Team Derby Life Week 0 (derbyskaters/referees only)

Wow, I am really getting excited about this team. What a great group of dedicated athletes! I have been trying out the challenges to see how they are for me personally and I am happy to announce that they provided me a bit of a struggle. Especially getting up off the ground without using any hands… without skates on… that was fun.
So here is what we have so far, we can modify, change, or add as needed. I really don’t know if this is set in stone until I get the majority input on this, so everyone please look it over and give your honest opinion. If you think it won’t be challenging enough for the group then please say so and also offer suggestions on modifications.

Weekly Challenges: Staying under calories, Drinking 8 glasses of water a day, skate 2xs a week. Any time during week: endurance or any day that you can fit this into your schedule - skate, non-stop, any pace, for at least 30 minutes
Monday: (week 2 in parenthesis): 25 (30) crunches, 15 (20) push-ups, 5 (8) squats- hold 15 seconds
Tuesday: 30 sec wall squat 30 sec plank repeat 5x (repeat 8x), 10(12) min stretching
Wednesday: Baseball slide get up with no hands. 6x (8x)
Thursday: 30 (40) Lunges 10(12) min stretching
Friday: 4 back strengthening exercises (http://www.realsimple.com/health/fitness-exercise/workouts/4-back-strengthening-exercises-10000001722657/index.html)
Saturday: 30 sec mountain climbers, Hop on 1 foot for 30 seconds, switch. X2 (x4) 10(12) min stretching

great job to rockrosie for meeting such an intense goal with the plank!!! I admire that so much. I am wondering if I can even hold more than 30 seconds... that takes incredible strength and persistence.

I hope everyone is ready to start with our wonderful challenges next week. I will post one new topic for every two day. Please push yourself to respond one time a day as encouragement and for accountability. It is important that we find out if the challenges are, well, challenging or if they need to be modified. Also want to make sure that everyone is participating... how fun this is going to be.

Also make sure that you are drinking lots of water, if you are well hydrated your body is happy! I also want to encourage you to continue on with logging your food and staying with good range of calories not too many and make sure you aren't too low either.

YAY for TEAM DERBY LIFE!!!!

Derby Love,
Davy Rock-Hit

Awesome MadMoxie! Thank you for sharing your goals and for joining in on the fun. Today is the first day of challenge week 1 so I hope you will be able to jump right in as you see fit. We are going to keep this group open to skaters/refs all the time so anyone that is new can just pick up where we are and modify the challenges as needed. I am trying to get more derby girls that I already see on MFP to participate but it's all for personal interest and motivation


if any of you would like to use the Team Derby Life tag in your signature here it is... just change the captial IMG to lowercase and it will be ready for you.

My thing is that I've actually gained weight since starting the sport and not in a muscle way either (except my legs which are solid).I guess the after party culture has caught up with me, and a massive increase in appetite.

Koko x

I hear you on this... our league motto... we always win at the afterparty...eeeekkkk I used to go to Mc Donalds every night after practice and found a personal triumph when that wasn't the case. It seems like I my appetite is so huge after practice so I am just drinking tons more water. I also have been trying to do better about the afterparties... I had vodka and 7up which was half as many calories as my fav...the tequila sunrise! LOL all sugar. I should have only drank 1 but someone bought me the second... I'll stick to one next time, my personal goal

Thanks everyone for putting personal stuff on here and I am so honored to have met you all.

Assessing my goals:

Goal 1: Endurance skating for more than 90% of the time during our endurance drills at practice. Control my wide turns when crossing over on track.
I am maybe at 80%, I bet I increased by 10% in the last couple of weeks, my wide turns are a little better but I am learning to use the diamond approach when doing laps.

Goal 2: Speed, catch up to Jammer and other girls 50% of the time (currently when a girl goes to get by I can never catch her)
I would like to accomplish these goals by two months… I have an interleague bout end of October and that would be a good time to gauge my progress.

I noticed myself catching up to the Jammer better than ever before last week. I found as well that if I could stay on the inside and just get ahead of her on the track that helped too... except when getting out of play... which is tricky. I got a major during my bout for blocking out of play LOL

How are you ladies doing with your goals?

Hey all you wonderful roller derby people!

Here is the link to week 3

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/341359-team-derby-life-week-3-open-to-roller-derby-skaters-referee

but FYI we will keep Week 0 open for people to introduce themselves and chat amongst ourselves as we see fit

Hey derby girls... lets revamp and figure out a way to support/challenge...not many responses to the daily challenges so maybe we should try something else out please post in week 0 with your ideas...maybe we will just make a one time a month thread where people can post all througout the month... IDK lets brainstorm

Please view and bookmark the following blog to participate in exercise challenges...
we will reply in the comments section as an easy way for people to communicate

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/TeamDerbyLife