SPRING AWAKENING Exercise Challenge, Mar 30 to Jun 7 (70 days) - Join Anytime
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Spring Awakening
Exercise Challenge
70 Day Challenge
Running from Monday Mar 30th to Sunday Jun 7th
The Rules are Simple:
• Decide your goal for the challenge. Whether it is minutes, miles, number of sit-ups or some other measure that is important to you. Most of us use minutes as our goal. To calculate your goal decide how many days you plan on working out and multiple by how much you expect to do each day. The challenge is a 70 days or 10 weeks. You determine your goal. Make it attainable but challenging.
• We recommend you create a little diary or Windows document to track your exercise numbers. This can include the date started, ending date, total minutes of your goal and your daily or weekly goal. This way it will be easier to reflect on how you are doing mid-challenge and even after the challenge has ended. I personally use a spreadsheet to track my workouts.
• Create a ticker to display your numbers through out the challenge. There are several places to get tickers including the NS website under the Community menu, www.tickerfactory.com, www.lilyslim.com and www.myfitnesspal.com; among others.
• Get Moving!! Any vigorous movement that is outside your daily routine counts. But be sure to make a mental note of how many minutes you did it. For example, pulling kids in wagon through park 20 mins, dancing at wedding 42 mins, sit-ups 6 mins, walking fast 30 mins, etc.
• Try to check in with the challenge group daily. Give us a short note to tell us what you did, how you feel, what worked, what didn't. And of course, tell us how many minutes you ticked off toward your total goal. When you post your minutes, please highlight them in red and bold. We also like to cheer if your activity has caused your scale to go down so feel free to tell us about your weight losses too. We are a great group for encouragement, support and advice.
• Don't forget to read everyone else's posts and to give them some love for their efforts.
• After you have posted and commented, update your ticker and notice how far it jumped toward your goal. At first it will seem like a very long distance...but suddenly, your goal will be in sight. That is the best part, watching that ticker move ever closer to your goal.
JOIN US ANYTIME!
ALL ARE WELCOME!!
NO CUT OFF TIME FOR JOINING
Thanks to Lori and Carol, who created our very first challenge back in January 2011.
Thanks to Marjorie, who kept the threads running for so long.
And thanks to everyone who participates and sweats in support of each other.
Exercise Challenge
70 Day Challenge
Running from Monday Mar 30th to Sunday Jun 7th
The Rules are Simple:
• Decide your goal for the challenge. Whether it is minutes, miles, number of sit-ups or some other measure that is important to you. Most of us use minutes as our goal. To calculate your goal decide how many days you plan on working out and multiple by how much you expect to do each day. The challenge is a 70 days or 10 weeks. You determine your goal. Make it attainable but challenging.
• We recommend you create a little diary or Windows document to track your exercise numbers. This can include the date started, ending date, total minutes of your goal and your daily or weekly goal. This way it will be easier to reflect on how you are doing mid-challenge and even after the challenge has ended. I personally use a spreadsheet to track my workouts.
• Create a ticker to display your numbers through out the challenge. There are several places to get tickers including the NS website under the Community menu, www.tickerfactory.com, www.lilyslim.com and www.myfitnesspal.com; among others.
• Get Moving!! Any vigorous movement that is outside your daily routine counts. But be sure to make a mental note of how many minutes you did it. For example, pulling kids in wagon through park 20 mins, dancing at wedding 42 mins, sit-ups 6 mins, walking fast 30 mins, etc.
• Try to check in with the challenge group daily. Give us a short note to tell us what you did, how you feel, what worked, what didn't. And of course, tell us how many minutes you ticked off toward your total goal. When you post your minutes, please highlight them in red and bold. We also like to cheer if your activity has caused your scale to go down so feel free to tell us about your weight losses too. We are a great group for encouragement, support and advice.
• Don't forget to read everyone else's posts and to give them some love for their efforts.
• After you have posted and commented, update your ticker and notice how far it jumped toward your goal. At first it will seem like a very long distance...but suddenly, your goal will be in sight. That is the best part, watching that ticker move ever closer to your goal.
JOIN US ANYTIME!
ALL ARE WELCOME!!
NO CUT OFF TIME FOR JOINING
Thanks to Lori and Carol, who created our very first challenge back in January 2011.
Thanks to Marjorie, who kept the threads running for so long.
And thanks to everyone who participates and sweats in support of each other.
