Legendary January — Step Challenge and Resolutions

[Baltoscott]

Welcome to 2020. It is a new year, a new decade, and time to do something new, something legendary; or ... maybe just get another monthly challenge underway 😉 So try out something new ,,, a diet or exercise change, less drinking or smoking, going to bed earlier, learn a new skill … But in this case, commit for just a month and see how it goes.  You can do anything for a month, and if it still makes sense on January 31, try to make it ordinary come February. Or adapt it a bit.                         

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 idea of a monthly picture scavenger hunt started a couple of years ago as a way to get people into the great outside to show off where they live. We’ve done oldest buildings, funny street or business signs, sewer covers, holiday decorations, theatre marquees,  animals ….

The theme this month?  It is an old favorite for me; street art or hidden pictures.  Street art is any graffiti you come across and any art designed into or built into architecture.  Hidden pictures are designs in nature that might be there on purpose (someone carved something into or hung something on a tree) or might be something you see in a natural formation (a shoulder or face in a mountain).

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.

[Jotex]

Legendary January - Day 5

10,000+ steps: 4/20 days

15,000+ steps: 1/5 days

20,000+ steps: 0/3 days
Exercises & weights: 5/20 days

2-minute planks: 2/20 days

40 Jumping Jacks: 5/20 days

Eat 1 piece of fruit: 5/15 days
Blue (no alcohol): 2/15 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics: 0/3 pics

[Baltoscott]

Legendary January Day 5

15K steps/day		4/31
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day		5/31
15 weight-lifting days		3/15
post 3 scavenger pics		1/3
Sleep 6+ hours 17 days or more during the month		1/17
3 pull-up + 1min bar-hang /day		3/31
Dry (mostly) January - 25 days or more		5/25
Lose 2 lbs (Started 11/1 at 163.7 lbs; 12/29 at 162.8 lbs.)	1/5	162.9

Glad I don't have to fight with these guys for bread ...

Lunchtime at the park

[WendyB]

Legendary January Day 5

Steps: Goal 10000: 5/31

Boxing: 5/31

Bike 2 times : 5/31

Weights DVD 18 Days: 2/31

DVD Has Weights, Balance, Cardio: 5/31

Wall Push Up/Counter push ups: 5/31

Leg Exercises: 5/31

250 Steps per hour : 5/31

Log food daily : 5/31

Scavenger Hunt Photos : 1/3

Lose 3-5 Pounds: 0/0

Lots of Ducks. Just a fact I learned because of where I walk. Geese, ducks, horses, goats

Do not feed duck or geese bread. They can choke on it. Sorry just a fact I know. I saw one choking one time when a kid was feeding it. Bad me yelled at kid and mom. And I didn't know how to help the poor goose.😲😩 Animal/Bird Lover

[Heidi_S_B]

Day 5. 

1. 15000 steps 20 days             4 /20 days
2. 20000 steps  4 days                 / 4 days 
3. 10000 steps  6 days             1 / 6 days
4. Yoga twice a week               3 / 8 times
5. Picture scavenger hunt           / 3 pictures

[NellyG]

6 January 

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                                   6/20

12 days over 12,000                                                      4/12

10 days over 15,000 steps                                             2/10          

3 days over 20,000 steps                                               -/3

6 lunges a day for 20 days                                             6/20    NEW!

Swim 2x per week                                                           1/8                                                 

8 bike rides or strenuous walks per month                 2/8              

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                                     -/3

[SteppingBooks]

Legendary January 3-5:

15k Steps/Day: 05/31

600 Calorie Deficiency/Day: 04/31

15 Squats/Day: 05/31

IF 4x/Week:— /4

Yoga 1x/Week: —/4

Weights 2x/Week: 02/8

[Jotex]

Legendary January - Day 6

10,000+ steps: 5/20 days

15,000+ steps: 1/5 days

20,000+ steps: 0/3 days
Exercises & weights: 6/20 days

2-minute planks: 3/20 days

40 Jumping Jacks: 6/20 days

Eat 1 piece of fruit: 6:15 days
Blue (no alcohol): 3/15 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics: 0/3 pics

[Jotex]

Quick question for our Aussie team mates — are y’all, your loved ones and your homes safe?! 

[WendyB]

Legendary January Day 6

Steps: Goal 10000: 6/31

Boxing: 6/31

Bike 2 times : 6/31

Weights DVD 18 Days: 3/31

DVD Has Weights, Balance, Cardio: 6/31

Wall Push Up/Counter push ups: 6/31

Leg Exercises: 6/31

250 Steps per hour : 6/31

Log food daily : 6/31

Scavenger Hunt Photos : 1/3

Lose 3-5 Pounds: 0/0

[Joy2019]

Life got in the way!!! We've moved cities and are in temporary accommodation plus I've started a new job and been house hunting! Not enough hours in the day but I've been trying to keep on top of my goals! 3 weeks to my surgery now eek!!!

Legendary January goals:

Drink 10 x 250 ml of water daily or tea / 5
130g of protein /7
Walk 8km /4
20 x 5 sets of goblet squats with pulses /0
30 x 5 sets of jumping jacks /0
2 minutes plank x 5 sets /0
2 minutes high knees x 5 sets /0
30 minute stretches with a resistance band (which will also get my core exercises in) /0
18 hours IF /7

Not a good start eh! 

