2nd Week's Mini Challenges
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KayteeBear
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Happy Monday to All,
This is the first post for Week 2 of our November Challenge and will contain Mini Challenges for the entire week. This will hopefully make it easier for everybody to find the challenges. I will continue to review every day and add a Quote of the Day. Hopefully this will work better,
Monday Mini Challenge:
Food- stay below allowed calorie limit.
Cardio- do a 3 mile or 45 minute brisk walk.
Strength- 100 crunches (three different kinds)
Tuesday Mini Challenge:
Food- Give up one of your comfort or must have foods for the full day and maybe continue the whole week.
Cardio- Do 100 jumping jacks throughout the day
Strength- Do 10 sets of 10 tricep kickbacks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO81bExngMI&feature=relmfuWednesday Mini Challenge:
Food- Try to prepare from scratch everything you eat today. If it takes less than 5 minutes to prepare or comes in a box, chances are it is not the healthiest.
Cardio- power knees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U6AVmC9C8UStrength- Do 10 sets of 10 squats
Thursday Mini Challenge:
Food- Carb Reduction. For one day cut your carbs in half. If you on average consume 150 then try to drop it to 75. Analyze what kind of carbs you are eating.
Cardio/Strength- Circuit Training, Do the following circuit three times. 25 jumping jacks, 25 sit ups, 25 push ups.
Friday Mini Challenge:
Food- Sodium reduction. Try to decrease your sodium by 500mg.
Cardio- Interval training. Warm up for 5 minutes, jog for 1 minute, walk for 1 minute, X8 reps, cool down for 5 minutes
Strength- Can't ever do enough crunches. Lets do 100+5 (3 different kinds)
Saturday Mini Challenge:
Food- Make sure you are not snacking on bad foods. Keep your snacks healthy. (fruits, vegetables, nuts etc)
Cardio/Strength- Saturday is my house cleaning day and actually burns a fair amount of calories. Move the furniture and give a thorough clean today.
Sunday Mini Challenge:
Food- make sure you are being honest with everything you consume.
Cardio/Strength- we all deserve a day of rest and relaxation so today, take a leisurely walk outside with your children, pet or just yourself and enjoy the world around you.
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