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October Exercise Challenge
Let's make our workouts as easy as falling into fall with camaraderie and mutual cheer-leading!
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. This thread is for fitness and exercise goals. For other weight loss goals, be sure to see our sister thread: October Weight Loss Challenge |
I didn't quite make my goal in September but I'm confident that I can make it happen in October: 1200 minutes
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I want to join! My goal for October is 26 hours of exercise. Time to get moving.
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joy Thank you for continuing to post these threads month after month!!
joy and momma I love how you are quantifying your goals. I am going to be buying a treadmill soon and I also want to finish what I started with my 30 Day Shred workouts. So I think for this October challenge I will say that the 30 Day Shred is my goal. 30DS (25 workout days out of 31) |
Tabbycat here.
My October goal is 1000 minutes of intentional exercise. Oct2: 15 min bike Oct3: 15 min swim (darn rain started!) Oct6: 30 min swim Oct7: 45 min walk; 35 min swim; 25 min exercise bike Oct14: 60 min water walk AM; 60 min birding hike PM Oct15: 35 min walk AM; 45 min swim AM Oct23: 40 min walk Oct28: 40 min walk TOTAL MINUTES: 445 |
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete
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My goal for excersise is to go to curves 3 times a week, and do 30 minutes of either yoga or walking on the other days. Gotta get back into excersing everyday, its hard,but I know I can do it! Good luck to everyone,we can do it!
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October goal - 12x ST, complete 30 day plank challenge
Good morning all! GardenerJoy thanks for the thread, hope all is well. 10/01-day 11/30, 0/12 10/02-day 12/30(rest day :)), 0/12 10/03-day 13/30, 1/12 10/04-day 14/30 Best to all :sunny: |
Oct 1 - .5 hrs of jogging ...
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300 minutes of exercise is my goal. It's pretty modest, so I should be able to achieve it.
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30DS workout 1 of 25: complete
30DS workout 2 of 25: complete |
Way to go, KFunk! You're on the ball!
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Thanks dee!!
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So this is the first time trying one of these. I'm looking for consistency this month. These are my goals
Cardio - 720 minutes Strength training 3x per week= 14 times Ab work 3x per week = 14 times Cardio720min:ST 14x: Abs 14x Oct 2: Cardio for 40 min so Cardio 40/720; ST 0/14x; Abs 0/14x |
Cardio - 720 minutes
Strength training 3x per week= 14 times Ab work 3x per week = 14 times Cardio720min:ST 14x: Abs 14x Oct 2: Cardio for 40 min so Cardio 40/720; ST 0/14x; Abs 0/14x Oct 2: Cardio for 10, Upper body strength training Cardio: 50/720; ST 1/14x; Abs 0/14x |
Oct 2 - .5 hr of aerobics & .5 hr strength training ...
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Nice work Shea and momma!!
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete 30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) |
October goal: 1200 minutes
1: 20 stretch & ST; 20/1200 2: 55 walk; 75/1200 3: 40 walk; 115/1200 |
Goal: 300 minutes of exercise
10/3- 36 minute outdoor walk 10/4- 62 minute outdoor walk 202 minutes to go |
October goal - 12x ST, complete 30 day plank challenge
Good morning all! GardenerJoy thanks for the thread, hope all is well. 10/01-day 11/30, 0/12 10/02-day 12/30(rest day :)), 0/12 10/03-day 13/30, 1/12 10/04-day 14/30 10/05-15/30 halfway, planks are hard :) Best to all :sunny: |
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete
30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) 30DS workout 3 of 25: complete |
Goal: 300 minutes of exercise
10/3- 36 minute outdoor walk 10/4- 62 minute outdoor walk 10/5- 32 minute outdoor walk 170 minutes to go |
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete
30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) 30DS workout 3 of 25: complete 30DS workout 4 of 25: complete |
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Thanks to a vacation and being sick the week before it, I haven't worked out regularly in a couple of weeks. It's so hard for me to get back into exercise when I fall out of it, yet I always feel so good once I do. You'd think the initial resistance to getting back to it would stop since it always ends the same, but nope. :shrug:
I'd intended to start exercising again on Wed but I kept putting it off. Finally got to it today; of course, it felt great and now I'm hooked again. :D October's goal: I'm gonna go big and workout every day starting now. So that's 26 workouts. I'll be mostly using Beachbody for this (may end up only being Beachbody) and plenty of it (maybe even all of it :lol:) will be the 10 minute workout from Brazil Butt Lift. I have a super busy month, so that will make this goal doable. Good luck, all! :carrot: Oct 06: :) |
dee Thank you!! Looks like I am in good company because you are crushing yours as well!!!
