The South Beach February Take Care of Your Heart Exercise Challenge
We all know that exercise is good for our hearts. There's nothing like a little cardio to get
the heart pumping. It's also great for our overall sense of well-being, something many of us up
here in the northern areas can use a boost with through the long, gray winter days.
It's only 28 days, what's your goal this month? Whether you are starting out with 10 minutes
a day or are a fitness fan set a goal and join us in the monthly challenge. It's great to have exercise
buddies, supporting one another and being accountable. If you are a Beacher join us this month!
My numbers are finally improving a little. My goal is still to just move almost every day, 6/7 days at least. I'm going to stick with 1000 minutes, that's at least 30 minutes a day plus a little extra.
6 - 60m treadmill, 35m hooping
7 - 25m bike
8 - 25m hooping & stretching
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10 - 35m hooping, 10m hip exercises
11 - 30m walking
12 - 15m dog walk
13 - 40m hooping
14 - 90m walking, 25m hooping, 10m hip exercises
15 - 63m bike
16 - 35m hooping, 30m hip exercises
17 - 20m bike, 25m hooping, 25m hip exercises
18 - 15m hip exercises
19 - 55m stepper, 15m hooping, 20m hip exercises
20 - 25m hooping, 25m hip exercises
21 - 32m bike, 35m hooping, 25m hip exercises
22 - 15m hip exercises
23- 15m hip exercises
24 - 30m bike, 15m hip exercises
25 - 20m hooping, 40m shoveling heavy snow, 15m hip exercises
26 - 50m walk, 15m hip exercises
27- 43m hooping, 30m shoveling heavy snow, 15m hip exercises
28 - 30m bike, 41m hooping, 15m hip exercises
My goal is to workout 3x a week. Currently I'm doing none, so I figure this is a good, modest place to start. If I get the first two weeks in, I'd also like to try C25K, but I wanna get in a habit first.
My goal is to workout 3x a week. Currently I'm doing none, so I figure this is a good, modest place to start. If I get the first two weeks in, I'd also like to try C25K, but I wanna get in a habit first.
This is me too. I downloaded the C25K app for my iphone and it was great. I did one run and nearly died! (I blamed the stroller for the extra exertion. HA.)
My goal is 90 minutes/week. Starting from zero, this is big for me.
This is great. I love fresh starts to new months. I just finished week one of P1 and am feeling terrific...and not as low-energy as I did years go while on P1 (must be the beans!).
I used to run marathons and half marathons but it's been months since I've done any real exercise and a YEAR probably, if you can believe it, since I've been in any sort of regular exercising routine. I say "real" exercise because of course i still walk places but I don't count that since I don't sweat from it.
For the month of February my goal is to do at least 60 min/week of strength-training-type exercise, or about 10 min most days, even if it's just bedtime yoga, or an at-home strength-training routine. In addition to that, I want to make it to Zumba and/or spin classes at least 2x a week. This seems pretty reasonable to me, moving from the bottom rung of NO exercise.
Goal: 240 minutes ST; 8 hours of fitness classes (cardio)
Month so far: 80/240 ST; 3.75/8 cardio
1- 10 min morning wake-up yoga; 10 min uphill brisk walk
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3
4 - 1 hour Zumba class
5
6 - 20 min ST - Sparkpeople 28-day bootcamp videos, days 2 & 3 (lower & upper body 10 min each)
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8
9 - 1/2 hour Zumba cardio (i got the DVDs so can do it at home now! yay)
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11 - 1/2 hour Zumba cardio
12 - 1 hour Zumba cardio; 30 min ST (wooo!)
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14 - 20 min ST video
15
16 - 45 min Zumba cardio
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28
Edit/update: Wow, I totally failed at this month. Partly because I went out of town and then got the flu and have been sick for the last week. Can we please start the March thread soon??
Last edited by snoozlebug; 02-27-2011 at 08:42 PM.
@ fozen I hear ya! I used to run about 12 miles a week- but I've been out of running so long I need to just get in the habit of going outside on a regular basis...
Well, being one of the individuals with a heart problem, I just can't pass on this challenge so here I go again. Last November I committed to a goal of 600 minutes, then in December I increased that to 800 and in January I again increased my goal to 1,000 minutes and have met each one even though when I started I could only walk for about ten minutes max. This month I don't think I'm ready for another increase so will keep my goal at 1,000. Good luck to us all in meeting this month's goal!
