Taking on the Challenge Challenge!

dontmindlosing

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Guardian from Ontario, Canada
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Posts: 45
"Challenges completed: 84/144"
Challenge Challenge progress: 68/140.

Five more challenges completed. Even the easier challenges take time and effort to complete:
  • Power Punch :v:
  • Stamina Upgrade :v:
  • Walk & Run :v:
  • Touch Your Toes :v:
  • Iron Core :v:
Vacation season continues, so I'm going to continue with lighter challenges that keep me upright. That way, I can complete them wherever I happen to be. So, my next set of challenges:
  • Balance
  • The Guardian
  • Re:Center
  • Upper Body Light
  • Wall Push-Ups
After this round, I will finally be past the halfway point. Keep bringing it on!
 

dontmindlosing

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Guardian from Ontario, Canada
Pronouns: he/him
Posts: 45
"Challenges completed: 84/144"
Challenge Challenge progress: 73/141.

I am past the halfway point(!) now that I have completed:
  • Balance :v:
  • The Guardian :v:
  • Re:Center :v:
  • Upper Body Light :v:
  • Wall Push-Ups :v:
For the past couple of months, I've been doing lighter challenges. It's time to dip back into some of the harder ones. This month I have seven challenges lined up: three tougher physical challenges and four lifestyle challenges (which are tough in a different way):
  • 2,000 Push-Ups
  • Impact
  • Hollow Hold
  • A Salad a Day
  • Plant Based
  • No Junk Food (I figure these three diet challenges can work together.)
  • Get to Bed on Time (in my case, 10:30 p.m.)
Hopefully the diet and more regular bedtime will give me extra energy for this latest wave of challenges. Once more, back at it!
 

dontmindlosing

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Guardian from Ontario, Canada
Pronouns: he/him
Posts: 45
"Challenges completed: 84/144"
Challenge Challenge progress: 80/142 (56%).

This month was a big challenge month, and it has been one year since I took up the Challenge Challenge. This month I completed:
  • 2,000 Push-Ups :v:
  • Impact (Oof...) :v:
  • Hollow Hold (Ouch!) :v:
  • A Salad a Day (My go to was red cabbage coleslaw.) :v:
  • Plant Based (Not much change for me here, except for dairy. Plus, I forgot Canadian Thanksgiving was this month. I had Tofurky and coleslaw.) :v:
  • No Junk Food (Tomorrow morning, I am having a cookie!) :v:
  • Get to Bed on Time (10:30 p.m., which meant cutting nighttime gaming short all month. I played Like a Dragon: Ishin! in short bursts, which was hard with the game's very long cutscenes.) :v:
I believe that this has been my hardest month of challenges so far. It's the first time my challenges started interfering with other areas of my life. Next month, I will dial it back. No lifestyle challenges, and slightly easier physical challenges:
  • Burpees
  • Arms of Steel
  • Yoga Abs
  • Flexibility
Still got 62+ challenges left. That's at least another year's worth. Maybe two. Back at it.
 
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WolfDreamer

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it has been one year since I took up the Challenge Challenge

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dontmindlosing

Well-known member
Guardian from Ontario, Canada
Pronouns: he/him
Posts: 45
"Challenges completed: 84/144"
Challenge Challenge progress: 84/143 (59%).

Four more challenges completed:
  • Burpees :v:
  • Arms of Steel :v:
  • Yoga Abs :v:
  • Flexibility :v:
Burpees. They always seem fine at first. Then, by the end, I can't wait to be done with them.

Going forward, I'm going to change my approach. Instead of starting a group of challenges together, I'm going to stagger them, starting a new one every 10 days. This will slow my progress, as I will only complete three challenges per month (while DAREBEE introduces a new challenge, sometimes two, per month); however, I think this will make for a more even and sustainable challenge experience. Because of the way most challenges increase incrementally over 30 days, some months, when I've reached day 30, it's taken me forever to complete everything.

All right. My next three challenges are:
  • Push-Ups & Squats. Then, 10 days later, add:
  • Power Walk. Then, 10 days later, add:
  • Tricep Dips.
Even with this new approach, I'll continue to check-in here monthly.

All right. Back at it.
 
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