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    • May Walking Challenge - Get our butts in gear!

    Posts: 3,671 Member
    edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    This is continued from previous Walking Challenges, but its nice when each month has its own thread. :laugh:

    *** Anyone can join in at any time, the more the merrier, lets keep each other motivated****

    Walking seems like the easiest way to start getting exercise, and even if you can't track distance (or don't want to), tracking time is good too...go for a 10 min walk after dinner, or up it to 30 minutes, you'll be amazed at the end of the month how much more exercise your getting in. :)

    Check in everyday with how far you walked or how long, this is just to motivate us to get in at least some exercise everyday, and keep an eye on each other.

    Make a ticker and keep it in your signature to remind you of your goal, and show everyone how well your doing. Go to this website.

    http://www.tickerfactory.com/ezticker/ticker_designer.php?type=8

    Pick out your ticker pictures, set your miles or minutes, and your goal. Then copy all of the bbCode into your signature. :) It will look like this (but in your ticker...like mine) You use the url (from the bbCode) to update your ticker everyday (you can find this in your signature after you post the code there), just remember your pin.


    Example of Tracking Miles - 1 mile everyday


    exercise.png



    Example of tracking Minutes - 30 min everyday


    exercise.png




    I want to try to keep this mostly to walking or walking type exercising. treadmills and ellipticals are A-OK. :laugh:

    Hope to see some more faces in this challenge, we'll start tracking May1st!

    :smile: :smile: Do you need help making a ticker? Look at this link for step by step directions. :smile:

    http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/995/tickerfactoryticker.jpg
    I just wanted to post these links again for the new comers :) Each one of these links is a mile walk. (or 12 min). With a total of 5 miles. So if you aren't able to make it outside, or don't have much time (12 minutes isn't asking a lot lol) then check them out to get in a quick walk.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGKpTIFlCQM Mile 1 of 5

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7Kc-s805o&feature=related Mile 2 of 5

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi_Dl7-HF_8&feature=related Mile 3 of 5

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_NfirE_ajI&feature=related Mile 4 of 5

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6v9GEBNMa8&feature=related Mile 5 of 5

    And then there is also a cool down! So don't forget to stretch!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS6GupRk1oA&feature=related

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    • Posts: 79 Member
      I'd like to do this and have created my ticker and copied and pasted the bbc code in my signature, now how do I know if it took? Sorry new to all this lol. Also, I'm not sure I followed you on how to update my ticker.
    • Posts: 23 Member
      I am at work at the moment, but I am down to give it a go!
    • Posts: 1,319 Member
      I'm in!
    • Posts: 79 Member
      ahh ok...I feel like an idiot lol. I see my ticker. Like I said, new to this lol.
    • Posts: 8
      Love the month of May! Yesterday, although the 30th of April, I walked 6.2 miles for the March of Dimes. Finding a good cause will help keep you walking. I actually finished 12th out of over 300 walkers!
    • Posts: 3,671 Member
      Good to see some walkers :)
    • Posts: 1,008 Member
      I'd like to join yall :)
      I'm not going to do the ticker bc I have to steal a few minutes to get on here to track food and read a few posts (new baby). I will definitely keep track, though (minutes and miles) and update at least once a week :) My goal will be 20 miles and/or 15 hours/week

      Goodluck, everyone!!
    • Posts: 79 Member
      Love the month of May! Yesterday, although the 30th of April, I walked 6.2 miles for the March of Dimes. Finding a good cause will help keep you walking. I actually finished 12th out of over 300 walkers!

      That's awesome! Way to go!
    • Posts: 1,040
      I am in again this month. Went over my goal last month so I am setting it higher than what I did last month. Last month my goal was 30 miles and I ended up doing 61. SO my goal for this month is 75 miles. I know I will be spending more time out and about as it warms up so I hope I can get there. I will update my ticker sometime today :-)
    • Posts: 45 Member
      im up for this challenge but im new to this so im not sure if i did the ticker thing right.
    • Posts: 347 Member
      Changing my ticker from 134 miles to 5 miles walked today - my goal this month will be 140 miles! Wish me luck! And good luck to all of you walkers out there!
    • Posts: 467 Member
      Interesting... I wanna try and see what I can do. I have a walk tracker on my android.. wonder how accurate it is lol. I'll be using it for the first time today.
    • Posts: 1,319 Member
      Love the month of May! Yesterday, although the 30th of April, I walked 6.2 miles for the March of Dimes. Finding a good cause will help keep you walking. I actually finished 12th out of over 300 walkers!

      Where was your walk? I walked 6 miles yesterday for the march of dimes as well!
    • Posts: 81
      We had our March of Dimes walk today.... our was only 3 miles. Feels great to walk for a great cause!! Good job!! :)
    • Posts: 81
      We had our March of Dimes walk today.... our was only 3 miles. Feels great to walk for a great cause!! Good job!! :)
    • Posts: 1,319 Member
      We had our March of Dimes walk today.... our was only 3 miles. Feels great to walk for a great cause!! Good job!! :)

      I totally agree.
    • Posts: 534 Member
      Sign me up! I'm training for a half marathon power walk in June, so I'm putting in a rough estimate (probably a bit low) of about 50 miles in May.
    • Posts: 17
      I will like to join the May challenge, also!!!!! I am excited. :smile:

      Good luck!!!
    • Posts: 2 Member

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    • Posts: 47 Member
      Count me in!!
    • Posts: 864 Member
      Let's see 31 days in May - I'll challenge myself to a total of 62 miles and see if I can do it.
    • Posts: 1,319 Member
      I'm a little embarassed of my low goal, but for the record, I do a 45min - 1hr 1/2 turbo fire workout every day in addition.
    • Posts: 215 Member
      Sign me up! Maybe I'll walk more the what I actually have for my ticker.
    • Posts: 261 Member
      :flowerforyou: bump
    • Posts: 1,675 Member
      I'm going to give this a try this month. It's easier for me to track minutes than miles, so I'm going for 350 minutes.
    • Posts: 3,657 Member
      I got my first 30 minutes in today.:explode: I don't know why I have an angry face, my daughter wanted to pick it out:wink:
    • Posts: 1,675 Member
      I also got my first 30 minutes in. At least I am started!
    • Posts: 1,319 Member
      Walked 1.27 miles today :tongue:
    • Posts: 72
      I am new to this site and I would like join .. I will put my miles track tomorrow if I can figure out how. It is not working from my iPad..
      Than you.
      Nina
    • Posts: 1,430 Member
      Giving this a go... I really didn't do well last month. I've set my goal low this month, since the first couple weeks of May I'll be busy with tests and finals, and then after the 10th I should really be sinking into a regular exercise routine again. I'm so excited! Can't wait to see how much I can lose over summer break (I naturally do my best weight loss in the summer, and winter it seems almost non-existent lol)
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