TRUFFLE SHUFFLERS - We Work Out! **CLOSED**

hefinator

HELLO TRUFFLE SHUFFLERS!!!

Welcome back to the Challenge Fun!! This month is going to be formatted very similarly to last month, with some slight modifications! I will be adding a Bonus INDIVIDUAL challenge each week! We will also start tracking each person’s INDIVIDUAL points! So not only will we have a team total, but also individual totals! I hope this sparks some friendly competition amongst our amazing team!!

Here is how the month will work:

By Monday morning, I will post a list of Daily challenges to be completed Monday through Saturday. Sunday will be a rest day, but if you need to use it to finish up any of the daily challenges, I will accept that. Remember to find time to let your body rest though!! The Daily Challenges are to be done ABOVE AND BEYOND your normal scheduled workouts. The workouts will have a base set from MFPChallenges.Blogspot.com (there are some new exercises coming this month!!), with some additional/substitution exercises from Bodyrock.tv! This is to try and mix things up a bit, as many of you noted things felt “stale” last month!
I have decided to add Bonus exercise challenges for individual points this month! For example, for every 100 additional crunches (or pushups, lunges, burpees) you do in the week, you will earn yourself 1 point! So, if you did 500 crunches in the week, you would earn 5 additional points! I would be glad to take any suggestions you all have for different Bonus challenge exercises!!

Here's a little info on how the challenge points will be running:
1 point for each PERCENTAGE of weight loss per person
1 point for each day you complete the Daily Exercise Challenge
1 point for completing the team challenge of staying under your calories and having a minimum of 8 glasses of water a day!

BONUS POINTS
o Daily Exercise – If every team member logs the daily exercise as doing it for all 6 days (Mon – Sat), our team will earn an extra 5 points!
o Individual Daily Exercise –For every XX number of exercises you complete of the weekly challenge, you will earn 1 point towards your INDIVIDUAL score
o Weekly Challenges – if every team member log the weekly challenge (water, calories, and any Team Exercise challenge) as doing it for all 6 days (Mon – Sat), our team will earn an extra 5 points!

To kick this off, I’d like everyone to post their starting weight, as we begin to head into October! I also ask that by the end of every Monday, you send me your end weight for the week, how many days you completed the daily exercise challenge, how many days you completed the daily team challenges, and any other info on Team and Individual challenges!

I have created a document to track all of our information on GoogleDocs! Below is the link to access the spreadsheet. It is currently un-editable, but that can be changed at any time.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvRU46hcNmxIdHJRVHhrRUFJV2s4cjZjOFNrdUxKRFE&hl=en_US

Remember, if you have any questions, concerns, comments, anything at all… LET ME KNOW!!!

One last thing, here is the link for our new Team Logo! I have taken our beloved Chunk (from The Goonies) and put him in some Party Rock gear and placed him in the background of the LMFAO “Party Rock Anthem” video, with the band members! I figure, we are the Truffle Shufflers, and the LMFAO crew is always “Shufflin’”!! Hope you all enjoy! (remember to change the IMG to img)



Here’s to an amazing month and beyond!!

~Holly

MacSkillz

I am ready with my animal print pants out control, yo!!!




SW: 244.8
GW: 230 (I'm going to see if I can push myself this month to get where I wanted to originally be!)

Maggiedc

Soo excited to kick some butt in October!!!!!!!!!!!!!

trout3063

I am here but I am recovering from a killer Saturday....not sure how many days I'll be SORE, today is day two and my toes are so bruised I'm not sure I will be able to put them in workout shoes...I barely found shoes I can wear to work today ;( So this early week I'll be on modified exercise!

Starting Weight for October....174.5 GW....169.

cj2lose

Starting weight is 167.4. I went up a bit because of the weekend but now I am back on track for October. I'm going to try for 7lbs this month for a goal of 160. Good thing Halloween is at the end of the month, I always buy candy as late as possible so it is not in the house!

Good luck everyone!

Maggiedc

How do I make the picture smaller???? Holly its awesome!

MacSkillz

How do I make the picture smaller???? Holly its awesome!

I resized mine by saving a copy of the picture myself. If you want a smaller one, here's the link from my photobucket account:



Obviously change the IMG to img!

hefinator

How do I make the picture smaller???? Holly its awesome!

