This lady is challenging me!

MissConfidence
MissConfidence Posts: 441
edited September 28 in Motivation and Support
Keeping up with my YouTube video subscription to exerciseTV I saw a post from them challenging me this week to work on lower body and legs. So, thought I would share and see who would like to join me. The challenge involves 60 lunges and 60 squats everyday this week. Here's the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGV8v8103A

My plan is to start today and do it everyday until next Monday. Adding it up means a total of 420 lunges and 420 squats which seem like pretty sweet numbers to me. So, who wants to play?
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  • chanstriste13
    chanstriste13 Posts: 3,277 Member
    i don't think i could add 60 squats and lunges to my current routine and live through it, but i wanted to drop you a line just to say it's awesome that you're stepping up to the challenge! best of luck - it sounds lovely!
  • dawbygirl
    dawbygirl Posts: 19
    Hah! I love a challenge.
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    i don't think i could add 60 squats and lunges to my current routine and live through it, but i wanted to drop you a line just to say it's awesome that you're stepping up to the challenge! best of luck - it sounds lovely!

    Thanks!
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    Hah! I love a challenge.

    Bring it! :bigsmile:
  • bugnbeansmom
    bugnbeansmom Posts: 292 Member
    Count me in!!!! let's see how this goes!!!!!!:tongue:
  • MrsRobertson1005
    MrsRobertson1005 Posts: 552 Member
    I'll try! No guarantee that i won't be falling over doing them but I'll try!
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    I'll try! No guarantee that i won't be falling over doing them but I'll try!

    LOL! THAT'S the spirit! :)
  • carmenstop1
    carmenstop1 Posts: 210 Member
    I love it! I'm in!!
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    phew... I'm gonna feel this tomorrow! Anyone else done yet?
  • dawbygirl
    dawbygirl Posts: 19
    I just finished mine, yes!! Wasn't so bad for me, since my current exercise of choice is kettlebell and before that, step aerobics. I also split it into three separate sessions during the day, so maybe that's cheating a little! My boyfriend said I needed to do 60 in a row of each before he would be impressed. :P
  • MrsRobertson1005
    MrsRobertson1005 Posts: 552 Member
    About to do mine before dinner!
  • MrsRobertson1005
    MrsRobertson1005 Posts: 552 Member
    I just finished mine, yes!! Wasn't so bad for me, since my current exercise of choice is kettlebell and before that, step aerobics. I also split it into three separate sessions during the day, so maybe that's cheating a little! My boyfriend said I needed to do 60 in a row of each before he would be impressed. :P

    Haha yea my bf did 30DS with me so his mouth was shut while i was doing it. I have 40 more squats to do after dinner.
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    I just finished mine, yes!! Wasn't so bad for me, since my current exercise of choice is kettlebell and before that, step aerobics. I also split it into three separate sessions during the day, so maybe that's cheating a little! My boyfriend said I needed to do 60 in a row of each before he would be impressed. :P

    Let's see your bf do it!!! :) No way, that's not cheating if you break it up throughout the day. I actually think it may be more effective. Anyway, gotta go do mine - day two bring it!
  • MrsRobertson1005
    MrsRobertson1005 Posts: 552 Member
    I just finished mine, yes!! Wasn't so bad for me, since my current exercise of choice is kettlebell and before that, step aerobics. I also split it into three separate sessions during the day, so maybe that's cheating a little! My boyfriend said I needed to do 60 in a row of each before he would be impressed. :P

    Let's see your bf do it!!! :) No way, that's not cheating if you break it up throughout the day. I actually think it may be more effective. Anyway, gotta go do mine - day two bring it!

    Off topic but how do you update your ticker factory ticker?
  • dawbygirl
    dawbygirl Posts: 19

    Let's see your bf do it!!! :) No way, that's not cheating if you break it up throughout the day. I actually think it may be more effective. Anyway, gotta go do mine - day two bring it!

    Ugh! I'm sure he could. Despite the smoking, drinking, and, like, 0% body fat, he's in really, really good shape. Half done for today!
  • bmw4deb
    bmw4deb Posts: 1,324 Member
    I'm here to support you!!! no way i can do 60 lunges a day
    and be able to repeat the next day.
  • MrsRobertson1005
    MrsRobertson1005 Posts: 552 Member
    Got mine in Day 2, this plus my 30DS and my training walks has my thighs burning!
  • wantconfidence
    wantconfidence Posts: 47
    ohh im game i know im a day late but better late then never right :smile:
  • deanadimples
    deanadimples Posts: 419 Member
    I've seen a few Ipod/Iphone/Ipads apps that are like this....crunches, pushups, squats etc. They care kind of like the C25K program and chart building up to exercises reps. For those of you interested in something that keeps track. One is http://www.twohundredsquats.com/iphoneapp.html