Now to ctach up with everyone's posts

[NellyG]

7 January 

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                                   7/20

12 days over 12,000                                                      5/12

10 days over 15,000 steps                                             2/10          

3 days over 20,000 steps                                               -/3

6 lunges a day for 20 days                                             7/20    NEW!

Swim 2x per week                                                           2/8                                                 

8 bike rides or strenuous walks per month                 2/8              

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                                     3/3

Street art in Albany

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SteppingBooks]

Legendary January 6:

15k Steps/Day: 05/31

600 Calorie Deficiency/Day: 05/31

15 Squats/Day: 06/31

IF 4x/Week:— /4

Yoga 1x/Week: —/4

Weights 2x/Week: 02/8

Monday Exhaustion hit hard yesterday.  I don't think I even watched the opening to Jeopardy. 😭

[Heather-S]

Legendary January - Day 6 Results

13,000 Steps: 2/31

15,000 Steps: 2/5

20,000 Steps: 1/3

Go to the gym: 0/9

Lose 2lbs: 2/2

Well I ended up sick with the flu on Friday night and all weekend (even went to urgent care on Sunday where they confirmed influenza B).  Three full days of fever.  I managed to hit 10K steps by slowly pacing around my house whenever I had marginal energy, but it was rough and I definitely wouldn't advise it, but I wanted to keep my stepping streak alive. 

Today I am finally feeling somewhat back to normal, but I still took the day off from work so I can rest and be 100% tomorrow.  

[kb5wck]

Here are my January goals. I am new to this so my numbers are not that big yet. Numbers are adjusted for steps to start tomorrow(1/8/2020) since I just found this.

5K steps/day Mon-Fri		/18
Sat & Sun 4k steps/day		/6
Sleep 6+ hours 15 days or more during the month		/17
Maintain my weight of 225 lbs.  Lose Fat!
Eat 1 piece of fruit: 15 days		/15
Drink 64 oz. water every day		/24
250 steps/hr for 8 hours		/24

[Jotex]

Legendary January - Day 7

10,000+ steps: 6/20 days

15,000+ steps: 1/5 days

20,000+ steps: 0/3 days
Exercises & weights: 7/20 days

2-minute planks: 4/20 days

40 Jumping Jacks: 7/20 days

Eat 1 piece of fruit: 7/15 days
Blue (no alcohol): 3/15 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics: 1/3 pics

Love the art you’ve posted @NellyG! Some of them kind of remind me of what I’m working on — a new painting, experimenting with different techniques. Still a-work-in-progress. 

 

 

[BMANintheUP]

Nice picts Nelly!

We have some murals in a town 20 minutes from us, but it's been too windy to walk those streets.

[BMANintheUP]

@Heather-S It looks like alot of snow, but it's only a 3rd of what we will have before winter is over.  Walking was just perfect on it yesterday with about a foot of snow that had iced over so you only sank down about an inch.  Dogs are having a blast in it right now!

[WendyB]

Legendary January Day 7

Steps: Goal 10000: 7/31

Boxing: 7/31

Bike 2 times : 7/31

Weights DVD 18 Days: 3/31

DVD Has Weights, Balance, Cardio: 7/31

Wall Push Up/Counter push ups: 7/31

Leg Exercises: 7/31

250 Steps per hour : 7/31

Log food daily : 7/31

Scavenger Hunt Photos : 1/3

Lose 3-5 Pounds: 0/0

Welcome @kb5wck  Great to have a new person among us!

Great Pic's  @NellyG !

Love your painting  @Jotex  Let us see when done. I have a Llama I want to do but for some reason I cant get in to it

Going to go see the New Star Wars tomorrow will need to find a way to get some steps in for at least one of the hours

[BMANintheUP]

2020 - January Goals - Week 1 Results

Starting Jan 1st with 3,000 Steps every day. 7/31

Then increasing by 250 steps each week for a monthly increase of 1,000 steps.

Double my step goal 9 days of the month. 1/9  Jan 3rd -8502 Steps!

Triple my step goal 1 day every month.  1/31 Jan 6th -9162 Steps!  I'm going to up this goal to be 2 days of every month!

Additional goals to help me achieve my overall yearly goals.

Play outside every day  7/31  This week has been a beautiful week for playing with the dogs outside!

Play tug with my pupper for 10 minutes every other day. 3/15

I'm not doing so hot with these goals!  I haven't found my grove yet with them!

Plank for 1 minute every other day 0/15

Track food and water every day in my FitBit App.  0/31

But this one is spot on!

Along with Be Positive, Be Kind to Myself, and Be Kind to Others! 7/31

Norway, Michigan Main StThe Catholic Church in Norway

[Baltoscott]

Legendary January Day 7

15K steps/day		6/31
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day		7/31
15 weight-lifting days		4/15
post 3 scavenger pics		1/3
Sleep 6+ hours 17 days or more during the month		2/17
3 pull-up + 1min bar-hang /day		3/31
Dry (mostly) January - 25 days or more		7/25
Lose 2 lbs (Started 11/1 at 163.7 lbs; 12/29 at 162.8 lbs.)	1/5	162.9

@NellyG - that's some great street art.