I stole it from Leslie, she made it smaller, lol. here's the image:
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff61/zqw/truffleshuffler.jpg

just change out the old image link for this one!

I still haven't heard from Gary on the new exercises for the week, and i'm pretty slammed at work right now. I will do my best to create some challenges for the week as soon as I get a moment!!

vampee

Starting weight 232...I am averaging 8- 10 pounds a month so I am going to aim for 2 additional pounds. I would like to see 220 by Nov. 1.

Maggiedc

Thanks Ladies....I am soooo not good at stuff like that on the computer....pretty sad actually!

vampee

So, I am gathering since it is getting later in Eastern standard time that there is no October challanges for today....

I did my own workout but it is getting too late for me to do anymore since I go to bed so early.

HawaiianStitchLuver

Still at 245 pounds *sigh* hoping to be down to 230 by the end of the month.

hefinator

Ladies!!! my apologies for not posting exercises!! noone has heard from Gary (however he did let us know he had a death in the family this weekend), so for right now, I would like you all to do 1 round of the exercises at the following location:
http://mfpchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/09/overboard-in-october-exercises.html

This is some of the exercises for the month, and rather than doing mutliple sets, just do 1 full set of each exercise. notice how some of them are done based on time. I am hoping that Gary is back up tomorrow with a full round of challenges exercises. If not, i have some great resources to mix things up for us!

For the individual challenge for the week, I picked an exercise from Bodyrock.tv! Zuzana is amazing and very helpful with a VARIETY of different exercises! here is the link for the Sleeping Crab exercise: http://www.bodyrock.tv/2010/12/08/sleeping-crab/
For every 50 you do(25 with each leg), you will earn yourself 1 point! Its the first week, I wanna keep it slightly simple, but still work those muscles!!!

I hope to post a full week of exercises tomorrow!! Let me know if you have any questions at all!!

-Holly

MacSkillz

So quick question - what are we going to do about points for yesterday? Are we just going to count points for the calories and water intake or just count it as the rest day?

vampee

I am wondering the same. I was getting in bed when the excercises were posted.

hefinator

Good Morning Ladies. Gary posted the following message this morning:

October Challenge Series will be posted tomorrow. Due to death unavailable until that time. Thanks for understanding. Keep killing fatty. I'll be posting tomorrow very early. Check out the website for the update. www.mfpchallenges.blogspot.com Thanks for being patient!

I will be giving everyone a pass for Monday and Tuesday on the challenges. sorry for the delay.

-Holly

cj2lose

How do I make the picture smaller???? Holly its awesome!

Thank you for asking! I couldn't figure this out either.

hefinator

I'm cheating!!! Don't hurt me!!! I'm stealing a work out set from last month to get you all through the rest of this week. I will seriously be reconsidering how and where we get our workouts from for the rest of the month. So, to suffice you all until next week, here are exercises for Wednesday thru Saturday! I will be doing my own research on good exercise combos and if I don't hear from gary, i will post my own researched set! If there are exercises that you would like to see, SEND THEM TO ME!!!!

WEDNESDAY - 50 Toe Touches, 50 Crunches, 50 Windshield Wipers, 50 Kick Squats, 50 Globe jumps (each jump up counts as one), 50 Lunges (25 each leg)

THURSDAY - 3 sets of 15 Swimmer’s Presses, 3 sets of 21’s, 3 Sets of 15 Lawnmowers, 3 sets of 15 Woodchops

FRIDAY - 50 Toe Touches, 50 Crunches, 50 Windshield Wipers, 50 Kick Squats, 50 Globe jumps (each jump up counts as one), 50 Lunges (25 each leg)

SATURDAY - 3 sets of 15 Swimmer’s Presses, 3 sets of 21’s, 3 Sets of 15 Lawnmowers, 3 sets of 15 Woodchops

REMEMBER: For the individual challenge for the week, I picked an exercise from Bodyrock.tv! Zuzana is amazing and very helpful with a VARIETY of different exercises! here is the link for the Sleeping Crab exercise: http://www.bodyrock.tv/2010/12/08/sleeping-crab/
For every 50 you do(25 with each leg), you will earn yourself 1 point! Its the first week, I wanna keep it slightly simple, but still work those muscles!!!