lunkah how was your vacation? Quote:
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete 30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) 30DS workout 3 of 25: complete 30DS workout 4 of 25: complete 30DS workout 5 of 25: complete |
October goal - 12x ST, complete 30 day plank challenge
Good morning all! GardenerJoy thanks for the thread, hope all is well. 10/01-day 11/30, 0/12 10/02-day 12/30(rest day :)), 0/12 10/03-day 13/30, 1/12 10/04-day 14/30 10/05-15/30 halfway, planks are hard :) 10/06-16/30 rest day, that was easier :D 10/07-17/30 whew, 2/12 Best to all :sunny: |
kfunk - My vacation was amazing! I'm experiencing some post-vacation blues bc I miss it so much. :( Guess I'll just have to plan a return visit. :D I ate a lot but I also walked a lot, usually around 10 miles a day. I'm up over 1 pound from my weight the morning I left for the vacay, and am up over 2 pounds from my low last month. So party time is over. Do you still plan on getting Beachbody on Demand? I hope you do, so that you can try Bum Bum Rapido (the lovely 10 minute workout :D). I'd be curious to see if you notice more of a difference with that one. To bump up your booty though, you'll probably get the best results by also doing High & Tight in the series. I think that one's 30 min. It's pretty killer but VERY effective with shaping. I don't know if I already mentioned that back when I first did the routine in 2012, I did High & Tight a lot. During the first week or so, my booty really swelled up. Swelled so much, that it ended up ripping a pair of my pants apart while I was at work. :lol: I wasn't Hulk swollen or anything but I guess enough that my poor khakis couldn't deal. :lol:
Excercise goal: Working out every day form Oct 6th... Oct 06: :) Oct 07: :) |
lunkah Yay, I am glad that your vacation was awesome!! I get the post vacation blues too, they are the worst!! That is a crazy amount of walking, and is nice you had that so you could eat what sounded good! I bet the other 2 lbs. will be gone soon to get you back to last months low! Are you drinking extra water? That always helps, might be in my head, but it seems to work really well! I am definitely going to get beach body on demand as soon as I am done with the 30DS. So, I accidently clicked on level 2 the other day and figured I would just go with it. OMG - I couldn't do half of it!!! I am getting really good at the other one though. For some reason I cant get past the first level of cardio without stopping (jumping jacks and jump rope), the bicycle crunches are hard for me (super uncoordinated) and I am not strong enough to make it through all of the weight exercises without stopping. My husband bought me some 3lb. weights to use instead of the 5 I had been and that makes a huge difference.
We also just bought a used treadmill! The Jillian workout is perfect for me because I can do the workout and be out of the shower in 40 minutes. I wake up at 5am for work and get home at 4:30 and I am in bed at 8 - 8:30. I just feel bad taking too much time to workout in between 4:30 and bedtime because of my kids. Plus there are a hundred things to do on weeknights to begin with. I might try to start waking up earlier but I don't want to stay up later. 30DS workout 1 of 25: complete 30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) 30DS workout 3 of 25: complete 30DS workout 4 of 25: complete 30DS workout 5 of 25: complete 30DS workout 6 of 25: complete |
Glad to have everyone here! Let's rock October!
