Week 1 Mini Challenges
luvs_choc8
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Here We Go!!!!!
Monday
Food: Stay within your calorie limit. Eat at least 3 vegetables and 2 fruits.
Cardio: Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc)
Strength: Do 120 crunches (3 different kinds)
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water.
Tuesday
Food: Stay within your calorie limit. Try and eat the majority of your carbohydrates in the first half of the day.
Cardio: Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc)
Strength: Do 100 squats (everytime you make a trip to the washroom, do 10 squats)
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Wednesday: Stay within your calorie limit. Eat required amounts of protein which is used to help repair muscles,
Cardio: Do an interval workout today. 5 minute warm-up, 1 minute jog (or fast walk), 2 minute walk, repeat 8 times, finish with a 5 minute cool-down.
Strength: Do 10 sets of 10 push-ups at your level.
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Thursday: Stay within your calorie limit. Have lots of fiber consisting of whole grains, whole fruit and vegetables, legumes, cereals.
Cardio: Do 35 minutes of increased heart rate activity.
Strength: Do 10 lunges with 10 bicep curls, 10 sets
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Friday: Stay within your calorie limit. Watch the amount of sodium that you eat. Try to avoid prepackaged or takeout food which is very high in sodium
Cardio: Do 35 minutes of increased heart rate activity.
Strength: Do 120 crunches
Water: DRink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Saturday: Stay within your calorie limit.
Cardio: Go for a leisurely walk with someone you care about today.
Strength: Do 10 sets of 10 tricep kickbacks
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Sunday: Stay within your calorie limit
Cardio/Strength: Today is a day of rest and relaxation
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
I am by no means a professional in diet or exercise. Everything stated above is things that I have learned and read during the last year of being on MFP. Please do not do anything that will harm yourself.
Hope you have a great week.
Keep smiling
Monday
Food: Stay within your calorie limit. Eat at least 3 vegetables and 2 fruits.
Cardio: Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc)
Strength: Do 120 crunches (3 different kinds)
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water.
Tuesday
Food: Stay within your calorie limit. Try and eat the majority of your carbohydrates in the first half of the day.
Cardio: Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc)
Strength: Do 100 squats (everytime you make a trip to the washroom, do 10 squats)
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Wednesday: Stay within your calorie limit. Eat required amounts of protein which is used to help repair muscles,
Cardio: Do an interval workout today. 5 minute warm-up, 1 minute jog (or fast walk), 2 minute walk, repeat 8 times, finish with a 5 minute cool-down.
Strength: Do 10 sets of 10 push-ups at your level.
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Thursday: Stay within your calorie limit. Have lots of fiber consisting of whole grains, whole fruit and vegetables, legumes, cereals.
Cardio: Do 35 minutes of increased heart rate activity.
Strength: Do 10 lunges with 10 bicep curls, 10 sets
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Friday: Stay within your calorie limit. Watch the amount of sodium that you eat. Try to avoid prepackaged or takeout food which is very high in sodium
Cardio: Do 35 minutes of increased heart rate activity.
Strength: Do 120 crunches
Water: DRink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Saturday: Stay within your calorie limit.
Cardio: Go for a leisurely walk with someone you care about today.
Strength: Do 10 sets of 10 tricep kickbacks
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
Sunday: Stay within your calorie limit
Cardio/Strength: Today is a day of rest and relaxation
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water
I am by no means a professional in diet or exercise. Everything stated above is things that I have learned and read during the last year of being on MFP. Please do not do anything that will harm yourself.
Hope you have a great week.
Keep smiling
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will do you too0
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Thanks, have it written down, so ready to lose this weight:)0
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Got it written down. Looking forward to the challenge!0
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Printed out and ready to go!0
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I copied it to each day on my food diary,0
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posting it to your diary is a great idea! i am doing that too:)
thanks so much for putting this together! I'll be incorporating it into my regular gym work outs and when it doesn't fill the requirements i'll just push myself to do more!
woohoo! March Madness!0 -
Day 1 is in the books!
