The cool, crisp fall days are arriving, ushering in the most dangerous time of the year for waist lines. Now is the time to get those healthy habits firmly in place. Exercise won't save us from bad food choices but it will help keep us on track and focused. So grab your sneakers, bike, or gym bag and join the challenge. What's your exercise plan for the crisp October days?

This is a great place for experienced exercisers and newbies so whether your goal is 3000 minutes or 300 minutes if you are a Beacher please join us. Regular exercising is the key to turning exercise into a healthy habit. This is a great place to keep track and stay accountable.

I'm still figuring out how to balance long work days and exercise. This will be a crazy work month for me. Until the election I can expect to work 5 long days (12 hours) and a few hours on the weekends. At least I'll be too busy to even think about Halloween candy!

I'm going to try for 1500 minutes. If I get 20 minutes in on work days and a little extra on weekends I know I can do it!

Goal: 1500
total so far: 752 WORST MONTH EVER

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2 - 15 minutes walking

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5 - 15 minute walk
6 - 15m walk
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9 - 30m walk

10 - 60m walk
11 - 30m walk
12 - 15m walk
13 - 15m walk
14 - 20m walk
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17 - 45m walk
18 - 40m stationary bike
19 - 20m walk
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21 - 75m walk
22 - 60m walk
23 - 45m walk

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25 - 40m stationary bike!
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27 - 40m stationary bike
28 - 52m stationary bike
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31 - 120m walking

Goal this month: 1050 Minutes
Minutes So Far: 547

1 15 minutes walking
2 off (traveling)

3 off (traveling)
4 35 minutes interval
5 off
6 off
7 off
8 15 minutes walking
9 77 minutes weights/cardio

10 78 minutes weights/cardio
11 30 minutes walking
12 45 minutes interval/walking
13 off
14 30 minutes walking
15 35 minutes interval
16 off

17 off
18 off
19 off
20 off
21 42 minutes cardio
22 68 minutes strength/cardio
23 72 minutes strength/cardio

24 off
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I was really bad about logging my hours last month, but I did meet my goals of 6x/week cardio adn 3x/week strength training.

goal for october: 1200 mins.

Current: 60

1: 60 minutes step

Well, I beat my September goal by almost 600 minutes, so I'm bumping mine up to 2000 minutes this month.

Goal: 2000 minutes
Total: 2120 minutes

GOAL MET!!!

1 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon)
2 - Rest Day.

3 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 70 minutes at the gym (morning)
4 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon)
5 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 80 minutes at the gym (morning)
6 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon)
7 - 60 minutes walking on the trail behind my house + 60 minutes at the gym (morning)
8 - 60 minutes at the gym (morning)
9 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 10 minute walk to my car at the fair WHILST doing the pee-pee dance + 60 minutes at the gym (morning)

10 - 10 minute walk to the command post + 10 minute walk back to my car
11 - 45 minutes walking on the trail behind my house + 60 minutes at the gym (morning)
12 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 65 minutes at the gym (morning)
13 - 150 minutes walking at the fair
14 - 240 minutes walking at the fair
15 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon)
16 - Rest Day.

17 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 60 minutes at the gym (morning)
18 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 60 minutes at the gym (morning)
19 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 60 minutes at the gym (morning) + 120 minutes cleaning and rearranging the house while hauling out items for the yard sale
20 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon)
21 - Rest Day.
22 - 60 minutes setting up for yardsale (moving tables, etc) + 30 minutes breaking down yardsale + 5 minutes testing out my new bike
23 - 30 minutes setting up for yardsale + 30 minutes breaking down yardsale

24 - Rest Day.
25 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 60 minutes at the gym (morning)
26 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 20 minutes bike ride
27 - 60 minutes at the gym (morning)
28 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon) + 40 minute bike ride/walk (hey, I haven't mastered the big hills yet!!!) GOAL!!!
29 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon)
30 - 25 minutes bike ride

31 - 30 minutes at the gym (afternoon)

I'm in!

