Weekly Challenge: May 14-20

SaraGrace82

Last Week's Challenge

- Fitness Enthusiasts (Beginners): Log 110 minutes of exercise

- Fitness Buffs (Intermediate): Log 235 minutes of exercise

- Fitness Elites (Advanced): Log 360 minutes of exercise

--To earn a Fitness Enthusiasts+, Fitness Buff+, or Fitness Elites+ designation you need to drink 8 or more glasses of water everyday!
(8 glasses = 8 cups = 64 ounces)

- Pick a personal goal for this week! Let us know what it is and how you did. I'll add a little ★ in front of your name on the leader board if you get it.

Results

Fitness Elites:
★Carrie+
Paul+
Sara Grace
Dan

Fitness Buffs:
Debbie+
Ellie
CurlyPep
Harold+

Fitness Enthusiasts:
Susan+

Our total minutes this week: 3095
Per person average: 344 minutes (Just 4 minutes shy of last week.)
Most improved player: Harold with 101 more exercise minutes this week than last week!! Congrats!

Four week totals: 12,784 minutes or 213 hours or 8.9 days of exercise!! So we worked out for more than an entire week in 4 weeks of our challenge! Wowzers!!

SaraGrace82

This week's challenge

It seems like the goal times worked really well for everyone last week. I am going to stick with them. Let me know if there are any other changes you would like to see.

- Fitness Enthusiasts (Beginners): Log 110 minutes of exercise

- Fitness Buffs (Intermediate): Log 235 minutes of exercise

- Fitness Elites (Advanced): Log 360 minutes of exercise

- To earn a Fitness Enthusiasts+, Fitness Buff+, or Fitness Elites+ designation you need to drink 8 or more glasses of water everyday! (8 glasses = 8 cups = 64 ounces)

- Pick a personal goal for this week! Let us know what it is and how you did. I'll add a little ★ in front of your name on the leader board if you get it.

- *NEW* Playtime! : This week take some time out to get exercise the way you used to when you were a kid. RIde a bike, climb a tree, play tag, challenge someone to a race down the block, throw a ball around with someone... Anything you loved doing as a kid will work. Play for as long as you like. Earn a ♥.

So what are your weekly goals? Are you going to be an Enthusiast, Buff, or Elite?

SaraGrace82

Showing Up is Half the Battle

Here is our current "Showing Up is Half the Battle" leader board (i.e. most consecutive log ins).
Sonya - 250 days
Ellie - 115 days
Kelli - 115 days
Debbie - 90 days
Carrie - 70 days
Paul - 60 days
Susan- 55 days
Clare - 35 days
Jill - 20 days
Sara Grace - 15 days

**You'll need to report in each Sunday or Monday to be included in the leader board. Let me know you most recent official recognition from the site. I will be updating your numbers in increments of 5 for simplicity's sake.

If you would like to be added to the log in board let me know you most recent official recognition from the site. We will update as we go! Good luck everyone!

SaraGrace82

To report in at the end of the week, please fill out this little "form." Thanks!!

Exercise Minutes:
8+ glasses of water daily: (yes or no)
Personal Goal: (yes or no & remind us what it was)
Playtime!: (yes or no & if yes, what did you do?)
Days logged in: (rounded down to the nearest 5)

It would really help out a bunch if we have a standard reporting form but please feel free to include more information about your week

shorty313

I'm in for Buff + again!

I'm a glutton for punishment, and will again go for 4/days of carbs at/under 40%. Not hitting it today, I can tell you lol.

Fun new challenge!

Thanks again SG for tracking all this! :flowerforyou:

camsmommy2008

I'm in for the big daddy again this week and my goal is a 3500 calorie burn!

G3tR1pp3d

I am going to have to play it by ear with the minutes as we leave for Bahamas Thursday at 6:30 am and wont be back till Sunday night. My goal this week is to not gain weight on vacation! That will be a huge accomplishment. I also would like to have my first week hitting water goals.

lilpe5512

My goals for this week are

400 mins/4200 calories burned

at least 5 cups of water per day

multivitamin everyday

clareeast

I'm going to put my name in the hat for Buff, but I may do better.

I am drinking more water, but not up to the 8 cups a day - yet!

Personal goal is to try something (anything!) new in the way of exercise.

My playtime will be riding my bike - I haven't done it for 25 years, and bought a 2nd hand bike last week. Been out once and managed not to fall off, so I'm going to do some more!

I reached 35 days yesterday.

shorty313

Yesterday I did 30 minutes of cardio and 30 min lifting

ellie78

I am going to aim big again and we will see how far I get! Also going to go for 10 cups of water a day.

shorty313

I did my 'fun' exercise last night - we shot hoops with the kids. Not really intense exercise shooting free throws, but a lot of fun!

:bigsmile: Thanks SG!

hcdawg

Crazy week this week, really busy. I am in week 5 of c25k and day 14 of Power 90. I gained 1.2 pounds since last Sunday!! My diet was really inconsistent this week. Got to get that more under control. I didnt go over on calories just poor choices at times!! Hope you guys are doing well!!


