Here in the Northern Hemisphere it's fun in the sun season (finally!) Time for riding bikes, lawn mowing, and long walks along the beach. Shorts, tank tops, and the dreaded bathing suits are coming out of storage. Can you run the summer food gauntlet and still rock that sun dress? Exercise can help. It can encourage your metabolism, tone muscles you didn't know you had, and keep your spirits up. So come on and join us for the June Challenge. It doesn't matter if you are a new exerciser striving for some focused movement or a Challenge veteran keeping those numbers up when you'd rather sit in the sun. This is a great place to set goals and be accountable. So what is your June goal?
I'm starting to get my exercise groove back but still skipping more days than I'd like to. This month's goal is 1500 minutes with a focus on 6/7 days a week.
progress to Goal: 1475/ 1500
1 - great start with three hours of walking through fields looking for birds.
2 - 45m walk
3- 45m walk, 10m weights
4 - 30m bike
5
6 - 30m bike
7 30m walk
8 - 60m road walk, 60m mtn hike
9 - 40m bike ride, 30m walk
10 - 45m stationary bike
11 - 60m walk
12 - 60m walk
13 - 30m walk
14 - 60m mow
15 - 75m mow
16 - 90m walk
17 - 15m mow, 30m walk
18 - 60m mow
19 - 60m mow
20 - too hot
21 - 30m walk
22 - 30m walk
23 - 90m walk
24 driving day
25 - 30m walk
26
27
28 - 30m walk, 60m mow
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30 - 60m mow
1 - 35 min cardio spin and slim
2 - 40 min Spinerval 20.0 DVD
3 - 50 min Spinerval 20.0 DVD (amazing workout)
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5
6 - 3 hours push mowing (over 2 acres and lots of hills)
7 - rest day, lol very sore!
8
9 - 60 min heavy lifting (shoevling and moving wheel barrels full of top soil
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11 - 120 min cycling big hills will feel it tomorrow
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13
14 - 35 min spinning (I seem to be lacking consistency this month)
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18 - 45 minutes walking
19 - 55 minutes interval spinning 20 minutes walking
20 - 120 minutes cycling (25 miles in 90 degree heat totally insane)
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22
23 - 45 min interval spinning
24
25 - 60 min race day spinning
26 - 90 min cycling
27 - 60 min cycling - goal achieved
28
29 - 20 min spinning (not feeling great, but at least I did something)
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Going to try and it 1300 this month.
Minutes so far: 1120 minutes
1- 30 minutes of Interval Training
2- 30 minutes of Walking
3- 30 minutes of Walking
4- 35 minutes of Interval running/ 60 minutes Walking
5- 30 minutes Weights/sculpting
6- 35 minutes of Interval running/ 45 minutes Walking
7- 35 minutes of Weights/sculpting
8- 35 minutes of Interval running
9- 0
10- 0
11- 35 minutes of Interval running
12- 30 minutes of Weights/sculpting/ 30 minutes of Walking
13- 35 minutes of Interval running/ 20 minutes of Walking
14- 30 minutes of Weights/sculpting
15- 35 minutes of Interval running
16- 0
17- 0
18- 30 minutes of Walking
19- 30 minutes of Weights/sculpting/ 15 minutes of Walk
20- 30 minutes of Walking
21- 30 minutes of Weights/sculpting
22- 35 minutes of Interval running
23- 120 minutes of Walking
24- 30 minutes of Walking
25- 60 minutes of Cardio
26- 70 minutes of Cardio
27- 0
28- 60 minutes of Cardio
29- 30 minutes of Walking
30- 0
I'm completely off the exercise wagon so I am starting small but trying to get "regular".
GOAL: Something, ANYTHING, every day, even if it is a 10-minute walk
CURRENT: 5 days/10
June 1 - No.
2- YES, just a walk around the neighborhood, ~ 20 min.
3 - 6 - can't remember, so I am inclined to say it is NO
7 - YES - walking (but not much)
8 - YES - walking
9 - YES - Couch to 5K Week 1, Day 1 AND ~1 hour walking. (OK this is my first "real" day of exercising and it feels GREAT. I have no idea why it takes me so long to get motivated. Serious issues.)
10 - YES - ~ 30 min walking and 1 hour yoga
11 - on... I did do some things... went running again for sure... but forgot to record anything...
Eh, it looks like I am pretty much out for this month. I got really frustrated with my weight being ~the same for 6 months (after bumping up TEN POUNDS over the holidays) so I focused on re-thinking of my diet. Exercise has fallen off the radar for now. Lame.
I'm doing the Couch to 5K running plan. I'm doing week one over, so, my goal is to be at the end of week 4 by the end of June! I'll post my run days.
2: C25K W1D1
4: C25K W1D2
7: C25K W1D3 - Week One Complete!
9: C25K W2D1 - I made it! I wanted to wimp out on the last running interval, but stuck it out. Go me!
Jump to July 2nd: I stopped updating, but didn't stop running. This is hard stuff. I didn't make it to the end of week four, but I have one more run in week three, then I think I'll move to week four - not sure yet. I find I'm doing each week twice because I'm just not ready to move to the next level in one week.
Last edited by CatMat; 07-02-2012 at 08:08 AM.
Reason: Updating workouts
My goal, as it has been for years, is some sort of workout tape or dvd, 5X to 7X's a week.
1- Life Force dvd, plus extra ab work, 60 min.
2 - no exercise
3 - no exercise
4 - Life Force dvd, 50 min.
5 - Cardio Force dvd, 60 minutes, plus 8 minutes utube abs.
6 - no exercise
7 - Keli Roberts step cardio with wieghts, 40 min.
8 - no exercise
9 - Cardio Force dvd, 60 min.
10 - no exercise
11 - Cardio Force dvd, plus 8 min. ab work = 68 min.
12 - Keli Roberts step cardio, 25 min.
13 - no exercise
14 - no exercise
15 - Gilad's Step and Tone, 35 minutes.
16 - no exercise
17 - no exercise
18 - Cardio Force dvd, 60 min.
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Last edited by VermontMom; 06-18-2012 at 11:14 AM.
Wow, a few of you (you know who you are!) are doing SO GREAT this month.
Me, not so much. Shook up my diet and it ended up being pretty low-cal so I haven't sorted it all out and/or figured out how to get back into exercise. But I needed some serious shaking up so it's all good.
SBD Jumping June Exercise Challenge
to you who made your goals!!!