But I'm not sure what my goal is yet... I am supposedly starting to run again in October, but since there is no way I can do that for an hour at a time right now, I might lower my overall total minutes of exercise. Or just aim for running OR yoga OR weights every day... I have to think about this a bit more and get my schedule set...

Goal: ???
Current total:1000

Oct 1 - brisk walking, at least an hour (with some sprinting for a bus!) = 60 min
Oct 2 - XXX
Oct 3 - Walking briskly at least an hour = 60
Oct 4 - Walking briskly 25 min
Oct 5 - Walking briskly to the gym & back, 40 min; yoga class 60 min = 100 min
Oct 6 - XXX
Oct 7 - Walking briskly to the gym & back, 40 min; pilates class 60 min = 100 min [I am now 5 minutes over HALF WAY to my year-long goal... it's only October, I can still make it, right? ]
Oct 8 - XXX
Oct 9 - Walking briskly to the gym & back, 40 min; yoga class 60 min = 100 min
Oct 10 & Oct 11
Oct 12 - walking briskly to the gym, 20 min, yoga class - 60 min, weighlifting, 20 min = 100 min
Oct 13 - walking, ~40 min
Oct 14 - walking ~ 60 min
Oct 15 - XXX
Oct 16 - Walking briskly to the gym & back, 40 min; yoga class 60 min = 100 min
Oct 17 - Lots of moving around, but nothing dedicated so I'm not counting it
Oct 18 - Walking briskly to the gym & back, 40 min; yoga class 60 min = 100 min
Oct 19 -
Oct 20 - 60 min walking
Oct 21 - 60 min yoga class, 15 min walk
Oct 22 - 30 min walk
I went away and stopped documenting, so I can't count anything else

Let's see if I can do better about recording my exercise this month!
Goal: 1000 mins. Mins. so far: 1243

10/1 - 60 (treadmill, wii fit)
10/2 - 69 (walking, wii fit)
10/3 - 30 (walking)
10/4 - 0
10/5 - 44 (wii fit)
10/6 - 0
10/7 - 30 (treadmill)
10/8 - 0
10/9 - 40 (walking
10/10 - 50 (walking)
10/11 - 0
10/12 - 60 (walking)
10/13 - 63 (wii fit)
10/14 - 0
10/15 - 0
10/16 - 10 (walking)
10/17 - 90 (walking)
10/18 - 64 (walking/hooping)
10/19 - 70 (walking/hooping)
10/20 - 30 (hooping)
10/21 - 40 (hooping/treadmill)
10/22 - 0
10/23 - 60 (hooping)
10/24 - 69 (walking/hooping)
10/25 - 80 (wii fit/hooping)
10/26 - 94 (walking/wii fit plus)
10/27 - 0
10/28 - 30 (hooping)
10/29 - 40 (wii fit)
10/30 - 30 (hooping)
10/31 - 80 (wii fit, hooping)

My goal for October is 1300 minutes.
Total so far: 1445 minutes

Oct
1- 35 minutes BL LI Cardio/ 30 minutes Walk
2- 0

3- 30 minutes Walk
4- 30 minutes BL HI Cardio/ 30 minutes Walk
5- 30 minutes BL BC/ 60 minutes Walk
6- 30 minutes BL HI Cardio/ 60 minutes Walk
7- 30 minutes BL BC/ 15 minutes walk
8- 30 minutes BL HI Cardio/ 30 minutes walk
9- 30 minutes Walk

10- 30 minutes Walk
11- 30 minutes BL LI Cardio/ 50 minutes Walk
12- 30 minutes BL Sculpting/ 30 minutes Walk
13- 30 minutes BL LI Cardio
14- 30 minutes BL Sculpting/ 30 minutes Walk
15- 30 minutes BL LI Cardio
16- 30 minutes Walk

