September Exercise Challenge
 

Back to school, back to exercise routines! Join us to track your fitness during the month of September.

State your 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 of fitness!

This thread is for fitness and exercise goals. For other weight loss goals, be sure to see our sister thread: September Weight Loss Challenge.

Since I hit 40 miles biked for August, my goal for September is 48 miles :)

I've repeatedly mentioned that I want to return to running. Why not now? Why not September? The time is now!

My September goal is to follow the first month of Hal Higdon's Couch to 5K program, repeating weeks as necessary.

Thanks gardernerjoy for kicking off our monthly exercise thread!

My September goal is:
- water aerobics for 1 hour, M-F (not on Monday 9/01) .....unless I have to work.
- I am VERY out of shape so I can't jog AT ALL without getting winded. I would like to start walking with short intervals of jogging thrown in. I think I would like to start with walking/jogging 30 minutes on T, Th, Sat.

I'm joining! I usually exercise on my stationary bike and do 20 km 6 to 7 days a week. I want to make sure i will exercise. Assuming i'll rest 4 days in September this leaves me with 520 km. Add August 31st and the final number is 540. I can't use any weight because i have a bad knee, so the bike is always set to 0 weight on a scale that goes from 0 to 10. 20 km a day is easy, all i want to make surd is that i'll actually do it 6 days a weeks.

Goal: 540 km on my stationary bike

Goal: 540 km on my stationary bike

20, 4 km!

With school starting and grad auditions this year my exercise is going to drop from my happy place to a little less than half of what I normally enjoy. So I'm going to have to make the hours I do get in count. Luckily I'm doing a weight training class at school twice a week and I'd really like to give running another shot since I won't be able to hike as much and for as long as I like to.

My goal for Sept. is 14 hours.

My goal is to walk 2 miles a day for this month and lift weights a couple times a week as well.

I'm going to have a strange month, so I'm going to track my goals a bit differently. I still want to make sure I exercise every day, but there isn't always going to be a "workout" time and place like I have usually. So, I'm going to count a day of exercise if I've walked 8000 steps (measured by my FitBit) and / or I stretched for 15 minutes. I think I'll aim for both on most days because that's going to help me feel my best.

Gardenerjoy, I'd like to join.

1) 800 minutes of exercise, including
2) 8 weight sessions (2 x a week)

IDK - Sept is a short & fast month!

Week 1:
9/1: Couch to 5K W1,D1 complete
9/2: Couch to 5K W1,D2 complete
9/3:
9/4:
9/5:
9/6:

Week Two:
9/7:
9/8:
9/9:
9/10:
9/11:
9/12:
9/13:

Week Three:
9/14:
9/15:
9/16:
9/17:
9/18:
9/19:
9/20:

Week Four:
9/21:
9/22:
9/23:
9/24:
9/25:
9/26:
9/27:

Week Five:
9/28:
9/29:
9/30:

Goal: 48 miles

9/1: 3 miles

Total: 3 miles

Goal: 8000 steps and/or 15 minutes stretching every day

1. 8005 steps, 15 min stretching

September goal 1500 minutes

1-65/1500

Best to all :sunny:

Okay, once again reworking how I track my goals. I found myself doing a lot of exercise outside of the gym last month but wasn't tracking it, so I will include that this month. And I am going to focus on minutes rather than cardio vs. strength, because I'm not really focusing on either right now. So for now, I'm going to set my goal at...

600 minutes

9/1: Hike 35/840

Week 1:
9/1: Couch to 5K W1,D1 complete
9/2: Couch to 5K W1,D2 complete
9/3:
9/4:
9/5:
9/6:

September goal: 600 minutes
9/2: Cardio and strength at gym, 35/600

September goal: 8000 steps and/or 15 minutes stretching every day

1. 8005 steps, 15 min stretching
2. 8099 steps, 15 min stretching

Goal: 540 km on my stationary bike

8/31 = 20, 4 km
9/01 = no exercise
9/02 = 26, 4 km

Total = 46, 8

Sept 1 45 min
Sept 2 93 min (includes bi-weekly weight session of 45 min).

Sept Goal: 800 minutes, including 8 strength training sessions = 662 minutes to go.

Gardenerjoy, thanks for organizing this challenge. Also, I like your idea of tracking steps in a month where there's no opportunity for formal exercise. Good idea! Noname, I hear you about not tracking exercise minutes - it's hard to keep up sometimes. But give yourself credit for every one of those little monsters!! Curvynotlumpy, I like your template! So neat looking.

