Okay here is the April Challenge. Pick your level and intensity. We need to check in here at least every 2 days because accountability is important.

Pick a target level for how often & how long you plan to workout,

and we’ll be off… I’m shooting for Level 7~ Elite this month! Yeah I have to start it with a bang!

Feb’07 April Exercise Challenge

Level 1 ~ 3 days a week (14 days)

Level 2 ~ 4 days a week (18 days)

Level 3 ~ 5 days a week (23 days)

Level 4 ~ 6 days a week (27 days)

Level 5 ~ 7 days a week (31 days)

Beginner ~ 20 minutes a day

Moderate ~ 30 minutes a day

Intermediate ~ 45 minutes a day

Advanced ~ 60 minutes a day

Elite ~ 60+ minutes a day

I'm back...and exhausted! It was a wet weekend, but the kiddies & I had a great time in NC with my folks. (I can't testify to if my parents would say the same! :ohmy:) I've got a ton of stuff to do today in recovery from our trip, but I wanted to check in with y'all! Hope everyone's week is off to a good start!

Suzanne

Level 1 ~ Moderate

4 of 14 30-min workouts

UG. I went to a funeral today, and it hit me pretty hard. Just a friend of the family, but still. I guess I was reminded of my dad's funeral almost a year ago, and it was still pretty fresh. The military honors always get to me.

Anyway, I have a few errands to run, and then I'll be doing my hour workout a bit later tonight.

How's everyone else doing? BG, it's cold and rainy here again, so I can't imagine you being outside riding your bike. But then again....maybe it's not as crappy there as it is here.

How's it coming, Skinny? Thanks for spurring me on y'all... I really needed this camaraderie. I appreciate it more than y'all realize!

Going out of town for a few days -- plenty of walking in store, so I ought to hit my 3rd workout req with no problems!

Suzanne

Level 1 ~ Moderate

2 of 14 30-min workouts

It was hard to wkout out of town on business. I did more walking as the building I was in was huge compared to where I work. Also walked DT Minneapolis.

Today I worked out for an hour and felt good. Did the eliptical and weights. Eliptical kicks my butt. Legs feel like jello. I'm exhausted. For too many nights been to bed past midnight.

my weekend was fabulous. My husband and I had a wedding to attend so we went shopping for a suit for him. It was fun. I also bought a new black dress. It was a halter dress that came down low in the cleavage. i felt sexy. haven't been there in a while. Hey personal question. Have any of you ever had a brazilian wax?

TG - i wish i lots some in my chest circumference. I'm still in a 40 bra. and if i eat too much i'm miserable in bra area.

TG actually it was 72 and sunny yesterday lol. Remember girl I am in Detroit so we have some serious miles between us. That being said I had to work 12.5 hours yesterday so i did not get to enjoy that much of it. I did get a short ride in but that is about all. I want to get out today, but today is the day the rain is supposed to hit, so we will have to play it by ear. I need to get some fertalizer down on my lawn before it rains also, and that is a workout in and of itself.

SJ I have not had a brazillian but I want to get one badly. I just can't justify the cost right now. Glad to hear your weekend went well. I have to get a new dress before my birthday and I am way excited about it. I am going to need some sort of body sucker inner though.

Zannie, I am glad you had a good time!

I'm an awful slacker. I ended up walking around in walmart for an hour (which doesn't count) last night, and I never did get a workout in last night. I'll be making up for it today, though. I'll get in 45 minutes of walking, and then we play league volleyball tonight, so there's another hour and a half that I can count. So I'm looking at 2 hours and 15 minutes for today! WOO!

I got in a 19 mile ride in about 1 hour and 20 minutes. I was shaking and tired at the end of it but I feel great now.

I got in 30 minutes (not the 45 I hoped for) and an hour and a half of competitive volleyball. SO, 2 hours total for me today! WOOT!

Great Job TG.

I screwed up today. Son wanted sonic so decided to get a java chiller and onion rings. just looked up the nutritional value. 1040 cal total for the two. Ugh!! And no exercise for me today either.... I will get a workout in tomorrow. Son has to work so I will have to leave early at work to get him there. Straight to gym from there

BG,

I bought one of those body sucker in thingy too. Kept stuff from gigglying

SJ- normal people eat sonic from time to time (except those of us who do not have one in a 400 mile radius, but I digress), so don't be too hard on yourself. Preband I am sure you would have made a poorer choice and eaten much, much more. Celebrate the small successes.

TG that is awesome. I stink at volleyball but it is way fun to play. I can't wait to play tennis again this summer. I have not experienced it at a thinner weight yet.

Zannie where are ya girl?

I LOVE playing volleyball. My team probably gets frustrated with me because I will not dive on the floor to go after a ball, because my kneecaps would probably shatter, pads or no, and I can't set the ball to save my live, but I screw up less than some do, so I don't feel so bad. It's a mixed league we play on, because the women's leagues are VICIOUS! Them girls are out for BLOOD, I swear! So we do play just for fun, but last night we played against a team that has a grudge against us because we beat them every time we play them despite their best efforts at cheating.

At Sonics (and 7-11) you can get diet versions of their slushy. Ours only has the cherry flavor, but that may not be the only diet syrup they make. It is pretty tasty & makes me feel "normal" while there rather than like a freak who can't eat the friggin' bun & slimes on the tots & really shouldn't touch the fries since they DO go down! :crying: My downfall is The Milkshake (I :heart: choc.malts :drool:) so it helps A LOT to know what alternative I'm going to choose before arriving at any place that DOES sell shakes!Anyhow that is my Sonics tip! :sad:

I spend most TUES nights over at my parents' (they babysit the kids for me to attend both a "Boundaries" group & a "Celebrate Recovery" meeting that is supposed to help in dealing with DH's adultery). So that explains my absence yesterday -- sorry if y'all felt abandoned. :wink2: But but but!!! Because I was there this morning, my mom & i finally got to work on a task we've been putting off since January: making a work-out room! Her guest bedroom now contains one Ab Lounge II, one Cardio Glide, two exercise balls, two yoga mats, a shit-load of exercise videos...as well as an old big-screen TV, 2 beds with nightstands, and a dresser. We still need to move her treadmill upstairs but that'll require more MANpower than we have between us! And the Nordic-Track remains in the attic for now -- we'll have to see if it fits once the treadmill is in place. It looks like a bloomin' Curves studio now! Yea US! The next step is to establish a set schedule for our exercising together. PLUS, I not only helped move exercise equipment & rearrange furniture today (a workout in itself, right? :thumbup:), I did my first-ever Ab Lounge routine (um, apparently I really need to strengthen the core :eek:)!

So I'm on track for the week & my monthly goal -- which feels great since I'm pretty sure I'd've been playing catch-up by now in previous challenges!

Zan

Level 1 ~ Moderate

5 of 14 30-min workouts

YAY!!! Zannie, it sounds like you're on your way to a regular exercise routine!

I'm off to do my last 30 minutes of the day... Will post my progress later!

Awesome Zannie!!!! And good job TG.

I got in my hour of spin class earlier. I keep thinking about the 50 mile ride I am attempting on Saturday and trying to get everything in I can before that to prepare for it. Because of the weather I only got out cycling like 2 weeks ago and it just does not feel like enough.

Good job everyone!

I did Taebo tonight (Billy Banks videos). I used to love to play volleyball (in my 20's) no diving and blood for me either.

BG,

Whoa. Did you ever think you'd be riding 50mi. I can't imagine doig that. You definitley have made a gret accomplishment.

Zannie,

Thanks for tips on Sonic. moving definitely counts as exercise.