Hello everyone. How is January going? Are you still enthused and keen or are the January blues starting to kick in...? What you need is a lovely little challenge to look forward to!
On 1st February I will be opening a timed, weekly exercise challenge. We will each be aiming to hit 150 minutes of exercise every week. This can be cardio, strength, stretching, on land, in water, in the garden/house/gym - as long as you are active it can be included. It can be your weekly routine or you might fancy trying something new.
It will run Wednesday to Wednesday and I will attempt to collate stats to put together a top 5/10 leaderboard for those of you keen to push yourselves!
I will open the challenge on the 1st so please add your name if you would like to join so I can add you in. Please post your final total the following Wednesday and I will sort the stats out. Please give the total minutes but feel free to break down as might be nice to see what activities are being done. I will do an example when I open the challenge.
Hope this makes sense!
See you on the 1st Feb...
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Yep please count me in! I might just count running and cycling as I used to for Fizzyliz's challenges, as they're my main exercise routine, and I'm totally suffering with these freezing temperatures at the moment! Time will be a good way to measure them too
Yes I've been walking and boy it's chilly! Have buddied up with a couple of mums post school run otherwise pretty sure it would be tea and biscuits in the warm...
Thank you so much for offering to run this Challenge TheJuggler It is brilliant to see a different sort of Challenge being run - and I would very much like to be involved. I certainly need a virtual kick up the ........ of some sort, as I am not putting the effort I know I need into exercising, to go with some of my better eating habits.
I am going to use my Active minutes from my Fitbit, (not the total steps), as I am trying to walk more, and walk more briskly, and start on my C25K at the Gym. Hopefully I will do more than that, but if I declare those two aims, I can be held accountable.
More than welcome. I know, I really need to get moving a bit more. I am currently getting regularly thrashed at football/cricket - any sport really, by my children. Really on a push to see my fitness improve. Hopefully us all giving it a go together will put some good habits in place. Good luck with your plans - they certainly sound like good starting points.
Hi SlimmingEagle All the details are in the original post right at the top of this page (you may need to scroll up a bit!). I will open the challenge 1st Feb and you then have a week (7 days so Wednesday to Tuesday) to hit 150 mins of exercise. The following Wednesday (8th)post your stats on the thread and I will collate. You then need to do it each week (will end Tuesday 28th). I will open a new week to avoid the challenge posts getting too long and will aim to do a few stats too... Hope this explains it.
I'd just like to say that this is an excellent idea of yours and the time and effort you will be putting in will no doubt benefit all who participate. It is not so much as trying to better the other person but more so to better your individual time from the previous week. Being active is a key to weight loss and this challenge most certainly helps.
FYI - 150 mins per week on average translates into 15000 steps or 9km or 5.5 miles or a calorie burn of 750 calories which for someone who is sedentary it represents a positive step in the right direction
Ah, thank you. Hoping to motivate myself as much as all of you! I agree that anything over zero is an achievement and if we can move a bit more it's got to be good! Yes, absolutely no pressure to 'compete' other than against yourself and what you can achieve. Very much looking forward to seeing how well we can do. Thanks for the stats SlimmingEagle Always nice to have some context.
I need motivation, for 1 Feb, I want to do at least 20 mins daily, to feel good, restart swimming which I love, and an hour's walk, a week I'm retired and struggling to get up!!!and organised, I'm hoping writing this will hold me ti my plan
Welcome all you latest joiners. I'm starting to get quite excited about starting this now. We now have nearly 50 of us signed up which is amazing! I will post the challenge on Monday I think as I work on Wednesday and gives us time to get ready. I will tag you all so you should get notified. Am already starting to plan my week to include as much exercise as possible which is already a positive! See you all next week.
Do you have room for one more? Sounds like a great idea and I would love to join in. I'm hoping to combine more exercise into my daily routine but with the short cold days I've not done very well so far!
Can you add me as well- thought I'd have no problems doing the 150mins but this week I am seriously down- with a funeral up north so 2 days of mostly travelling with little opportunity to do a brisk walk and shift pattern and commitments I have not been able to get out much. Mind you despite a falling of the dietary and alcohol wagon last night 2 hours of dancing made up for the lack of exercise the rest of the week! This will help keep me motivated and plan my exercise better- I do my meals but not my exercise
Hi all. Thanks for the interest. I have just posted the first week of the challenge. I will try and tag you all shortly (but that may take some time!!). Welcome along new recruits. See you next week for some exercise updates. Good luck!
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Fit is Fun Club w/b Monday 22 January 2024, (for exercise achieved 15-21 January) .
