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    August 2013 Fitness Challenge

    Posts: 5,598 Member
    edited January 30 in Social Groups
    Here’s the challenge:
    Burn 7000 calories in the month of August!:smokin:

    The goal is to burn 7000 calories. You choose the workout! :happy:
    That’s about 225 calories a day.

    Please feel free to set your own goal. Depending on your exercise regime (cardio, strength training, etc.), you may be burning more or less than 225 calories a day. The goal here is to challenge your body and mind.

    Let’s support each other.:drinker:

    You can use tickerfactory.com to create a ticker or just record your daily workout as follows:

    8/1 – 363 calories
    8/2 – Rest Day
    8/3 – 216 calories
    Total – 579 calories/ 6421 calories to go


    The challenge begins August 1, 2013 and concludes August 31, 2013.

    Are you in??? :flowerforyou:

    Oh yeah! :bigsmile:

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    • Posts: 985 Member
      I'll bite, but I have surgery on the first so I'll be a late starter. (But... I WILL start none the less.) Great challenge! :glasses:
    • Posts: 124 Member
      I'm in. This will give me something to shoot at. I'm a teacher and when school starts, I become more sedentary
    • Posts: 124 Member
      You can also use MFP to track your calories burned. If you go to reports, it give a bar chart for calories burned. For the past 7 days, it provides the actual, numerical values. For the past 30 days, you'll have to estimate the values.
    • Posts: 69 Member
      I am in and ready to go!
    • Posts: 238
      This would be a lot easier for me to achieve if I could do cardio (still nursing a muscle injury), but I'll give a try anyway. :drinker:
    • Posts: 341 Member
      I'm in! :bigsmile:
    • Posts: 576 Member
      I am in... and promise to be better about tracking my progress this time around... I totally whiffed on the June challenge :blushing:


      This week I begin training for a half marathon so I will be putting in a lot of mileage in August. I usually aim for 2400 calories/week but with the extra mileage I'll probably be over 3,000 some weeks.

      I'm going to set 10,000 as my goal and see what I can do... want to make it a good challenge but not impossible :happy:
    • Posts: 1,683 Member
      Hi, I am in for the challenge! I swim every day, which is a good burn. I used to rate my swim as "vigorous" but I have cut it back to moderate to avoid over-estimating. I usually get in two miles a day.

      My goal is to burn 30,000 calories in August. Here is my ticker, I won't update it until August starts. My last challenge was 60 miles of swimming in July, but due to a week long vacation, I don't think I will get my mileage in. :ohwell: But I feel that I have done well overall.


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    • Posts: 542 Member
      I'm in! Now let's see how many attempts I need to get the damn ticker in here and working! LOL
    • Posts: 124 Member
      I've never used the Ticker Factory. Can anyone explain how to use it and embed it into a post?

      Thanks
    • Posts: 1,410 Member
      excellent! I'm in!
    • Posts: 653 Member
      I'm in!
    • Posts: 2,674 Member
      In B4 the lock......oh, wait!
      J/K.
      In!
    • Posts: 338 Member
      I'm in! My baby is almost 3 months old & it's time to make my comeback. I will need to reset my heartrate monitor tomorrow morning for more accurate calculations. (Alas, it's set to a fitness time when I ran a 1:38 half marathon, so obviously that's different... for now!)
    • Posts: 17 Member
      Gonna try!
    • Posts: 653 Member
      I'm not sure how many kcals I'm aiming for ... I'll do some sums tomorrow ...

      I'm in New Zealand, so I guess I'm first to post!

      1st August 622 kcal

      Yay!
    • Posts: 542 Member
      Yay ticker worked! Now to try and get the calories burned. I strained my quadricep a couple days ago so need to find alternative calorie burning options for a couple weeks while it heals. I'm not giving up!


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    • Posts: 576 Member
      Goal: 10,000

      Balance: 10,000

      Today: 195

      Remaining: 9,805
    • Posts: 1,410 Member
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    • Posts: 263 Member
      I'm going to give it a shot! I'm finally up and about, sort of, after a knee injury... I guess I should wear my HRM now during my physical therapy sessions!
    • Posts: 341 Member
      My goal is to burn 11,000. I tried the ticker but was not able to make it work; my computer at work wouldn't download it without administrator privileges. :grumble:

      And I'll be off to a weak start; I usually use my phone app pedometer and I am at the limit of my data plan 'til Aug. 6, so I'll be using my crappy wrist heart monitor. :sad:

      So how does this work if we don't have a ticker? Do we post our daily Calorie burn daily?
    • Posts: 341 Member

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      Yay Mel! She helped me get my ticker for our challenge! Now, how do I stop my regular MFP ticker from showing? Just click and delete? And then do we go to tickerfactory to update?
    • Posts: 5,598 Member
      TAMayorga, you will have to go back to tickerfactory.com to update each time. I'm unsure of how to delete the MFP ticker.
    • Posts: 613 Member
      Well, I'm not off to the most auspicious start!! Woke up late, so missed my morning workout and it was raining so couldn't ride my bike to the train station. Now I just found out that tomorrow' boot camp is cancelled! So I have to rely on myself! Never a good thing! :)

      Oh well, I will do some elliptical tonight and set my alarm to get up and get a good workout in the morning!


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    • Posts: 1,683 Member
      I had to reconfigure my ticker.



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    • Posts: 5,598 Member
      I am having some serious misgivings :huh: about my ability to burn 10,000 calories this month. I have to put on the big girl pants and go for it!!! :wink:


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    • Posts: 124 Member
      12 hour day at the office - the last day of the summer semester! The next few days I'll be doing some "unstructured exercise". I'll be helping someone build a structure. No HRM so I'll have to estimate the cals. At least I'll be outdoors and active!


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    • Posts: 1,410 Member
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      did an ab and squat challenge this morning and did a hike and a walk in the afternoon.
    • Posts: 653 Member
      Nice burning!

      I didn't manage to get any exercise done today, up in the night with my baby boy and so my exercise time was taken over by much needed sleep!

      I have decided to go for 10,000kcal

      1st 622
      2nd 0

      remaining: 9378

      And goodnight!
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