Checking on here to encourage you all today, and YOU encouraged ME! Just looked at last week's results / this week's challenge:

OK, we may have slipped to 4th place, BUT we have FIVE Sharks in the Top Ten! WAY TO GO SHARKS!!!!! AND no drop-outs from our team so we are still a complete team not needing to have anyone else added to us to make up numbers :bigsmile: WE ROCK :bigsmile:

So be encouraged today by your own good results :happy:

And let's get back to that number one spot this week :laugh:

WEEK 6 CHALLENGE - IN SUMMARY:

WORKOUT: 5 days of at least 20 minutes. Calorie goal this week is 12 times you body weight at last week's weigh in. You need to calculate that and post it for us here so we can put it on the chart.
So for me that would be 174 x 12 = 2089 as my calorie burn goal.

Team goal here is only minutes - and we need to get in 1500 minutes, so that is 167 minutes each (I haven't counted Kristin in this total - will be glad simply for whatever she can contribute :flowerforyou: We seem to have lost Kai )

REPS: 150 core, 150 upper body, 150 lower body, 150 cardio.
Team goal = 7500 which is 834 each - so aim much higher than your personal 600 :bigsmile:

FLEXIBILITY: 7 minutes on 5 days
AND record on the main challenge page in what tangible way you are nearer your flexibility goal.

HIIT - 6-10 minutes on FIVE days.

WE CAN DO THIS SHARKS!!!!

Enjoy your day off today and get back into it tomorrow :bigsmile:

Calorie burn calculation for week 6

180.4*12= 2165

Happy Saturday, Shark buddies!

It occurred to me that even though being the "number one team" *looks* good, we are in this challenge for results (not that status.) And we are showing results - five of us in the top ten weight loss spots this week! The highest percentage of weight loss is what wins this challenge - not who was in the 'top' team from week to week. Now, of course I'm not knocking the fact that we can/should be in first place as a team...I'm just saying that we should keep-on-keeping-on when it comes to doing our individual parts of the challenge so that we show consistent results!

A friend of mine put this on Facebook, and I thought it could apply to our goals here:
"Your best teacher is your last mistake."

And, my calorie-burn goal for the week: 1426

Tell me what y'all think of this...
I know Sheri has said in the past that we can't count regular cleaning as a workout... Today, I scrubbed my kitchen and entry-way floors (mmmm...Pine-Sol!) I made a conscious decision to do this as my workout because it's not my typical cleaning. (You may think I'm terrible, but my regular floor cleaning is just sweeping...and then the occasional string mop/bucket.) This was scrub-brushing, and I spent about half the time squatting to add intensity (although I think the scrubbing itself was pretty intense!) Anyway, I have logged it as 75 minutes of calisthenics, and am going to claim my ten points for today unless somebody has an issue with that! Just thought I'd ask for input from you guys!

So, what do you think?

And my encouragement today is really one for myself (have had a bad couple of days in this respect!) :

Howdy sharks! Happy Sunday! Let me say a big congrats to the 5 sharks in the top 10! that is like way sweet! We are seriously rocking it as a team! I'm so glad you guys don't mind me tagging along on here because it has really been helping me stay accountable! This third trimester all i wanna do is eat and sleep! But I remember I have this board to come to and its helping a ton! Sad that we seem to have lost Kai hopefully everything is still going good! Here are my points for last week!

Points

#1 Water - 35/35 pts
#2 Sodium - 0/35 pts
#3 Workout -25/60 pts
#4 Bad Habit: 25/25 pts
#5 Good Habit: 25/25
#6 Team Talk:1/7 pts
#7 Smack Talk: - 0/5 pts

Total points - 111 points

and here is todays work out

There is no way I can hit the calorie burn i'd need hehehe but I got my mins and reps down!

Sunday

Work out - 20 mins elliptical
Calories burned -150
Reps -175 - 50 bicep curls 50 tricep kick backs 25 squats 25 dead lifts 25 lunges
Stretching 10 mins done!
No Hiit again hehehe that would be a spectacle let me tell you tho lol

Here's a positive thought for today!

