If you need inspiration to get back into a physical fitness routine, you should get involved here...
Had a long day playing baseball and commuting home for Easter weekend, so this post is much later than usual.
Daily exercise idea - Medicine Ball Slam
- Abs. Abs. Abs.
- Also hits shoulders.
- Start with knees slightly bent and rock up to toes before throwing.
Example below. Please do your own research to confirm the proper mechanics.
*BONUS TIP - Don't ever do this...
Daily Update:
- 15 Steemians contributed 6,164 daily reps for 3/30/18.
- Welcome new member @cryptoteen with a huge first day of 774 reps.
Overall Summary:
- 320,412 overall by 44 Steemians from 12 countries in 113 workout days.
- I can only upvote so much without exhausting my voting power daily, so please help me reward their effort.
The Challenge:
At least 100 honest reps of exercise every day. No excuses. No bullsh*t. Just actions, positivity, and results. Only post AFTER your reps are done. Always support each other.
- You choose what types of exercise reps to do.
- 30 minutes of fitness walking, running, spinning, biking, cross-country skiing, etc., can count as 100 reps if you need to rest or can't use weights.
- I'll award 1 SBD for every 10,000 rep milestone. (16 SBD paid out)
- I run the numbers daily which is sometimes harder than my reps.
Conditions:
- Weights not required.
- Do real reps with good form, aiming for 100+.
- Start your reply with "Challenge Completed".
- Reply with a list of the exercises and reps you did.
- Cumulative tallies are appreciated as a separate line.
- Only submit reps you've done, not ones you're planning to do.
- Use the tag "fitnesschallenge" on associated posts.
- Upvoting or resteeming is appreciated to reach more.
- Try to upvote as many contributors as possible to motive each other.
Advice:
- Stretch before and after exercise.
- Breathe properly on each rep.
- Quality over quantity.
- Eat a healthy snack after and stay hydrated.
- Start with exercises you enjoy to build up for harder ones.
- Take before pictures to appreciate results over time.
- Feel good about your accomplishments.
My Daily Challenge Completed - 100 reps:
-100 reps from 6 hours of baseball (~7 innings pitched and 7 innings at 2B)
My Daily Assessment:
I felt great swinging at my games today and had tons of bat speed against strong pitchers. I went 4 for 8 ( 4 hits out of 8 at bats) with 3 singles and a double, 2 Runs and 1 RBI. My hands are very fast and strong for swinging from my workouts. I played second base well with several putouts and no errors. My pitching was ok at first for my first outing, but I got shelled in my last inning to ruin all of the fun in that. It was a lot of work for my shoulder early in the season, so I'll be doing light work for the next day or two to recharge. I could definitely feel my conditioning from this challenge help me a lot, as well as give me extra confidence. My legs feel great.
See All Of My Progress Pics After 93 Straight Days & 11,212 Reps
Original Intro Post With My Motivation
@rmsbodybuilding and @steemmatt with attendance of 113/113 days.
Last Daily Rep Count:
1,055 - @faizan07
790 - @thevillan
774 - @cryptoteen (welcome!!)
704 - @wa2qr
600 - @belemo
442 - @gruber.muc
300 - @mgood
257 - @musclegirlfusion
250 - @rj1
248 - @mightpossibly
200 - @rmsbodybuilding
184 - @kellerkulturist (welcome back)
160 - @mudasirfarooq
100 - @bitfiend
100 - @steemmatt
From @musclegirlfusion:
"Since I started posting in this challenge, you've given me a reason to blog on steemit. No matter how discouraged I get when it seems like no one is reading what I write, I know I can write it and post it here and it adds to the challenge. So thank you for giving me the motivation I need to stick with blogging!!"
From @bitfiend:
"After starting 6 days ago I already feel stronger. This is definitely the most consistent exercise I've done in an extremely long time but I am happy to be taking part! While I walk around mostly in pain, I know it's all for a good cause! My health! I am feeling better and I'd say my sickness is mostly gone now. I think that if I had not been exercising, I may have been sick for a bit longer. Persistence pays off!"