Good luck to everyone!!

:tread:

9/1 ~Spent with Family
9/2~ 1 Hour water aerobics

September goal 1500 minutes

1-65/1500
2-85/1500

Best to all :sunny:

Joining :)

I walked 9 miles the last week of August so I want to try to do 15 miles each week Monday-Sunday this month.

9/1-9/7:
9/8-9/14:
9/15-9/21:
9/22-9/28:

September goal 1500 minutes

1-65/1500-65 min 3.2 mile walk
2-85/1500-20 min walk at work
3-182/1500-29 min walk at work, 68 min 4 mile walk at rail trail

Best to all :sunny:

[Curvynotlumpy, I like your template! So neat looking. [/QUOTE]

Thanks, Mountain Mama!

Week 1:
9/1: Couch to 5K W1,D1 complete
9/2: Couch to 5K W1,D2 complete
9/3: Couch to 5K W1,D3 complete (well, in all honesty, it was a rest day ;))
9/4:
9/5:
9/6:

Goal: 48 miles

9/1: 3 miles
9/3: 4 miles

Total: 7 miles

Goal: 540 km on my stationary bike

8/31 = 20, 4 km
9/01 = no exercise
9/02 = 26, 4 km
9/03 = 21, 1km

Total = 67, 9 km

Sept 1 45 min
Sept 2 93 min (includes bi-weekly weight session of 45 min).
Sept 3 30 min walk (Sooooo not up for it today.)

Sept Goal: 800 minutes, including 8 strength training sessions = 632 minutes left.

September goal: 8000 steps and/or 15 minutes stretching every day

1. 8005 steps, 15 min stretching
2. 8099 steps, 15 min stretching
3. 10,253 steps, 15 min stretching

9/1 ~Spent with Family
9/2~ 1 Hour water aerobics
9/3~ 1 hour water aerobics

September goal: 600 minutes

9/2: Cardio and strength at gym, 35 min
9/4: Cardio and strength at gym, 30 min

65/600 min.

Goal: 540 km on my stationary bike

8/31 = 20, 4 km
9/01 = no exercise
9/02 = 26, 4 km
9/03 = 21, 1km
9/04 = 22 km

Total = 89, 9 km

Sept 1 45 min
Sept 2 93 min (includes bi-weekly weight session of 45 min).
Sept 3 30 min walk (Sooooo not up for it today.)
Sept 4 33 min

Sept Goal: 800 minutes, including 8 strength training sessions = 599 minutes left.


:exercise:

September goal 1500 minutes

1- 65/1500 - 65 min 3.2 mile walk
2- 85/1500 - 20 min walk at work
3- 182/1500 - 29 min walk at work, 68 min 4 mile walk at rail trail
4- 210/1500 - 28 min 1.5 mile walk at work

Best to all :sunny:

9/1 ~Spent with Family
9/2~ 1 Hour water aerobics
9/3~ 1 hour water aerobics
9/4~ 1 hour water aerobics
9/5~ 1 hour water aerobics

Goal: 48 miles

9/1: 3 miles
9/3: 4 miles
9/5: 3 miles

Total: 10 miles

Goal: 540 km on my stationary bike

8/31 = 20, 4 km
9/01 = no exercise
9/02 = 26, 4 km
9/03 = 21, 1km
9/04 = 22 km
9/05 = 12 km

Total = 89, 9 k

Welcome, everyone! It looks like we're off to a great start in September! Let me know if I didn't get your goal stated well.

underanalysis: 48 miles on bike
curvynotlumpy: 1st month of C25K
jb1975: water aerobics on week days, walk-jog T/Th/Sa
Marina_Brasil: 540 km on stationary bike
Dottington: 14 hours
BestDaysAhead: 2 miles/day, lift weights 2x/week
gardenerjoy: 8000 steps and/or stretch 15 minutes/day
Mountain_Mamma: 800 minutes, 8 weight sessions
kelijpa: 1500 minutes
nonameslob: 600 minutes
ichoose2believe: walk 15 miles/week

September goal: 8000 steps and/or stretch 15 minutes every day

1. 8005 steps, 15 min stretch
2. 8099 steps, 15 min stretch
3. 10,253 steps, 15 min stretch
4. 8533 steps, 15 min stretch
5. 8629 steps, 15 min stretch