LIVIN' LARGE: Minimizing yourself and maximizing your life!When you have over 100 pounds to lose it can seem impossible to get started in the right direction.
.RULES v 3.15 for the 1st Annual JPF 61 Day Challenge.
Please read the entire message before replying...
1000 Points are possible in the contest. All participants who last 40 days and/or meet the minimums for each category will receive a T-Shirt.
Nutrition Goal - Adherence to a plan of good nutrition. Note: this should be both healthy and support your goals. When you write out your plan in your log, you should detail what your definition of this will be.
61 Days in 1/2 day increments = 122 un-weighted points
A minimum of 80 points should be achieved.
For ranking within each category % of goal achieved will be used.
For Overall Winner, both % of Goal and Number of points earned will be considered. Determination will be made by a panel of 3 judges.
300 total points are available in this category and will be adjusted to account for 30% of Total Challenge points.
Fitness Goal - You decide number and type of workout per week. These can be Resistance training, Cardio/HIIT, Walking - Dedicated time for exercise and physical activity. Any type of exercise may be used and counted toward your progress. Each type of exercise is weighted for scoring purposes; however all you'll need to record is whether or not you completed a session and/or how many that day.
Resistance Training - [multiplier 2.5]
Intervals - [multiplier 2.5]
SS Cardio/Walking/Group Sports - [multiplier 2.0]
For ranking within each category % of goal achieved will be used.
For Overall Winner, both % of Goal and Number of points earned will be considered. Determination will be made by a panel of 3 judges.
300 Points are available for all Fitness activity. This is 30% of Total Challenge Points.
Personal Goal - Choose your own adventure. Goals might include weight gain, weight loss, body fat %, spending more time with the family, reading a certain number of books, or anything you can imagine. If you want to gain weight, this may be a number of lbs. If you want to lose weight this may be a waist circumference. If you want to spend time with the family, maybe X number of hours per week or a certain night a week. Consistent effort for 61 days is required. No matter what it is. Achieve it!
For setting and reaching your goal, you will earn 300 points, 30% of Total Challenge Points.
Personal Goals may be revised 1x during the course of the challenge but the revision must be approved.
Competitive Goal - Participate in a public event such as a weight lifting meet, strongman competition, walk/run/race, etc. during the 61 days of the Challenge. You may also participate by helping organize, schedule, etc the public event. The event must be fitness related. Many events cost minimally to participate.perhaps $10.00 donated to a worthy cause such as Race for the Cure, etc. If you are having trouble with this one, let me know and I will personally help supply entry fees or find you an event in your area that is free. Also, Competitive Goal Challenges are transferrable. This might sound strange; however in some circumstances achieving this may not be possible. If that is the case and someone else who is participating in the Challenge is willing, they may complete an additional (1) Event for you.
1 event is required.
You cannot earn double points. Points earned in the participation of this event may not also be counted toward SS Cardio, Intervals, or Resistance Training Sessions.
100 points are possible. This is 10% of Total Challenge Points.
Awards determined by Private Message vote by participants for:
"Most Improved"
"The Mahler Award for Motivation"
Challenge Awards for:
Overall Winner - He/She with the most points / compliance wins.
Nutrition
Fitness
I already have some great prizes lined up from JP, Leigh P, John Izzo, Alan Aragon, Mike Roussell, Jonathan Fass. While these are not the focus of the Challenge, they are a nice extra at the end.
This thread will be locked on June 1 @ 2359 hrs Central Standard Time.
Before joining, create your Challenge Journal Thread and provide a link in your sign-up message. The links will be compiled and listed in a single thread for everyone to see together. If you already have a log in the Training Log subforum you may continue to use it just keep track of your Challenge plans, goals, progress there. Challenge participants should check in and post their progress at least 1x/week. Monday will be the Official Check In Day. More check-ins are better but we understand if you can only check in once per week. The official Challenge check-in thread will be called Thorns and Roses. This is a Cliff Notes version of your week. You should still use your log/journal for routine postings.
Good Luck Everyone.
Newman
P.S.> If any changes need to be made to the rules, let me know via PM an we can either make modification or begin discussion in the other thread.
__________________
"Branch chainz, bro. Leucine in the sky with diamonds." - Alan Aragon
Now is the time to be planning for your Challenge!
Have you designed or picked out a training program?
Do you have a plan for your Nutrition?
Have you thought about what your Personal Goal might be?
I already know some of you are looking at the Competition Goal and that is Rowdy Awesome.