Here is what I posted on the main challenge page.

****Since starting the challenge, I notice my hips aren't hurting as much. I'm working on my hamstring flexibility, but in doing so, I've been loosening up my entire lower body, which I'm loving! My heels are getting closer to the ground during downward dog and I know I'll make that goal before the end of the challenge.****


Sunday:

Workout: 45 minutes Just Dance 2014 (going to do my new Zumba tomorrow)

Cals Burned: 475

Reps: N/A

HIIT: 10 mins

Stretch: 10 mins

I think I'm going to start doing REP IT UP WEDNESDAY again. As I did before, I'll still do my reps on the other days, but I'll push that little bit harder on Wednesdays. Anyone care to join me???


ETA: My calorie burn for this week needs to be 2308.

Sunday

1. 28 mins, 310 cals Tae Bo

2. 700 reps- 150 UB, 150 LB, 200 core, 200 cardio

3. 7 mins stretching done

4. No HIIT

SHARKS ROCK

Week 5 points.

#1 Water: 30/35 pts (M/10, T/9, W/11, Th/10, F/9, S/8, Su/5)
#2 Sodium: 35/35 pts (M/392, T/1992, W/1148, Th/951, F/1618, S/1042, Su/1793)
#3 Workout: 50/60 pts(M61,T46, W126,Th68,F60, S, Su30)
#4 Bad Habit: 25/25 pts (5/5 days)
#5 Good Habit: 25/25 pts (5/5 days)
#6 Team Talk: 7/7 pts (M(Y)-T(Y)-W(Y)-Th(Y)-F(Y)-S(Y)-Su(Y))
#7 Smack Talk: - 5/5 pts - (Dophins, wolverines & tigers page on Monday )
Total 177 points.

And now for some workout stats …

Sunday – week 6

#1 Workout 30 mins (BL power walk) / 329 cals (W/O 30 mins x 4 days to go & 1470 mins to gol & 1666 calories to go (166.25 x12=1995)).
#2 Reps: zero done (150 UB/150 LB/150 Cardio/150 Core and total 600 to do).
#3 Stretching - zero (7mins x5 days plus post yet to be do)
#4 HITT – 7 mins done ( 6-10 mins x 4 days yet to do)

:glasses: Samantha ... I am up for rep it up Wednesday too ... pity I didn't read it earlier though as I have already done in excess of 1000 reps today which I will log later when I get my work out done. :sad:

Keep rocking it sharks :flowerforyou:

This isn't exactly motivational, but I for one needed the laugh this morning:



But now for the motivational bit: OK Sharks! Let's get this week off to a great start! NO EXCUSES! We are strong, we are a Number 1 team :bigsmile: , and we WILL push as hard as we can Have a great week everyone!

#1 Water: 35/35 points
#2 Sodium: 35/35 points
#3 Workout: 55/60 points
#4 Bad Habit: 25/25 points
#5 Good Habit: -10 points (PHOOEY - missed ONE day!)
#6 Team Talk: 7/7 points
#7 Smack Talk: - 5/5 points

Total: 152 points

OK, another week... Let's FAR surpass our minimums this week and keep our diets in check so that we can blow everybody away! (ummm, I mean, accomplish great things...see huge results...REACH OUR GOALS!!!)
(all of the above!)

Love you guys!!!

SUNDAY:

WORKOUT: 60 minutes (made up of 35 minutes of circuit training, then a walk to the pool - which I didn't count as minutes but made it all a continuous "workout" time otherwise the next bit wouldn't count! - and then 25 minutes of swimming laps. Then had a nice hour of relaxing in pool with kids and friend with her kids :bigsmile: )
Calories burned: 698

REPS: 50 core reps (sit-ups) (I plan to do 50 sit-ups each day as my core reps this week. Like to give myself extra challenges :laugh: )

STRETCHING: Did 7 minutes

HIIT: Did 8 minutes

Not yet posted re stretching goal progress.

