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This fourth month of 2020 will bring more mud in my area — and more COVID-19. Like there isn’t enough already! But try not let it get in the way of your goals. Temperatures should be mild in both Northern and Southern hemispheres. Get outside (if authorities allow and you are not sick) and experience life! If you need to be inside it may be time to add some bodyweight exercises to your routine, some yoga, or something else new.
Me, I’m going to try and learn to ride a unicycle this month!. And, of course, I will be washing my hands 10-15x/day, and maintaining 6 ft distance, and otherwise trying to “flatten the curve" in my community.
How It Works
The primary purpose of these monthly challenges is to keep track of your daily step goals for the month; though many of us track other things as well, like body weight exercises, sleep, trips to the gym, logging food, etc. This is not a competition to see who can do the most of whatever, instead it is a challenge to measure your consistency. So whether you do 1k, 5k, 10k or even 40k steps a day, this is measuring how many days out of the monthly total you can hit your goal.
Some might have a constant goal of 10k steps every single day and others might have a variable goal throughout the week, (and some might even plan days off!) for example.
Monday -> Friday = 10k steps a day
Sat & Sun = “6k steps a day,” or “not tracking”
Regardless of how you structure your daily goals, the only thing that matters for the monthly challenge is whether or not you reach what you set out to do.
Suggested Posting Format
1) Post either your constant or variable step goal.
2) Keep track of the # of daily goals achieved out of the monthly minimum and or monthly total
Picture Scavenger Hunt — 3 pictures
The theme of the photo scavenger hunt this month is changing seasons and the effect of COVID-19. It is the beginning of Spring in the North and Fall in the South. So blossoms for some of us, falling leaves for others. And since the pandemic is still raging, pics of how life and people around you are adapting to that new fact of life — including, if you are learning something new in your fitness life, your progression in that. Hopefully I'll be able to share a pic of me actually on my new unicycle sometime this month!
Posting
Although you certainly don’t have to post daily, you’ll likely stay closer to what you set out to do by updating the thread several times/week
Injury Notice
If you injure yourself during the month and need to scale back due to the injury, then all you have to do is adjust your goal for that period. If you normally do 10k steps a day but pull a hamstring and decide to do minimal walking (2k steps a day), then all you have to do is change your goal.
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April Showers Day 21
Steps: Goal 10000: 21/30
Boxing: 21/30
Bike 3 times : 21/30
Weights DVD 17 Days: 11/17
DVD Has Balance, Cardio: 21/30
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 21/30
Leg Exercises: 21/30
250 Steps per hour : 21/30
Log food daily : 21/30
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 6/3
Lose 3 Pounds: 1.5/3
@PureEvil Great pictures!
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Day 21
| 15K steps/day | 20/30 | |
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 21/30 | |
16 weight-lifting days | 12/16 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 3/3 | |
Sleep 6 hours, 10 minutes 13 days or more during the month | 10/13 | |
3 pull-up + 1min bar-hang /day | 21/30 | |
| 20 days or more on my unicycle | 20/20 | |
| Lose 1 lb -- (Start Mar. 29 160.4) | 4/19 | 161.6 |
Three more scavenger hunt pics. My favorite its the last: Twenty-Three days on my unicycle (three of them last month) and I'm off the fence!! Woohoo!! And only two significant falls so far :-).
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@Baltoscott Had to laugh at this " you can still get 'flamingoed' in Baltimore on your Birthday"
Thats alot of them 😀
Your doing good on your Unicycle! WTG!
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Struggling a bit with consistency on some of my goals. I just figure if I keep at it and don’t give up, the weaker areas will eventually become everyday habits.
I am enjoying all the pictures everyone is posting.
5 miles a day walking/hiking/light jogging | 12/21 |
30 Jumping Jacks | 11/21 |
25 Mayo clinic back exercises | 7/21 |
Weights ½ hour weight lifting sessions. | 2/8 |
Track food/1,500 to 1,750 kc a day | 11/21 |
Sleep 7+ hours a night | 8/15 |
7+ cups water | 6/21 |
Scavenger Pictures | 2/3 |
@Jotex – Thank you for the tip regarding uploading pictures!
@WendyB – re the painted rocks. Now when I go out walking, I am looking for painted rocks. I enjoy finding them ….
Here are some of the ones I couldn’t upload the last time - with three relating to the pandemic ("Hearts Healthcare Workers," "My Health," and "Wash Hands Please."
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![IMG_4458[1].JPG](https://community.fitbit.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108204i3BC122CF05CF4B96/image-size/small?v=v2&px=200 "IMG_4458[1].JPG")
![IMG_4459[1].JPG](https://community.fitbit.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108205iED53E48C642EF5FD/image-size/small?v=v2&px=200 "IMG_4459[1].JPG")
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22 April
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 20/20
15 days over 12,000 18/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 9/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 1/3
10 lunges a day for 20 days 17/20
8 swims per month 7/8
6 bike rides per month 5/6
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 3/3
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April Showers Day 22
Steps: Goal 10000: 22/30
Boxing: 22/30
Bike 3 times : 22/30
Weights DVD 17 Days: 12/17
DVD Has Balance, Cardio: 22/30
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 22/30
Leg Exercises: 22/30
250 Steps per hour : 22/30
Log food daily : 22/30
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 6/3
Lose 3 Pounds: 1.5/3
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23 April
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 21/20
15 days over 12,000 19/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 9/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 1/3
10 lunges a day for 20 days 18/20
8 swims per month 7/8
6 bike rides per month 5/6
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 3/3
Settlement finally on my new house in town. I love it! Spent the day cleaning.
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April Showers Day 23
Steps: Goal 10000: 23/30
Boxing: 23/30
Bike 3 times : 23/30
Weights DVD 17 Days: 12/17
DVD Has Balance, Cardio: 23/30
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 23/30
Leg Exercises: 23/30
250 Steps per hour : 23/30
Log food daily : 23/30
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 6/3
Lose 3 Pounds: 1.5/3
@NellyGYour new house looks great Congrats! Its exactly what I'm looking for
@JotexYou might surprise your self and lose it. 😁
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Day 23
| 15K steps/day | 22/30 | |
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 23/30 | |
16 weight-lifting days | 12/16 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 3/3 | |
Sleep 6 hours, 10 minutes 13 days or more during the month | 10/13 | |
3 pull-up + 1min bar-hang /day | 23/30 | |
| 20 days or more on my unicycle | 22/20 | |
| Lose 1 lb -- (Start Mar. 29 160.4) | 4/19 | 161.6 |
One of my neighbors saw me practicing on the unicycle and he called his Baltimore Sun photographer wife to come over and take a few pics ... and I wound up in the paper! I was told that if the editors used it it would be part of a daily 'picturing Maryland' photo series designed to be a little more uplifting than the typical bad news that makes it into the paper. It's placement -- right under the headline "Maryland's deadliest day ..." -- seems a bit ironic given my wife's conviction that I'm going to break my neck learning how to ride 🙂
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@Baltoscott Oh My we have a celebrity among us . WTG On getting it the paper!
@Kanga999 I have been at this for a while. I got my first Fitbit in 2014 and have never looked back
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