JULY EXERCISE CHALLENGE!

Thursday 2 July: 39 minutes running
Monday 6 July: 44 minutes fitness & 60 minutes BJJ
Tuesday 7 July: 60 minutes BJJ & 141 minutes Fencing
Wednesday 8 July: 45 minutes fitness & 75 minutes BJJ
Thursday 9 July: 55 minutes weights & 80 minutes fencing
Friday 10 July: 45 minutes BJJ & 55 minutes fitness
Monday 13 July: 39 minutes fitness & 90 minutes BJJ

Total: 828 minutes (172 minutes to go)

7/13 - 36 minutes Yoga, 120 minutes Softball

Amy4President wrote: »

Here is is: Pick a workout you enjoy - running, swimming, walking, biking, lifting. Whatever you want!

The challenge is to get in at least 30 minutes every day. So an overall goal for the month of 1,000 exercise minutes.

Post your starting weight and exercise of choice. Check in every day for motivation and to keep accountable. We can do it! I am studying 10+ hours a day for the bar exam in 4 weeks, so if I can keep up, so can you.

My name is Amy. This morning I weighed 164.4lbs. My exercise of choice is walking my dog Marlow.

7/14 79 minutes Zumba

This does not include all the time spent unloading boxes in my classroom!!!

852 total

Thursday 2 July: 39 minutes running
Monday 6 July: 44 minutes fitness & 60 minutes BJJ
Tuesday 7 July: 60 minutes BJJ & 141 minutes Fencing
Wednesday 8 July: 45 minutes fitness & 75 minutes BJJ
Thursday 9 July: 55 minutes weights & 80 minutes fencing
Friday 10 July: 45 minutes BJJ & 55 minutes fitness
Monday 13 July: 39 minutes fitness & 90 minutes BJJ
Tuesday 14 July: 43 minutes fitness & 85 minutes Fencing
Wednesday 15 July: 44 minutes fitness, 59 minutes karate & 75 minutes BJJ

Total: 1134 minutes

7/15 ZERO today. A much needed day of rest

Minutes through Saturday:

Wk 1- actually 380
Wk 2- 921
Wk 3- 663 (so far)
Total: 1964

Congrats to all those who reached 1000 minutes already!! Great job!
Keep on trucking everyone else. We're at the half way mark.

Thursday 2 July: 39 minutes running
Monday 6 July: 44 minutes fitness & 60 minutes BJJ
Tuesday 7 July: 60 minutes BJJ & 141 minutes Fencing
Wednesday 8 July: 45 minutes fitness & 75 minutes BJJ
Thursday 9 July: 55 minutes weights & 80 minutes fencing
Friday 10 July: 45 minutes BJJ & 55 minutes fitness
Monday 13 July: 39 minutes fitness & 90 minutes BJJ
Tuesday 14 July: 43 minutes fitness & 85 minutes Fencing
Wednesday 15 July: 44 minutes fitness, 59 minutes karate & 75 minutes BJJ
Thursday 16 July: 58 minutes weights & 108 minutes Fencing

Total: 1300 minutes

Well done to all those who have hit the target already. Let's all keep pushing and see how far everyone can get. Remember, every minute we spend training is a minute worked towards our goals.

Week 1 (1-5 July): 39 minutes
Week 2 (6-12 July): 660 minutes
Monday 13 July: 39 minutes fitness & 90 minutes BJJ
Tuesday 14 July: 43 minutes fitness & 85 minutes Fencing
Wednesday 15 July: 44 minutes fitness, 59 minutes karate & 75 minutes BJJ
Thursday 16 July: 58 minutes weights & 108 minutes Fencing
Friday 17 July: 30 minutes BJJ & 52 minutes fitness
Week 3 (13-19 July): 683 minutes

Total: 1382 minutes

7/16-50 minutes in pool

Amy amazing idea.

I too am Amy. I weight 272 and I'm gonna start my work out log in tomorrow. My goal is walking on treadmill. I will report my actual weigh in cause I only weight in the am after mornings pee.

Let's do this!

Amy4President wrote: »

As of 7/19, I am at 689 minutes. I need to get at least 25 minutes in per day through the end of the month to make goal. I also signed up for a 5K in September so it has motivated my butt to run

Thinking about August challenges. Some ideas - calorie-burning challenge, choices challenge (pick this not that sort of thing), or another exercise minute challenge. Any thoughts? I don't like to do "weight loss" challenges because this is a slow and steady process. Better to get the basics down and lose weight over time then focus for one month at a time.

You can do it! The thing which really got me into the exercise routine was a goal. Mine was a big fencing competition, but a race can serve the same purpose.

I like the exercise minutes option because even though I use my heart rate monitor for most of my training, I can't use it for bjj so that is always a guess. Also, some people rely on MFP or machines for calories burned and they are notoriously wrong. For the choices option, we might ask be at a different stage of our journey so for me say choosing water over soda is something that has become easy but for someone else that might be tricky. So my vote would be stick with what we have going now, but maybe get people to set their own goal.

Week 1 (1-5 July): 39 minutes
Week 2 (6-12 July): 660 minutes
Week 3 (13-19 July): 683 minutes
Monday 20 July: 46 minutes fitness and 75 minutes bjj

Total: 1503 minutes