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Welcome to 2022! Maybe you slid a bit on your goals in 2021, or just stalled some over the holiday months, or maybe two years of the pandemic still has you out of your groove. But it is the first month of a new year and it’s a great time to refocus and give yourself a Second Chance. It’s time to show the world that the virus isn’t the only thing that can adapt! So let’s start off the year with another monthly challenge. Go ahead and try out something new. Give yourself a Second Chance ,,, 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.
NOTE: No worries if you come across this after the first of the month, just join in and post your goals for whatever is left in the month after your start date.
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 this month is repurposed items that have been given a second chance. My inspiration is a salvage store in Baltimore called Second Chance that pulls fixtures like kitchen cabinets, bathtubs, church pews, lighting fixtures out of homes being demolished or ‘improved’ and sells that stuff to other folks who are trying to fix up where they live. Pictures might be of items fulfilling their original purpose - i.e., historic doors moved to a new building — or repurposed items, like a bathtub turned into a vegetable garden.
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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Second Chance Goals
Loved where you got the inspiration for this month! I'll try to post daily or at least every two days. It's been hard for me to keep in shape, first postpartum time and then getting sick, these last three months have been a roller coaster of emotions for me. But you're right, this 2022 we have the opportunity to give myself a Second Chance. 🥈💃
| 5k steps per day | /23 | |
| Stress meditation | /20 | |
| Easy squat challenge | /25 | |
| Fruit and Veggies | /25 | |
| Finished challenges | /10 | |
| Update post | /23 |
I'll give a second chance to this Squat challenge
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2022 here we come!
Goals for January
10,000 steps a day for 20 days -/20
15 days over 12,000 -/15
10 days over 15,000 steps -/10
3 days over 20,000 steps -/3
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) -/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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Here are my Second Chance Goals
| 18K steps/day (1K bump) | /28 | |
6-10 minute calisthenics workout | /25 | |
15 weight-lifting days | /15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | /3 | |
Sleep 6:15 hours + 22 days or more during the month (2 day bump) | /22 | |
1 pull-up | /31 | |
| Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | /25 | |
| 20 Dry (no alcohol) days | /20 |
I restarted my daily calisthenics workout in December and I'm looking forward to doing it again this month. I've got an app for iOS (Streaks Workout) that gives me some random bodyweight exercises to do for various time periods (6, 12, 18, or 30 minutes). I just do the six minute set (which usually takes my about 10 minutes). I was doing it daily for several years and it kind of fell off when I was going to the the gym for 'serious' weightlifting, but I like having something daily beside walking/running/bike riding that doesn't require a gym.
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1 January
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 1/20
15 days over 12,000 1/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 1/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 1/3
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 2/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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2 January
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 2/20
15 days over 12,000 2/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 1/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 1/3
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 3/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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3 January
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 3/20
15 days over 12,000 3/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 2/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 2/3
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 5/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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4 January
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 4/20
15 days over 12,000 4/15
10 days over 15,000 steps 3/10
3 days over 20,000 steps 2/3
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 6/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 3/3
Op shop teddy recycled into a conc
rete garden ornament
Old garden tools recycled as garden art
Recycled bike wheels
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