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So how did your January Reset go? Are you still holding strong on those New Years’s resolutions? Or have you completely forgotten about them? 🙂
Well, Welcome to Very Varied February. Just switch things up a bit. MAYBE make your goals a little less lofty. 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. Change one thing in your diet each week or two and see if it sticks instead eliminating entire food groups. If whatever it was you committed to in January was just too hard to catch up on if you missed a couple of days, aim to do 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).
General monthly instructions are below, including the monthly picture scavenger hunt.
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
This month’s scavenger hunt is free flowing and likely to be VERY VARIED. Tell a story with words and pictures about where you live - your neighborhood, your town/city. Maybe just about a particular building, or maybe the founding of the area, or maybe a famous person who lived in or visited or died where you live. It doesn’t have to be a lot of pictures and doesn’t have to be historical. Most comic strips are just 3 or 4 panels. But it does have to be pictures you take while walking this month. From when I did this challenge a couple of years ago:
1. What looks like ...
2. A well-locked bike ...
3. Can be ...
4. Just a well-locked bike frame
Moral -- lock goes through frame + wheels!
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.
Scott | Baltimore MD
Charge 6; Inspire 3; Luxe; iPhone 13 Pro
02-07-2021 03:07
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7 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 7/20
20 days over 12,000 5/20
14 days over 15,000 steps 2/14
4 day over 20,000 steps 1/4
Physio exercises 20 days 7/20
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym) 7/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
Helen | Western Australia
Want to discuss ways to increase your activity? Visit Get Moving in the Lifestyle Discussion Forum.
02-07-2021 07:51
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2/6- 13796
February Goals
>10K -5/24
>11K -4/16
>12K -3/4
Steps- 70153/310000
BP/BG 6/20
Vitamins 5/20
02-07-2021 07:59
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02-07-2021 07:59
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A scavenger hunt series ... one wheel, two wheels, three wheels, no wheels.
Scott | Baltimore MD
Charge 6; Inspire 3; Luxe; iPhone 13 Pro
02-07-2021 13:56
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Week 1 😀
12,000 steps per day: 7/7
3 sets of 5 exercises every other day: 4/4
Log weight weekly: lost 1 lb
1 hr of exercise each day: 7/7
6.5 hr sleep each day: 5/7
Log meals daily: 7/7
3 pictures: 0/3
Stridekick, Lose It, Renpho
02-07-2021 15:05
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Very Varied Day 7
16K steps/day | 7/28 | |
1 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 7/28 | |
15 weight-lifting days | 4/15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 2/3 | |
Sleep 6:15 hours + 20 days or more during the month | 5/20 | |
1 pull-up | 7/28 | |
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | 6/25 | |
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.8 (Feb. 1) | 2/7 | 167.1 |
Up a bit on weight this week.
Scott | Baltimore MD
Charge 6; Inspire 3; Luxe; iPhone 13 Pro
02-07-2021 20:46
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Great week 1 @stoughjr
Scott | Baltimore MD
Charge 6; Inspire 3; Luxe; iPhone 13 Pro

02-08-2021 00:21
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8 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 8/20
20 days over 12,000 6/20
14 days over 15,000 steps 3/14
4 day over 20,000 steps 1/4
Physio exercises 20 days 8/20
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym) 8/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
Helen | Western Australia
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02-08-2021 05:35
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Very Varied February 5-7:
11.5K Steps/Day: --/28
700+ Calorie Deficient/Day: 04/28
IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 07/28
Weights 2x/week: -/8
Stretch 4x/week: 02/16
Squats 20/day: 01/15
Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3
Total Steps: 51,573/322,000
I did manage to get some steps in over the weekend despite the cold and snowy weather. Now to continue that effort this week.
02-08-2021 08:31
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2/7 - 14766
February Goals
>10K -6/24
>11K -5/16
>12K -4/4 met hmmm. I guess i should have shot higher!
Steps- 84829/310000
BP/BG 7/20
Vitamins 6/20
2021 394914/4 million
Nice walk yesterday, my old walking partner drove up and we walked and talked. I really miss having someone to walk with. It certainly makes it easier to just go longer. I've been feeling the urge to run again lately, but not sure my ankles are healed enough yet. The anti-inflammatory diet does seem to be helping the chronic tendonitis though.
