Team Truffle Shufflers! September Challenge (CLOSED GROUP)

So glad to see us all checking in!!

For those unfamiliar with August's Challenge, here's a little background.
We will receive a list of Daily challenges to be completed Monday through Saturday, with a Sunday rest day. these are challenges to be done Above and beyond your normal scheduled workouts.
We will also receive a Group weekly challenge, (example: logging 1000 miles for the whole team IN ADDITION to all the other stuff)
We will get points on different accomplishements with weight and challenges completed.

Here's a little info I received on how the challenge points will be running:
1 point for each pound lost per team member
1 point for each team member who does their daily exercise challenge (1 point per member)
1 point for the other weekly challenges (water intake, staying under calories etc.) Each week
different challenge per member
(you will put 1 in the excel spreadsheet)
BONUS POINTS
o Daily Exercise – If every team member logs the daily exercise as doing it for all 6 days
Mon – Sat. You may award your TEAM an extra 5 points
o Weekly Challenges – if every team member log the weekly challenge as doing it for all 6
days Mon – Sat. You may award your TEAM an extra 5 points

During the September challenge, there will be 2 levels of challenge exercises: a basic low impact workout and an advance high impact workout. I encourage you to mix and match, but don't push yourself to injury!!!


as Maggiedc mentioned, there is a signature created for our team. it's super cheesy and i made it using an online photo program. I know its not fancy like some other teams have, but hey, that's okay! to add it to your signature, first click the SIGNATURE button from the top links on the message boards. Then, copy and paste the following info, changing the captial IMG to lowercase img.



Iw ill be posting another post shortly with some intro stuff to get our team started!! IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, please just ask!!

~~Holly

*Stands up*
Hello, my name is Holly, and i'm addicted to food!!

okay, hard part over!! I'm so glad we are all getting to know eachother!! Only a few more days before the fun begins!!!

so, you know my name, but not much about me! I live north of Seattle, WA. I work as a CAD Drafter working on floor plans for Microsoft buildings worldwide. I have been in a constant battle with my weight for the past 5 years. I joined a gym in the same building I work in and have been slowly going more frequently, so i don't burn out and quit going, which is what I tend to do!! I have no children and am not married, but have a wonderful boyfriend that I share my life and adventures with! (Ring on the way? dress shopping in my future?! hehe)

I would like us all to be honest about our weight, our struggles, and our successes. I currently weight 266lbs (could change before weigh in day on Thursday Morning!), and would like to one day be back down to 150lbs. My mini goal is to be at 250, or under, by the end of the month! My boyfriends birthday is at the end of the month and I'd love to be able to wear this cute dress I have to his birthday dinner!

I've got some preliminary challenge info from Gary and am waiting on some clarification before I post it all. Have no fear though, it will all be posted by tomorrow so that we can start September with a BANG!! I will have all the basic and advanced challenges, as well as youtube videos for each. I will also include instructions on how we will go about tracking challenges completed, and weigh ins!!

Get Ready girls, its gonna be crazy!!

~~Holly

alright ladies... TIME TO BEGIN!!! Please post your starting weight by the end of the day September 1st! Also,. please post the goal weight you would like to be at by the last day of September!! I encourage you all to be open and honest with the team and just share in the forum, but if you would rather send me a private message with your info, i'm totally fine with that!!

Here are the excercises for the first week of September!!! The PYGMY Series is the beginner workouts. If you would like to challenge yourself a little more, try the BUSHMEN series!! Both are listed below. REMEMBER: These should be done in addition to your normal workout routine! This is a challenge, not a replacement!


WEEK 1 – PYGMY SERIES
WELCOME BACK FROM YOUR DAY OF REST! WE’RE STARTING WEEK #1! YOU ARE A PYGMY WARRIOR!
Day 1 Exercise Challenge - 30 Squat Kicks* and 50 Jumping Jacks
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSu-wci9uTo )
Day 2 Exercise Challenge – 2 sets of 15 Swimmer’s Presses + 1 Extra Mile jog, walk or run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYwzaUXK6gs) * You may use cans of soup, tomato juice or bottles of water if u don’t have weights
Day 3 Exercise Challenge – 50 Crunches* + 20 Mountain Climbers
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI8u58hPam4 )
Day 4 REST YOU DESERVE IT!

