Hufflepuff Common Room
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Since getting the Walk It Out game, I have logged a combined total of 122.7 miles to date :noway:0
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Over the weekend, I finished my "second time around the island", and have started the third. I am also beefing up my time spent on cardio-aerobic step, but still getting a minimum of walking in per day too. So rainbows will keep happening without fail.0
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Sorry I've been absent yet again, surgery recovery is slow and painful. Here's the August spreadsheet. Please add your own name to the 'weigh in here' tab and continue like usual. Thanks xo
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArisWe6qmbHrdGFGTVMyWlhiaE9UaGpqUUtlNi02TlE#gid=00 -
Here are the challenges for the first week
Week 1 - Gryffindor
Food - One earned for every day you stay under your carb macro (feel free to do some research and set this macro as you see appropriate for yourself and your goals).
Exercise -One earned for every set of 10 tricep dips!
Spirit - One earned for every day you post in your house's Common Room!0 -
I have bookmarked the Aug spreadsheet, and will get back into actually logging what I do (especially as relates to Challenges) again.
What goes under "House Points" and what goes under "Quidich Match" again? (Sorry, but it has been months since I was doing recording in the spreadsheet :blushing: )
And what is the Hufflepuff equivalent of "Spirit"? We don't seem to have a collumn with that title ....0 -
Hi everyone!
I'm back from a wonderful vacation. I never wanted it to end, and the only positive thing about coming home was I was able to sleep in MY bed again.
I didn't get to go out and climb as many mountains as I wanted to, but I did manage to drag my mom out Wednesday and Friday to do some >serious< outdoors stuff.
Wednesday we did Whiteside Mountain (2 mile loop mountain trail, did it with a 30 pound toddler strapped to my back), Whitewater Falls (1/2 mile paved walk up, then 150 stairs down to the viewing area. Stairs down in 45 seconds, and about 3 minutes to climb back up. lol), and Silver Run Falls (short off road walk.)
Friday we climbed all over the Smokey National Forest. Did Clingman's Dome. That's no joke. Seemed like it was straight up, pushing a 70 lb stroller. I'm pretty sure going down was harder than up, took a TON of control not to just roll over everyone.
Besides those two major stuff days, we took short walks, went swimming 3 days for about 1/2 hour before it got too cold (the fish in the lake liked to nibble on me, so I was constantly moving), and tried to do something physical every day. Although my food choices weren't ideal and could of been better, I didn't really do anything TERRIBLE. I didn't eat a half tub of ice cream like I could have, tried to watch portion sizes, and ordered salads when we went out.
Over all a GREAT vacation. I want to move up there when I get my things straight.
I hope EVERYONE had a wonderful week as well.
And because I can... Whiteside Mountain trail.
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I have bookmarked the Aug spreadsheet, and will get back into actually logging what I do (especially as relates to Challenges) again.
What goes under "House Points" and what goes under "Quidich Match" again? (Sorry, but it has been months since I was doing recording in the spreadsheet :blushing: )
And what is the Hufflepuff equivalent of "Spirit"? We don't seem to have a collumn with that title ....
All very good questions BeeJ...I I discussed with Molly. For now we are going to put the spirit as an OWL completed since we do not have an area to add in a spirit column.
Houpepoints are your daily activity time. 1 minute of activity equals 1 housepoint
There is no quidditch match column per se, however the quidditch match is the weight loss over the month. It is automatically calculated when you enter your weekly weight.0 -
Lisa--love the pics they are great. Glad to hear you had a great time
Molly--continue to get better. Uni is right around the corner...
BeeJ keep making those rainbows...inspiring!
Suzie no time like the present to recommit and a wedding as extra motivation...congrats on the engagement of your daughter!
Is anyone else becoming sleep deprived because they are addicted to the Olympic games?? I know I am...Love it so inspiring...yet it makes me feel so lazy after seeing the hard work for training the athletes out in. Did you know I read (and not 100% sure if it is true) that Micheal Phelps can swim up to 50000 lengths a week in the pool (and I feel good about 160 per workout!)
I plan to begin announcing prefects weekly starting next Tuesday. We will have up to two per week. It will be those individuals who have the most OWLS and NEWTS for the previous week. I picked Tuesday to announce them in order to give everyone a chance to post to the spreadsheet by Monday at midnight. There will no longer be the glory of deciding challenges for the next week...however you will still be honored and carry the title of prefect of the house!0 -
Two additional rainbows, 2 new constellations (now Pisces, Taurus, Capricorn, Aires, and Aquarias are all up in the new (3rd time round) sky. Everyone is in the First Time Through skiy, of course. Abd I launched the Airship.
3.8 miles yesterday puts me at 7.9 miles along the road to Rivendell. Hobiton is ALMOST hidden behind the rolling hills.
I have found a worthy Boot Camp replacement here on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IpJM29PJR4
Easy to see why everyone is calling it "the best of all time". Even if you did the entire thing on the flat (either marching in place or with a towel or pillowcase marking where step WOULD be) the cobmined aerobic / upper body workout would be awesome.