Feel free to ask us any questions you might have. We want you to be successful. Wait, let me say this again for emphasis WE WANT YOU TO BE SUCCESSFUL!
If you are participating in the Challenge and need a nutrition plan and you are looking for something lower carb - a real meat and veggies kind of program with some variation about halfway through the Challenge - Send Adam Campbell a private message and he will light a fire under you in the form of TNT. By the way, Adam doesn't bite. Don't be afraid to send him a message
Newman
__________________
"Branch chainz, bro. Leucine in the sky with diamonds." - Alan Aragon
I will give this a try. I am moving from my home in ten days so there will be a little turmoil. Since I will be working out in a gym, I will probably go all the way back to the Testosterone Advantage Plan since that works nicely in a gym. For nutrition, I will adhere to a mix of TA and Adam's Diet. As for cardio, 1/2 hour each day of treadmill walking or road walking would be good. I don't know of an activity as of yet. i am sort of reluctant to get involved with a public walk and, at this point, a race is out of the question. I need something to get my spirits up so this just might be it.
My log is: Diary of a Small Planet which is on this site.
Nice goals for me would be to lose 20 lbs in two months. That's ambitious for me, but I need something to reach for and to get my blood sugar levels back down to normal as the stress in my life lately has pushed them up.
Nutrition: 102/122 is close to 85% for a nice solid B.
I am so excited and happy that I found this challenge! (Thanks Paula!) You guys just don't even know how badly I need a kick in the rear to get back going again and this is just the thing
Here's my semi plan:
My goal is to be in a size 12 by the end of this challenge. I don't want to focus on weight b/c the scale really hasn't moved much for me lately but my clothing size has and I really want to get out of using this as a tool to track weight loss. It seems to hinder me more than help me nowadays. Right now I am in a 14 so that gives me ample time to reach my goal. I realize I could shoot higher and try to get into a 10 but my weight loss has slowed alot since I lost the majority of my weight last year.
For nutirition, I really just want to focus on eating on plan 100% everyday. Logging what my plan is, and sticking to it. My main problem is giving in when temptation arrises so this is something I definitly need to shoot for with my diet. I have a diet plan coming from Adam Campbell and I'm very excited about that.
Now, for the fun part....Hehehe...The workouts! I want to do a lifting split 4 days a week, I'm currently on a 3 day one but I want to go back to 4 days. Cardio will be 2 or 3 spin classes a week with the other 2 or 3 days being filled in with either HIIT or ss. No more than 1 ss day a week tho and I could easily replace that with "playing outside" like hiking or swimming. That's my plan! I will weigh in and take measurements on the 1st and (hopefully) get some pictures up for you guys in the near future. I'm a little challenged when it comes to pictures.
I am not making a training log in the training forum, I have decided to restart my blog and re-use it for my training journal. If you wish I will make a training log but I just find this easier. My goals are posted as my first blog entry. It can be found here.
__________________ Beginning is Easy - Continuing is Hard
猿も木から落ちる Even monkeys fall from trees
- Japanese Proverb
Well, I'm in. My log is in my sig. I haven't yet firgured out my goals, I'll do that sometime before the end of this weekend, hopefully. At the moment the stumbling block is just that at the moment I lift if I feel I can, otherwise I cardio... so making up the plan to differentiate the two rather than just "work out" is gonna take my thinking cap and I'm too lazy today to do that.
I'll post it all in my log when I come up with it.
I have created my training log thread and have listed my goals. I will probably only post there on Monday's to check in as I already have a blog where I am posting my training.
Goals:
3x Weight training Sessions
2x Energy System Sessions
Maintain weight for 30 days
Gain weight for 31 days
Eating compliance x5 days a week (3,500cal roughly 60/20/20 carb/fat/p)
I'm in, if you'll have me. I'll just use the log I kind of abandoned last month The Road to Thermopylae .
__________________ 'I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ' ~Frank Sinatra
WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher,
smarter, faster and better looking than most people.
I would love to join in, but instead will just be following along ... in 3 weeks we will be leaving for the majority of the summer, and I do not have internet access where I am going (GASP!! How will I survive?!) ... so it would be too difficult to compete when I can't post!!
Best of luck to everyone though ... and I'll be watching!!
__________________
Life's a Journey ... Enjoy the Ride!
This is going to be great! Although life is going to be crazy 'round here for the next 4-5 weeks (read: limited computer time) I should not have a problem getting on at least once a day to check in and update my progress.
__________________ "Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."
~ Alfred A. Montapert ~
Welcome Vanessa. I moved your post to here. I have been trying to clean things up a bit.. you know do a bit of housekeeping. We are almost finished with the final draft of the rules and I think you'll like it.
