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Old 12-21-20, 02:38 AM  
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January 2021 Add 'em up Goals & Habits Challenge ~Join us!

It's a new year and a clean slate! Let's do our best to put 2020 behind us but retain the lessons it has taught us. Embrace 2021 with that newfound knowledge about yourself, your loved ones and your community. May we go forth and share compassion with all who need it, including ourselves because we are worth it!

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!
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Old 12-21-20, 02:39 AM  
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If you are joining us for the first time and are wondering what our check-in is like, here is a link to December's thread.

http://videofitness.com/~vfwnk/forum...d.php?t=229860
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"No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch."
"God, please help me to be the person my dog thinks I am."
"You can't run from your problems. But you'll both feel a little lighter when you get back." ~New Balance shoe ad
You don't have to be fast, just keep moving forward.
Note to self: You don't get to complain about things you won't work to change!

Word for 2024: Accomplished; Word for 2023: Grounded; Word for 2022: Consistency; Word for 2021: Mindfulness
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Old 12-21-20, 02:41 AM  
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Vannie's January Goals

Mindfulness. Planning. Commitment. Discipline. Consistency.

1. Up by 7:00 AM every day
2. In bed by 11:00 PM (EC: 1 pt per 15 minutes early)
3. Post on forum 4 days/week
4. Watch church each week (10 pts)
5. Household chore 5 days/week (dishes doesn't count)
6. Stay within calorie allowance on MyFitnessPal
7. Train Cyric at least 5 days/week
8. Write in memories journal daily
9. Strength training 3 days/week
10. Yoga 5 days/week
11. 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

Non-routine household tasks for January: clean bathroom ceiling and window sills/casings

Max possible points: 290 (10.4 avg pts/day)
Points goal (90%): 261 (9.3 avg pts/day)
Reward: personal satisfaction!

Jan 1-3 pts (out of avg ) ~ % not counting till Monday
Jan 4-10 50 pts (out of avg 72.5) ~ 69%
Jan 11-17 pts (out of avg 72.5) ~ %
Jan 18-24 pts (out of avg 72.5) ~ %
Jan 25-31 pts (out of avg 72.5) ~ %


total for the month: /290 ~ %
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"No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch."
"God, please help me to be the person my dog thinks I am."
"You can't run from your problems. But you'll both feel a little lighter when you get back." ~New Balance shoe ad
You don't have to be fast, just keep moving forward.
Note to self: You don't get to complain about things you won't work to change!

Word for 2024: Accomplished; Word for 2023: Grounded; Word for 2022: Consistency; Word for 2021: Mindfulness
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Old 12-21-20, 05:39 PM  
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Three days of Strength workouts
Two days of Cardio
One longer stretch workout
Eat more veggies and fruits
Eat less sweets
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Old 12-21-20, 06:53 PM  
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Drink 64 oz of water
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Barre, pilates, and callanetics (Until the new Jessica Smith comes out)
Weigh every day

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Hip Rx
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Old 12-22-20, 10:28 AM  
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Katie's January Goals:

Daily for 1 pt each except #6.:
1. supplements/vitamins
2. Daily Devotion
3. walk, dvd, or youtube.
4. Keep up with Daily Exercise Chart
5. Declutter or Operation Dust Bunny
6. Reduce youtube exercise playlist down to 170 clips minimum-25 points

Extra credit:
1. additional walk, dvd, or youtube clip. 1 pt
2. massage 1 pt

Total Points Available: 180 Goal: 162

Total Week One: 42

Total Week Two: 36 pts

Total Week Three: 37 pts

Total Week Four: 70 pts Overall Total: 185 pts
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Old 12-22-20, 03:45 PM  
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I need to do this ... My goal is to do 4 sessions of some activity every day. It can be as short as 15 minutes, but I need to get up & away from the computer. My life has become too sedentary.
1. 1st thing in the morning: Active and/or Strengthening Yoga
2. Lunchtime/afternoon: Walk/Hike or AWT or Traditional Strength
3. Evening, especially If bad weather, and I'm stuck inside all day: Cardio or AWT
4. Before bed: relaxing Yoga

I realize this thread is for January but am starting now, as I have off for the next week, and I need to start new habits ...

