October 2010 Challenge Declaration

[muck_a_luck]

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!

Comments

[0jack]

Is there a comm for book reviews of stuff like that? I have some books on muscle health and self-treatment that I'm reading and using right now--helping myself out of chronic pain and into fitness with them (and a looooot of drugs). Or would here be an appropriate place?

[rydra_wong]

Ooh, good question. I know people have been posting book reviews in lifting_heavy_things, so that's definitely one possible place.

ETA: Forgot to say: I for one would definitely be interested in your reviews; sounds like you're working on some interesting stuff (trigger point therapy is the awesome). And I know there are other people in the comm dealing with chronic pain issues.