Exercise Minutes: 294
8+ glasses of water daily: No
Personal Goal:
Playtime!: Yes, played baseball with my sons, had a race with them rolling down hills!!
Days logged in: 35

PJYoung2012

Not a bad week at all. My strength training program is a lot shorter time wise tham my previous cv based workouts. So i'm pleased to have made my minutes up with cycling. Many thanks to Sara for putting the challenge together, keep them coming

Exercise minutes: 403
8+ glasses of water daily: Yes
Personal Goal: Yes, complete my first week of strength training. Not much of a goal i know but i plan to start lower and add something new every week
Playtime!: Sadly not, i was supposed to be playing golf this evening but my friend had to go away for the weekend. We out it off to tomorrow night instead
Days logged in: 65

I'm hoping to match my exercise minutes next week. I'm not working nights so my cycling hours will be reduced. For my personal goal i'm going to add an extra 15-20 minutes of cardio vascular exercise to my strength training. As for playtime i'm going to try and do some non work related cycling.

ellie78

Well I got 277 minutes of exercise and logged my 125th day today!

Water, I think I did good every day except yesterday. I actually woke up in the middle of the night feeling horribly sick and nauseous and couldn't figure out what it was until I realized my mouth and throat felt like sandpaper and I must have been dehydrated! What the heck? I chugged my bedside glass of water and after about 30 minutes I felt better and went back to sleep. Very strange.

No fun exercise for me this week as my tennis lesson was cancelled due to rain, I am going to watch baseball today though, does that count I actually haven't been to an MLB game since the Rockies first season when they were still playing in the Bronco's stadium while theirs was under construction-think I was in high school....

clareeast

Exercise minutes: 235 - most of it was walking as I've been feeling rough, but I did get a few other things done. Would have been more like 275-300 if I'd made it to Zumba on Thursday.

8+ glasses of water: Not everyday, but I did manage it some days, and never less than 6 - this is progress!

Personal challenge: to try something new exercise wise - done! I tried using an exercise wheel, but I think I need to build more strength before I will be any good with it!

Playtime: I managed a 2.5 mile solo bike ride! Hoping for a bit further this week...

Days logged in: passed 40 (yesterday I think!)

PJYoung2012

Exercise minutes: 403
8+ glasses of water daily: Yes
Personal Goal: Yes, complete my first week of strength training. Not much of a goal i know but i plan to start lower and add something new every week
Playtime!: Sadly not, i was supposed to be playing golf this evening but my friend had to go away for the weekend. We out it off to tomorrow night instead
Days logged in: 65

I'm hoping to match my exercise minutes next week. I'm not working nights so my cycling hours will be reduced. For my personal goal i'm going to add an extra 15-20 minutes of cardio vascular exercise to my strength training. As for playtime i'm going to try and do some non work related cycling.

I need to do an update. I have been restless this evening so i went cycling. That's an extra 50 minutes to my exercise minutes and that definately counts as playtime because it was way to much fun to be anything else :happy:. I'm going to add to my personal goal to do the same route again next week.

lissa0040

Exercise Minutes: 240
8+ glasses of water daily: (yes or no) YES
Personal Goal: (yes or no & remind us what it was) yes! 15 miles
Playtime!: (yes or no & if yes, what did you do?) Nope I forgot!
Days logged in: (rounded down to the nearest 5) 50

susieq101178

Exercise Minutes: 424 (2568 cals)
8+ glasses of water daily: yes
Personal Goal: none
Playtime!: none
Days logged in: 60

I did well to keep my head above water this week. :frown: Busy, busy, busy - two late nights at the office, cleaning, baking cookies, preparing for company . . . I still can't believe I was able to log so many exercise minutes but I'm really proud. Planting petunias and weeding the front flower beds today really tipped the scales. My son did join me walking a little Saturday, and we played a little "kung-fu" too, but I don't think it's enough to qualify me for "playtime".

sonyachan

Exercise Minutes: 195, low this week, had 3 rest days
8+ glasses of water daily: yes
Personal Goal: To not eat sweets daily. Made it 2 days, guess that's not daily.
Playtime!: Hula hooping
Days logged in: 260 tomorrow I think

camsmommy2008

Exercise Minutes: 463 (2576 calories burned)
Water: YES some days 10+
Personal Goal: No :ohwell: I wanted to burned 3500 calories and only burned 2576
Play Goal: YES :happy: I went on a fun bike ride with my son and we went to feed the ducks. We also played outside more than usual.
Days Logged: rounded down 75 but tomorrow will be 80 :drinker:

chanstriste13

exercise minutes: 434 (3526 calories burned)
water: yes
personal goal: no
playtime: no
days logged: 40

shorty313

Exercise Minutes: 341 (thanks to a good deal of gardening yesterday!)
8+ glasses of water daily: (yes or no) I wasn't tracking it Sat due to crazy schedule but I'm going to say Yes
Personal Goal: (yes or no & remind us what it was) nope, but I'm going to keep trying (<40% carbs 4/7 days)
Playtime!: (yes or no & if yes, what did you do?) yes, shooting hoops with DH and the kids, plus frisbee with kids
Days logged in: (rounded down to the nearest 5) 95

lilpe5512

My goals for this week are

400 mins/4200 calories burned

at least 5 cups of water per day

multivitamin everyday

I only logged 368 mins (couldn't get out of the bed on Sunday :grumble: ) of exercise but I did get 4410 calories burned.

Yes to the daily vitamin.
No to the water intake.

Blueyz82

Looks like you all did great with this weeks challenge!! Way to go!!! I am up for the new challenge!! I need to get back into the game!