Tuesday, Dec 22
1. Movement for Modern Life: The Strength Challenge - #2 / Hit the Wall Hatha
2. KCB Build & Burn Kettlebell Kickbox (one of my very favorite workouts)
3. 2 loops at the local park (~2mi)
4.Do Yoga With Me: Basics & Beyond Challenge #6 / Forward Folds

Wednesday, Dec 23
1. Movement for Modern Life: The Strength Challenge - #3 / All About Your Core
2. 1.25 hr hike (hilly; new hiking boots - heavy)
3. ^
4. Do Yoga With Me: Basics & Beyond Challenge - #7 / final class in the series

Thursday, Dec 24
1. Movement for Modern Life: The Strength Challenge - #4 / Create A Steady & Strong Foundation, Zephyr Wildman
2. Walk 2 mi - local park (all the regulars were there, getting in our walk before the bad weather came in)
3. Strength workout
4. Do Yoga With Me: New series; Fundamentals of Practice with Rachel Scott - #1

Friday, Dec 25
1. Yoga; Easy sequences Do Yoga With Me - Helen Camisa
2. Walk 2 mi - local park (as temps dropped from the 50s to the 30s!)
3. Mid-day: n/a Acceptable Exception for Christmas Day
4. Yoga: Do Yoga With Me / Gentle Yoga for Reducing Anxiety- Melissa Krieger

Saturday, Dec 26
1. Movement for Modern Life: The StrengthChallenge - #6 / Glute & Core Strength
2.Walk 2 mi - local park
3. Lots of home care chores
4. Do Yoga With Me / Twist & Stretch

Sunday, Dec 27
1. Movement for Modern Life: The Strength Challenge - #5 / Astanga (slow flow, for beginners)
2. Several hours of vigorous home care chores
3. Walk 1 mile - local park #2
4. DYWM - Bedtime Lullaby, Rachel Scott

Monday, Dec 28
1. MFML: Back to the Mat Challenge - #1 / Top of the Morning Hatha, Zephyr Wildman + MFML: The Strength Challenge - #7 / Abdominal Conditioning Workout, Andrew McGonigle
2. Walk 2 mi, local park #1. An easy stroll.
3. N/A Emergency home repairs. Contractors in & out of the house all day ...
4. DYWM: Hatha Yoga for Better Sleep, Melissa Krieger

Tuesday, Dec 29 - A Work Day (can I keep these new habits going?)
1. Yoga (several short sequences strung together)
2. Strength training thru out the day. Took breaks from the computer. Each break: 2 sets of 2 exercises.
3. Walk 2 mi local park #1. Starting some interval bursts. Today 4x [:30/4:00]
4. A short bedtime yoga sequence.

Wednesday, Dec 30
1. Yoga - MFML: Gentle Floor Flow, Zephyr Wildman
2. Walk - 1 mile, local park #2
3. N/a - just could not get motivated
4. Yoga - MFML Sleep Series

Thursday, Dec 31 (A Work Day)
1. Yoga - MFML: Stoking the Fire, Joo Teoh
2. Strength exercises throughout the day
3.No motivation to do any activity once I got off work ...
4. Yoga: on my own

Friday, Jan 1
1. Yoga - started MFML: 2021 Grounding & Strength series. #1 / A Full-Body Flow for Beginners, Melissa Krieger
2. Walk 2 mi. Local park #1. With bursts 4x[:35/4:00]
3. started KCM Jan 2021 rotation: Cardio Pump Interval Pump remix
4. Gentle Yoga: Jane Adams / Evening Practice
This looks like a good active day, but actually I sat the entire rest of the day. The only time I was up & about was when I did those 4 bursts of activity ...

Saturday, Jan 2 (A PARTIAL WORK DAY)
1. Day 2 of MFML: 2021 Grounding & Strength series #2/ Beginning Flow, Guy Friswell
2. Long walk (3 mi)
3. KCMCardio Sculpt Overload Low Impact and Box premix
4. Yoga Zone: Gentle Yoga (DVD)

Sunday, Jan 3
1. Morning Yoga =MFML: 2021 Grounding & Strength series #3 / The Fundamentals of Standing Poses, Rachel Scott
2. Walk, 1 mi. Local park #2
3. KCM Split Sessions Upper Body
4. Evening Yoga = DVD - Molly Fox: Stretches & Relaxes

Monday, Jan 4
1. Morning Yoga =MFML: 2021 Grounding & Strength series #4 / Do Your Best, Guy Friswell
2. Hike 2-3 miles at local state park.
3. KCM Build and Burn Cardio Core
4. PM Yoga = DVD: Body Wisdom, Barbara Benaugh. Breathing exercises, just a few poses. Then, DVD Yoga for Surfers, Vol 1, post-surf session.
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Old 12-22-20, 04:07 PM  
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Welcome, FirmDancer! Happy to meet a new check in buddy!
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"God, please help me to be the person my dog thinks I am."
"You can't run from your problems. But you'll both feel a little lighter when you get back." ~New Balance shoe ad
You don't have to be fast, just keep moving forward.
Note to self: You don't get to complain about things you won't work to change!

Word for 2024: Accomplished; Word for 2023: Grounded; Word for 2022: Consistency; Word for 2021: Mindfulness
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Old 12-23-20, 07:00 AM  
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Welcome, FirmDancer! Happy to meet a new check in buddy!
Thank you! & on the Solstice Sadhana check-in. I tend to fade away during check-ins, but I like seeing a list get filled in so hopefully that will motivate me to stick with it.

-Anita
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Old 12-23-20, 11:54 AM  
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Hi Firm Dancer! We're happy to have you.
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