Monday, November 29, 2010, Check-In

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Hey, EED community!

Here is your daily check-in post!

Not too shabby, Random Challenge Day exercisers! We had 12 people reporting in! It wasn't a record-breaker, but it was a pretty good day. :) Go us!

On the "extra accountability front," I got a handful of interested responses. I'll post on that shortly and try to see how we should set it up.

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"Extra accountability," part 2

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There was enough interest in this that I would like a second round of feedback.

Do you think I should set it up like a beta exchange, where interested parties respond to a post with comments, and other parties contact the posters directly. I could set it up as a community members only post. For ficathons, we post our journal names, our contact e-mail, and restrictions and requirements for what we need and what we don't want. Actually, I think that will be the format for sign-ups no matter what.

My question is, would people prefer it to be a public list, where the participants contact one another, in which case, the sign-up comments would be open, or would people prefer that I act as mod and try to assign the best people to each other, in which case the signups would probably be screened comments again.

Actually, I guess there is no reason I couldn't make both options available.

What should be in the sign-up comment, aside from name and contact e-mail?

Also, I'd like to begin stressing that this is the internet, folks. We don't really know each other. One commenter said she'd love to get a text at 5:30am, which actually, I could do, because I get up at 4:15 am every day (nearly). But then the question becomes, is she comfortable giving me her number? Am I comfortable revealing mine? Just remember to be safe. Also, remember the comfort-level of your spouse or significant other! Darned RL relationships! :)

I'm not screening the comments on this discussion, so that people can play off each other's ideas.

CK on November 29

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Sadie Nardini: Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga Power Hour: Whole Body + Abs, with additional shoulder openers and less handstand (but not no handstand)

I see that I have not reviewed this DVD! Well. The day is clearly coming!

December Self-Challenges

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I cannot believe it will be December on Wednesday.

So! It is now time for the December Challenge Declaration Post!

Challenge yourself for December! Find a fitness goal that you want to achieve, that you can achieve with diligence in one month.

Declare your goal by December 1, then on January 1 we will have a roundup of how we all did!

It can be simple, like being able to run a mile by the end of the month (even slowly!).

It can be progressive, like moving from wall pushups to floor pushups.

It can be process oriented, like trying to exercise 25 of the next 31 days.

Try to make it something YOU want that is challenging but doable.

If you want to participate and you just can't think of anything, check out what everybody else posts, then copy them! :D

I also offer a generic challenge: Achieve 20 pushups in a row at 45 degrees or lower.