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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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)

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.

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.

(just saying hi from Slytherin)

I am starting it back up again FOR GOOD in October ~tomorrow!! ~ Hope to see some Puffs being active!!

Hello. My name is Lauretta, I joined MFP 2 days ago and just found the "groups". Please add me to the Hufflepuff Team.