BigFatMomma: 26 hours Chunkahlunkah: 26 workouts EagleRiverDee: 300 min gardenerjoy: 1200 min kelijpa: 12x ST, 30 day plank challenge kfunk6113: 30DS (25 workout days out of 31) shea5: 720 min, 14x ST, 14x abs Tabbycat: 1000 min Walkinggirl37: Curves, 3x/week |
October goal: 1200 minutes
1: 20 stretch & ST; 20/1200 2: 55 walk; 75/1200 3: 40 walk; 115/1200 4: 40 walk; 155/1200 5: 40 walk; 195/1200 6: 40 walk; 235/1200 7: 55 walk; 290/1200 |
Goal: 300 minutes of exercise
10/3- 36 minute outdoor walk 10/4- 62 minute outdoor walk 10/5- 32 minute outdoor walk 10/8- 45 minutes weight training 125 minutes to go |
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete
30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) 30DS workout 3 of 25: complete 30DS workout 4 of 25: complete 30DS workout 5 of 25: complete 30DS workout 6 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (4 rest days left) |
October goal - 12x ST, complete 30 day plank challenge
Good morning all! GardenerJoy thanks for the thread, hope all is well. 10/01-day 11/30, 0/12 10/02-day 12/30(rest day :)), 0/12 10/03-day 13/30, 1/12 10/04-day 14/30 10/05-15/30 halfway, planks are hard :) 10/06-16/30 rest day, that was easier :D 10/07-17/30 whew, 2/12 10/08-18/30 10/09-19/30, 3/12 10/10-20/30 10/11-21/30 105 seconds I had to do the last 25 seconds as knee, then I did another 45, might try it again tonight, whew, did another 45, 4/12 ST 10/12-22/30, 110 seconds, same as yesterday, knee last 25, so I managed an extra 5 seconds from yesterday:D Best to all :sunny: |
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete
30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) 30DS workout 3 of 25: complete 30DS workout 4 of 25: complete 30DS workout 5 of 25: complete 30DS workout 6 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (4 rest days left) 30DS workout 7 of 25: complete |
01 - .5 hr jog
02 - .5 hr aerobics & .5 hr strength 03 - 1 hr walk 04 - .5 hr strength 05 - 1 hr aerobics 06 - .5 hr aerobics & .5 hr strength 07 - .5 hr aerobics 08 - .5 hr jog 09 - .5 hr aerobics & .5 hr strength 10 - 1 hr aerobics |
Goal: 300 minutes of exercise
10/3- 36 minute outdoor walk 10/4- 62 minute outdoor walk 10/5- 32 minute outdoor walk 10/8- 45 minutes weight training 10/9- 31 minute outdoor walk 94 minutes to go |
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete
30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) 30DS workout 3 of 25: complete 30DS workout 4 of 25: complete 30DS workout 5 of 25: complete 30DS workout 6 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (4 rest days left) 30DS workout 7 of 25: complete 30DS workout 8 of 25: complete |
Goal: 300 minutes of exercise
10/3- 36 minute outdoor walk 10/4- 62 minute outdoor walk 10/5- 32 minute outdoor walk 10/8- 45 minutes weight training 10/9- 31 minute outdoor walk 10/10- 46 minute outdoor wal 48 minutes to go So I can see that my goal of 300 minutes was far too conservative. I've always before made my goal in total workouts and since I've been so busy lately I was figuring this would be 10 half-hour workouts. But I'm working out a little longer, usually, than half hour and I think I'm doing better this month at getting regular exercise in (rather than work-exercise like before). So I will probably exceed my goal this month, and I'll use my final number as a starting goal for next month. |
30DS workout 1 of 25: complete
30DS workout 2 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (5 rest days left) 30DS workout 3 of 25: complete 30DS workout 4 of 25: complete 30DS workout 5 of 25: complete 30DS workout 6 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (4 rest days left) 30DS workout 7 of 25: complete 30DS workout 8 of 25: complete 30DS rest day (3 rest days left) |
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