Happy New Year! Let's make 2015 a year for health and fitness!
State your exercise goal and track it throughout the month with this supportive group of fellow exercisers. We'll compile our workout goals into a list. As each goal is met during the month, it gets turned RED in celebration. Join us for a great month (and year) of fitness!
Just popping to wish everybody good luck. -- I am still bound to my chair. I am seeing a dr on the 7th to evaluate the situation and see how soon I could start physical therapy.
One thing I must say; I have always been an active person; and now that I am sitting about 24/7, the pounds are just piling back on, and fast. -- Exercise makes such a huge difference what comes to losing or even maintaining one's weight. So keep on doing it!!
01) 1/10 ~ 3.5 miles
02) 1/11 ~ 3.7 miles
03) 1/13 ~ 3.8 miles
04) 1/15 ~ 3.8 miles
05) 1/18 ~ 4.3 miles
06) 1/23 ~ 4.6 miles
07) 1/24 ~ 3.6 miles
08) 1/25 ~ 4.2 miles OUTDOORS
09) 1/26 ~ 4.6 miles
10) 1/27 ~ 4.6 miles
11) 1/29 ~ 4.2 miles OUTDOORS
12) 1/31 ~ 4.2 miles OUTDOORS
Happy new year, getting back on the wagon. January goal get back walking 5 days a week. Weekly yoga class. Start weightlifting 2 days a week. Plank challenge.
I am in also, and once again have no organized exercise plan. I did great in December with this and will continue as I can.
I did something wrong last month and had to back off, rest up and am now going again. Actually, I think the problem had more to do with what I was eating/drinking. I wound up changing what I was eating, not for a diatery reason but just because ... I liked it?? Wanted it??? Myself, I don't even know why for sure. Mostly because I got into some different type of food preperation/cooking. Fermented foods-- Kimchi, Saurkraut, vegtables, chilies... Then experimenting with mixing quinoa, flaxseed meal and other things into with cornmeal and making different breads. Some did not taste all that great but did not taste bad either. Me and my dogs ate it I know they liked it way more than I did though.
But that was not the real reason. It was the different sauces I started using. Salty ones and the fermented foods are made using salt. And added to that, drinking soy sauce and some hot sauces right out of the bottles for the taste. Way too much salt and chili in my system, caused atrial fibrillation to an uncomfortable degree. So I backed off on the salt intake and on any kind of hard work until it leveled out, which it has now.
So that is the story of from a few days from Christmas til now. I am ready to resume.
My exercise once again will come from doing hard physical work but not as much in a day as I was.
Thanks for this thread Joy, and glad to be here with you all.
Thanks, Joy, for organizing these monthly challenges!! Besides the group being so supportive and encouraging, the daily logging REALLY helps keep me going!
My good-better-best list (sounds like a cheap mattress ad!) follows - I've upped the numbers and plan to add 2 to 4 yoga sessions depending on when classes resume.
SUM - hope you are better soon. BFR - just reading about all those gardening chores tired me out. That was some heavy work there! noname - isn't where you live a little snowy for hiking now???!!! kelijpa & Amethyst - see we all got our Dec goals just under the wire. Procrastinators unite!!!
Code:
January Goals
Minimum Better
Cardio 700 850
Weights (8 sessions) 240 330
Other (tbd) 60 80
Totals 1000 1260
(Other includes 2 to 4 yoga classes.)
I let it go through December and think I was a bit too ambitious with my exercise goal. I'm going to dial it back this month and leave room for error/life.
Goal: 840 minutes of dance, 200 minutes crosstraining
1/3: 20 min walk (0/840 dance, 20/200 cross)
1/12: 75 min dance class (75/840 dance, 20/200 cross)
1/17: 30 min weight lifting (75/840 dance, 50/200 cross)
1/19: 75 min dance class (150/840 dance, 50/200 cross)
1/20: 120 min dance class (370/840 dance, 50/200 cross)
1/21: 45 min dance class (415/840 dance, 50/200 cross)
1/23: 3 hours at dance competition, ~30 min total dancing (445/840 dance, 50/200 cross)
1/24: 30 min walk (445/840 dance, 80/200 cross)
1/26: 75 min dance class (520/840 dance, 80/200 cross)
1/27: 120 min dance class (640/840 dance, 80/200 cross)
Thanks, Joy, for organizing these monthly challenges!!
Jan 01 - 30 minutes
Jan 02 - 100 minutes (includes 60 minutes of strength training; I can barely move right now!)
Jan 03 - 40 minutes
Jan 04 - 30 minutes
Jan 05 - 40 minutes
Jan 06 - 35 minutes (strength training)
Jan 23 - 70 minutes (includes 45 minutes of strength training)
Jan 24 - 58 minutes
Code:
January Goals
Minimum Better
Cardio 700 850
Weights (8 sessions) 240 330
Other (tbd) 60 80
Totals 1000 1260
(Other includes 2 to 4 yoga classes.)
Last edited by Mountain Mamma; 01-24-2015 at 08:55 PM.
January Exercise Challenge
Woo Hoo!