From @mightpossibly:
"I find it deeply satisfying to do these reps, which is a big deal. I've always hated the gym and prefer to exercise at home. But I've lacked the discipline to do it. It sort of feels like I have gym buddies now, without the hassle of going to the gym."
From @notorious562:
"I seriously cannot explain how much this group pushes and motivate me to keep working harder. I love this fitness community and the support and encouragement will help us achieve our goals."
From @khufu:
"Your challenge has helped immensely to keep me motivated lately. I've had a lot of... problems going on so your challenge has been a quantum of sanity in an insane world for me."
Please support our hard work and dedication and ask any questions in the comments below.
Please also resteem this new format/replace in your post links if you don't mind to try to get a fresh start on spreading the word on our challenge.
Challenge completed - 740 reps
Another heavy session for me :)
Daily Challenge Completed - 100 reps:
-100 reps from 6 hours of baseball (~7 innings pitched & 7 innings at 2B)
Hello everyone, challenge complete for saturday: 600reps. 100 each of squats, push ups, leg lift, sit ups, bicycle kicks snd ankle touches
Daily Challenge Completed 142 reps
Morning jogging 1 hour hour
Warmup
Treadmill and cycling 30 min each
Pushups 30 chin ups 30
Main workout :
Crunches 120 reps
Reverse crunches 120 reps
Scissors crunches 120 reps
Wiper 4 sets 120 reps
Planks 4 straight 8 sideways 1.5 min each 216 reps.
Total reps 1156 reps
Daily Challenge Complete - 165 reps - I realized why I've been feeling so lazy lately, it's like spring left and winter came back. I was ready for spring and it's back to 12 degrees feels like -1
Challenge completed
Rest day
Push-ups:
50 reps
Pull-ups:
10 reps
Walking:
40min=100reps
IN TOTAL
=150 reps
Daily Challenge completed - 100 reps
40 Minutes Walk - Regeneration
Daily Challenge Completed - 320 reps
Physical
200 reps - Walking 30 minutes X 2; includes down and up elevation of 300 ft
5 reps - pranayama (yogic breathing exercises) 5 min X 2
15 reps - 15 minutes of light dumbells - presses;curls; flies
Mental
100 reps = 1+ hours X 2 Transcendental Meditation and advanced TM-Sidhi (morning and evening)
Challenge completed Total 911 reps
15 min cardio+ 15 min cycling 100 reps
Chinups 48 reps
Chest exercise 380 reps
Push ups 48 reps
Abs exercise 135 reps
(Starting doing abs, how many abs days/ week are sufficient. I don't do abs much, so any advice would be awesome)
In the evening,
1hr walk + 30 mins jog 200 reps
20 min treadmill
20 min cycling
100 high knees
100 jumping jacks
100 squat jumps
Triceps and squats day.
Triceps workout.
3 sets tricep rope press down 60
3 Dumbbell triceps pause reps 30
3 sets dips 36
3 reverse grip triceps pushdowns 60
3tricep pushdowns 60
3tricep kiickback 60
Squats workout.
3 sets barbell squats 45
3 sets leg press 45
5 sets calf 100 reps, different grips
5 sets of abs 100 reps
Total 896 reps
I guess I should try this but only if you follow and upvote me. Joking. I'm probably going to have to start slow.
If we walk a lot for work and have a pedometer how much would that be worth rep wise? I work at it a a big University and Walgreens so get like 10,000 steps when I work at both jobs.
Thanks for asking. I think the reps should come from a focused fitness activity. For your example, while I'd never want to discourage anything, I feel that's walking you're already doing and for a different cause in itself.
Now if you found a way to do sets of push-ups or weightless squats on your shifts, that'd be more in the realm of taking extra steps/making extra effort for the sake of exercise.
Thats a great idea. Motivational post.