I'm SO SO SO Sorry for the craziness starting this week. I rely on someone else for the exercises, and he's been unavailable! I feel like i'm letting you all down!! but no more!!!I 'll create things on my own if I have to!!!

-Holly

vampee

You aren't letting me down in the least. You are doing what you can and it's great.

MacSkillz

WEDNESDAY - 50 Toe Touches, 50 Crunches, 50 Windshield Wipers, 50 Kick Squats, 50 Globe jumps (each jump up counts as one), 50 Lunges (25 each leg)


REMEMBER: For the individual challenge for the week, I picked an exercise from Bodyrock.tv! Zuzana is amazing and very helpful with a VARIETY of different exercises! here is the link for the Sleeping Crab exercise: http://www.bodyrock.tv/2010/12/08/sleeping-crab/
For every 50 you do(25 with each leg), you will earn yourself 1 point! Its the first week, I wanna keep it slightly simple, but still work those muscles!!!

Wednesday workouts done!!
And 50 Sleeping Crab exercises done! They take a little while to get used to, but once you get going, they aren't too bad!

Maggiedc

I really stink at the sleeping crab...thought I was going to kill over trying to do them last night...anybody else?

vampee

They are much harder than they look, especially when you are around the half way mark. :noway:

hefinator

LADIES!!!! I've finally beaten whatever sickness has been attacking me all week! i'm feeling much better and ready to rock out a couple days of challenges tonight when i get home!! Not gonna let you ladies down!!! gonna get my butt in gear and knock it out of the park!!!

Who's with me!? :drinker:

cj2lose

Glad you are healthy again!!! Now, lets kick some booty! :glasses:

HawaiianStitchLuver

Ok so I did the first 3 days of challenges, and have lost 3 pounds. Woo hoo!

hefinator

Alright everyone, still no word from Gary! So using my own own research tools, I created a weeks worth of exercises that I think will work our bodies! I tried to select exercises that will work a variety of different muscles! Let me know if you want to see certain exercises, and i'll be sure to try and work them into other weeks!!


MONDAY - 3 sets of 12 Pulsing Squats, 3 sets of 12 Bridges with Leg Drop (per leg), 3 sets of 12 Plyo-Jacks, 3 sets of 12 Mountain Climbers

TUESDAY - 3 sets of 15 Alternating Bicep Curls (per arm), 3 sets of 15 Lateral Raises, 3 Sets of 15 Skull Crushers, 3 sets of 15 Single Arm Clean and Press (per arm)

WEDNESDAY - 3 sets of 12 Pulsing Squats, 3 sets of 12 Bridges with Leg Drop (per leg), 3 sets of 12 Plyo-Jacks, 3 sets of 12 Mountain Climbers

THURSDAY - 3 sets of 15 Alternating Bicep Curls (per arm), 3 sets of 15 Lateral Raises, 3 Sets of 15 Skull Crushers, 3 sets of 15 Single Arm Clean and Press (per arm)

FRIDAY - 3 sets of 12 Pulsing Squats, 3 sets of 12 Bridges with Leg Drop (per leg), 3 sets of 12 Plyo-Jacks, 3 sets of 12 Mountain Climbers

SATURDAY - 3 sets of 15 Alternating Bicep Curls (per arm), 3 sets of 15 Lateral Raises, 3 Sets of 15 Skull Crushers, 3 sets of 15 Single Arm Clean and Press (per arm)

EXERCISE LINKS:
Skull Crushers: http://exercise.about.com/od/exerciseworkouts/ss/tricepexercises_3.htm

Lateral Raises: http://exercise.about.com/od/exerciseworkouts/ss/shoulderexercis_2.htm

Alternating Bicep Curls: http://exercise.about.com/od/exerciseworkouts/ss/bicepexercises_4.htm

Clean and Press: http://exercise.about.com/od/exercisesformusclegroups/ss/compoundexercis_8.htm

Pulsing Squats (do these WITHOUT the chair, once you have squatted down, pulse slightly lower 3 times before pressing up) : http://exercise.about.com/od/exerciseworkouts/ss/howtosquat.htm

Bridges with Leg Drop: http://exercise.about.com/od/abworkouts/ss/advancedabexercises2_3.htm

Plyo-Jacks: http://exercise.about.com/od/cardioworkouts/ss/cardioexercises_10.htm

Mountain Climbers: http://exercise.about.com/od/cardioworkouts/ss/cardioexercises_3.htm


INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE: This is a dance we did in my zumba class this weekend. definitely killed my abs! I think its more effective than me trying to do crunches! http://youtu.be/uomdpE8VXXc
For each DAY that you do this video, you will get 1 bonus point towards your individual Points!!!

