Need motivation? Here's a FUN way to get moving!

A couple weeks ago, I just couldn't get my head back in the game after the holidays. I sat in front of my laptop and played around on MFP, Pinterest and Facebook... but telling myself I really needed to get up and start working out again. It just wasn't happening. On a whim, I knew I needed someone to give me a swift kick to get moving again and decided to post the following to my Facebook wall:

"For every person who LIKES my status in the next 15 minutes, I will do 1 minute on the elliptical. You have to click LIKE not comment with the word. There... I said it. I can't take it back now!"

I received 15 LIKES in 15 minutes and knew I had to keep my word. I went downstairs and put in my 15 minutes on the elliptical. The funny thing was that once I got started, I pushed for a few more minutes and ended up doing 23 minutes! I usually do 45-60 minutes but the holidays had made me VERY lazy!

For the past couple of weeks, I have been posting challenges for myself regularly. For every LIKE, I will do 2 push-ups, or 3 crunches, or 1 squat, etc. It's been a really fun way to motivate myself. On those, I posted it in the morning and set a deadline for something like 5PM (CST). Surprisingly, it has also motivated others to do the same and now I have many friends who are posting their own challenges. And their friends are catching on and posting their own challenges. Looks like it might be a new fitness movement! LOL

Because of the interest I received in these challenges, I set up a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/offthecouch. Please feel free to like the page if you want to match the challenges, post your own challenges or just follow along until you are inspired!!! Some of us then come back over to MFP and post the same challenges here or compare workouts. It's been great!!!

http://www.facebook.com/offthecouch