Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sprint Into Spring is about to begin!!!
Are you all ready to get a move on??? I’ve been doing lots of thinking about the upcoming challenge and I’m SO excited to get going. The team rosters have been made. So far there are 3 teams of approx 20 people each. If you wanted to be part of the challenge but don’t see your name there or you haven’t signed up yet, let me know and I’ll put you on a team. The challenge will officially start on April 2 (this Thursday). This is the way it’s going to work:
This challenge will work like many of the challenges in the past. Basically, each team member will earn points based on their weekly performance in the following categories. Your stats must be posted by midnight (your time zone) THURSDAY in order to be included in your team stats. If Thursday isn’t your WI day that’s fine – just use the WI from whatever day you weigh in that week.
There is a website for the challenge that you can use to check the challenges. It’s sprintintospring.blogspot.com (it’s also in my signature). I hope to add to this blog regularly, to keep me on track, to add links to interesting things I think you might like, to post pictures and to include stories to inspire you or show you something silly and make you laugh. If you have anything you think the group would like to see, please email it to me and I’d love to post it – whether it’s a photo, a cartoon, an article – anything goes!
Your assignment from now until Thursday is to start a team thread (for now Teams A, B, and C will do) and pick team names – I’m thinking of having Spring be the overall theme so let your imaginations go and come up with something good by Thursday.
Remember - this is a TEAM challenge – you need to commit to your team! If you do not post your stats weekly, you will bring that team’s overall averages down…so please post! If your stats are missing for 2 weeks in a row (without an explanation) you will be dropped from the rosters. ** This week only: if someone on your team doesn’t appear on the team threads from now until the first time we post stats we will remove them immediately because likely they changed their mind about joining the challenge.
For me, the real beauty of this challenge is drawing from the strength of others, learning new things and just spending some time with fabulous ladies and gentlemen such as yourselves! Keep checking back for updates!
Points:
Basically the way this works, is every week there will be challenges. No matter what, each week you will be asked to keep track of the number of days you spend OP (see below for details) and to keep track of all of your INTENTIONAL exercise each week. Other than those two numbers, each week there will be 3 other challenges – one for fitness of some sort, one for nutrition/food of some sort and one for overall lifestyle activities. Those will change weekly and will hopefully be posted by Wednesday of every week so you can be ready to start them on Thursday each week. In addition, each week post your WI results – we will not be using these numbers for challenge points but I think it will act as a great motivation for everyone to see on a weekly basis how much we’re losing (or maintaining!!)
OP days!
10 points for each OP day (max of 70 points per week) – OP means you are following the 8HGs set out by WW (not including the 30 min of physical activity/day – we measure exercise in another category here). This doesn’t mean you can’t have snacks you enjoy – as long as you’ve planned your points so that you can include all of the minimum requirements of F&V, dairy, grains, protein, healthy oils and water first!
Physical Activity Points
1 point for each 10 minutes of INTENTIONAL exercise (e.g. if you go to the mall and stroll around, that doesn’t count….BUT if you go to the mall with the sole purpose of getting your butt moving and you do laps, count it!)
10 bonus points for each strength training session you complete (at least 20 minutes) – for a maximum of 10pts/day for a max of 70pts/week – this could be doing your own sets of squats and abs and push-ups, or completing a stability ball/pump class at the gym or a pilates class that gets your core working – anything that gets your muscles burning!! So often, people get it in their heads that cardio is the only thing that will drop the weight – but in combination w/ strength training results can come so much faster! *** Just as an example this means if you do 30 minutes of strength training one day you get 40 points for this category (30 for the minutes of intentional activity and 10 bonus points for the 20 minute strength session you completed)…let me know if this is confusing or if you have questions
Challenges
25 points for each of 3 challenges per week! Each week there will be 3 challenges to take part in incorporating three really important aspects to weight loss: activity, nutrition and general lifestyle! Some weeks might seem tough but the goal is to push yourself! If anyone has suggestions for any of these challenges I’d love to hear them! The specific challenges for this week will be posted by Wednesday!
I know that this challenge has lots to keep track of so I have a template available to anyone that needs it!
Team leaders will be asked to tally their team’s weekly results and send them to me for a stats report (my email address is kotackr@queensu.ca). Team leaders, please send me an email so I can have your email address to send you a points template (it will make my life much easier if everyone works off of the same type of sheet!) Let’s try and keep this as simple as possible!