Good luck this week team!!! You all are awesome!!!

~Holly

hefinator

ALRIGHT LADIES!!!! by the end of Monday, I hope you can all provide me with the following:

Start Weight:
Current Weight:
Goal Weight (for October):
Day 1: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 2: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 3: Team challenge completed? Under Calories and Drank 64oz water?
Day 4: Team challenge completed? Under Calories and Drank 64oz water?
Day 5: Team challenge completed? Under Calories and Drank 64oz water?
Day 6: Team challenge completed? Under Calories and Drank 64oz water?
How Many Sleeping Crabs did you complete?


I know some of you already provided Starting/Goal weights, just want to make sure I didn't miss anything!!! Once I have all the results, I will update the Google Docs page with the info!

-Holly

Maggiedc

Start Weight: 234.4
Current Weight: 233.4 (woo hoo 1 lb!)
Goal Weight (for October): 225
Day 1: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 2: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 3: Team challenge completed? Yes Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? Yes
Day 4: Team challenge completed? Yes Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? Yes
Day 5: Team challenge completed?No Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? Yes
Day 6: Team challenge completed? No Under Calories and Drank 64oz water?No
How Many Sleeping Crabs did you complete? 25

trout3063

Start Weight: 174.5
Current Weight: 177....UGG, but I didn't do hardly anything so it's not suprising! Looking forward now!
Goal Weight (for October): 170.00
Day 1: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 2: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 3: Team challenge completed? Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? no
Day 4: Team challenge completed? Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? no
Day 5: Team challenge completed? Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? no
Day 6: Team challenge completed? Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? no
How Many Sleeping Crabs did you complete? zero

Ok....back to work! Thanks Holly for setting up a good plan for this week. I was lost without a good plan, as well as I was still recovering from my radical event on 10/1. But now I'm back to my normal self and ready to start resuming workouts as normal! I'm going to Vegas in two weeks and I have my "goal" jeans hanging in the closet. I was able to put them on this weekend, I just want to be able to breath in them by Vegas!

hefinator

Start Weight: 262.4
Current Weight: 258.8 (YES!!!)
Goal Weight (for October): 250 (i wanna keep a low goal, so that if I go over it, Its just more weight gone! No disappointment, haha!)
Day 1: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 2: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 3: Team challenge completed? YES Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? YES
Day 4: Team challenge completed? YES Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? YES
Day 5: Team challenge completed? NO Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? YES
Day 6: Team challenge completed? NO Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? YES
How Many Sleeping Crabs did you complete? ZERO

I was still recovering from the sickness most the week, so I only managed to get 2 days of exercises in, and no sleeping crabs. but this week, I'm going to complete EVERYTHING!! getting into the 250's has just provided me more motiviation to KICK *kitten* this month!! COME ON LADIES!!! WE CAN DO THIS!!!!

-Holly

cj2lose

Start Weight: 167.4
Current Weight: 168 (Birthday cake is not my friend!!)
Goal Weight (for October): 160 (I think this is a bit aggressive with Halloween!)

Day 1: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 2: Everyone gets all points today, due to exercises not being posted
Day 3: Team challenge completed? Yes Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? Yes
Day 4: Team challenge completed? No Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? No calories
Day 5: Team challenge completed? Yes Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? No calories
Day 6: Team challenge completed? Yes Under Calories and Drank 64oz water? No calories

How Many Sleeping Crabs did you complete? I did 2 rounds, so 100.

Now that my daughters birthday is done, I hope to throw out the leftover cake after visiting the Great Grandparents tonight and get back to healthier foods!

By the way, you rock Holly!!! Great workout plan for the week. You're doing a great job!