November 2020 Add 'em up Goals & Habits Challenge ~Join us!
Come join us in setting and achieving goals to promote your overall wellness! We are a friendly and welcoming group who love to chat when we have time, but please also feel free to join us if you want to just focus on your goals. No pressure here to address everyone; share as little or as much as you want!
We have been doing this challenge for many years now. While it is not strictly about fitness goals, we agree that our daily life goals work together with our fitness goals to make us happier and more balanced, so we combine them in this challenge. Feel free to join us! You can tailor it to your schedule if you need to take a week off for vacation or only count so many days. Whatever works for you! Premise: Choose your goals for the month. Every time you complete a goal you get a point. Multiply your number of daily goals by the number of days in the month. This is your max total points. If you choose, reward yourself for reaching a certain percentage of your max possible (I use 90% for my personal goal), multiply by your max to get your total goal points. I also give myself extra credit options. **Take this challenge however you wish. I used to total my points all the time but have fallen away from that and now just track my goals. There really are no rules, your challenge is your own, we're just here for support and to help each other with accountability. We would love to have you join us! |
With turning 45 this month I would really like to shake things up and make some changes in my life but I'm struggling to find confidence in myself that I can actually do it.
Vannie's November Goals Mindfulness. Planning. Commitment. Discipline. Consistency. 1. Up by 6:00 AM on weekdays (EC: 1 pt for getting up as soon as first alarm goes off) 2. In bed by 10:30 PM (EC: 1 pt per 15 minutes early) 3. Post on the forum at least 4 days/week 4. Watch church on Sundays I'm home or later in the week if I'm not 5. Stop eating by 9:45 PM (EC for brushing teeth then instead of waiting till bedtime) 6. Protein for breakfast 5x/week 7. No seconds at supper 5x/week 8. Eat veggies daily 9. Train Cyric at least 5 days/week 10. DHR Rowvember challenge (daily) 11. Strength training 3 days/week 12. Yoga/stretch 5 days/week 13. Pilates 3 days/week 14. Lower body rehab 5 days/week 15. Jump rope 2 days/week 16. Meet weekly minutes goal (10 pts) (EC available: 1 pt per 30 minutes over) Extra credit: 1. 7 hours of sleep (10 pts) 2. 20000 steps 3. New workout done 4. Walk/run total 4 miles with Cyric in a day 5. Complete all tasks on daily to do list Max possible points: ( avg pts/day) Points goal (90%): ( avg pts/day) Reward: personal satisfaction! |
Pilates by Lisa
Drink Water Noom Post Work out Bonus PBL 5 minutes more Stay under personal budget 1 - Two Week Turn Around Upper and Lower + Stretch 2 - Two Week Turn Around Power Walk 3 - Two Week Turn Around Total Body + Stretch 4 - Two Week Turnaround Interval Walk 5 6 - PBL Standing Stretch 7 - Lake Como Upper Body 8 9 - PBL Hips, Butt and Thighs 10 - PBL Every Day Arms 11 12 - PBL Side Lying Legs 13 - PBL Target Your Trouble Zone Arms and Back 14 - PBL Standing Stretch 15 - PBL Skinny Sculpt 16 - PBL Slimming Stretch 17 - Callanetics 18 - Callanetics 19 - Callanetics 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 |
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Welcome, Mell! It's nice to have you join us! :)
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Hi Mell! I'm glad you are joining us.
November???! How did that happen??!!! |
I have always loved Halloween and have very fond memories of trick or treating as kids. We lived on a farm in the country so Mom would drive us into the town where we went to church and we would go to houses there since we knew almost everyone. I think most years we then went the few miles to the town where we got groceries and any other shopping and would stop at my grandparents' house and my great grandma's when she was alive plus the stores. Maybe those memories are part of why I love Halloween so much. Going through my mom's stuff I found one of my very favorite books as a kid, which is called Trick or Treat. We had looked for it before, thinking it was with our stuff but it actually was with her school stuff. I'm so happy to have found it! I plan to read it today since I was too caught up in movies and stuff yesterday.
I have all sorts of thoughts in my head for the month but never got an actual plan laid out so I will be doing that today. I did sign up for Rowvember and got the first workout email today. I was hoping they would be YouTube workouts but they are just written. Fortunately today's is for time. I don't have a monitor on my cheap rower so if he starts doing them for distance it won't be as easy since I'll have to find a way to guesstimate. I sat outside last night for the trick or treating, about 2 hours (usually more like 3 hours). The temp wasn't too bad but wind was over 20 mph so it was still pretty cold. I ended up having to pop into the house for gloves and then for a blanket and then to swap my sneakers for boots. I had talked to a neighbor and she said they and some others were sitting outside just figuring it would have some less covid risk. I had enough candy for about twice as many kids (ended up with about 140 kids, compared to 220 last year) so we have a lot left. I made myself feel kinda rotten last night from eating so much. I made popcorn to go with my movie so I hate to think how much more candy I would have eaten without that! It was ridiculous, I really was bad as a kid. I have separated out some candy for myself so that hopefully it will help me control myself. Everything is going in the freezer so it won't stare us in the face till it's gone. By having my stash the hope is that I will use it wisely and not feel like I have to eat some NOW before hubby eats it all. I hope this works bc I am at my highest weight and feeling very discouraged about it. My 80yo great uncle is in the hospital with double pneumonia and his covid test came back positive yesterday. They are treating him with steroids and breathing treatments and he says he is feeling some better. His son has it, daughter-in-law is sick but supposedly negative, daughter tested positive but is asymptomatic. A friend of mine found out her whole family has covid. I wish a magic wand could return us to the way life was in 2019. Well, I wish for a better world than that, but this one is particularly rotten. |
Three strength workouts per week
Yoga once a week Cardio three times a week, including my exercise bike Eat more fruits and vegetables and less sweets Stop reading the news on my phone I guess I can post my workouts here too, along with the Jessica Smith thread. 1 Rest day 2 Strictly Strength workout from Jessica Smith Get Strong dvd 3 Two hours of walking at Goodwills 4 JS You Tube Back Friendly Strength workout and some house cleaning 5 No workout. Two hours of my volunteer filing 6 Jillian Michael's No More Trouble Zones 7 Rest day 8 40 minutes on exercise bike 9 JS You Tube 20 Minute Back Friendly Strength workout and 8 Minute Total Body Sculpt Express 10 Lots of walking around Goodwill and Costco. 11 JS Walk Strong 2 Total Body 12 Exercise bike 13 Rest Day 14 JS You Tube workout, Total Body Standing Strength 15 JS 21 Day dvd Low Impact HIIT 16 You Tube workout from Five Parks Yoga, Yoga with Weights 17 Walking 18 Premix 1 from KCM dvd 19 Riding on exercise bike 20 JS You Tube 20 Minute Back Friendly Strength Workout 21 Rest day 22 Rest day 23 JS Strictly Strength from the Get Strong dvd 24 Walking 25 10MS Amy Bento Tone Trouble Zones-Upper, Lower and Total body 26 JS Fall Back Into Fitness Stretch on you tube 27 Exhale Core Fusion Body Sculpt 28 Flat Belly Workout with Ellen Barrett 29 JS 15 Minute Yoga from Fusion Fix 30 Rest Day And I'm done! |
Vannie, I'm sorry to hear about your uncle, and that's good he is feeling better. I hope the families recover soon.
That's great you found your Trick or Treat book. Something positive is always good. We didn't get any trick or treaters this year, but I usually only get around six anyway. I guess our area doesn't have a lot of kids, plus we're surrounded by more expensive homes. Kids probably think there is better luck elsewhere, lol. |
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