Ok...here we go. A new month....a new year. Time to get off our collective butts and push ourselves a little bit. This isn't about weight loss so much as it's about living/breathing/moving more...feeling better....improving the quality of our life through fitness. Not to mention pushing ourselves to do a little more than we thought we could.

As always....set a goal for yourself. Something that you know will be challenging. State what your goal is....then come back every chance you get to update your progress.

Make your goal something specific and measurable. XXX miles walking/running/cycling/ellipticing/swimming/crossfitting/weightlifting. Or XXX hours working out this month.....XXX times going to the gym this month....whatever you want.

Here's mine....120 miles running and 12,000 meters swimming. Plus I'm doing the pull up challenge every other day, hoping to work my way up to being able to do a pull up sometime soon.

Everybody join in. This is a new year. Exercise and fitness will make you feel better, help you sleep, speed up your metabolism, increase our strength and stamina, lengthen your life....and make you look better naked. Face it, we could all use that.

Edited January 1, 201412 yr by Butterthebean

I am committing to 100 miles of activity. This can be from walking, stationary bike, spin bike or road bike If gamegirl starts her ab crunch challenge again I will participate in it.

Edited January 1, 201412 yr by ribearty

Committing to 6 days a week...it is working!

I started the ab crunch and planking challenges again here:

http://www.bariatric...king-challenge/

http://www.bariatric...unch-challenge/

I felt a little weird starting these because I actually didn't finish either last month, but then I decided I could still be supportive of others wanting to do it, and who knows, perhaps all of you will inspire me again as you've done before.

My goals this month are modest:

1. Walk or bike 55 miles

2. Take my very painful shot once a week and do all I can in medication and exercise moderation to have NO flare ups (not a fitness goal but related since overdoing it causes flares for me and I'm avoiding the shots since they fricking hurt so dang much)

3. Plank and crunch at least 3 times a week

Doing the pull up challenge, doing the 30 burpees a day challenge and continuing to increase my HIIT training.

I am doing the pull-up challenge (for me, to do 50 unbroken) and 5 days a week of cross fit training (3 days on, 1 day off). I am tempted to do some light running on rest days (5k-30 m or 10k-60m), but want to be careful about not pushing too much without rest. I will not be trying to elevate my heart rate into cardio zone if I do it. Nice and easy running. Yeah, like a massage.

Got my 80 minutes in this morning; that feels good. It's very sunny here today with freezing temps. True Winter Wonderland. Considering getting a friend to walk with me at a nearby lake. My goal is to seek out additional exercise on days I have worked out -- not to just feel like I've done it already and that's enough.

I even bought myself new shoes to use when walking. I want to have as much fun when I am working out. Makes me think of my kids when they got new shoes for the school year and were so excited.

I even bought myself new shoes to use when walking. I want to have as much fun when I am working out. Makes me think of my kids when they got new shoes for the school year and were so excited.

those are really awesome shoes!

Doing the pull up challenge, doing the 30 burpees a day challenge and continuing to increase my HIIT training.

how does the 30 burpees a day challenge work?

Progressive?

Unbroken?

With or without weights?

There are so many variations.

For example,

Over the box- burpee, jump over the 24" box, burpee, repeat ( onto box is easier)

Over the bar - burpee, jump over the barbell, burpee, repeat

Over the erg- burpee, jump over the rower, burpee, repeat

Burpee pull-up- burpee, jump into a pull-up, drop, repeat

Burpee broad jump, burpee, broad lateral jump, repeat

So I started my new year off right.....with a 6.5 mile trail run....and a broken pinkie toe. Yep....it's déjà vu all over again. I just broke a toe back in September and now another one. Tripped over a nasty root. The leaves on the trail this time of year cover up all the obstacles, making it precarious. Icing it right now....hoping I can get a shoe on tomorrow.

So I started my new year off right.....with a 6.5 mile trail run....and a broken pinkie toe. Yep....it's déjà vu all over again. I just broke a toe back in September and now another one. Tripped over a nasty root. The leaves on the trail this time of year cover up all the obstacles, making it precarious. Icing it right now....hoping I can get a shoe on tomorrow.

oh no -what was the recovery time last time? 2 months? At least you can swim now until your toe is feeling better.

No last time I took 3 days off and went back to running. I just had to be extra careful and I couldn't wear the vibrams for a while. Hopefully it will be the same this time....but I won't know until the initial pain and swelling goes down. Right now it feels like a grenade went off in my shoe.

Ok. Since I just started physical therapy because of a car accident...car totaled...I comment to walking at least 10 minutes a day.

This is going to seem low, maybe, but 10 Crossfit sessions (2-3 per week) and 16,000 m swimming.

I'd ideally like to be at 3 CF per week but my evenings don't always work out that way!

Oh ouch, Butter! I'm 3 weeks back into exercising and cringe every time I think about the fact that sooner or later I will have an injury. I'm hoping for later!!

Do you regularly run in the Vibrams? Did you use them for CF too? I'm looking at new shoes and hate ordering shoes over the web.