It's the holiday month! Lets all bring in our A game and aim to workout each week, and push ourselves a little out of our comfort zone - to make up for and plan for the little indulgence over the holiday season

Bring It for December!

In addition to declaring your daily exercise achievments, there will be a smilie competion each week, which you're more than welcome to join in!

Allocate a holiday smilie of your choice for each workout you complete. At the end of the week, count up your smilies and see how you fair against the competition!

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Week 1

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Week 2

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week 3

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week 4

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week 5

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Echo's December Exercise Challenge


Week 1
1st tues: none
2nd weds: none
3rd thurs workout I: biggest loser boot camp (resistance training): level 1, 2 and 3: 57minutes. 350calories burned
workout II: exercise bike (cardio): level 13: 31minutes 242calories burned
4th fri Jillian Michaels boost metabolism dvd (cardio): 53 minutes: burned 472calories
5th sat Tae Bo (tae Bo platinum dvd plus Tae BO II basic workout and half of advanced workout) 74 minutes: burned 463 calories
6th sun: rest day

Total calories burned = 1527 calories [0.44lbs] {44% lb}
Total Smilies week 1 = 4 :
Total minutes = 215 minutes
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Week 2

7th mon:none
8th tues: p90x chest shoulders and triceps. plus extra resistance training (Jillian Michaels fitness plan (tricpes and biceps exercises only - thanks Mercy!)Total minutes 76 minutes. Burned 419 calories
9th weds: plyometrics (p90x) 57 minutes. 464 calories burned. (plus bonus round - jumping jacks and steps 8 minutes. 52 calories burned. Total calories burned = 516 calories burned

10th thurs: rest day

11th fri: Last chance workout dvd biggest loser. all 3 workouts. cardio and resistance training. 64 minutes. burned 450 calories

12th sat none: ab pain (strained my ab muscles)
13th sun none: taking a recovery day off


Total calories burned = 1385 calories [0.40lbs] {40% lb}

Total Smilies = 3

Total minutes = 205 minutes.

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week 3

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week 4

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week 5

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Week 1

1st tues 30 min cardio
2nd weds:30 min strength
3rd thurs30 min cardio
4th fri
5th sat
6th sun

Total Smilies =3
Total minutes =90 min

Goal for week one- 30 min cardio, 30 min strength and/or stretching.

I smile given for each goal met

Thanks for the challenge Dr. Echo!

Have it your way lol, but I don't think us three would get lost anywhere

p.s. Miss you

Well here is CHOPPED LIVER checking in

I am improving! I was able to get 3 in with the dogs with little pain today.

Have a great month....I am keeping my goal low because I hope to be back to work soon and it will be out of town....cutting into my walking

3/50 MILES

Ummmmm, I like chopped liver

I will keep up my daily workouts throughout December, in spite of after-hour holiday parties and some of my exercise classes going on hiatus for a few weeks. When others are lamenting overindulging and swearing they must start a program, I'll just be doing what I always do, whatever the season, because exercising is a non-negotiable part of my daily routine, like washing my face or brushing my teeth. (I hope that if I keep telling myself that, it will be true. ;-)


Week 1

1st tues: 45 minutes bike, 15 minutes rowing
2nd weds: One hour elliptical, weights
3rd thurs: One hour elliptical, one hour Pilates class
4th fri: One hour elliptical, weights
5th sat: One hour elliptical, one hour Pilates class
6th sun: One hour swimming class, weights. This was not my finest hour in swim class. I'm somewhere beyond the intermediate class but I am the laggard in the advanced class. I really need to work on my breast stroke & butterfly.

Total Smilies = How do I earn a smilie? Is it like a teacher giving a sticker to a student's paper?
Total minutes = Probably just under nine hours. (I don't time my work with weights -- I just do the sets.) So maybe 535 minutes for the week.
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Week 2

7th mon: One hour bike, abs work
8th tues: One hour elliptical, weights
9th weds: One hour bike, abs work
10th thurs: One hour bike, weights
11th fri: One hour elliptical, abs work
12th sat: 30 minutes elliptical, 30 minutes on treadmill, one hour Pilates class
13th sun: One hour swimming class, weights

Total Smilies = I'm giving up on the smiley thing.
Total minutes = Probably about eight and a half hours. I could have done more, had I also taken a yoga class & a second Pilates class during the week, but I need that downtime after work. That's 510 minutes for the week.

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week 3

14th mon: One hour bike, abs work. Boy did this feel good after a hectic day.
15th tues: One hour elliptical, weights
16th weds: One hour bike, abs work. Barely made it through this, as I picked up a cold over the past few days & feel out of it.
17th thurs: 45 minutes elliptical, 45 minutes Pilates class
18th fri: One hour elliptical, weights
19th sat: 30 minutes elliptical, 30 minutes treadmill, one hour Pilates class
20th sun: One hour on the arc trainer, weights. After eight & a half inches of snow fell, my Sunday morning swimming class at the local community college was cancelled. But the gym down the street still opened this morning & lots of people were in there at 10 AM. There are so many big co-op apartment buildings around here that people just have to walk a block or two or three, at most.