17- 0
18- 30 minutes WOTW/ 30 minutes Walk
19- 30 minutes BL HI Cardio/ 30 minutes Walk
20- 30 minutes WOTW/ 30 minutes Walk
21- 30 minutes BL HI Cardio/ 30 minutes Walk
22- 30 minutes WOTW
23- 30 minutes Kathy Smiths Walk

24- 0
25- 35 minutes Turbo Cardio/ 30 minutes Walk
26- 35 minutes Turbo Cardio/ 30 minutes Walk
27- 35 minutes Turbo Cardio / 30 minutes Walk
28- 35 minutes Turbo Cardio/ 30 minutes Walk
29- 35 minutes Turbo Cario
30- 0

31- 60 minutes Walk

My goal will be 30 mins of walking a day

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1 - done
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4- done 60 mins
5- done 30 mins
6- done 60 mins
7- done 60 miins
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Gotta get off my buns, hopefully joining a challenge and putting a goal in black and white will help! I'm gonna start with a committment of 20 minutes a day....baby steps, right? At least then if I miss a day here or there, then it won't be pure torture to make it up another day.

Goal this month: 620 Minutes
Total Oct. - 570 minutes....not quite goal, but better than last month's zero minutes

1 - 30 minute walk
2 - 0

3 - 0
4 - 30 minute walk/jog
5 - 0
6 - 0
7 - 0
8 - 0
9 - 0

10 - 0
11 - 0
12 - 30...finally got off my butt!!I gotta lot of makin' up to do!!
13 - 30....woo hoo...2 days in a row!
14 - 60....c25K and weight machines
15 - 90...walking, now that's what I'm talking about!
16 - 0

17 - 0
18 - 0
19 - 30 minute c25k; 60 minutes Zumba class
20 - 0
21 - 30 minute c25k; 60 minutes Zumba class
22 - 60 minute walk
23 - 0

24 - 0
25 - 0
26 - 60 minutes Zumba class
27 -0
28 -0
29 - 0
30 - 0

31 - 0

I'm not setting a time goal b/c every time I do I fail I am however determined to work out at least 5X per week

1 30 minutes Cardio HipHop (Found 2 short workouts on Demand and string them together)
2 - 34 minutes cardio HipHop

3 27 minutes Cardio Shapeup
4 24 Min Cardio Hiphop 18 Min WATP
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6 18 min watp
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8 20 min watp 20 min hip hop body shop
9 1 hours worth walking shopping 2 hours dancing

10 10 min watp
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Not sure what to put as a goal, since I haven't done the math on September's yet (lol). I started the month by taking Friday off, which turned into Saturday off as well. It's so easy to slip into old habits!

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3 37 minutes cardio
4 32 min cardio, 15 min arms, 15 min abs
5 48 min cardio (Cannot believe what a great motivator this site is. I was TOTALLY opposed to exercise tonight, but could not stand another blank on my October log.)
6 45 min cardio
7 50 min cardio/abs yoga
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10 20 min cardio
11 75 min (40 cardio, 15 arms, 20 abs yoga) Back on track, yay!
12 50 min cardio
13 60 min (25 cardio, 15 arms, 20 abs yoga)
14 50 min cardio
15 60 min (25 cardio, 15 arms, 20 abs yoga)
16 29 min WATP

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18 58 min (28 cardio, 15 arms, 20 abs yoga)
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20 50 min (15 arms, 20 abs yoga, 15 minutes of a super lame belly dance workout)
21 30 min WATP
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23 62 min (27 cardio, 15 arms, 20 abs yoga) gonna try to squeeze in some more today, but we'll see

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26 65 minutes
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30 63 minutes (27 cardio, 15 arms, 20 abs yoga)

31 52 minutes brisk walking

1 Rest
2 Ran 2 miles
3 Rest
4 Ran 2 1/2 miles
5 Rest
6 Ran 2 miles
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We're a 3rd of the way through the month...how's everyone looking for their goals??? Come on ladies, let's kick it in gear!!!