02-09-2021 02:34
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8 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 8/20
20 days over 12,000 6/20
14 days over 15,000 steps 3/14
4 day over 20,000 steps 1/4
Physio exercises 20 days 8/20
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym) 8/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
Helen | Western Australia
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02-09-2021 05:33
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Very Varied February 8:
11.5K Steps/Day: --/28
700+ Calorie Deficient/Day: 04/28
IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 08/28
Weights 2x/week: -/8
Stretch 4x/week: 02/16
Squats 20/day: 01/15
Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3
Total Steps: 59,972/322,000
Not a lot of numbers moved, but I did get out to get some steps. We're expecting an inch almost every day of snow, and a storm possibly on Sunday. Can't win lol.
02-09-2021 08:08
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My goal are pretty much the same. 10 k steps per day, 20 floors, weights, yoga, stretching each day.. Plus trying for 14 of 14 active hours per day.
Feb steps 10 K -- 8 of 8
Feb 20 floors -- 6 of 8
Active hours -- 2 of 8 (averaging 12.4 floors)
Exercise etc 8 of 8
Just ordered a Sense, hope it works well.
I think I've figured out how to get into the challenges finally. Where before I could just click on any email about the challenge and get right in, now I have to login every day. Perhaps all due to the Google acquisition?
02-09-2021 08:47
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2/8 13375
February Goals
>10K -7/24
>11K -6/16
>12K -5/4 met
Steps- 98204/310000
BP/BG 8/20
Vitamins 7/20
Probably going to take the vitamins off the list as some things aren't reacting the way the doctor predicted so may do a week or so of clean slate. Snow comes soon.
02-09-2021 18:28 - edited 02-09-2021 19:00
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Very Varied Day 9
16K steps/day | 9/28 | |
1 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 9/28 | |
15 weight-lifting days | 5/15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 2/3 | |
Sleep 6:15 hours + 20 days or more during the month | 6/20 | |
1 pull-up | 9/28 | |
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | 8/25 | |
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.8 (Feb. 1) | 2/7 | 167.1 |
Scott | Baltimore MD
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02-10-2021 05:35
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Very Varied February 9:
11.5K Steps/Day: --/28
700+ Calorie Deficient/Day: 05/28
IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 09/28
Weights 2x/week: -/8
Stretch 4x/week: 03/16
Squats 20/day: 01/15
Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3
Total Steps: 67,503/322,000
02-10-2021 08:32
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2/9- 11861
February Goals
>10K -8/24
>11K -9/16
>12K -5/4 met
Steps- 110065 /310000
BP/BG 9/20
I missed my chance to walk before work and have so many meetings today. Eesh. Now the forecast for my town is 4 days of freezing rain and ice storms so I am guessing it will be very difficult to get steps in for awhile. I can do snow, not ice
02-10-2021 12:54
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Very Varied February - Day 7&8&9
6,000+ steps: 1/5 days
8,000+ steps: 3/15 days
10,000+ steps: 4/5 days
12,000+ steps: 0/5 days
Lose ½ kg (starting 1.2.21 at 66.9*): -.2/.5 kg
Eat 1 piece of fruit: 7/25 days
Drink ACV drink 30min before meals: 9/25 days
Scavenger Hunt Pics: 0/3 pics
02-10-2021 18:38
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Very Varied Day 10
16K steps/day | 10/28 | |
1 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 10/28 | |
15 weight-lifting days | 6/15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 2/3 | |
Sleep 6:15 hours + 20 days or more during the month | 6/20 | |
1 pull-up | 10/28 | |
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | 9/25 | |
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.8 (Feb. 1) | 2/7 | 167.1 |
Scott | Baltimore MD
Charge 6; Inspire 3; Luxe; iPhone 13 Pro
02-10-2021 19:48
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11 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 11/20
20 days over 12,000 9/20
14 days over 15,000 steps 5/14
4 day over 20,000 steps 1/4
Physio exercises 20 days 11/20
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym) 10/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
Helen | Western Australia
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