Challenge Starts Tomorrow!!!

4/6/12 - 6/29/12 Challenge:

Are you up for a real challenge? Past Challenges have focused on personal/specific goals and results. While that is great, I thought an awesome twist would be to focus this Challenge on just Fitness & Nutritional Goals!!! Sounds similar, but trust me when I say this is going to be very different ;-) By focusing on these set and very specific goals, your results will follow! Targeting fitness goals are a great way to get out of your head about size goals and plateaus and allow you to better achieve them as a product of pushing yourself physically. So let's get this party started!!!!

First, just as the past Challenge: It is going to be a 12 Week Challenge beginning April 6th and ending June 29th. To officially participate, send me an e-mail at cagib1@charter.net letting me know you are "All In". Anyone is welcome to either officially or unofficially participate as it is free either way. The only difference is you will receive some further guidance via e-mail if you are officially participating as well as be eligible for prizes.

Since we will be focusing our attention on mini Fitness & Nutritional Challenges throughout this 12 Week Challenge, the weigh/measure days will be much fewer this Challenge since results are not our FOCUS. That does not mean you will not get results...In fact you will most likely get better results than you ever have in the past BUT only if you do the work and participate FULLY! The weigh/measure dates will be: April 6th/7th; May 18th/19th; and finally on June 29th/30th. As with any Challenge, before/after pics are very helpful to reflect how well you do, so if you do pics, do them for yourself on the April 6th/7th & June 29th/30th result dates. Refer to Measuring Results for info on how to weigh/measure & take before/after pics. If you are officially participating, you will e-mail me your weigh/measure results only on the specified dates.

Prizes will be awarded to the person with the most points, the person with the best results, and the person who overcame the most obstacles and finished this Challenge anyway! Three separate prizes to three separate people. Trying to figure out if the prizes are worth it? Really? Come on, I don't even tell my kids what the reward is most of the time...but it's always worth it!!! See below for how points are earned....

All Mini Fitness & Nutritional Challenges will be posted here as they occur and are the way you earn points. You will be responsible for keeping up with your points and will need to e-mail me at the end of each mini challenge what your points are....As it is on the honor system and only hurts you if you cheat, I trust that you will be honest with yourself first and foremost! It will be a cumulative tab so you will need to e-mail me what you earned within each mini challenge as well as your total points up to that point. The end of the Challenge on June 29th/30th is when you would e-mail me your total points as well as your weigh/measure results for prize consideration.

1st Mini Nutritional Challenge 4/6/12 - 4/19/12 TRACK WHAT YOU EAT!
This is one habit that would benefit you if you did it the entire 12 weeks of this Challenge; however, for purposes of this Challenge you are only required to do it for these first 2 weeks. If you track everything you eat, every day: You get a point for each day you do it from April 6th - April 19th. You get two points for each day you do it from April 20th - June 28th.


Reminder that you can track simply in a journal or on free sites/apps such as sparkpeople.com.