muck_a_luck: (Exercise Every Day)
muck_a_luck ([personal profile] muck_a_luck) wrote in [community profile] exercise_every_day2010-09-29 09:02 am
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October 2010 Challenge Declaration

As promised last week, here is the October Challenge Declaration Post!

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

Declare your goal by October 1, then on October 31 we will have a roundup of how we all did!

The goal 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 somebody! :D

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

If this works out and people like it, I'm thinking we might make this a monthly event, with a challenge declaration post around the 26th, and a challenge results post on the last day of each month.

So let's get started!
carolyn_claire: (Grater than)

[personal profile] carolyn_claire 2010-09-29 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm unwell, today, so I didn't go to my final (I hope) PT appt*, but I'm going to go ahead and sign on for push-ups (starting on the wall) every Mon-Weds-Fri and crunches every Tues-Thurs-Sat, and do nothing on Sundays. My goal is to just keep to the schedule, see what happens, and then set number-type goals for the next challenge.

*The PT said that starting wall push-ups would be okay, at this point, already, so I'm not jumping the gun. (She also said that I should avoid anything like an overhead press from now on, which also lets out handstands and downward dog, too-DD is possibly how I did this to my shoulder in the first place.)