Jumping January 2018 Step Challenge

[Baltoscott]

Welcome to 2018.  It is a new year, and time to get another monthly challenge underway

How It Works:

The primary purpose of this challenge is to keep track of your daily step goals for January 2018 (though as you will see below, other goals for the month are just fine). This is not a competition to see who can do the most amount of steps, 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 31 for the month can you hit your goal.

Some of you might have a constant goal of 10k steps every single day and some might have a variable goal throughout the week, for example.
Monday -> Friday = 10k steps a day
Sat & Sun = 6k steps a day
Regardless of how you structure your daily goals, the only thing that matters for this 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 / 31.

Optional
3) Post either your constant or variable (anything you want) goal.
4) Keep track of the # of daily goals achieved / 31.

The optional items can really be anything. Running, biking, weight lifting, food goals, etc. Some will add a goal that is not daily - ie. wanting to do so many strength training workouts in the month - so you might be aiming for a number that is less than 31 for some goals -- maybe 5, 10, or 15. Really, it's just completely open.

Injury Notice
If you injure yourself during the month and decide scale back the number of steps due to the injury, then all you have to do is adjust your daily step 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.

[melaniebrownell]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year!

Goals

Steps 13000 per day long term get my self up to 20000 per day.

Stairs 6 per day for now, long term 15 per day.

Work out 5 times a week for at least an hour, long term goal to work out 

 of the 5 days for 2 hours.

Increase activity from 70 min to 140 per day.

[melaniebrownell]

I had to cut dairy out because of allergies and what a big difference in my health.  Wishing you all the best.

[NellyG]

Here are my results to date 5 Jan

Step goal                                    5/7   (5/31)

Plank                                           3/5   ( 3/29)

Swim                                           2/2   (2/8)

Bike or extra Fitbit Coach         0/1    (0/4)

Fitbit Coach                                1/1    (1/4)

I'm going to modify my goals a bit because I doubt I will get out on my bike this week. It has been really windy every day. So if I cant do a bike ride due to the weather I will substitute an extra Fitbit Coach workout. 

[benvegi]

Warmed up enough to take a walk yesterday, may even hit 40 today.

Jan 4

My goals:

11 k steps a day          14.3 k

30 floors                           

5 miles                               

5 push ups                        

1 plank 

1 plank, plus 3 sets of curls @ 10 lbs, 3 sets of upright rows.

4/31 on all goals.

[Jotex]

Day 5
8,000 steps - 11,500+ steps — 5/31
4 fiitbit floors - 13fitbit floors (according to fitbit)— 5/31
work out* 5x/wk - 5/5 — week 1/4
read book 5 min - 40 min —5/31

{*work out includes 1 1-min plank, 1 min of Curls, 15 min Bellicon trampoline exercises, 30-40 min on treadmill, floor exercises with weights}

[AnneTa]

Day 5

8000 steps: 15,000         5/7 (5/31) 

5 floors: 5                        5/7 (5/31)

Meditation: 30 min          5/7 (5/31)

[WendyB]

13K steps/day 5/31

Exercise bike 40 minutes/day 5/31

Boxing 30 Minutes/day 5/31

14 weight lifting days 3/14

Stomach exercises 200 a day with Ab roller 4/30

Lose 5 pounds Lost .8 this week

[JaimieRi]

Hi all, I am new to all of this forum discussion stuff, however I am not new to daily goals/monthly goals. I have increased all my settings for this yea 2018 and have allowed myself to miss a day of goal reaching for my floors only as I compensate by going overboard to ensure I am meeting my weekly total for that goal. My set Steps are 17000, Floors 35, Calories 3000, Kilometres 10.0, Active minutes 60. I am really pushing myself this year I have figured out that with my 250 + steps per hour setting that I aim for at least 1000 steps for that hour. I am tracking well it is day 6 and my totals reflect a surplus for week 1 so much so that I could do nothing on Sunday, however that is not the primary purpose of this challenge so I have determined this year or for this month  of January to follow the criteria and do my **ahem**dest to reach my steps each day. My current totals as of 6th of January 2018 at the time of writing this post Steps 121,800, Floors 361, Kilometres 87.19, Calories 21,560, Active minutes 829. Happy goal reaching. Catch you all when I return to update for week 1. Regards Jaimie

[Baltoscott]

January 5

15K steps/day  5/31

1 pushup/day   5/31

1 pullup/day   5/31

12 weight-lifting days  3/12

No alcohol for the month  (What?)  5/31

Fitbit says that my average steps are down 5% compared to the previous 28 days.  I think it will pick up after this arctic weather moves on.  But in the meantime I'll credit this challenge with pushing me to 15K each day so far.  