I also found 3 seasons worth of Fit For Duty (from the Pentegon Channel originally) on youtube that I can mix and match my way through for "boot camp homework" days, and once it arrives, my Exerbeat (plus daily WIO rainbow making) will be my "active rest" days.
If this doesn't mobilize the fat-burning, I don't know what will! :bigsmile:0 -
With a bit of experimenting, I can now "walk with a buddy" on WIO, even though my DH isn't the least bit interested in even trying :grumble: (although he SAYS he likes hearing the music, so I can go for it as long and and often as I like at one end of the L-shaped room while he is on the computer at the other end
) and my son is 20, and not living at home - so no kidlets to share with. :laugh:
Thing1 has the Rt-hand controller with the nunchuk in the back pocket, and Thing2 has the Lft-hand controller ( nunchuk optional) and is on either the balance board or the dance mat. Either walker can choose direction at intersections and "shoot the bubbles".
The dance mat is better, because it doesn't care if you jump, jog, or use any old mat-button in any order. The balance board is more finicky about that kind of thing. BUT my mat plugs directly into the Wii console, and I noticed that I seem to unwittingly keep shifting the mat farther from the TV (almost pulled the console over once or twice :ohwell: So I will have to work on that.
But Thing1 and Thing2 will be subsidiaries until my 3rd Time Round is complete, and then one of them will become Principle and rack up the majority of the mileage per day. And there is always Guest, if I want a carrot-topped buddy in a green track suit with yellow trim instead of one of the "regulars".
What with all the experimenting, I racked up over 7 miles on Friday, and 3.3 on Saturday. So I overshot my Mile Challenge goal of 15 miles by the end of the week by LOTS ... and by doing 5.2 today (Sunday), that will put me at 30 for the week.0 -
I went ahead and posted this weeks challenges in the great hall, and I will repost them here
Here are the challenges from Hufflepuff for week 2
NEWT (food challenge) Eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables. 1 newt daily for each color of the rainbow that you eat. Add 1 extra newt if it is fruit or vegetable you are trying for the first time. I am enclosing a link to some examples of how to ad a rainbow to your eating habits.
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/foods/fn595w.htm
OWL (exercise)challenge
Focus on back and core strength
Superman exercises 1 newt for each set of 12 completed
http://www.livestrong.com/video/2526-do-superman-exercises/
Spirit - One earned for every day you post in your house's Common Room!0 -
Heavy duty Step Reebok session in place of boot camp (and will continue as substitute for the rest of the month. Very sweaty (which is a good thing) and the push ups at the end are improving.0
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Yesterday, I completed the http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/697911-wednesday-8-8-mini-challenge (100 overhead tricep extensions.)
Today, I am doing the http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/699181-thursday-8-9-mini-challenge (200 calf raises ) .... wonder what's on tomorrow? Stay tuned and try it yourself!0 -
I haven't seen those mini challenge thread pop up. I'll have to keep an eye out for them, they look like a good challenge. Thanks for sharing.0
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I haven't seen those mini challenge thread pop up. I'll have to keep an eye out for them, they look like a good challenge. Thanks for sharing.
They are a general thread created daily, not a Group, so if it doesn't happen to have just been relpied to, it would be hard to stumble on.
The pattern to look for seems to be: go to Message Boards and under Search, type:
[Day of the week] (M/D) mini challenge
eg. Wednesday (8/8) mini challenge
Thursday (8/9) mini challenge
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I didn't manage to get all the push-ups in on Friday (due to rescheduling beyond my control) Today's challenge is 150 leg lifts. the abs will sure feel THAT by the time I'm done!
NINE rainbows / 4.5 miles / 431 cals covered on Sunday (make-up day for not making the Friday rainbows) - a bit scant on distance / cals because we left after lunch for the in-laws' cottage and didn't get home untll after 10:00 pm
Unfortunately, it was too windy for my once-a-year kyak up and down their lake.0 -
Any news on what this week's challenges are?0
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I'm sorry if I am doing this wrong, but I would really like to join Hufflepuff for house challenges. Is there anything I need to do?0
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Welcome Jill! I will post a link to our monthly spreadsheet and you can add your name to the bottom.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArisWe6qmbHrdGFGTVMyWlhiaE9UaGpqUUtlNi02TlE#gid=0
As far as the challenges go...I had posted challenges for week 2 both in the Great Hall thread and on this thread. Ravenclaw is supposed to post for week 3, but I have not seen challenges posted yet in the Great Hall. I will keep checking. If none are posted by tomorrow AM...I will create and post the weekly challenges just for us to do.
As for me
sprained ankle+lack of vigorous exercise+overload at work=depression and just scraping by...I am making it out for a short bike ride today. Weight training and swimming just do not take the place of spinning or jogging in my book...though I lost a pound this week, so at least something continues to function!0 -
Here are the challenges for the week as posted by Ravenclaw for this week
Food (NEWT): Drink your water - replace one of your less-healthy drinks (soda, coffee, juice, etc) with a glass of water each day. One OWL for each day you meet your water goal plus one bonus OWL each day you replace another beverage with water.
