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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!
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!
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I've got the hip and quad flexibility, I think, but I really need to open up my shoulders and upper back, so this would be a good thing for me to work on.
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I will do yoga every day (part of the 40 Day Challenge). I will exit the JV pull up series by the end of the month (6-9 pull ups).
I will also try something new, and go to a spin class to see if I like it.
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I want to go out for exercise 6 times, whether that be running, squash, or something else. And do indoors exercise also at least 6 times, whether that be free-weights stuff or something else. Any exercise needs to be at least 25 minutes. So that's 12 times exercise in one month.
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*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.)
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I aim to add something new to my exercise every week, probably focusing on things I can do with my set of weights. I GET BORED EASILY WHAT CAN I SAY.
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Runs are followed by 4x15 crunches (two sets of regular and two sets of oblique crunches), 2x15 pushups (currently on the counter, but I may try to move to the floor in a week or so and/or increase the number of sets), and 10 minutes of yoga-type stretches.
I've been training for 8 weeks already and haven't missed a run/walk yet, so I'm hoping to keep it up all the way to Las Vegas!
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I will exercise every day of October for at least 30 minutes.
My goal for the past two months has been to exercise every day for at least TEN minutes, and I've done well with that, going over to about 20-30 minutes on the average. Hopefully a 30 minute minimum will get me doing 40-50 on average. :D
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* 20 minutes exercise a day, excluding regular walking. (pushups, situps, squats, nordic pole walking, walk/jog, weights, pilates, skipping)
* continuing self-administered trigger point therapy (this stuff is saving my bacon) & stretching. (edit: can't forget the rebounder and balance board--I couldn't feel my feet properly for most of my life, so need to keep up the therapy.)
* at least 10 days of ALL PALEO eating--reserving the right to alter this depending on the outcome of appts with a gastro Dr and an allergist (again). I have a shit-ton of food allergies and "probably Crohn's, do you want a biopsy, or do we just go with it?"
* working up to 15min continuous skipping
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doing it without having something go pop is gonna be the hard part. orz
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I will do at least 30 minutes yoga every day, get back in the gym 3 times a week, and swim at least once. I am fairly certain that once I get in the pool I'll enjoy it - I am just having a terribly hard time getting through the door.
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I've also starting skipping again the past couple of months, and I'd really like to master double-unders. So -- by the end of October -- I want to be able to consistently do them, at least 10 in a row.
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