I hope I didn’t make this too complicated – let me know if I did or if you’d like to change anything. I’m open to ideas! And if you want a template for keeping track of your points let me know and I’ll email you one! Let’s get all of the “bugs” worked out before Thursday so we can hit the ground running!!! Thanks everyone for the enthusiasm! I hope you all have a great time and really get something out of this!
This challenge will work like many of the challenges in the past. Basically, each team member will earn points based on their weekly performance in the following categories. Your stats must be posted by midnight (your time zone) THURSDAY in order to be included in your team stats. If Thursday isn’t your WI day that’s fine – just use the WI from whatever day you weigh in that week.
There is a website for the challenge that you can use to check the challenges. It’s sprintintospring.blogspot.com (it’s also in my signature). I hope to add to this blog regularly, to keep me on track, to add links to interesting things I think you might like, to post pictures and to include stories to inspire you or show you something silly and make you laugh. If you have anything you think the group would like to see, please email it to me and I’d love to post it – whether it’s a photo, a cartoon, an article – anything goes!
Your assignment from now until Thursday is to start a team thread (for now Teams A, B, and C will do) and pick team names – I’m thinking of having Spring be the overall theme so let your imaginations go and come up with something good by Thursday.
Remember - this is a TEAM challenge – you need to commit to your team! If you do not post your stats weekly, you will bring that team’s overall averages down…so please post! If your stats are missing for 2 weeks in a row (without an explanation) you will be dropped from the rosters. ** This week only: if someone on your team doesn’t appear on the team threads from now until the first time we post stats we will remove them immediately because likely they changed their mind about joining the challenge.
For me, the real beauty of this challenge is drawing from the strength of others, learning new things and just spending some time with fabulous ladies and gentlemen such as yourselves! Keep checking back for updates!
Points:
Basically the way this works, is every week there will be challenges. No matter what, each week you will be asked to keep track of the number of days you spend OP (see below for details) and to keep track of all of your INTENTIONAL exercise each week. Other than those two numbers, each week there will be 3 other challenges – one for fitness of some sort, one for nutrition/food of some sort and one for overall lifestyle activities. Those will change weekly and will hopefully be posted by Wednesday of every week so you can be ready to start them on Thursday each week. In addition, each week post your WI results – we will not be using these numbers for challenge points but I think it will act as a great motivation for everyone to see on a weekly basis how much we’re losing (or maintaining!!)
OP days!
10 points for each OP day (max of 70 points per week) – OP means you are following the 8HGs set out by WW (not including the 30 min of physical activity/day – we measure exercise in another category here). This doesn’t mean you can’t have snacks you enjoy – as long as you’ve planned your points so that you can include all of the minimum requirements of F&V, dairy, grains, protein, healthy oils and water first!
Physical Activity Points
1 point for each 10 minutes of INTENTIONAL exercise (e.g. if you go to the mall and stroll around, that doesn’t count….BUT if you go to the mall with the sole purpose of getting your butt moving and you do laps, count it!)
10 bonus points for each strength training session you complete (at least 20 minutes) – for a maximum of 10pts/day for a max of 70pts/week – this could be doing your own sets of squats and abs and push-ups, or completing a stability ball/pump class at the gym or a pilates class that gets your core working – anything that gets your muscles burning!! So often, people get it in their heads that cardio is the only thing that will drop the weight – but in combination w/ strength training results can come so much faster! *** Just as an example this means if you do 30 minutes of strength training one day you get 40 points for this category (30 for the minutes of intentional activity and 10 bonus points for the 20 minute strength session you completed)…let me know if this is confusing or if you have questions
Challenges
25 points for each of 3 challenges per week! Each week there will be 3 challenges to take part in incorporating three really important aspects to weight loss: activity, nutrition and general lifestyle! Some weeks might seem tough but the goal is to push yourself! If anyone has suggestions for any of these challenges I’d love to hear them! The specific challenges for this week will be posted by Wednesday!
I know that this challenge has lots to keep track of so I have a template available to anyone that needs it!
Team leaders will be asked to tally their team’s weekly results and send them to me for a stats report (my email address is kotackr@queensu.ca). Team leaders, please send me an email so I can have your email address to send you a points template (it will make my life much easier if everyone works off of the same type of sheet!) Let’s try and keep this as simple as possible!
I hope I didn’t make this too complicated – let me know if I did or if you’d like to change anything. I’m open to ideas! And if you want a template for keeping track of your points let me know and I’ll email you one! Let’s get all of the “bugs” worked out before Thursday so we can hit the ground running!!! Thanks everyone for the enthusiasm! I hope you all have a great time and really get something out of this!
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