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Here is the thread to continue the exercise challenge started on the NS discussion boards.
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Yay!!! Found it
ANNIE
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I am here too. Just wondering if we will keep posting on NS board, or just move over here right away???
Thanks Roger...you are amazing to take time to do this even though you are going through so much.0 -
Oh by the way this is TXMama2014...Jo-Ann. I guess I will work on tickers and such.0
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I know its kind of hard for some to continue to check and post on both sites. I will check in on both sites until the NS boards shut down. I'm not sure if everyone in the challenge is going to be coming to the MFP thread because it seems like there are a lot of different options out there. People seem to be going in different directions.
Great job on the Tapout workout Jo-Ann. That is amazing.
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I am really not trying to complain but NS is making me upset with the shut down of the boards. Urgh….. Anyway. 4.93 miles for me on Monday 4/27 for total of 179.23 miles so far.0
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GOOD THING U PUT UP A LINK ROGER OR I WOULD HAVE NEVER FOUND YOU.0
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Thanks, Roger!
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4/28 - 55 minutes Jazzercise0
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i haven't been posting as i should BUT i have been hitting the step goal i posted originally.
this challenge has been instrumental in getting me moving again. almost halfway to goal on my miles and i believe there were only one or two day's i didn't get the entire 7500 steps in.
considering i wasn't doing ANYTHING prior to this, a huge THANK YOU to the challenge organizers
~kel
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I don't mind posting in both places until the boards come down.
4/27 - 50 mins (Wii Just Dance)
4/28 - 45 mins (TapOut XT Core Combat - Can't believe I was able to get through that, did take some breaks, but still I hanged in there...proud moment for me)0 -
Jennifer61 here. Finally have some internet service. Our Wilson booster should be here today so hopefully that will help.
4/24 - 3.62 walking miles
4/25 - 6.67 walking miles
4/26 - 7.11 walking miles
4/27 - 5.01 walking miles
4/28 - 5.19 walking miles
Hope to be posting more regularly if the Wilson booster does its thing. Hope everyone is well and enjoying spring weather.0 -
I also did water aerobics for an hour on both 4/24 and 4/27. All the extra exercise is making me hungry and hard to stay 100%.0
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4/28 75 Mins elliptical
Guess I have to start my own spreadsheet to track my exercise. Ill miss the ticker for that!
Thanks for starting a thread over here Roger. Best Wishes for speedy recovery!0 -
Glad to see more people finding their way over here.
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Surgery is scheduled for 8AM tomorrow. I will checking when I get a chance tomorrow.
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Good luck Roger.
4/28 - 65 mins (35 mins Elliptical; 30 mins weight training)0 -
4/28 8.78 miles for total of 188.01
211.99 to go.0 -
4/29 - 4.08 walking miles
Total: 93.18 walking miles.
Roger, praying all goes well with your surgery.
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4/30 - 5.12 walking miles - 98.3 total
I can't believe it's May already. Today is water aerobics. Tomorrow I go to a quilt show about 70 miles from here up in the Montana mountains. Can't wait and hoping we have good weather.
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Yeah I found you! Hope you did great with surgry Roger.0
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Hey Everybody! Sorry I didn't get online yesterday. Surgery went well. It ended up that the tendon wasn't torn after all. The tendon sheath was frayed and damaged. So they ended up removing the sheath and ground down the bone spur and calcification that was causing the problem. So since they didn't have to replace the tendon the recovery time should be much shorter than originally projected.
Kim posted on another thread that the boards are going down May 11th. Still sad to see it go, but what are you going to do.
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Been knocked out with a cold the last few days. Just found out NS boards are gone as of May 11th. So glad Roger set this up for us. Speaking of Roger so glad to hear the surgery went well as the injury was not as serious. Get well soon Roger.0
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How do you bookmark this thread so I can always find it. I am at 1630 minutes out of 2500 will keep on a spread sheet at home I guess and update as I post.0
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5/1 6.73 miles
5/2 8.56 miles
total 216.97 miles so far. 183.03 to go. Woot woot…0 -
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5/3 - no exercise today, starting back with walking in the morning tomorrow...i feel safer walking in the morning, not as many people up and about...
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5/3 5.49 miles for total of 222.46
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rhianon1077 wrote: »5/3 - no exercise today, starting back with walking in the morning tomorrow...i feel safer walking in the morning, not as many people up and about...
Hi Annie,
How are you doing the tickers?0
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