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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.
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4 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 4/20
20 days over 12,000 3/20
14 days over 15,000 steps 1/14
4 day over 20,000 steps 1/4
Physio exercises 20 days 4/20
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym) 5/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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5 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 5/20
20 days over 12,000 4/20
14 days over 15,000 steps 2/14
4 day over 20,000 steps 1/4
Physio exercises 20 days 5/20
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym) 7/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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Very Varied Day 5
| 16K steps/day | 5/28 | |
1 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 5/28 | |
15 weight-lifting days | 3/15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 1/3 | |
Sleep 6:15 hours + 20 days or more during the month | 4/20 | |
1 pull-up | 5/28 | |
| Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | 4/25 | |
| Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.8 (Feb. 1) | 2/1 | 166.8 |
Sigh ... I've been trying to upload a set of three pics but keep getting an html error of some sort. Finally managed to get it to accept one, but now Fitbit says I've reached my upload limit for 24 hours, so I'll try to edit this later.
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6 February
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 6/20
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 6/20
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance, gym) 7/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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