WEEK 1 – BUSHMEN SERIES (Advanced)
Welcome to '300' Week!! You will do 6 exercises at 50 reps as quickly as possible 3 times this week. These are not to be broken up into segments. You are the BUSHMEN it’s time to push yourself!
Day 1 - 50 Squat Kicks, 50 Jumping Jacks , 50 Crunches, 50 Mountain Climbers, 50 Wood Chops and last but not least 50 Globe Jumps!
Day 2 - 2 sets of 15 Swimmer’s Presses, 2 sets of 21’s, 2 sets of 15 Dumbbell Chest Fly’s, 2 Sets of 15 Lawnmowers, 2 sets of Tricep Kickbacks, 2 sets of 15 Shoulder Shrugs (weighted)
Day 3 - 50 Squat Kicks, 50 Jumping Jacks , 50 Crunches, 50 Mountain Climbers, 50 Wood Chops and last but not least 50 Globe Jumps!
Day 4 - REST YOU DESERVE IT!

*******Please watch the videos as they may differ from your version of the exercise! Additional videos will be posted for excercises that are missing them!*********

Week One Weekly Team Challenge
Each team member must log every day and not go over their target calories and log at least 64 oz. of water each day. If each team member does this all 4 days, our team will be awarded 5 Bonus Points.

let me know if you guys have any questions. GET READY FOR A WILD AND CRAZY MONTH!!

~Holly

Holly I thought your posts sounded like you were in construction! I'm an estimator for an electrical contractor.....what does that mean? I price construction. I'm not an electrician, not even close....but I have software that will help me tell you how much it would cost to install anything electrical! So I sit behind a pc all day viewing drawings from my 30" monitor and clicking away with my keyboard and mouse. Pretty sedate work and sometimes is BORING!

My September goal is to double the weight I've lost so far. I don't have as much to lose as some but I've had this same amount to lose for now 10 years!!!! So it's "happy" on my hips and I'm ready to kick it OFF!

I'm training myself to run doing the Couch to 5K and I'm in week three. I just finished playing co-ed softball with a bunch of my neighbors...that burned a TON of calories on game night and I will miss that!

My kids are in swim lessons twice a week for the next two months and my GOAL is to work out while they're in the pool. I hope I'm not to embarrassed to do this as my plan is to use the matts that are in the pool area in the corner of the building....the other parents that sit and wait on the bleachers for thier kids might give me funny looks....it would be awesome if they don't even notice what i'm doing!!! They're in the water for 30 minutes and my Nike Training Club App for my phone has 30 minute INTENSE workouts that don't require any equipment. This could also be the time I do my challenge exercises!

I've signed up to do Race for the Cure on Sept 18th, and I am doing the Hybrid Adventure Games on 10/1...so there are two events that I need to keep training for that also will be motiviating me this month.

Hang on...it's gonna be a ride!

Hester

I know the feeling, sitting on your butt all day just clicking away at the computer!! Some days, I get to do walkthroughs for my other contract, at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and those days I can get in 10000 steps in just 4 hours! HUGE CAMPUS!!

Way to go on the c25k! I will be starting that up next week. I'd really like to be able to do the Rock n Roll Marathon in Seattle next summer! sounds like you have a lot of motivation to keep going, and we'll all be here to cheer you on!!

FIRST MINI CHALLENGE HAS BEEN POSTED!!!!

Since we are short this week I'm offering a mini-challenge. Remember Gym Class? Do you remember doing the bear walk? As a side, you don't have to ever do the mini-challenges. But if you'd like to earn your team an extra point bearwalk for 3 minutes. Seems easy but it has to be a constant bear walk constantly moving for 3 minutes. You might be surprised! If you do the bear walk at the end of the week, we will add point to the team score! if you choose not too or cannot perform the mini-challenge its all good! This is just something to get our challenge up and running! So there it is FIRST MINI-CHALLENGE, a Constant 3 minute Bearwalk.