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Thread: November Fitness Challenge?
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Japes
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I know I've not lost weight this month at all, but the comments have started up again along the lines of "Have you lost more weight?" and at least two students have commented my T-shirts are too big this week. I have pointed out I don't wear my new smaller T-shirts in the messy working environment I find myself back in.
I think the 7000 aerobic steps part my my challenge has been really helpful, and that those are the most useful walking steps I do, in terms of fitness. I've certainly speeded up. My walk to/from work is now in the 50 minute area, and was an hour when I first started doing it back in January on a once or twice a week basis. Now I walk home most nights, and to work once or twice a week.
I've walked 240.8 miles this month, for those for whom that measurement makes more sense than the grand total of 567832 steps of which 318427 were aerobic. That's according to my spreadsheet which may have a few more steps recorded if I forgot to take the pedometer off when I returned home for the end of the day. Aerobic steps are as recorded here, as once I'm home for the night, I don't walk briskly enough for long enough around the house to get those recording more!
Now, just to get my 2000 miles for the year challenge completed by January 5th, and I will be a most content, if somewhat exhausted by all this walking, Japes. (Currently standing at 1778.9 miles.)
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Cottontail
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Tuesday 29th = 15,800 steps
Wednesday 30th = 11,200 steps
So all done. Good challenge. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by SusanDoris:
Piglet
I'm sorry to disappoint but I think you'll find it is not true that fat turns into muscle. This is of course a very annoying piece of info!
Oh bother. Not that I've been doing anything remotely exercise-ish anyway (although I know I should).
Well done to all of you though - I'm very impressed with all your efforts! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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29th November: 10178 steps
30th November: 12741 steps
Good fun, well done everyone.
Nephew Person has taken to walking with me the last few days - a very different body type and at the beginning of the walk every day I feel I am holding him back but by halfway through roles are reversed - but he still has energy to jog a bit when we are nearly home!
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Huia
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Originally posted by Japes:
Huia, I've been testing that research about exercise after the evening meal out as well. I'd been trying to make all my walking in the week connected to my commuting, and I based my targets of 15,000 steps, with 7,000 aerobic ones around what I did on those walks, with the aim of not giving up on walking to and from work as much as is practical on the dark nights and mornings.
However, it's definitely better for my blood sugars if I do some walking (half an hour to an hour works best for me) once I've eaten in the evening.
Sorry, I've only just caught up with this. I got my best results doing half an hour's outside work after tea, including trying to sweep dirt off the driveway, so I suspect 10 minutes walking may be insufficient for me too, but I will continue to monitor it.
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blackbeard
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Blackbeard reporting in with November's totals which are:
time spent on aerobic exercise 19 h 56 m
and distance covered running/walking (measured on ground) 69 miles.
Blackbeard's crew regard this as a bit unimpressive.
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Fineline
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Wednesday 23rd: 4,812 steps
Thursday 24th: 7,936 steps
Friday 25th: 4,198 steps
Saturday 26th: 8,625 steps
Monday 28th: 16,508 steps
Tuesday 29th: 9,627 steps
Wednesday 30th: 12,585 steps
Total steps for November 2016: 192,003 steps
Slightly less than my goal of 200,000 steps, but I'm happy with it, as it achieved the goal I was aiming at, which was to walk most days, for a moderate amount. On Monday I overdid it a bit and didn't feel too well the next day, but that was the only time in the challenge that this happened.
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To The Pain
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- Nov 30th - 11,172 steps; C25K week 6, run 1
Feels like a very successful Fitness Race for me too - I only missed my step target on 3 occasions and I managed 13 C25K runs, which is only 1 down from completion. I also managed my secret target-I'm-actually-aiming-for-but-not-admitting-to of 7k steps a day 25 days out of 30 and managed to move my average stepcount from 7,826 in October to 9,310 in November.
So my own personal December fitness goals are to make it to 10K steps every day - it's a similar leap to the Oct/Nov change and I won't be at work most of the month so there shouldn't be as much forced sitting - and to continue to do 3 Couch to 5K runs each week. As I'm travelling to a warmer climate I'm not going to commit to them being weeks 7, 8 and 9 though ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Thanks for being Fitness Race buddies everyone, the accountability is really helpful and I love hearing what everyone's been getting up to to achieve their goals!
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Sarasa
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Tuesday - 9,760 steps and 40 minutes in the gym
Wednesday - 11,785 steps.
The gym session which was a session with a personal trainor was the only time in the month where I felt I might have overdone it. I decided yesterday was going to be a lazy day but after racking up a few steps Christmas shopping I decided to take the scenic route to the post office to collect a parcel to get over the 10,000.
I managed my targets mostly. i didn't do a class or swim the week I was on holiday, but as I walked over 20,000 steps on two of the days I was away I think that's a good substitute.
Thanks for suggesting the challenge Yangtzz, I hope to build on it in the coming months. This month I'm going to try and make sure I do 10,000 steps a day.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Fineline:
... Total steps for November 2016: 192,003 steps
Slightly less than my goal of 200,000 steps ...
If November had been a 31-day month, you'd have made it. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Fineline
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Fineline:
... Total steps for November 2016: 192,003 steps
Slightly less than my goal of 200,000 steps ...
If November had been a 31-day month, you'd have made it.
Yes, that's true - I did 10,494 steps on 1 December.
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Polly Plummer
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Well done, everyone. I haven't been joining in, but have been inspired by your achievements, and have requested a fitbit for Christmas to get me going!
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Yangtze
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Sorreeee for going MIA. Real life intervened and this is the first time I've been on the Ship in well over a week. (And it's gone 10pm here and I've only just stopped working.)
I haven't had a chance to read through properly yet but it sounds as if people have been doing good summaries themselves of what they've managed to achieve in the month. If I get a chance later this week I'll do a final sum up.
My own exercise tailed off the last 10 days but this Challenge has been really good for me and I'm really glad so many of you joined me and found it useful. Yay for us, getting out and getting moving.
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SusanDoris
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Yangtze
Thank you very much for starting this thread. I look forward to seeing a summing up of what we have all done. It is a great motivator on a day when there is no actual necessity to do something!
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