3 days of the week? Or similar???

ETA - is everyone else in the States??

healthier4me

Sounds good to me, though I am planning to tweak the rules and make it a minimum of 5 30 minute workouts - getting a straight run of time is hard as I have an 11 week old baby and a 2 year old round my feet!

What are you all doing as strength training - this should be a real test area for me as I'm rubbish at it and tend to just do cardio :embarassed:

Water should be fine for me as I'm breastfeeding and meant to drink 3 litres (12 glasses!!) of water per day!

Something new will help keep it interesting too!

So today, am already at 9 glasses of liquid and haven't got to tea yet (its 7.30 pm here, I'm in the UK). Have done 30 minutes on the lateral thigh trainer so that's another tick. My somehting new is a pork and apple mash recipe that I'm trying tomorrow - is low-fat so hoping its a goodey! :bigsmile:

As an idea for next week, what about something like everyone has to do at least 50 sit-ups on 3 days of the week? Or similar???

ETA - is everyone else in the States??

I'm from beautiful Ontario, Canada

healthier4me

The challenge sounds great. Good planning Jen. Thanks for keeping up going:flowerforyou:

WE CAN DO IT!!!

GO RED GO

We can also do more if we want to right????

jdelisle

Got my water in (well probably out by now, lol!) hehehe.

gustergirl

Sounds good! I also will be probably do 5 days of 30 minutes since thats how long my walk is now. Cant wait to see next week!

tamlom

Did my water for the day; Yeah! now going to the gym.


GOOD LUCK RED TEAM!

tamlom

Of course you can do more than the challenge. The Challenge is the minimum goal for the week. :laugh:

laurynh925

Sounds good to me!

abetterme

Thank you Jen for getting this going:flowerforyou:

I was MIA all day sorry. I did get my cardio in this morning thou before the kids got up so I am good on that, need to still work on my water.:drinker:

GO RED TEAM

jennifun

Yes, I was thinking it would be best if we did do more than the challenge.. so, do as much as you can.. maybe some others will be motivated by you!!

Also, I think something that you haven't done in a while counts as something new.. Will it be exciting and fun?

I'm glad everyone seems to think it is doable.. If it isn't, scale down a bit or alter it to fit you.. like the 30 minutes of cardio instead! Great thinking by the way!

Lastly, I have us all on an excel spreadsheet and I don't know how to do percentages yet.. I'll try to do a little bit of a tutorial before our first official weigh in.. Keep your fingers crossed! I wish that counted as my something new... I feel I should be burning calories LOTS of them!

Here is the official RED TEAM roster:
Jennifun
Renea101
brookefoley
kazzit
laurynh925
healthier4me
fatty78
gingermoon
tamlom
healthyinponca
kmdougherty
berrypatchdesigns
RMONTGOMERY
aodier
amynvegas
bride092909
hollymires
x_confused_x
TWJSWEET
tyme4me
abetterme
jdelisle
shoppie
foxyloxy
karlaw
candace51487
prplangl4
gustergirl
michelle09
alicawthon
whim
jjcunningham85
angelaBeaulieu
pingwhat
mddowlat

Did I miss anyone?

aodier

Wow! that's a lot of team members and a lot of motivation. i have a quick question for you all... Should I still try to eat my excersice calories when i am full?:ohwell:

AmyNVegas

Shoppie I think I like your tweaking. It is still hard for me to do 45 min cardio. I am up to 30 but my knees just can't do more than that most days, but I definitely want to work up to it. So I will do at least 5 days of 30 min each and aim for 6. I use resistance bands for my strength training. You can get them at any department store. I got mine at Target last New Year for $2.50 for the long one and $1.00 for the short one. I also got a workout video for using them for another $1. If you go on Sparkpeople.com they will even design a workout for you and they have demonstration videos for each exercise. You can plug in what equipment you have and it will design a program for you or you can choose your own from the demo videos. The food diary and support are much better on here though. It is also completely free.

No prob with the water here! Got mine all in and still going. :drinker:

Amy

waguchan

I just don't have time to do that much cardio & strength training between work and family. I usually do a combination of both about 3 or 4 days a week for a total of 1 hour each time. But starting Monday, I challenge myself to get away from my desk each day long enough to walk up and down 11 flights of stairs since I work on the 17th floor. I'm working from home tomorrow, or I'd do start tomorrow.

whim

Sounds good!

natashak

meee!!! im being missed

natashak

and my motivation wasn't there today. I just don't feel well, im exhausted and my body is sore from my ridiculous run yesterday....HELP!

ps im 23 tomorrow..happy birthday to me!

gingermoon

and my motivation wasn't there today. I just don't feel well, im exhausted and my body is sore from my ridiculous run yesterday....HELP!

ps im 23 tomorrow..happy birthday to me!

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!
:flowerforyou:

AmyNVegas

HAPPY BIRTHDAY natashak!!!!!! :drinker:
Amy

jennifun

I'll add you tonight natashak.. AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

healthier4me

and my motivation wasn't there today. I just don't feel well, im exhausted and my body is sore from my ridiculous run yesterday....HELP!

ps im 23 tomorrow..happy birthday to me!

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

waguchan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATASHAK!

:flowerforyou:

LosingIt4good

Im new to this and was told that Im on the RED team now.
Cant wait to get started :happy:

Where do I start??