Very Varied February 2021 Step Challenge and Scavenger Hunt

[Baltoscott]

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.

[CatLover74]

Let's try this again.  One of these days I'll make it through an entire month.

Very Varied February

Fitness Goals

7,500 steps on 8 days of the month.  -/8.

12,000 steps on 20 days of the month.  -/20

Go for 25 minutes of walk / jog intervals on 2 days a week.  -/2, -/4

Two gym visits a week.  -/2, -/4

Health Goals

Eat one piece of fruit a day.  -/31

Sleep 7 hours at least 20 days of the month.  -/20

Other Goals

3 scavenger hunt pics.  -/3

Challenge

Eat 1 entirely vegan day 3 times a week.  -/3, -/4

[NellyG]

Oh February already!

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

20 days over 12,000                                          -/20                

14 days over 15,000 steps                               -/14

4 day over 20,000 steps                                     -/4           

Physio exercises 20 days                                  -/20

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym)    -/20

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      -/3

[Jotex]

Very Varied February Goals

6,00+ steps:  5 days

8,000+ steps:  15 days

10,000+ steps: 5 days

12,000+ steps: 5 days 

Lose ½ kg (starting 1.2.21 at ___*): .5 kg

Eat 1 piece of fruit: 25 days

Drink ACV drink 30min before meals: 25 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics:  0/3 pics

*I will fill in my starting weight on the first day of February. 

Thanks for the new month's challenge, @Baltoscott! I don't walk outside so probably won't get the pics again, but ... things can change.

[SteppingBooks]

Very Varied February:

11.5K Steps/Day: --/28

700+ Calorie Deficient/Day: --/28

IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): --/28

Weights 2x/week: -/8

Stretch 4x/week: --/16

Squats 20/day: --/15

Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3

Total Steps: ---/322,000

I cannot believe it is already the end of January!  I definitely didn't hit all the goals I wanted, but I did try to get as close as I could.  Let's hope February is a better month to allow good growth!

[juramom]

Very Varied February

8,000 steps 5 days a week

3 gym visits per week for elliptical work out

3 walks of 3 miles or more per week

3 strength training workouts a week

losing 2 lbs in Feb

[Baltoscott]

My Goals for Very Varied are mostly the same as last month (the number at the end is the total times for the month).  Getting the steps every day may be tough -- February is usually our month for big snows.

16K steps/day		__/28
1 pushup + shoulder extension /day		__/28
15 weight-lifting days		__/15
post 3 scavenger pics		__/3
Sleep 6:15 hours + 20 days or more during the month		__/20
1 pull-up		__/28
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days		__/25
Lose 2 lbs. Start _____ (Feb. 1)	2/1

[Ennay]

February Goals.  Possibly to be edited. 

>10K x  24

>11K x 16

>12K x 4

Steps- 310000 - this is a big jump especially in a month with bad weather, but well within what I have been doing recently. 
Measure BP and BG first thing x 20

Take all my vitamins x 20  

My doctor recently became very concerned about my blood sugars, even though it really isn't any different than it has been over the last 10 years.  Not great, not diabetic.   Got tired of a 3 month data point being my only metric to see if the walking and supplements are helping and just bought a meter.  Initial results look pretty good that the walking was already taking care of the issues, there wasn't time to see it.  And the BP is a new thing for me, I spent my whole life being asked if I was feeling faint with BP in the 90/55 range so to have it even slightly high is concerning. And I'll admit a hope that reducing my blood pressure might cure tinnitus, but it isn't really high enough for that to be likely. 

[alexthecat]

Very Varied February 

6,000+ steps 4 days

8,000+ steps 10 days

10,000+ steps 14 days

Weights 8 days

Photo Scavenger Hunt 3 

[stoughjr]

Goals for Feb: 😀

12,000 steps per day:
3 sets of 5 exercises every other day:
Log weight weekly: Lose 5 lb
1 hr of exercise each day:
6.5 hr sleep each day:
Log meals & water daily:
3 pictures:

[NellyG]

1 February

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                       1/20

20 days over 12,000                                          -/20                

14 days over 15,000 steps                               -/14

4 day over 20,000 steps                                     -/4           

Physio exercises 20 days                                  1/20

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym)    -/20

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      -/3

[PureEvil]

My goals for Very Varied February 2021 and Scavenger Hunt are as follows.

10k steps per day	0	/28
13,699 steps per day	0	/18
17k steps per day	0	/11
Activities	0	/7
Photo Scavenger Hunt	0	/3
Full 'Reminders to Move' Days	0	/9

I'll aspire to update more regularly.  Maybe I'll make that one of my goals for next month.

[Jotex]

Very Varied February - Day 1

6,000+ steps:  0/5 days

8,000+ steps:  1/15 days

10,000+ steps: 0/5 days

12,000+ steps: 0/5 days 

Lose ½ kg (starting 1.2.21 at 66.9*): 0/.5 kg

Eat 1 piece of fruit: 0/25 days

Drink ACV drink 30min before meals: 1/25 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics:  0/3 pics

[Baltoscott]

Very Varied Day 1

16K steps/day		1/28
1 pushup + shoulder extension /day		1/28
15 weight-lifting days		1/15
post 3 scavenger pics		__/3
Sleep 6:15 hours + 20 days or more during the month		1/20
1 pull-up		1/28
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days		__/25
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.8 (Feb. 1)	2/1	166.8

Got a bit of snow yesterday and some snow/uce today. May get a bit more tonight. First time in a while that the weather has kept me off my bike and unicycle. But the dogs like it and I still get my steps in with the shoveling walking around the neighborhood. 🙂

[alexthecat]

So far, so good...

6,000+ steps: -/4

8,000+ steps: -/10 days

10,000+ steps: 1/14 days

Weights: 1/8 days

Photo Scavenger Hunt -/3 

[NellyG]

2 February

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                       2/20

20 days over 12,000                                          1/20                

14 days over 15,000 steps                               -/14

4 day over 20,000 steps                                     -/4           

Physio exercises 20 days                                  2/20

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym)    1/20

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      -/3

[SteppingBooks]

Very Varied February 1:

11.5K Steps/Day: --/28

700+ Calorie Deficient/Day: 01/28

IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 01/28

Weights 2x/week: -/8

Stretch 4x/week: --/16

Squats 20/day: --/15

Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3

Total Steps: 7,501/322,000

This snow is going to be the challenge. Shoveling certainly gets me in cardio range, but doesn't necessarily give me the steps I need.  Gonna try to get my step numbers up. 

[Jotex]

Very Varied February - Day 2

6,000+ steps:  0/5 days

8,000+ steps:  2/15 days

10,000+ steps: 0/5 days

12,000+ steps: 0/5 days 

Lose ½ kg (starting 1.2.21 at 66.9*): 0/.5 kg

Eat 1 piece of fruit: 1/25 days

Drink ACV drink 30min before meals: 2/25 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics:  0/3 pics

[Baltoscott]

Very Varied Day 2

16K steps/day		2/28
1 pushup + shoulder extension /day		2/28
15 weight-lifting days		1/15
post 3 scavenger pics		__/3
Sleep 6:15 hours + 20 days or more during the month		1/20
1 pull-up		2/28
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days		1/25
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.8 (Feb. 1)	2/1	166.8

Yay.  The streets are clear enough for short ride. 

[NellyG]

3 February 

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                       3/20

20 days over 12,000                                          2/20                

14 days over 15,000 steps                               -/14

4 day over 20,000 steps                                     -/4           

Physio exercises 20 days                                  3/20

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym)    2/20

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      -/3