How about a Challenge?

[Qivalon]

Bottom line. Set Goals, Develop a plan, Implement Plan, Evaluate, Get Results. Have fun in the process. Share as a community on a different level then we have been in awhile. Help your fellow forumite during the challenge.

Count me in!

As things stand right now my goals are:

To get my weight down to 180, according to my cheesy Walmart special bathroom scale I am 200 pounds as of this moment (I am including clothes)

To squat 120 pounds (my knees don't work so currently I am squatting 90 pounds)

Traveling lunges are a pain (literally), but I want to get at least one set of ten without the help of a ballerina bar equivalent.

10 wide grip pulls ups would be really nice!

And finally to bench press 120 pounds too.

Jim~

[SpacecityPaula]

Is it okay to use measurements/weight from yesterday as starting point???

I won't have time on Friday to do measurements again.

[RacerBill]

Originally Posted by Lost Dog

You guys are a laugh riot.

I'm still coming up with my goals.

Mobility and stretching are my biggest issues. I warm up okay, but I don't work on my long term issues as often as I should. That will be a big one for me. I don't want my shoulder to haunt me, and I'd like to get my regular DL up close to my Sumo DL. Squatting even half of my DL would be nice...

That's one of the things I was thinking about.

Right now most of my exercise time is mobility training. Can we add that to the list of exercise options?

I'm really eager to participate in the challenge, but I have one problem: I'll be taking a two week road trip/vacation in July, staying with various friends and relatives. I can usually get away with passing on dessert, but I'll be a good guest and eat what they cook for me. I guess there will be quite a few half-day blocks missing.

Also, my online access will probably be sporadic then.

[James Newman]

Keith and Roland.... can you help me come up with a scoring system that will remain fair but allow for any type of physical activity?

Similar in simplicity to the Clean Eating idea??

[SpacecityPaula]

okay my plan is posted

Making the Fat Cells Scream (A.K.A. Planning the Work and Working the Plan)

[Ogedei]

James,

Are we trying to come up with a system that allowes us to compete against our goals, or one that allows us to compete against others?

Just for a clarification.

[James Newman]

Actually both... a dual-fold plan.. reason being many will do well competing with just themselves. A good many others and to an extent even those in the first category do well competing against others. In general, I would say that most people are competitive in nature..even to the extent that those who would say they are non-competitive are competetive in their attempt to be less competetive than someone else.

Newman

[Bill2380]

I've been buried at work and with a home improvement project from hell and realize I haven't worked out in a month, so count me in.

[What The Mind Can See]

I'm in.

Will post my training log as soon as there is a format (scoring system) to follow.

[LisaS]

I'm in - as soon as I work out my plan I'll put it in my training log - see link in my signature.

[Aoife]

I don't personally find it all that confusing. The idea of the eating thing is more like "well, people eat anywhere from 3-7 meals a day. so split the day roughly in half, from and if you have a luxurious lunch, don't throw in the towel at dinner also. That way it doesn't matter how many meals you have... it's more of a "don't let one meal/snack ruin the rest of your day/week/life" kind of thing.

*shrug*

All in all I think it's ok. It's certainly not going to be 100% perfect spot on for everyone... we have people who are all over the map with regard to their fitness levels and goals. Some people can barely manage walking a mile, others can run marathons. There has to be some sort of compromise... I think this is a good in-between spot. There's still the ability for someone who's not in perfect shape to compete with the near-pros (and pros), but more importantly it sets ranges and catagories easier for people to compete with people of like ability.

[Lost Dog]

I'm thinkin' Newman. Just way busy.

[SpacecityPaula]

I'm with Aoife (how do you say your name please????)

I didn't think the way the blocks were that confusing. I didn't put block counts on my goals because y'all haven't finalized anything.

[Lost Dog]

The world is divided into two types of people. Those who get the blocks and those who don't.

[LisaS]

for the record, I have no problem with the blocks - I had an Ochem professor who used a much more complicated grading scheme -

[James Newman]

lol, I feel like blocks could be likened to British Comedy...its either hit or miss.
I could certainly make it more complicated that is without doubt.

I am percolating on the idea of just taking minutes spent in dedicated physical activity and assign it a multiplier ; similar to what Sign suggested...

Something like...

Weights minutes x 1.25
Walking minutes x 1.10
Intervals minutes x 1.20
Swimming minutes x 1.15

etc, etc.....

[Lost Dog]

I'm thinking more along the lines of simple compliance with your workout plan. You do your plan, you get your points for the day.

We've got different philosophies in play around here. Very low calories and you do fewer workouts (Get Shredded Diet paired with 10x3 For Fat Loss, for instance) vs. someone full bore on Precision Nutrition and really using G-Flux to their advantage (PN for food and 3 lifting, 2 HIIT, and 3 cardio workouts in the week, plus all the extra walking, etc. that they are encouraged to do).

Nutrition, too. 61 days times your percentage of compliance (over a week), in points.

Personal Goals would also include the "event." Harder to put into numbers, since this part is more subjective.

40/40/20% weighting, I think. After all, this is a fitness forum, so I'd like to slant toward fitness and nutrition sides.