[NellyG]

January 6

Step goal                                    6/7   (6/31)

Plank                                           4/5   ( 4/29)

Swim                                           2/2   (2/8)

Bike or extra Fitbit Coach         1/1    (1/4)

Fitbit Coach                                1/1    (1/4)

[SQUEAKY]

Hi all.  I haven't logged for a few days.  I've been sick with a wicked cold. Needless to say I have not worked out.  My Fitbit battery needed charging and I didn't even realize it.  Hoping to do something tomorrow. 

So I'm still at :

Goal = 

Steps = 10,000 per day.

Use my Total Gym 3 times a week. I'm going to change this to 15 x this month. 

Adding:

Free weights 15 x

Start Date 1/2/2018

Step goal  1/31

Total Gym 0/15

Free weights 0/15

[Baltoscott]

January 6

15K steps/day  6/31

1 pushup/day   6/31

1 pullup/day   6/31

12 weight-lifting days  3/12

No alcohol for the month  (What?)  6/31

[GershonSurge]

Goal: Get 25,000 steps one day each week.

Jan 6: Completed 1/4: 25,938 steps.

[AnneTa]

Day 6

8000 steps: 13,000         6/7 (56/31) 

5 floors: 17 (according to my fitbit, might have been some less)    6/7 (6/31)

Meditation: 10 min          6/7 (6/31)

Today is the 7th day, so time for a weekly review of my goals.

- 8000 steps might seem to be a bit low, I was over 10,000 every single day last week, but I had a week of from work, which gave me the opportunity to move more.
So, for next week, my step goal remains the same, but it's more of: '8,000 is the bare minimum, I should aim for 10,000.'

- 5 floors: The minimum this week was 7 floors, and at work it should be easier to get some floors in (the stairs in my house seem to have just not enough steps to be counted. Today I have gone up and down the stairs 4 times already, and my fitbit indicates only one, because I remembered to lift my arm to shoulder heigth when I came upstairs.  That's really the only way to let my Charge 2 count the stairs here at home...).  So for next week, my goal will be 7 floors.

- meditation: just consistently going on... I've a streak of 570 days now, it would be a pity to break that chain 

So for next week only a tiny adjustment: 7 instead of 5 floors...

[Jotex]

Yesterday I was needed elsewhere, so couldn’t meet all my goals. Will get back on track today.

Day 6
8,000 steps - 4,500+ steps — 5/31
4 fiitbit floors - 4 floors* — 6/31
work out* 5x/wk - 5/5 — week 1/4
read book 5 min - 0 min —5/31

*My fitbit read 3 floors, but I know I did 5. 😇

[JaimieRi]

Hi All from Adelaide, Week one stats

             Steps       Floors      Kilometres       Calories     Active minutes 

Goal   (17,000)      (35)           (10.0)             (3000)            (60.0)

Jan 1   23,645      105             17.13             4,307               162

Jan 2   18,021       01              11.15             3,438               132

Jan 3   18,644      102             13.17             3,507               119

Jan 4   26,251      106             20.57             3,839               189

Jan 5   17,613       02              12.25             3,120                74

Jan 6   17,826       45              13.02             3,474               153

Jan 7   23,545       04              14.26             3,391               160

My only goal I allow to not be met daily at the moment is Floors, however I make up for it by over compensating on alternating days, I am working on making 35 consistent floors per day. 

Have a good day or night and bring on Week 2 of January. Regards Jaimie 

[NellyG]

7 January. First week successfully finished!

Step goal                                    7/7   (7/31)

Plank                                           5/5   ( 5/29)

Swim                                           2/2   (2/8)

Bike or extra Fitbit Coach         1/1    (1/4)

Fitbit Coach                                1/1    (1/4)

[benvegi]

Jan 4

My goals:

11 k steps a day          On the 6th I scored 20,575 steps!  We went dancing after I took my 2.5 mile walk.

30 floors                           

5 miles                               

5 push ups                        

1 plank 

1 plank, plus 3 sets of curls @ 10 lbs, 3 sets of upright rows.

6/31 on all goals.

[WendyB]

Jan 6th. Forgot to post yesterday

13K steps/day 6/31

Exercise bike 40 minutes/day 6/31

Boxing 30 Minutes/day 6/31

14 weight lifting days 3/14

Stomach exercises 200 a day with Ab roller 5/30

Lose 5 pounds Lost .8 this week 1/5/18

[AnneTa]

Day 7

8000 steps: 14,000            7/7 (7/31) 

5 floors: 18                         7/7 (7/31)

Meditation: 20 min              7/7 (7/31)