Mission Slimpossible (Closed Group)

amymoore728
amymoore728 Posts: 72
edited October 1 in Motivation and Support
Go Team! This forum is set up for us to post our updates for the September Tribal Challenge. First thing everyone will need to either post or email me (if you're shy about it ;) is your starting weight on Thursday. The following are some guidelines.

Weigh - IN
Thursday you will need to each email me your beginning weight. If you're not shy about it you can post it in the team forum.
Each monday morning you will need to message me with your ending weight.
As a team we receive points for the % of weight you have lost.

Daily Challenges
When you send me your new weight on Monday I need you to list if you did each daily challenge. If you missed a day or two please let me know. Remember if you miss a daily exercise challenge you can make it up for that week. So if you have a bad day, double up the next. If everyone on your team does the daily exercise challenge your team will get bonus points. The same with the weekly team challenge.

Weekly Team Challenges
These consist of exercise and non exercise goals. For instance if your team every day meets their calorie goal, drinks their 64oz of water they will get the weekly team challenge credit. In order to get the weekly everyone needs to do this goal.

A sample of what you will post in the forum on Monday morning:

Current weight. (please don't send me lbs lost I just need the number)
Dailies: I did all 6 days this week.
Weekly: I hit the weekly challenge this week!
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  • ahsutton
    ahsutton Posts: 8 Member
    I am new to this site and this sounds like a fun challenge but I see that it states "closed group" could you please explain this to me. Thanks :smile:
  • garconnie
    garconnie Posts: 10 Member
    Alright sounds good thanks for organizing this Amy. My starting weight for this month is 122.
  • garconnie
    garconnie Posts: 10 Member
    Also Team slimpossible please add me if you don't have me already: garconnie
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Exercises have been posted! I will be making two posts - the first is the basic set of exercises. The second will be the advanced set. Do one or the other, not both. If you skip a day or miss it, you can make it up later in the week.

    THESE ARE THE BASIC EXERCISES for Week 1. more youtube videos will be posted tomorrow!

    SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE
    WEEK 1 – PYGMY SERIES
    This should be done in addition to your normal workout routine. This is a challenge and is not a replacement!
    Week One Daily Exercise Challenge
    Each team member that completes their daily exercise challenge receives one point, if all team members complete each daily exercise for all 6 days the team is then awarded an additional 5 Bonus Points.

    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 Exercise Challenge – 2 sets of 21’s + 100 Jumping Jacks (Bicep Curls may be done with cans of soup or bottles of water if you don’t have any weights) + 1 Extra Mile jog, walk or run.
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xLcsg-5Dw8 ) The video is a little long sorry.
    Day 5 Exercise Challenge – 2 sets of 15 Swimmer’s Presses + 50 Crunches + 50 Toe Touches
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDNLfNKBYA&playnext=1&list=PL41F287FEDA882B18 )
    Day 6 Exercise Challenge – 50 Crunches + 2 sets of 21’s + 100 Jumping Jacks
    Day 7 Rest! You deserve it!
    *******Please watch the videos as they may differ from your version of the exercise! *********
    Week One Weekly Team Challenge
    Each team member in order to get the weekly team bonus points must all 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 6 days your team will be awarded 5 Bonus Points.
    *Feel free to do these exercises in sets if you are unable to do them all at one time. Please do your best as you are much stronger than you believe.
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    THESE ARE THE ADVANCED EXERCISES! I will post the youtube videos tomorrow!

    SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE
    WEEK 1 – BUSHMEN SERIES (Advanced)
    Week One Daily Exercise Challenge
    Each team member that completes their daily exercise challenge receives one point, if all team members complete each daily exercise for all 6 days the team is then awarded an additional 5 Bonus Points.
    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 - 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 5 - 50 Squat Kicks, 50 Jumping Jacks , 50 Crunches, 50 Mountain Climbers, 50 Wood Chops and last but not least 50 Globe Jumps!
    Day 6 - 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 7 - Rest! You deserve it!
    *******Please watch the videos as they may differ from your version of the exercise!*********
    Week One Weekly Team Challenge
    Each team member in order to get the weekly team bonus points must all 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 6 days your team will be awarded 5 Bonus Points. *Feel free to do these exercises in sets if you are unable to do them all at one time. Please do your best as you are much stronger than you believe.
  • garconnie
    garconnie Posts: 10 Member
    I'm def digging the pygmy excercises more than the advanced one.
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Try to get in the habit of posting your foods now before the challenge starts... we have a few practice days before it starts counting. Also, they tweaked the rules a bit - points will be awarded based on percentage weight lost instead of total pounds, which will really help our team. We are starting out a bit slimmer than some other teams, so percentage will give us some advantage.
  • franscott
    franscott Posts: 32
    Do we lose points if we dont meet our calorie goal? Im trying but man its hard. I think im shooting for the bushman...i think the globe jumps are gonna kick my butt...but ill try em.
  • garconnie
    garconnie Posts: 10 Member
    what do you mean posting foods?
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Connie - entering everything into the database. We have several people on our team that are new to MFP that haven't had to keep up the calorie count before.

    Fran - keep in mind that you can eat back your exercise calories! Since you typically do 2 hour long workouts per day, you need to eat more to give your body fuel for all that working out you do! Make sure that you are entering workouts into the program as well so you know how much you can eat.
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Point scoring system:

    The scoring is as follows. I hope this is simple. If you have questions I’ll answer them for you.
    • 1 point for percentage weight 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
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    THESE ARE THE BASIC EXERCISES for Week 1.

    SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE
    WEEK 1 – PYGMY SERIES
    This should be done in addition to your normal workout routine. This is a challenge and is not a replacement!
    Week One Daily Exercise Challenge
    Each team member that completes their daily exercise challenge receives one point, if all team members complete each daily exercise for all 6 days the team is then awarded an additional 5 Bonus Points.
    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!


    *******Please watch the videos as they may differ from your version of the exercise! *********
    Week One Weekly Team Challenge
    Each team member in order to get the weekly team bonus points must all 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 6 days your team will be awarded 5 Bonus Points.
    *Feel free to do these exercises in sets if you are unable to do them all at one time. Please do your best as you are much stronger than you believe.
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    THESE ARE THE ADVANCED EXERCISES!

    SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE
    WEEK 1 – BUSHMEN SERIES (Advanced)
    Week One Daily Exercise Challenge
    Each team member that completes their daily exercise challenge receives one point, if all team members complete each daily exercise for all 6 days the team is then awarded an additional 5 Bonus Points.
    Welcome to 300 Week You will do 6 exercises at 50 reps as quickly as possible 2 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!*********
    Week One Weekly Team Challenge
    Each team member in order to get the weekly team bonus points must all 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 6 days your team will be awarded 5 Bonus Points. *Feel free to do these exercises in sets if you are unable to do them all at one time. Please do your best as you are much stronger than you believe.
  • monikamoore
    monikamoore Posts: 3
    Go Mission Slimpossible. Thanks for getting us going Amy!
  • monikamoore
    monikamoore Posts: 3
    Go Mission Slimpossible. Thanks for getting us going Amy!
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Is everyone excited for this challenge? I know I am, and I know that makes me an exercise junkie... but bring it! We can handle this.

    My official weigh in for starting the challenge is 137. I am getting closer to where I want to be :) but... That just makes it harder to lose the last few pounds, so I will be doing the advanced exercises for this challenge.
  • franscott
    franscott Posts: 32
    Thats right Amy~ Bring it indeed!! :0) Starting weight is 201.8....gonna count every once. LOL. I will be doing the advanced as well...cause in BBC we "go big or go home." Do we know what the weekly challenge is yet...or do we find out monday?
  • ecjankowski
    ecjankowski Posts: 1
    Starting weight is 120. My user name is ecjankowski. Sorry for the late response. Thanks for getting this going Amy. :)
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Alright team I still need weigh-ins for April, Blair, Monika, and Sydney. Feel free to private message or email it to me. I was having a hard time posting mine on this forum today because we all know each other!!!

    Also funny to note that April, Johanna, Monika, Fran and I were all together eating chocolate cake tonight in preparation for tomorrow... Bring it on, September! We had our splurge.
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    First day ladies! You can do it !
  • schuebe
    schuebe Posts: 1
    Starting weight 154!! Bring it on!!
  • Akim3
    Akim3 Posts: 1 Member
    My starting weight is 124.0. Can't wait to do the challenges.
  • franscott
    franscott Posts: 32
    Day 1 challenge done!! It wasn't too bad...i just had to trick myself into counting by 10s. LOL...instead of saying 50 more to go...just thought to myself its only 10 globe jumps...the rest for a sec and rep..5 times. You can do it ladies!!!
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Congrats on starting day one of September Tribal Challenge! We already have a mini-challenge for EXTRA points. There is pain involved, let me tell you. Here is the quote from Gary:

    O.K. Let's start this week off right! 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 mini-challenge 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 ask them to add one point to your 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.

    Also, if you are doing BUSHMAN challenges, you need to start each workout with a Tabata challenge. That's a 4 minute circuit, 20 seconds as hard as you can, 10 second rest. This girl on YouTube has lots of examples of different Tabata workouts.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkCnNrxHwFE&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DfuU3TSsFM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Two ways to get to this forum without clicking the link in the email:

    From the opening page, hit the blue COMMUNITY tab and then hit my topics

    From the opening page, hit the blue MY HOME tab, then Profile, then on the left hand side at the bottom My Topics
  • bnbrignac
    bnbrignac Posts: 1
    starting weight is 159.8
  • monikamoore
    monikamoore Posts: 3
    Starting weight 159.2. Really am happy to start this challenge!
  • amt623
    amt623 Posts: 1 Member
    The first day pygmy challenge wasn't really that bad at all...am thinking of stepping it up to the bushman! :) Maybe next week though. :) Congrats on starting the first day everyone!!
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    RE: Ann's comment: you can choose to do Pygmy or Bushman every day, it's not a month long commitment. I think this is neat because if you look at the advanced one and it looks doable, you can do it without having to do that one every day. We are all stronger than we think! Try it and see.
  • amymoore728
    amymoore728 Posts: 72
    Mission Slimpossible: sorry for the confusion with when things start, workouts of the day, etc. We were supposed to start yesterday with Day 1. If you didn't do it, no problem, you can still make it up. Choose the Pygmy or Bushman series for each day, and once you're done that's one point. Keep under your calories and drink your water each day, and that's one point. Do any extra mini-challenge (eg. Bear Crawls this week), and that's one point. Here's the challenges for yesterday and today:

    Thursday:
    Pygmy: Day 1 Exercise Challenge - 30 Squat Kicks* and 50 Jumping Jacks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSu-wci9uTo )

    Bushman: Day 1 - 50 Squat Kicks, 50 Jumping Jacks , 50 Crunches, 50 Mountain Climbers, 50 Wood Chops and last but not least 50 Globe Jumps!

    Friday:
    Pygmy: 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

    Bushman: 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)
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