Food: Stay within your calorie limit. Eat at least 3 vegetables and 2 fruits.--Check. I had 4 vegetables (brocolli, mushroom, asparagus, carrots) and 4 fruits (banana, kiwi, strawberries, pineapple in smoothies)
Cardio: Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc) --Check-spin class
Strength: Do 120 crunches (3 different kinds) --check. did standard, reverse and in/outs.
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water.--check-finishing my last bottle.
This challenge looks like it will really help to get me back on track!0 -
alright..got it all done except the crunches!! I was late in the game (only joined today at 5pm ) so had to sneak in a quick 250 + cardio work out..sadly too tired to do crunches now at 9pm. Must. Sleep.
ok, tomorrow's goal - get all the checks in!
thanks again:)0 -
Great way to start the week, feels good. got it done0
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Hope that I am not too late!!! I have many challenges but I am pushing for as close to 50 pounds as I can before my 1 year Wedding Anniversary!!
Food: I had 4 vegetables onions green peppers red peppers and snap peas! and fruits strawberries and grapfruit
Cardio: C25K run
Strength: did standard, reverse and side
Water: only one and half more to go!!!
This is going to be a fantastic month!0 -
wow, the crunches yesterday are killing me today, soooo sore :sad: But it's worth it:happy:
Really looking forward to the squats today, I love them.
Food-wise I'm eating lots of veg, less fruit because of the sugar. But I always make sure I get my vits and mins.
I already love this challenge
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Water Intake- Done
Cardio workout - Done
Fruits and veggies - 2 servings of strawberries, 2 servings of carrots and 1 serving broccoli plus multi-vitamin
Didn't get crunches done. Elliptical wore me out. Sore today.
Thanks for the challenge! Keeping me on track.0 -
Everybody is doing awesome. I must report that I did not do so well as it was my Birthday.
Did eat 3 vegetables and 2 fruits.
Did not do cardio
Did not do crunches
Did drink 8 glasses of water.
Did have a small piece of truffle cake (slap hands)
Did have a great day!!!
Back at it big time tomorrow.0 -
Got my 10 cups of water in
Made myself stay after work to do cardio so got my calories burned in
Couldn't get all my veggies & fruits in - did get 2 veggies and 1 fruit in
No crunches but will give the squats a go today
Have an awesome day everyone!0 -
Monday check in:
Food: Stay within your calorie limit - CHECK. Eat at least 3 vegetables and 2 fruits - got my fruit in (banana, apple) but failed on the veggies
Cardio: Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc) - CHECK: burned 600+ calories doing C25K week 8 plus walking.
Strength: Do 120 crunches (3 different kinds) - FAIL: forgot all about it
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water. CHECK! Drank 14 glasses!
And Happy Birthday to you, Donna! :drinker:0 -
Well Happy Belated Birthday Donna!!
Thanks for getting us all back on track - I had a pretty slack February - ready to get back into gear for March!!
Monday - Fruit and Veggies - Check, Cardio at Bootcamp - Check, Crunches while I watched TV - Check. Still need to do better witht the water I drank a ton but I dont track it - will try to keep a log this month!0 -
Everybody is doing awesome. I must report that I did not do so well as it was my Birthday.
Did eat 3 vegetables and 2 fruits.
Did not do cardio
Did not do crunches
Did drink 8 glasses of water.
Did have a small piece of truffle cake (slap hands)
Did have a great day!!!
Back at it big time tomorrow.
VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY:flowerforyou:0 -
Happy Birthday Donna!
Oh those squats are burning! I love it! Just finished dinner a little under calories! And well over on calories burned ;0)
Have a great day all!0 -
Tuesday check in!
Food: Stay within your calorie limit. Try and eat the majority of your carbohydrates in the first half of the day. --check
Cardio: Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc) check-alternated between my bike trainer and elliptical
Strength: Do 100 squats (everytime you make a trip to the washroom, do 10 squats) -check interspersed them in my strength training. I can't go very low due to severe knee problems but I do them on the bosu.
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water --check.
Happy Birthday Donna!
Keep up the good work everyone!!0 -
Tuesday
Food: Stay within your calorie limit. Try and eat the majority of your carbohydrates in the first half of the day. - Done
Cardio: Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc) - Done
Strength: Do 100 squats (everytime you make a trip to the washroom, do 10 squats) - Can't do squats due to knee injury. So I did 50 push-ups, 100 crunches and 50 knee-lifts.