    I may try some after I'm done with 30DS.
  • wantconfidence
    wantconfidence Posts: 47
    wow im not gonna lie my legs are dying right now ohhh short shorts here i come
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    wow im not gonna lie my legs are dying right now ohhh short shorts here i come

    :happy:

    Burning thighsssssss!!! I'm pretty impressed about doing it two days in a row like that and to be kinda honest the burn feels pretty good! Now, onward to day 3. Just remember to stretch everyone, especially after.

    deanadimples, yea there are tons of apps! I'm doing the 100 push up challenge right now because I am a weakling in my upper body. It's going pretty well (only in my first week, haha). I kinda like this challenge because it's one week at a time so it feels a little easier to commit to, at least for me.

    hadkins13, when you go to tickerfactory.com and create a ticker you also create a pin so every time you go back to the site it will show up in your recent tickers and then you type in your pin add miles or minutes or whatever you've set it as, hit next and it will automatically update your ticker on any site you've inputed the code into. (Ok, a step back, after you first make the ticker copy and paste the code into you signature box located between "My Topics" and "Search" here in MFP) Once your ticker is here all you have to do is update it on the ticker site without having to copy and paste a new code every time into your signature's code. Make sense? Sorry I'm not the best at explaining I usually need to show what I'm talking about...

    Day 3, sexy legs, let's go!!
  • bugnbeansmom
    bugnbeansmom Posts: 292 Member
    Okay, day two down!!! legs are feeling it but it is good. I have found that I do a set of 20 of each during commercials. :devil:
  • dawbygirl
    dawbygirl Posts: 19
    Last night, my sister and her boyfriend ended up coming over while I was working, so by the time I was home, they were ready for a movie, beer, and Portuguese food (clearly, my sister's boyfriend has been trying to sabotage me!). I went to bed and then realized I hadn't done my last sets of squats and lunges. XD I hopped out of bed while my boyfriend was getting a glass of water. He came back to me in mid lunge, still in the dark, with the dog very confused.

    Him: . . .
    Me: Stop judging me!!!
    Him: It's dark.
    Me: I know that your face is judging me anyway!!!

    lol Dedication, y'all!! I finished for the day, gosh darnnit. Today is Day 4!
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    Last night, my sister and her boyfriend ended up coming over while I was working, so by the time I was home, they were ready for a movie, beer, and Portuguese food (clearly, my sister's boyfriend has been trying to sabotage me!). I went to bed and then realized I hadn't done my last sets of squats and lunges. XD I hopped out of bed while my boyfriend was getting a glass of water. He came back to me in mid lunge, still in the dark, with the dog very confused.

    Him: . . .
    Me: Stop judging me!!!
    Him: It's dark.
    Me: I know that your face is judging me anyway!!!

    lol Dedication, y'all!! I finished for the day, gosh darnnit. Today is Day 4!

    I LOVE this!
  • MrsRobertson1005
    MrsRobertson1005 Posts: 552 Member
    made sense, i must just be blonde because the one that is in the recent ticker deal is not mine and idk where mine is :( o wells, Day 3 owww
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    Ahhhh didn't do this yesterday! Was aching and had a horrible migraine all day. So today I'm going to try for 100 each... yikes!!!
  • dawbygirl
    dawbygirl Posts: 19
    Yesterday was my first "failed" day, too. I only did 40 of each. I blame the last missing 20 on being at the bar too late. xD Weirdly enough, I was thinking that maybe the first day or two would ache and then my body would adjust, like it normally does to exercise. But doing the 60 a day (plus the kettlebell reps I did throughout the week, which do involve more lunging and squatting) has actually made me progressively MORE sore. Not in a bad, "omgwhatdididotomyself" way, but in a way that when I start my first lunges or squats of the day, my thigh muscles are going, "this??? again??? seriously???"
  • MissConfidence
    MissConfidence Posts: 441
    phew!! this was a hard challenge to not only physically do but motivate myself to do as well!! It never really got "easy", that's for sure... One more day to go!
  • bugnbeansmom
    bugnbeansmom Posts: 292 Member
    :blushing: This is kicking my booty! I mean for real! it is burning baby!!!! Loving it but I looked a bit weird in the hospital labor and delivery waiting room doing traveling lunges! LOL had to pass the time somehow!
  • dawbygirl
    dawbygirl Posts: 19
    Well, I woke up Saturday morning with a sore throat that was full-fledged nasal congestion by the afternoon. I am the most pathetic sick girl ever. I spent the weekend moping around the house and having my boyfriend wait on me (he's such a saint sometimes, I swear) and NOT doing lunges or squats. I laid in bed Sunday morning before having to run off to work thinking, drat! I failed at doing all those lunges and squats and failed at keeping an eye on what I ate this week (though I still insist my sister's boyfriend was trying to sabotage me - took me out for Italian one night and brought over Portuguese takeout the next) and then remembered that there's another week!

    Now that I type that, it sounds a lot more procrastinatory and a whole lot less encouraging. Hmmmm!
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