September Challenge Captain Lukybug (Closed Group)

Hi everyone! This will be our forum for the September Challenge. Everyone please, post at least a bump. I'm friends with most of you as of now, and hope to be friends with the rest of you soon. I encourage you all to friend each other for added support for your MFP journey, and through this challenge.

So here is everyone that is on our team. Like I said, I do suggest you friend each other for encouragement and support. I believe encouragement and support is vital to everyone's continued success not only for our challenge, but for our continuous journey on MFP. So here it is:

charlie175
cpearcy
lilallen05
lukybug
mandell25
missmom3
rosy_rsls
sweetness623
tbhoover
topaz2986

I would also encourage you to all to purchase a set of dumbbells. 3lb or 5lb to start out with will work. This will really help you build, tone and define muscle. They can be purchased for under $10 from Wal-mart. If you are unable, cans of soup, vegetable juice and water bottles can be used as substitutes.

At the end of this week I will begin posting information about September's Daily and Weekly challenges. We will have two separate workout programs. Some of the exercises will crossover. However, many will not. We will have the nomad series which will be more of a repeat of what we've done in August. We will also have the BUSHMEN series. This will be an advanced workout series designed to push those ready for a new challenge.

We will be utilizing (HIIT) High Impact Interval Training along with TABATA Training. A tabata timer will be provide for free in the future via mp3 file. This will be a free download and can help us stay on the tabata cycle. Tabata training is a 20 second intense workout with a 10 second break over 4 exercises and then you repeat for a total of 4 minutes. It is designed to increase aerobic and anaerobic conditioning. You can google and read more about Tabata training.

Another Bushmen series exercise program we will utilize is Wildman Training. This uses primarily bodyweight exercises to help tone, burn and shape our new bodies.

The weekly team challenges will now be referred to as tribal challenges

Five of you are from my August team and I'm very pleased that you've decided to go another month with me as your captain!!! You guys ROCK! If for ANY reason any of the teammates are having doubts about this challenge, and don't think you'll be able to commit to a full month of it, please let me know now. I learned the hard way this past month regarding teammates. We lost over half of our team in the month of August. Really? I just have to say this and then I'm done preaching...this is a challenge and this is another way/means of helping you achieve your weigh loss and/or get into shape and stay accountable. I can't make you eat health and workout. I can only push you along where you need that extra umph and we all do at times. We are a team and will rely on each other as such. I will try not to be the workout police, but I promise you, I WILL push you.

With that said, I'm don't with my "speech". Lastly, we need a killer team name. The theme for September is something Tribal. I have no imagination so it's pretty much up to you guys LOL

Tammy