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water - Done
So pretty productive day yesterday. Looking forward to today except my arms are killing me from the push-ups last night. LOL0 -
Monday and Tuesday were not that good for me. I was extremely tired Monday (couldn't keep my eyes open tired) and then yesterday I had a sinus headache. I'm hoping to get back on track today.0
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Well, yesterday was an epic fail for me.
I got in 60 squats (ok that bathroom idea was great!).
didn't come close to my water goal, didn't make it to the gym, and had food court chinese food for dinner.
today i will ROCK this.
here i go!!0 -
Tuesday -
Did my cardio - 40 minutes on the bike
60 of the 100 squats
8 glasses of water
Carbs in the evening didn't go so well
Looking forward to today.0 -
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Ate hardly any carbs for supper but did have a small piece of truffle cake at 8:00
Did 60 minutes of walking
Did 100 squats and could not do one more today without crying
Drank 12 glasses of water0 -
Tuesday check in:
Food: Stayed within calorie limit but still ate quite a bit of carbs for dinner. Oops.
Cardio: Did elliptical and strength training burning 400+ calories.
Strength: Got through 70 squats at the gym then forgot about the rest. I KNEW I should have just forced myself to finish them while I was there! :grumble:
Water: Drank 10 glasses of water.0 -
Oops! I didn't see this until today! Happy Belated Birthday!!
Lets see how I did blind...
Monday
Food: Stay within your calorie limit. (I did that!) Eat at least 3 vegetables (Big salad for lunch w/ romaine, spinach, carrots, red peppers and tomatoes and broccoli, not sure if that counts as 3) and 2 fruits (Yup! A banana and an apple.)
Cardio: (I walked around the museum for 2 hours holding my 15 pound daughter because they don’t allow strollers I’m going to say that counts lol) Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc)
Strength: (Didn’t do this one) Do 120 crunches (3 different kinds)
Water: (Or this one) Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water.
Tuesday
Food: (I was attacked by a roll of girl scout cookies! Went 200 over. I’m nursing twins so I might not do so hot in this category I may be over some days.) Stay within your calorie limit. Try and eat the majority of your carbohydrates in the first half of the day.
Cardio: (No exercise for me today either)Do some kind of increased heart rate activity to burn at least 250 calories. (ie walking 30 minutes, elliptical, aerobics, stairs etc)
Strength: Do 100 squats (everytime you make a trip to the washroom, do 10 squats)
Water: (So close! I drank 9) Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water0 -
Oh boy I'm not doing so well with the mini challenge been so busy with work as I'm off next wk! I've look at the challenge for tomoro and I'm right on it!! 0
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Me not doing good either this week. Keeping under calories in itself is proving a challenge. First time i joined MFP i was doing better but fell off the wagon due to having to shift home. I re-started only a week or two ago and its harder this time. I am not doing good on water front either- averaging 4-5 glasses of water per day. Having a cold does not help. Hopefully I can pick up from next week. All you guys are an encouragement for me to try harder on my part. Keep it up 0
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Didn't do to well on protein yesterday. Stayed under calories.
Cardio - Did 60 minutes on the treadmill
Strength - Did back and shoulders weight training for 40 minutes. I am so sore today.
water - Made the mark there
Have to take today off from exercising due to a evening full of scouting functions. But will be back in the gym on Friday to make up for it. Hope everyone has a great day!0 -
Wednesday check in:
Wednesday: Stay within your calorie limit. Eat required amounts of protein which is used to help repair muscles, -check.
Cardio: Do an interval workout today. 5 minute warm-up, 1 minute jog (or fast walk), 2 minute walk, repeat 8 times, finish with a 5 minute cool-down. -check. I did my own interval routine on the elliptical for 25 minutes.
Strength: Do 10 sets of 10 push-ups at your level. -check. Did a variety of full, knee, on the stability ball and bosu push ups.
Water: Drink at least 10 (8oz) glasses of water-check.
Today's lunges might be tough with my knees but I will try and modify them and not go very deep.
Keep up the good work everyone!0
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