I hate it when the series come to a finale. Well, no Carol in this one so wonder if we will do some rescuing in the next season? I'm going to write our next challenge. We will see who is the over all winner next week.

What to do next?

I'm not sure if you ladies have looked yet, but there really aren't any other challenges like this one. Sure there are challenges that focus only on a type of exercise (squats or planks) and those that challenge you to lose 20 pounds by date x. But there are very few true challenges out there that combine healthy eating with sensible exercise.

I'm not looking forward to the end of this challenge, but I am trying to decide what is next. I might spend more time focusing on strength training as the next logical step would be to focus on body composition. I still have more to lose, but the fact is that after losing a lot of weight that some muscle also gets lost. I want to gain back that muscle to become less jiggly in my tummy and arms.

I am working on upgrading a lot of my exercise videos to insure that I am getting both strength and cardio at the same time. I just got a step workout (with weights) and I have a kickboxing workout I tried once, that I might try again soon now that jabs, upper cuts, etc mean something to me. I bought a step a month ago and it has been helpful with my weight routines and I figure I should try some step workouts because I like the basic routines (and all of them are fairly basic) on the Wii.

These are my brainstorms. I am thinking 45 minutes a day of exercise or every other day 90 minutes. The longer workouts might be wiser if I am focusing on strength training? I hope that you all share your ideas because mine are still forming.

I plan to stay involved with my groups for total mileage (I generally aim for 125 miles of movement a month) and the hydr8 and keeping it green challenge that I run each month. They seem to still be helping, so if it isn't broken...

Sara - Thank you for the MVP! :blushing:

You earned it! 11 mile run, killer combat, cardio and strength and activity on the board. How could I overlook it? You are the one to beat. Skittles was right behind you. She always gets those high cardio numbers.

Day 1 Monday 3/31/14, check in:

Cardio: 165/250 (Aiming for the 800 club!)
Strength: 40/100
Martial Arts/Combat: 45/135
Average calorie intake: 1/6 days
Weight loss for challenge: 6#/ 9#
Punishment (current) = ?
fitsbo =

Can't we keep going beyond the end of the challenge?? :sad:

ya I like that TJ, we should just keep going, and chat and push each other for the better. :happy:

I had goals? Oh no. I have no idea what they might have been. Hopefully I was smart and made an easy goal. LOL!

lol that was my thought when people started turning them in saturday thinking the challenge was over. I couldnt remember mine and MFP doesnt keep message far enough back to go back and see what I sent.

Here is my fitspo that I made for the challenge (I am posting in the fitspo thread as well). I chose this because not that long ago, a friend of mine told me that I was the only person she knew who did not use her treadmill as a clothes dumping ground.

Sorry I've been all ghosty. I took an extra long vacation :-)

Monday-nothing...drove all day, all day, 8am to 11pm. All Day!
Tuesday- 20 cardio, 50 strength.
Wednesday- 120 min cardio
Thursday- 60 cardio, 30 strength
Friday- 60 pilates. swimming 120.
Saturday- 45 bike ride.

and 100/40 leg throws. I like these! I'll do more until my abs hurt too much to do more.