POINTS for week 5:

I am incredibly proud of this :blushing: :

Water: full 7 days = 35 pts
Sodium: full 7 days = 35 pts
Exercise: 60 minutes (or more) on all 6 days (Saturday was rest day!) = 60 points
Bad habit: Successful of 6/7 days - full 25 pts
Good habit: Did my 5/7 days - full 25 pts
Encouragement: Every day = 7 pts
Smack talk - on Geckos = 5 pts.

That is the FULL possible 192 points :bigsmile: That was the challenge I set myself last week and I made it :happy: Not promising a repeat performance this week though :laugh:

This week I need to reign in my snacking. Unfortunately my weekend was very stressful and I went overboard in emotional eating on Friday and Saturday with my best friend. Will need to really exercise some self control this week if I am to break even on the weight, let alone to lose. Already gave in to some banana cake today :noway: :grumble: - my daughter is just too good at baking! (And I am too useless at self-control :blushing: )

Let's make this week a good one Sharks!

You better be careful!!




The Tigers are stalking their prey!

Sunday

1. 28 mins, 310 cals Tae Bo

2. 700 reps- 150 UB, 150 LB, 200 core, 200 cardio

3. 7 mins stretching done

4. No HIIT

Hi Kristie, for it to count as a workout, it has to be 30 mins ... do you want to take a some reps from your totals and count it as circuit training .. to make up the 30 mins .... let us know and we will log up your workoutmins and reps accordingly - stretching recorded.

SPREADSHEET UPDATED TO HERE

Hey Mary. This week it said the minimum workout time is 20 minutes.

eta- Although I should go ahead and make it 30 mins so I can get the 5 points huh? Ok just add the 2 mins to make it 30 and don't record my cardio reps. So reps total will be 500.

Sunday:

WORKOUT: 62 minutes Elliptical: 500 Calories Burned

REPS: 0

STRETCHING: 7 Minut5es

HIIT: 6 minutes



Monday:

WORKOUT: 527 calories, 80 minutes
40 minutes walking , 197 calories
40 minutes elliptical, 330 calories

REPS: 0

STRETCHING: Did my 5 minutes


HIIT: 7.5 minutes

POINTS summary for week 6

#1 Water - 5/35 pts (M 5pts,T 0pts, W 0pts,Th 0pts,F 0 pts, S- 0, Su 0pts)
#2 Sodium - 0/35 pts (M 0pts,T 0pts, W 0pts,Th 0pts,F 0 pts, S- 0, Su 0pts)
#3 Workout -10/60 pts (M 10pts,T 0pts, W 0pts,Th 0pts,F 0 pts, S- 0, Su 0pts)
#4 Bad Habit:_/25 pts (1/4 days)
#5 Good Habit: _/25 pts 1/3 days)
#6 Team Talk:0/7 pts
#7 Smack Talk: - 0/5 pts -

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POINTS total for week 5

#1 Water - 35/35 pts (M 5pts,T 5pts, W 5pts,Th5pts,F 5 pts, S- 5, Su 5pts)
#2 Sodium - 10/35 pts (M 0pts,T 0pts, W 5pts,Th 5pts,F 0 pts, S- 0, Su 0pts)
#3 Workout -25/60 pts (M 5pts,T 10pts, W 5pts,Th 5pts,F 0 pts, S- 0, Su 0pts)
#4 Bad Habit:25/25 pts (4/4 days)
#5 Good Habit: 25/25 pts 3/3 days)
#6 Team Talk:1/7 pts (Tuesday)
#7 Smack Talk: - 0/5 pts -

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My calorie burn goal for the week is 207.9x12=2494.8 which I am rounding up to 2,500 calories. This means I have to burn a minimum of 500 calories a day. This is going to be a tough week but I already have two days down.

And I was extremely surprised to be in the top ten for weight loss. Great job to all of the sharks that made it there. Hopefully we can dominate it this week.