MAYhem Monthly Step Challenge--MAYbe it's time to step it up and get a little crazy with your goals

[Baltoscott]

So April was a reset month, a restart of the January goals you dropped in February ;-).  For the MAYhem challenge this month, get a little creative; sure, get your steps — always gotta do that — but add some floors, or do a 5K, or post a pic of something 2 or 3 miles away from your couch! You get the idea, it’s MAYhem!!

   
How It Works:

The primary purpose of these monthly challenges has been 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

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 and that will give the rest of us incentive to update our own progress.

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.

[GershonSurge]

Had a great day yesterday. I think I'll try to average over 3,000 calories a day during June.

It rained yesterday evening, so I'll need to weed the garden this morning. 

[NellyG]

31 May

Steps 10,000 per day                                       27/20  Average for month 1155 so happy with that

High step day over 20,000                              1 👍

Swim twice per week                                       2/2     9/8

Fitbit Coach or bike ride - one per week      1/1      9/4    

Dance 6 hours per week                                 2/6      20/24

All in all a pretty good month.  Didnt meet the dance goals because of Jims knee injury, but he is back on deck so all stops out for June!

[Ennay]

12K yesterday

[Baltoscott]

May 31

-15K steps/day for all 31 days. 31/31
-1 pushup/day for all 31 days 31/31
-13 16 weight-lifting days: 16/13 16 
- 50 floors or more for 20 days: 21/20
-Sleep 6+ hours 12 days: 3/12
-sign up for and do one organized event: 2/2 

Well with the exception of my inability to get enough sleep, this was a pretty good month.  See everyone over at Jumping June.

[Jotex]

May 31
10,000 steps a day average - 22/31
15,000 steps a day x 5 - 7/5

Ended the month with another 15,000 step day! Although I only had 22/31 days under10,000, I met my overarching goal of an average of 10,000 steps/day. Whoop! I also met my personal goal of building endurance with minimum 1 hr on the treadmill, and began gradually increasing my speed each day. Despite personal concerns which had me down a few days, all in all, this is for me a good close to all the MAYhem month. 🌷

[A_Lurker]

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@A_Lurker wrote:

1) 10,000 steps each day

2) some other form of exercise (rowing, elliptical, strength training... may include gardening)

3) 7h sleep average each week

4) checking in each day

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1) 31/31

2) 10 (rowing), 10 (elliptical), 10 (resistance) <--- skipped today

3) week 1 (6hr31m), week 2 (7hr54m), week 3 (7hr28m), week 4 (8h3m), week 5 (so far) 7h50m

4) 16/31

Well, I got the sleep solidly back on track. I did lots today - shopping, cooking, cleaning, sorting through stuff to give away. Oh, and still finishing laundry. I have people coming for lunch tomorrow and some plans inside and out for the weekend. See you all on the June thread.

[GershonSurge]

May contained some new learning experiences. The most important one was learning how to maintain weight. It's difficult to catch up if I get behind. Now, I weigh myself several times during the day. If I'm below my target weight, I eat more. If I'm above, I eat a bit less. I no longer count calories. After all the concern, my average weight for the month was 157.9 lbs., only a tenth of a pound off my target.

Except for the weight lifting, I started doing all NEAT exercises instead of formal exercises. It's working out better than walking did in terms of muscle development. My lean mass increased a few pounds during the month.

On to June because it's busting out all over. 

[Ennay]

Month Summary

	April	May Goal	May Actual
steps per week	106393	105000	90353
burn per week	19990	21000	18912
weights per week		3	heh
HIIT per week	0	1	ok then
High day	25031	25000	20979
Weight loss	-6.8		-6.2

really fizzled at the end.  First trying to increase productivity, then both died.