I mentioned in PMs to a couple of people this morning that I'm on the west coast and also don't usually go to bed until like 3 AM; so long as I have your weekly check-ins before I go to bed on Saturday, that's fine with me. That way I have Sunday to put it all together before the show. I already have the weekly numbers from half our team, and so far we're looking good!

I've also updated the team member list; we are officially down to 5 now, including myself. Our remaining team consists of me, Cindyinpg, drsusana, aprilyankee, and colibri23.

I now have everyone's first weekly check-in, and everyone was at least within the minimums. Good start, guys!

Edit: And in case anyone's curious, yes, I'm within mine too. Currently at exactly 240 minutes on cardio (actually about 100 less than last week; harder to do cardio when there's a foot of snow outside), over an hour on the punching bag for the combat sports, and 470 minutes of strength training. I'll get in more of all three tonight as well.

Also, since I don't send PMs to anyone with mine, I'll post my goals here as well.

1. I will hit 1400 calories burned on the elliptical machine. When I first started using it, I was lucky to get 400 in 30 minutes. After a couple of weeks, I was pushing 1100 in 60 minutes. Last week, I pushed extremely hard and got it to just over 1300 (I think like 1327). That's 60 minutes at 10-12 resistance, pushing as hard as I can, fast. I don't think it's unreasonable to break 1400 in 60 minutes by the end of the challenge.

2. I will hit an even 220 pounds. I was 240 when I started seriously working out and changing my eating habits; I'm currently 228. I'm 6'2" and not completely scrawny, so I think 220 is a fair goal for the end of a 9 week challenge.

3. I will double my current total strength training regimen. I don't care whether it's a double in the amount of sets and reps that I do, a 100% increase in the weight I'm lifting, or a mix of both, but I'm currently just doing 25 pound dumbbell presses (although a lot of them) so I think that's perfectly achievable in this time frame.

I also intend to not break my weekly calorie total during this challenge, but that's not tied to any specific goal. Just more of an overall thing. I've only been using this site for 15 days now, but I have yet to break my limit for a day and I don't intend to start now.

Just FYI, our team's average this week was 270 minutes of cardio and 186 minutes of strength training, and everyone met their individual goals/limits as well.

Carl totally stole our only kill. I demand half credit for that one that Rick hit in the head with an axe!

Morning everyone, I posted the challenge. For some reason I thought Chris wanted to do it and he probably thought I was going to do it. :laugh: We'll get it together better for next week. For now we're just waiting on our winners, Mika and Lizzie, to decide on the punishment exercises. Their captain will be letting everyone know today. I peeked in there earlier and saw a discussion on Burpees. :sad:

I love burpees! said no one ever.

Of course it's burpees. I HATE burpees. But I was thinking of doing a 30 day burpee challenge next month so this will give me a taste of it.

I had 100 minutes in strength training. I did the burpees. Oh how I hate them. I soooo should have spread them out. I don't think I've ever done that many at once. My abs are killing me, and I didn't even know the affected the abs. I had 390 minutes of cardio.

Ok, everything's entered into my spreadsheet and averaged out. Our averages for this week were 292.5 minutes of cardio, 96.25 minutes of strength training, and everyone was within their weekly calorie goals! Our strength training average took a hit because last week I racked up over 9 hours of it and this week I was out sick, so the average dropped hugely, but we're still over the minimum. Good job everybody!

Yay, Aprilyankee, on being MVP this week! :drinker:

Go team Carl!

I love all of Team Carl and Team Rick and I think you've both done amazingly but this is a first-come, first-serve basis. Instead of offering you ten minutes of cardio or strength, with Cindy's permission, I am offering immunity to your punishment to only ONE member of Team Carl and ONE member of Team Rick. This will mean, for one member on Team Rick and one member on Team Carl, I will be doing your punishment for the rest of the week, which is the Sally squats.

If you want this to happen, PM me saying "Team Carl" or "Team Rick" respectively and the first person to message me will be the person I'll do the punishment for. This offer isn't valid to people who have already accepted help from one of my team!

I LOVE YOU, CARL AND RICK! I'll slay those zombies to save you!

Thanks Dazzillionaire for the amazing offer!

I only got it because Chris was sick, we all know it's true.

Hahah. Clearly, I have to come back with a vengeance this week to make up for doing so little last week.

I'm still going to do the punishment exercises because I actually love squats and they are part of my routine anyway.

Yeah, same here; I saw Dazillion's offer and didn't bother to respond since I don't mind doing squats anyway.