I am noticing we have several folks from Oxygen here. It is great to have you all. Start up a Journal and lets get to work. Let us know what your plans for each area are. Don't worry about points/blocks etc right now. We'll have the ironed out tonight and you can modify if necessary.
Newman
__________________
"Branch chainz, bro. Leucine in the sky with diamonds." - Alan Aragon
Welcome Vanessa. I moved your post to here. I have been trying to clean things up a bit.. you know do a bit of housekeeping. We are almost finished with the final draft of the rules and I think you'll like it.
I am noticing we have several folks from Oxygen here. It is great to have you all. Start up a Journal and lets get to work. Let us know what your plans for each area are. Don't worry about points/blocks etc right now. We'll have the ironed out tonight and you can modify if necessary.
Eating
61 days, which would be 122 - 1/2 day eating blocks
I plan to eat according to plan 115 of those half days, at least.
My definition of on plan is mainly on calories 1500-1700, but going over is still ok if everything that day is very clean... if it's marginal, I don't call it compliant.
A non-compliant meal means one half-day gone, but it will still be a single meal or general feeding time. If it's 2 in a row (or not in a row, just saying, not a am/pm thing, it's per meal), then that's one whole day I consider non-clean... 2 half-days gone.
My clean definition is:
-Doesn't fall into the normal catagory of "candy"
-Isn't usually considered a dessert food.
-Isn't a usual junkfood high-sugar item.
-Isn't your usual high-fat junkfood (most aren't a problem for me) like fries or "normal" pizza.
-Contains some protein
I can't tell anymore if this is clear. Suffice it to say I'm moderately strict on cleanliness. I don't eat meat, I consider anythign suggary or greasy to be bad, and I try to control my starches so that I don't just eat crackers all day. I need to focus on getting in some protein, sometimes I forget or get too lazy.
Workouts
As this still appears to be in flux, I'll state the number of times I plan on working out.
At least 25 lifts and 30 cardios. All will be at least 15 minutes, but some may or may not be 30, rarely will I have a single lift or cardio that is more than 30 minutes long. I may take spin classes that do that, but that is likely the only time, during some class.
(I keep my lifts short and my body doesn't like long cardio, it bothers my hips and knees.)
Now, these numbers are likely to be higher. However, at the moment that gives me a workout a day with 6 days off. I often end up tagging a cardio session on after a lift, but it's not guaranteed, so I don't think I'll count it. Overall, I think it'll average out to these number of days, since I'll need a rest day here and there, as well as likely a rest week somewhere before August.
Competition
Well, there's a couple 5ks going on around here in the next month or 2, and there's a sprint tri that Otto has been planning on doing that we may just end up relaying in... so I will get in at least one of something. More, no idea. Not shooting for it. I understand the reasoning, I agree, but overall I don't like people, and there always seems to be a lot of them at these things, so I don't plan on seeking more than one out.
Personal Goal
I have a few. They pertain to getting myself organized and my life in order. It especially involves the mantra "I can't do everything at once. Even items of the same importance must be tackled one at a time."
So, to that end:
-Read Getting Things Done by David Allen
-Keep our accounts and budget up-to-date and do weekly reviews of them to ensure this is the case.
-Finish the workout/eating/whateverelse planner pages for Otto, and then get them posted so that they can be useful to others.
-Spend an average of 30 minutes (min) a day dealing with organization stuff until everything is in order, then spend that time keeping the system going.
-Spend an average of 60 minutes a day (again, minimum) working on my non-graphic/computer art.
-Complete memorial container for our cat Mousie.
-Read Marie deFrance's Lais.
-Have up a respectable website by july 31, even if it means all myself.
-At least 20 days of shoulder rehab
After much reworking, here is a spreadsheet to help you all track goals.
It is pretty similar to what the 52dc sheets looked like because I feel they worked well.
If you find anything broken, or have trouble opening it, please let me know.
The sheet is locked so prevent accidentally screwing formulas up. the password is 61day if you wish to change something.
If you have any ideas for improvement let me know that as well.
Thanks,
Keith
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
Welcome to the Challenge KiiKii, OldGuy and LD. You have been added to the list.... KiiKii, in post #26 above is a link to a spreadsheet you can download. This will be especially useful during the challenge.
Newman
__________________
"Branch chainz, bro. Leucine in the sky with diamonds." - Alan Aragon
61 Day Challenge Official Rules & Signup
Linear Mode
