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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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28 April
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 25620
15 days over 12,000 24/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 11/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 1/3
10 lunges a day for 20 days 20/20
8 swims per month 8/8
6 bike rides per month 6/6
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 3/3
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April Showers Day 28
Steps: Goal 10000: 28/30
Boxing: 28/30
Bike 3 times : 28/30
Weights DVD 17 Days: 15/17
DVD Has Balance, Cardio: 28/30
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 28/30
Leg Exercises: 28/30
250 Steps per hour : 28/30
Log food daily : 28/30
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 6/3
Lose 3 Pounds: 1.5/3
@Baltoscott Pretty flowers
@JotexI wish they would lift it here. Lots of talks but nothing. I bunch of people went to the beach this weekend and that pretty much put a damper on things 😮🙁 But I need a hair cut badly. I keep cutting my bangs and I know she will yell at me as I dont cut then very straight 🤣
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Day 28
| 15K steps/day | 27/30 | |
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 28/30 | |
16 weight-lifting days | 16/16 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 3/3 | |
Sleep 6 hours, 10 minutes 13 days or more during the month | 14/13 | |
3 pull-up + 1min bar-hang /day | 28/30 | |
| 20 days or more on my unicycle | 28/20 | |
| Lose 1 lb -- (Start Mar. 29 160.4) | 4/26 | 161.6 |
The rain has been knocking off a lot of the tree blumes
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@Baltoscott your picture of cherry blossoms reminds me of what I was doing LAST April - visiting Japan.
I love this last shot especially, it seems very Japanese, like their gorgeous simple flower displays. But then I am a lover of bark, and have been known to stroke trees with beautiful bark 🤓
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29 April
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 26/20
15 days over 12,000 24/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 11/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 1/3
10 lunges a day for 20 days 20/20
8 swims per month 8/8
6 bike rides per month 6/6
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 3/3
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April Showers Day 29
Steps: Goal 10000: 29/30
Boxing: 29/30
Bike 3 times : 29/30
Weights DVD 17 Days: 16/17
DVD Has Balance, Cardio: 29/30
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 29/30
Leg Exercises: 29/30
250 Steps per hour : 29/30
Log food daily : 29/30
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 6/3
Lose 3 Pounds: 1.5/3
Had Hubby cut my bangs. Boy was that a big mistake. I look like a little Dutch boy 😂🤔😐
He normally does a good job so I dont know what his problem was. 😕
Need to get my Baseball cap out for a while
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@WendyB 🤣🤣 Photo? (Please??)
30 April
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 27/20
15 days over 12,000 25/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 11/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 1/3
10 lunges a day for 20 days 20/20
8 swims per month 8/8
6 bike rides per month 6/6
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 3/3
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The good news is I maintained my weight this month, it was exactly the same this morning as it was on the last day of March.
The not-so-good is that I really to work on consistency and making the basics of healthy living a priority every day, hopefully it will eventually become more a habit.
5 miles a day walking/hiking/light jogging | 16/21 |
30 Jumping Jacks | 14/21 |
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 | 18/21 |
Sleep 7+ hours a night | 9/15 |
7+ cups water | 6/21 |
Scavenger Pictures | 3/3 |
Another new pandemic rock - looks like even the clouds in the sky should be social distancing!
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April Showers Day 30
Steps: Goal 10000: 30/30
Boxing: 30/30
Bike 3 times : 30/30
Weights DVD 17 Days: 17/17
DVD Has Balance, Cardio: 30/30
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 30/30
Leg Exercises: 30/30
250 Steps per hour : 30/30
Log food daily : 30/30
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 6/3
Lose 3 Pounds: 1.5/3
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