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.

[GershonSurge]

My new goal is to walk or run over 25,000 steps fifteen times during January.

	Date	Steps	Distance
1	1/6/2018	25,938	11.46
2	1/9/2018	26,222	11.03
3	1/11/2018	25,294	11.04
4	1/12/2018	25,276	10.33
5	1/13/2018	30,416	13.05

[WendyB]

Jan 13

13K steps/day 13/31

Exercise bike 40 minutes/day 13/31

Boxing 30 Minutes/day 13/31

14 weight lifting days 6/14

Stomach exercises 200 a day with Ab roller 13/30

Lose 5 pounds Lost .8 this week 1/5/18
1/12 1.5 loss

@BaltoscottI think painting is my new retirement thing. And where I go Hubby can sit and drink beer. He is happy 🙂

I actually got  about 1000 steps painting

[Jotex]

Day 13
8,000 steps - 6,464 steps — 9/31  😦
4 fiitbit floors - 4 fitbit floors — 13/31
work out 5x/wk - 5/5 — week 2/4
read book 5 min - 20 min — 12/31

[NellyG]

@Baltoscott Oh no! 2 beers!!

14 January  Another good week. But I am not going to meet my step goal next weekend as I'll  be driving to Perth and back.

Step goal                                    7/7   (14/31)

Plank                                           7/7   ( 12/29)

Swim                                           2/2   (4/8)

Bike or extra Fitbit Coach         1/1    (2/4)

Fitbit Coach                                1/1    (2/4)

[Baltoscott]

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@NellyG wrote:

@Baltoscott Oh no! 2 beers!!

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I know, right?  🙂  Well, back on track with my new two day no beer streak.

January 14

15K steps/day 14/31
1 pushup/day 14/31
1 pullup/day 14/31
12 weight-lifting days 6/12
No alcohol for the month (What?) 13/31

[benvegi]

My goals:                                              

11 k steps a day                                                   

30 floors                                               

5 miles                               

5 push ups                        

1 plank 

1 plank, plus 3 sets of curls @ 10 lbs, 3 sets of upright rows.    13/31 on all goals.

Look what we got today, first snow in two years. 

[WendyB]

EEk @benvegi Snow Stay safe

[WendyB]

Jan 14

13K steps/day 14/31

Exercise bike 40 minutes/day 14/31

Boxing 30 Minutes/day 14/31

14 weight lifting days 6/14

Stomach exercises 200 a day with Ab roller 13/30

Lose 5 pounds Lost .8 this week 1/5/18
1/12 1.5 loss

Im liking this @Baltoscott It becoming a habit

[Jotex]

Day 14
8,000 steps - 11,707 steps — 10/31 
4 fiitbit floors - 5 fitbit floors — 14/31
work out* 5x/wk - 1/5 — week 3/4
read book 5 min - 120 min — 13/31

*Work out usually goes @ 80-85 mins. and includes 15 Bellicon, 45 Treadmill (up from @ 30 min average), 1-min Plank, 1-min Curls, 15 min Weights / floor exercises.

{tiny edit; had unobtrusively tagged s/o; then typo 🙃}

[NellyG]

15 January

Step goal                                    1/7   (15/31)

Plank                                          1/7   ( 13/29)

Swim                                          -/2   (4/8)

Bike (or extra Fitbit Coach)        -/1    (2/4)

Fitbit Coach                                -/1    (2/4)

[Baltoscott]

January 15

15K steps/day 15/31
1 pushup/day 15/31
1 pullup/day 15/31
12 weight-lifting days 7/12
No alcohol for the month (What?) 14/31

Snow looks nice @benvegi.  Keep at it @WendyB.  On average it takes 66 days to form a new habit (and well done on the 1.5 lbs!).

[WendyB]

Jan 15

13K steps/day 15/31

Exercise bike 40 minutes/day 15/31

Boxing 30 Minutes/day 15/31

14 weight lifting days 7/14

Stomach exercises 200 a day with Ab roller 14/30

Lose 5 pounds Lost .8 this week 1/5/18
1/12 1.5 loss

[Jotex]

Day 15
8,000 steps - 8,500 steps — 11/31
4 fiitbit floors - 12 fitbit floors — 15/31
work out* 5x/wk - 1/5 — week 3/4
read book 5 min - 5 min — 14/31

[NellyG]

16 January

Step goal                                     2/7   (16/31)

Plank                                            2/7   ( 14/29)

Swim                                           1/2   (5/8)

Bike (or extra Fitbit Coach)      -/1    (2/4)

Fitbit Coach                                -/1    (2/4)

[Julia_G]

I'm horribly behind in posting "progress" here (quotes/ inverted commas -- as the Brits call them -- intentional... progress is either a rumour or an exageration...).  

Let's just say there were quite a few days when I did more steps than I would have, and even an occasional late night plank or weight routine, if I hadn't signed on to this challenge

Today might be my worst step day ever since I first bought a Fitbit in 2014... less than two thousand.  But my visitor has now gone home and I am going to try to redeem myself for the second half of January.

When your best intentions go wrong, you can always start over.  That's my plan tomorrow.  Because tomorrow is always another day!

The rest of you guys -- well done for meeting your goals!

[Baltoscott]

January 16

15K steps/day 16/31
1 pushup/day 16/31
1 pullup/day 16/31
12 weight-lifting days 7/12
No alcohol for the month (What?) 15/31

@Julia_G -- Maybe change up your early January goals to say, "____ days entertaining visitors."

[WendyB]

Jan 16

13K steps/day 16/31

Exercise bike 40 minutes/day 16/31

Boxing 30 Minutes/day 16/31

14 weight lifting days 7/14

Stomach exercises 200 a day with Ab roller 15/30

Lose 5 pounds Lost .8 this week 1/5/18
1/12 1.5 loss

I'm adding Yoga but I'm not going to report it. I really want to do Goat Yoga at Goat House brewery this spring so I need to get ready. So I'm  starting tomorrow. Yes I'm a crazy women who loves Goats 🙂

[Jotex]

Day 16
8,000 steps - 13,347 steps — 12/31 {I think my monthly average will exceed 8,000/day}
4 fitbit floors - 15 fitbit floors — 16/31
work out (15-min. Bellicon, 1-min Plank, 1-min Curls, 45 min Treadmill) 5x/wk - 2/5 — week 3/4
read book 5 min - 15 min — 15/31

Not sure how things will play out this weekend, as I have a concert on Friday evening and a 2-day conference. Have to get my work outs done before I leave town!

[Baltoscott]

Mmmmm — brewery!  

[Baltoscott]

@benvegi — your snow made it to Baltimore this morning