Exercise (OWLS): Target the abs - one OWL each day you do some focused ab work of your choice.
Spirit: One OWL each day you post to your house common room.0 -
Over the past few days, I have done massive catch-up on my Walking Out. I am now right up to date. I also just started Wii Exerbeat - working enough to unlock both the "Personal Trainer option" that will create routines for me; and the "Make Your Own Routine option. I scored surprisingly lower in Aerobics, earned medals in Hip Hop and got some perfects in Karate (which I have never done before) I also unlocked the "daily challenge" (you only get one try to score 70% or better, but can practice more than once) and the "weekly challenge" where you set your target total exercise time for the week.
I have also started my 2 wks off work, so logging in may be a bit spotty. We will have to see.0 -
Was on Exerbeat for the third day in a row ... for an hr ... and burned just over 500 calories. A pretty decent return on investment of time! This time, the "personal trainer workout - burn fat objective" was 40 mins long, and had LOTS of balance-board merengue moves, plus some hip hop and boxercise. I filled up the rest of the hour with karate, pilates, and trying our the "party exercises" selections of Swimming (very pathetic) Wall Bashing (very good) and Pizza Making (fairly decent)0
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Uh oh... did everyone fall of the face of the planet?
I myself have been kinda busy with real life. Trying to socialize and such. Getting school in order... but still trying to exercise and eat right.
I hope everyone is staying on target and getting things done.
I'm happy to report I've hit the 10 lbs lost mark.
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I have not missed a single day of Exerbeat since I started (even if only 12-17 minutes for Daily Challenge plus a little bit more instead of my more common 60+ minutes) I have also saved 4 or 5 personal exercise routines ranging from 600+ to just under 900 cal burns (according to "their" formula - still haven't found the watch-part of my hrm, so can't confirm absolute accuracy of cals burned). I am opening more and more of the higher-intensity / longer session options, which in turn allows for more flexibility in the make-it-yourself routines, even though they only allow 6 exercise slots. Some are even 26 to 30 minutes long, and have built in "turbo" sections.
I won't be returning to Boot camp at the moment - this is plenty sweat producing / engaging / saves LOTS on gas (and registration fees)
AND I am keeping up the Walk It Out rainbow making. The 3rd-Time-Through profile has been completed and deleted. I am now only running 2 (Thing 1 and Thing 2) With fewer rainbows to keep up, I am spending longer in each profile per day, covering more ground without pausing to refer to the map once the rainbow is up.
I'm back at the office after 2 glorious weeks off (ending with a Holiday Monday weekend) and settling back into the reality of less time to do juggle Wii exercise and Other Stuff into the post-office window of opportunity.0 -
I just noticed .... I am almost at my half-way mark! Yay, ME!0
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Wii Exerbeat is starting to open up (allowing access to) full 50+ minute "classes" in Boxercise, Karate, Hip Hop and Aerobics now. There are less intense options like Yoga/Pilates, Stretching, and three kinds of Latin Dance as well. Until now, they have varied from about 1:30 minutes, (introducing just Jabs and Crosses, for instance) to about 25 minutes that include a short Turbo-Drill in the middle or at the end. :noway:
It takes time played to get to this point, but since I have dedicated an hour per day pretty much every day (a minium of 5 hrs per week), I have unlicked quite a bit. I haven't missed a day since I started (even if it means less than 15 mins, or turning the Wii calendar back one day to do a 30 min "make-up" followed by today's "shortened" 30 min session )
The other extended sets shouldn't be long in coming. At this rate, I can attend a different type of class every day, (and switch up the order every other week :bigsmile: ) and never have to pay registration fees or get caught in bad weather / traffic jams :laugh:
The trailer is here if you want to see what it is I'm doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1jYpqq8n48 There are also some youtube snipits for specific sub-sets, like Karate, Aerobics and one of the Latin dances. FYI, I am more than 2/3 through my second "round the world" (mentioned in the trailer). Me mii is currently wearing a crown with a "1" floating over the top. And when you play progressive days in a row, succeed at the Daily Challenge, do 15, 30, and 1 hr exercise time, or meet your Weeky Challenge (X minutes in 7 calendar days) you get "bonus miles" credit in your "Round the World" score. 0 -
new 'puff here! just started mfp a couple of months ago. looking for help where ever I can get it.0
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(just saying hi from Slytherin)
I am starting it back up again FOR GOOD in October ~tomorrow!! ~ Hope to see some Puffs being active!!0 -
Hope everyone is doing well.
Going through ups and downs myself. But such is life.
I have been jogging still and plan to start 30ds soon.
Thus far I've lost 13 lbs! and I'm rather proud of myself.0 -
Hello. My name is Lauretta, I joined MFP 2 days ago and just found the "groups". Please add me to the Hufflepuff Team. 0
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