Total minutes = 6 hours & 45 minutes of cardio, one hour & 15 minutes' worth of Pilates classes, probably two & half hours of mat work & weights, for a total of about 10 and a half hours. A new high for the month: 630 minutes.

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week 4

21st mon: One hour bike, abs work
22nd tues: One hour elliptical, weights
23rd weds: One hour elliptical, abs work
24th thurs, Christmas Eve: One hour bike, weights
Christmas, fri: One hour arc trainer, abs work
26th sat: One hour elliptical, one hour Pilates class
27th sun: One hour bike, weights

Total minutes = 10 hours, or 600 minutes. Which won't make up for my nibbling at nuts & eating prime rib on Christmas Day, but has kept me in a good, consistent habit, which will help when I eat more regular, day-to-day meals.
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week 5

28th mon: One hour elliptical, one hour Pilates class
29th tues: One hour arc trainer, weights
30th weds: One hour bike, abs work. Today I secretly went down to the spinning classroom when no one was there & got on a spin bike, to see how it felt. I am preparing myself mentally to try a spinning class. I do a lot of solitary hours on a stationery bike, but have never tried a spinning class. I am a bit of lone wolf as far as exercising goes & I am shy of crowds (due to deep-rooted gym class traumas from my youth ;-) so this will be a big thing for me.
31st thurs: One hour elliptical, weights. Snow began falling rather prettily while I was on the machine, then got thicker & faster. I walked home through a snowstorm. Goodbye to 2009. Good wishes for 2010.

Total minutes = Five hours & 45 minutes. 345 minutes for the week. Done & done. 2,620 minutes for the month.

You ladies are killin' me

I was able to get 3 in with the mutts this morning w/o much pain. I will see the doctor later this morning.

6/50 MILES

Always looking for something new to "shake it up" so I'm game to play!
Week 1

1st tues : none
2nd weds: 60 minutes spin class
3rd thurs: 50 minutes latin dance class
4th fri: 30 minutes running on treadmill
5th sat: 60 minutes (45 elliptical, 15 weights)
6th sun: 42 minutes cross trainer

Total Smilies = 5
Total minutes = 242 minutes
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Week 2

7th mon: 70 minutes boxing boot camp class
8th tues: none
9th weds: 60 minutes spin class
10th thurs: 60 minutes latin dance class
11th fri: none (surgery)
12th sat: none
13th sun: 60 minutes (45 walking on treadmill, 15 upper body)

Total Smilies = 4
Total minutes = 250 minutes
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week 3

14th mon: 60 minutes (50 treadmill, 10 crunches)
15th tues: none
16th weds: 38 minutes crosstrainer
17th thurs: 50 minutes Latin dance class
18th fri: none
19th sat: 60 minutes (tried out a new gym! approx 35 min on elliptical and 25 weight training)
20th sun: 45 minutes elliptical

Total Smilies = 5
Total minutes = 253 minutes
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week 4

21st mon: 60 minute cardio tai box class (whooped my behind!!)
22nd tues: 60 minute belly, butt and thigh bootcamp class
23rd weds: 45 minutes cross trainer
24th thurs: none
25th fri: 37 minute run/walk
26th sat: 35 min run/walk
27th sun: 35 min run/walk:

Total Smilies = 6
Total minutes = 272 minutes
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week 5

28th mon: 25 min run
29th tues: none
30th weds: 35 min run
31st thurs: 50 min (45 crosstrainer, sit-ups)

Total Smilies = 3
Total minutes = 110 minutes

Total for the month:
Smilies: 23
Minutes: 1127

Three again with the mutts...

9/50 MILES

Cold out there this morning...mutts brought me in after 2.5 to warm up...tomorrow I take a sweatshirt!

11.5/50 MILES

You're so welcome!! lol cracks me up when you call me Dr Echo hehe i feel like i'm about to take over the world! with my evil plans

hey Diva baby!! cool!! sounds good to me

LOL!!!

that's so awesome! i love that!!

brilliant!! glad to have you onboard T michele!!

great job everyone!--

Week 2 goal modified!

I joined Jiliian Michaels site yesterday, as my motivation and fitness training has been waning(bad time of year for me), plus I have had some weight gain, so she has set up a fitness plan for me 5 days a week, with Sun and Wed off.

I will use that as my goals, plus 30 min walking on my days off as my other goals.

7 smile possible!

Week 2

7th mon Completed Jillians workout
8th tues Completed Jillians workout walked a mile
9th weds walked 2 miles at work
10th thurs completed Jillians workout
11th fri completed Jillians workout
12th sat 30 min cardio
13th sun walked a mile my rest day

Total Smilies =7
Total minutes =210

Dr. Echo, if you like, I can copy and paste her fitness plan to you, as I know you lurve her Good luck this week!