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So how did January go? Are you still holding strong on those New Year resolutions? Or have you completely forgotten about that? 🙂
Well, if your January goals were a little too ambitious, don’t give up. Just walk it back a bit. Instead of 6 days a week at the gym, commit to putting on your workout shoes for 3 mornings and walking a couple of miles, followed by some body weight exercises (you can still go to the gym, but if you’ve been missing, change the commitment somehow — less often, switch from morning to evening or vice versa — so it is easier to meet). Whatever it was you committed to in January, that has not successful, try doing half as much of it in February and see how that goes. (Of course, if you hit your goals in January, YAY YOU! Now keep practicing the goals you want as lifetime habits, and increase effort or time a bit). But above all, Just Say NO to Sedentary February.
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 for Just Say NO to Sedentary February is to find the ‘odd duck;’ something out of place; someone oddly dressed; something a little ridiculous.
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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Feb goals, 25 k steps per day, 25 floors, 14 of 14 hours active, gym/exercise every other day.
2/6 steps 25,401, floors 30
2/7 steps 28,814, 9
2/8 steps 24,686 10 How did I miss two days in a row!? Could be the rain.
2/9 steps 31,581 30
6 of 29
took a walk down to the creek to the south this day, it was 68 f on Feb 2nd.
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11 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 9/20
12 days over 12,000 7/12
10 days over 15,000 steps 5/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 2/3
10 lunges a day for 20 days 9/20
Swim 2x per week 4/8
8 bike rides or strenuous walks per month 2/8
3 hours dance practice per week minimum 4/12
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 1/3
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No to Sedentary February - Day 11
Steps: Goal 10000: 10/29
Boxing: 10/29
Bike 2 times : 10/29
Weights DVD 16 Days: 5/29
DVD Has Weights, Balance, Cardio: 10/29
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 10/29
Leg Exercises: 10/29
250 Steps per hour : 10/29
Log food daily : 10/29
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 3/3
Lose 3-5 Pounds: 0/3
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Just Say NO to Sedentary February
Day 11
| 15K steps/day | 11/29 | |
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 10/29 | |
15 weight-lifting days | 7/15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 1/3 | |
Sleep 6 hours, 10 minutes 12 days or more during the month | 6/12 | |
3 pull-up + 1min bar-hang /day | 10/29 | |
Lose 2 lbs (Started 11/1 at 163.7 lbs; 2/1 at 162.5 lbs.) | 2/9 | 162 |
So we went out for a little bird-watching day on Saturday with the local Auduban group and I forgot to do my daily pullups and pushups. Those are suppose to be the the easy ones! Grrr. I did get my steps in that day, and I enjoyed going out with knowledgeable people who could tell me what I was looking at :-). Definitely needed the binoculars!
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12 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 10/20
12 days over 12,000 8/12
10 days over 15,000 steps 6/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 3/3
10 lunges a day for 20 days 10/20
Swim 2x per week 4/8
8 bike rides or strenuous walks per month 3/8
3 hours dance practice per week minimum 4/12
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 2/3
Can you spot the odd one out?
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No to Sedentary February - Day 12
Steps: Goal 10000: 11/29
Boxing: 11/29
Bike 2 times : 11/29
Weights DVD 16 Days: 6/29
DVD Has Weights, Balance, Cardio: 11/29
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 11/29
Leg Exercises: 11/29
250 Steps per hour : 11/29
Log food daily : 11/29
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 3/3
Lose 3-5 Pounds: 0/3
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10,000 steps ----- 3/16
15,000 step -----1/4
1,500mls water ----- 11/29
Keep to food plan ----- 9/29
Sleep 7+ hours ----- 3/29
Scavenger Pix ----- 2/3
I think this fits in with Scott's scavenger pic category of 'out of place'.
This is a frog that I discovered on my bedroom window (approx 3 floors up!) last night. I think he was telling me something. There is a citizen science app over here that means you can submit audio of frog calls and they help scientists identify and map the frog population and locations in Australia. I was reminded of the app last Friday night at an event. I walked past a frog croaking last night (Wednesday) on my way to getting my 15,000+ steps, and was annoyed that I hadn't yet downloaded the app. Later, I discovered the above, which in my many years living here has never happened before. OK already, I will get and use the app!!!!
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12 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 10/20
12 days over 12,000 7/12
10 days over 15,000 steps 5/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 2/3
10 lunges a day for 20 days 9/20
Swim 2x per week 4/8
8 bike rides or strenuous walks per month 2/8
3 hours dance practice per week minimum 4/12
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 2/3
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No to Sedentary February - Day 13
Steps: Goal 10000: 12/29
Boxing: 12/29
Bike 2 times : 12/29
Weights DVD 16 Days: 6/29
DVD Has Weights, Balance, Cardio: 12/29
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups : 12/29
Leg Exercises: 12/29
250 Steps per hour : 12/29
Log food daily : 11/29
Scavenger Hunt Photos : 3/3
Lose 3-5 Pounds: .5/3
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Just Say NO to Sedentary February
Day 13
| 15K steps/day | 13/29 | |
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 12/29 | |
15 weight-lifting days | 8/15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 2/3 | |
Sleep 6 hours, 10 minutes 12 days or more during the month | 6/12 | |
3 pull-up + 1min bar-hang /day | 12/29 | |
Lose 2 lbs (Started 11/1 at 163.7 lbs; 2/1 at 162.5 lbs.) | 2/9 | 162 |
I was just scrolling through my pics from the bird watching outing last Saturday and found this heron in flight over an .... off ramp? That seems a little out of place 🙂
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@Baltoscott Awesome Pic!
I do not see a cat in @NellyG photo. You must have a good eye. I see the 2 rubber ducky's that are odd
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