Goal = 1,000 minutes
Actual = 262 minutes
1 = 45 A new challenge, a new day and a new start! The gun has sounded so let's go!
2 thru 17 - couldn't because of health problem
18 = 25 It feels good to be back! Gonna take a while to get back to where I was though.
19 = 37
20 = took the day off to rest
21 = 35
22 = 40
23 = 40
24 = 40
Last edited by TallandThin; 02-24-2011 at 03:01 PM.
Goal: Keep up with the P90X schedule.
Minutes: 2125
1 Cardio X
2 Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X
3 Yoga X
4 Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
5 Kenpo X
6 rest
7 Yoga X
8 Core Synergistics
9 Kenpo X
10 X Stretch
11 Cardio X
12 Yoga X
13 rest
14 Core Synergistics, walk
15 Cardio X, walk
16 Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps, Ab Ripper X, walk
17 Yoga X
18 Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
19 Kenpo X
20 rest
21 Core Synergistics, The Firm Cardio Overdrive
22 Cardio X, Walk Away the Pounds Super Fat Burner
23 Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps, Ab Ripper X, walk
24 Yoga X
25 Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
26 Kenpo X
27 rest
28 Core Synergistics, walk
Last edited by tomandkara; 02-28-2011 at 05:19 AM.
Last month I did 2400 minutes so it feels weird to lower my goal this month, BUT w/ there only being 28 days, I feel like it's necessary. So this month I'm going to lower my goal to 2200 minutes. I have a 5K schedule for the 12th and am considering doing another one on the 26th (my BIG goal this year is a 5K every month and hopefully a half-marathon by December).
Goal: 2200 minutes Total: 2610 minutes
1 - 5 minutes marching in place + 80 minutes at the gym 2 - 30 minutes at the gym + 5 minutes marching in place + 60 minutes playing Dance Central 3 - 5 minutes marching in place + 80 minutes playing Dance Central 4 - 60 minutes playing Dance Central + 5 minutes marching + 70 minutes at the gym 5 - 30 minutes at the gym + 5 minutes marching in place + 70 minutes at the gym
6 - 55 minutes walking in my neighborhood + 5 minutes marching in place 7 - 30 minutes at the gym + 65 minutes at the gym 8 - 5 minutes marching in place + 55 minutes DanceFit class + 45 minutes walking in my neighborhood + 45 minutes playing Dance Central 9 - 30 minutes at the gym + 5 minutes marching in place + 3 minutes shake weight + 70 minutes at the gym 10 - 55 minutes walking in my neighborhood + 5 minutes walking in place + 70 minutes at the gym 11 - 60 minute pushing around 100 lbs worth of groceries 12 - 5 minutes marching in place + 52 minutes Sweetheart Run for Sight 5K
13 - 5 minutes marching in place + 210 minutes walking in Savannah/Tybee Island 14 - 30 minutes playing Dance Central + 5 minutes marching in place + 70 minutes at the gym 15 - 5 minutes marching in place + 60 minutes working out w/ an exercise ball + 70 minutes at the gym 16 - 35 minutes at the gym + 15 minutes working out w/ an exercise ball + 35 minutes C25K 17 -Rest Day. Sick. 18 - 35 minutes C25K 19 - 55 minutes walking in my neighborhood + 5 minute marching in place + 30 minutes working out w/ exercise ball + 70 minutes at the gym
20 - 5 minutes marching in place + 70 minutes at the gym 21 - 5 minutes marching in place + 105 minutes at the gym 22 - 5 minutes marching in place + 60 minutes DanceFit class 23 - 35 minutes at the gym + 5 minutes marching in place + 30 minutes working out w/ exercise ball 24 -Rest Day. 25 - 5 minutes marching in place + 35 minutes C25K 26 - 5 minutes marching in place + 120 minutes dancing my butt off at the Rehab concert!!! 27 - 5 minutes marching in place + 60 minutes hiking the Ocmulgee Trail + 35 minutes C25K + 50 minutes at the gym 28 - 5 minutes marching in place + 70 minutes at the gym
Last edited by Natasha1534; 03-01-2011 at 11:36 PM.
The South Beach February Take Care of Your Heart Exercise Challenge
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