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Most of us are here to improve the quality of our lives, so why not do it in the spirit of competition! This will be a challenge against yourself, and of course a challenge to other members of this guild. We are going to track down, assist and motivate each other's progress as we achieve our goals no matter how small or how big it is.

This thread will help summarize each other's progress into a simple format.



This organizes your goal and its progression. This will help others see how you're doing and help you see how others are doing as well. We could then help and motivate each other to achieving our goals.

PM me your info so I can put here on the first page.

Now to our challengers, organized in alphabetical order.





Helpful Links!
Calculator between dates!

We could make a thread with the summarization of our fitness logs, and see how we're improving.

Each person who joins in can have a progress "bar" of sorts. But the details of this would be of course found in their fitness logs/diaries.

Example


At least this way, those participating have to be here at least once a week to tell you or who ever is running the thread what has happened and if they improved.

Do you think we should make some kind of template for the logs as well?
I know not a lot of people are going to be detailed, but at least provide them with skeleton. It could include SMARTer goals or the tables in your How To Get Fit thread in Fitness subforum.

The thread and the skeleton can help organize information. Each one of us can give each other support and information on how much we're improving. If see that a person is coming to plateau then we could give him/her pointers on how to go beyond it and such.

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Ooo very nice.

What would go under the Starting/Update level statistics?

Goal(s): 200lb bench press/ 50lb bicep curl / lose 50lbs of body weight.
Start date: Sept 3, 2007
Finish date: February 3, 2008/ November 3, 2007/ May 3, 2008
Time remaining:
Starting level/statistics: 135lbs / 30lb/ 0lbs lost
Update level/statistics: - / - / -
Progress %: 66% / 6% / 0%:
Comments:
I’m thinking I could improve at the very least 10 lbs per month on bench press and bicep curl. Now losing 10 lbs per month is going to be kind of difficult because I am weight training, thus gaining muscle mass. It’s a side goal. We’ll see how it goes after 5 months.
Link to Fitness Log



Good?
This is basically a summarization of our logs. We could have one thread where we could watch each other and give comments. With the link there, people can look in the fitness log for more details. biggrin

Maybe we could call the thread the BMS Challenge. hehehe.

Anyone? No one? Haha. I actually had this thread say BMI challenge for awhile, not BMS. Haha. Well I'm progressing slowly, except for the losing weight part which was expected. Bulking up does not make you lose weight. I'm getting stronger though, I think. And I've been trying to workout more of my body with new exercises.

My fitness goal is a bit more general, not so specific. All I need is a good fitness level, so I'm estimating what that level needs to be.

Goal(s): Acceptable Fitness for my next Karate Grading/Run 6km/40 pushups on palms, 20 pushups on knuckles, 100 situps
Start date: 19th August
Finish date: Sometime between mid-Nov to mid-Dec (probably mid-Dec)/December 25th/mid-Nov to mid-Dec
Time remaining: 6-10 weeks/12 weeks/6-10 weeks
Starting level/statistics: Weight: 70kg/Running fitness: 500m (3 min)/Pushups (p): 20, Pushups (k): 6, Situps: 20
Update level/statistics: Weight: 68kg/Running fitness: 1500m (9 min)/Pushups (p): 25, Pushups (k): 8, Situps: 40
Progress %: Improving, but not as much as I'd like to
Running: 200%/Pushups (p): 25%, Pushups (k): 30%, Situps: 100%
Comments:
I'm gettting there, but not quickly, I know it takes time, but fitness wise, I get there slowly, strength wise I get there quickly. Rather other way around

Link to Fitness Log

Most I've ever ran non-stop is about 3, maybe 4km. My aim has always been to be able to run around the local lake with out stopping for ages. It's 6km and I've never made it yet. Tried training casually for it twice and haven't got there.

I'm not a runner at all, so it's a goal that will be staying there for a while I think.

Not worried about time at the moment though. Will just be happy to make the distance smile

Knuckle pushups are hard, haven't started them on the floorboards at the dojo yet. All the guys have to, the females don't, but thought I should start. Just doing it on the carpet at the moment for some cushoining.

Bench and bicep is looking good. Bicep might be a little hard, but we'll see. I know I can do 50 lbs, but not perfectly, meaning, my form isn't good. Bench is kind of scary, knowing that if I can bench 200 lbs, I can bench 100 lbs or 45.3 kg each arm.

I'm going to start running, which I just found might be difficult, especially on tuesdays since I'll be spending a lot of my time in school.

I added a Last Update space of the mini goal boxes. Oh yeah I found a site that can calculate the number of days between two dates. biggrin