NEED SOME IDEAS! FOR CHALLENGES

mcrmsi77

Hey guys I started a weight loss support group for my friends and family!! We had our first meeting saturday and the turn out was great!! We decided to start a biggest loser competition!! I was wondering WHAT ARE SOME GOOD CHALLENGES I COULD DO FOR EVERY WEEK! The can be based on honesty or actual numbers I just need ideas we are doing it for 6 months!!!

mcrmsi77

also they can be group or individual challenges!!

charlesb22

- miles/minutes exercise challenge (make a leaderboard/have everyone text or email their results)

- personal best challenge - everyone nominates a goal they want to achieve eg squats/push ups/run distance, attempt each week and track over time. that way people starting out at different levels of fitness/weights are competing against themselves and don't have to judge themselves against someone who is smaller/fitter/better at squats!

- challenge everyone to take their favourite recipe and make it healthy, then you can share some new healthy recipes!

- maybe you could all sign up as a team for a charity run/walk event, and do some group training for that? if you pick one that's 6 months or so away, you can all do a C25K/10K challenge together - split the bigger group up into runners, walkers, and distances within that. then you can also do a little competition to see who raises the most money in sponsorships

- a friend & I have challenged each other to make our own lunches for work, as this was something that was both wasting money and making us unhealthy. it's based on an honour system, each time one of us buys food for lunch we have to put $5 into a shared lunch kitty - which is used at the end of the month to go out for coffee/lunch together depending on how much is in it. that way we catch up, and if one person has caved a lot they are going to be annoyed that they're buying lunch for the other person on top of spending so much money during the month! in a big group you could make it a dollar or two each time, and maybe do it for every time someone eats junk food, or doesn't exercise when they planned to.

sorry for the essay! hope this gives you a couple of ideas and GOOD LUCK!

mcrmsi77

- miles/minutes exercise challenge (make a leaderboard/have everyone text or email their results)

- personal best challenge - everyone nominates a goal they want to achieve eg squats/push ups/run distance, attempt each week and track over time. that way people starting out at different levels of fitness/weights are competing against themselves and don't have to judge themselves against someone who is smaller/fitter/better at squats!

- challenge everyone to take their favourite recipe and make it healthy, then you can share some new healthy recipes!

- maybe you could all sign up as a team for a charity run/walk event, and do some group training for that? if you pick one that's 6 months or so away, you can all do a C25K/10K challenge together - split the bigger group up into runners, walkers, and distances within that. then you can also do a little competition to see who raises the most money in sponsorships

- a friend & I have challenged each other to make our own lunches for work, as this was something that was both wasting money and making us unhealthy. it's based on an honour system, each time one of us buys food for lunch we have to put $5 into a shared lunch kitty - which is used at the end of the month to go out for coffee/lunch together depending on how much is in it. that way we catch up, and if one person has caved a lot they are going to be annoyed that they're buying lunch for the other person on top of spending so much money during the month! in a big group you could make it a dollar or two each time, and maybe do it for every time someone eats junk food, or doesn't exercise when they planned to.

sorry for the essay! hope this gives you a couple of ideas and GOOD LUCK!

i LOVE THE PERSONAL BEST IDEA!!!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL THE IDEAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

angel_north

I found this link that people can do with little to no equipment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VSblWprexE&feature=related

Vawildfire711

I've actually particiapted in a Biggest Loser program for the past 3 years sponsored by my gym. It's a 12 week program where we meet for 60 minutes twice a week with physical challenges every other Saturday. I'm at my goal weight now but I still love to participate just for the physical fitness piece. Here's some things we've done:
1) We meet at a local soccer or football field. Trainer has a large bucket of tennis balls and divides us into 2 teams. He throws the tennis balls all over the field and we have to run to get them (one at a time) and fill our buckets. The team with the most balls wins and gets to select 1 exercise for the losing team to do for 3 minutes (jumping jacks, star jumps, bear crawls, etc)
2) We go to local playground and play tag for an hour. Only catch, you have to stay moving.
3) I live in an area with lots of mountain trails. We meet at a trail and the trainer has backpacks for each of us. The packs are filled with sandbags (based on a percentage of our current body weight) and we have to hike for an hour with the packs on our back.
4) We do allot of interval training! 6 groups of 6 different exercises. You do each exercise in the group for 1 minute. At the end of your 6 minutes you get a 2 min recovery. The group of 6 alternates between 1 minute of cardio with 1 minute of strength. For example, in the first group you would do 1 minute on the treadmill running with a 10% incline. After 1 minute you would do push ups for 1 minute. Then you would run stairs for 1 minute followed by crunches for 1 minutes. Finish the first group with jumping jacks for 1 minute and lunges for 1 minute. That's a total of 6 minutes. You then get a 2 minute recovery. Then you start your second group of 6.
Hope these ideas will help!! Good Luck!

mcrmsi77

I've actually particiapted in a Biggest Loser program for the past 3 years sponsored by my gym. It's a 12 week program where we meet for 60 minutes twice a week with physical challenges every other Saturday. I'm at my goal weight now but I still love to participate just for the physical fitness piece. Here's some things we've done:
1) We meet at a local soccer or football field. Trainer has a large bucket of tennis balls and divides us into 2 teams. He throws the tennis balls all over the field and we have to run to get them (one at a time) and fill our buckets. The team with the most balls wins and gets to select 1 exercise for the losing team to do for 3 minutes (jumping jacks, star jumps, bear crawls, etc)
2) We go to local playground and play tag for an hour. Only catch, you have to stay moving.
3) I live in an area with lots of mountain trails. We meet at a trail and the trainer has backpacks for each of us. The packs are filled with sandbags (based on a percentage of our current body weight) and we have to hike for an hour with the packs on our back.
4) We do allot of interval training! 6 groups of 6 different exercises. You do each exercise in the group for 1 minute. At the end of your 6 minutes you get a 2 min recovery. The group of 6 alternates between 1 minute of cardio with 1 minute of strength. For example, in the first group you would do 1 minute on the treadmill running with a 10% incline. After 1 minute you would do push ups for 1 minute. Then you would run stairs for 1 minute followed by crunches for 1 minutes. Finish the first group with jumping jacks for 1 minute and lunges for 1 minute. That's a total of 6 minutes. You then get a 2 minute recovery. Then you start your second group of 6.
Hope these ideas will help!! Good Luck!

GREAT IDEAS!! I was thinking about doing a last chance workout event where I set up an obstacle course in my moms back yard to earn more points for your team and I am def. using some of these ideas!!!

mcrmsi77

Or kind like they used to do in elementary school where they have all kinds of different things you do in a huge field lol I am having a major brain fart!!!

gbsngrl

My sister-in-law, two friends and I signed up for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer...40 miles in 2 days! It's a great motivator to work out for AND it supports a great cause.

mcrmsi77

My sister-in-law, two friends and I signed up for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer...40 miles in 2 days! It's a great motivator to work out for AND it supports a great cause.

wow weeeeee!!! We are all signing up for the 5K walk! My mom and I try to do it every year for my grandma!!!