{"id":16075,"date":"2011-10-04T05:17:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/134.6063"},"modified":"2011-10-04T05:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:17:44","slug":"rlsh-one-year-fitness-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/10\/04\/rlsh-one-year-fitness-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"RLSH ONE YEAR FITNESS CHALLENGE"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I first started\u00a0doing SUPERHERO ACADEMY ON BLOG TALK RADIO\u00a0we had a weekly feature called THE DROP ZONE\u00a0\u00a0where each week I would share my weight loss (or gain) and thereby hold myself accountable to my listeners to actually keep on my diet.
\nThen life went a little crazy (mixed up schedules\/moving\/family issues) and we lost half our show time (forcing the streamlining of the program) and the DROP ZONE
\ngot…well…dropped.
\nAs of October 1st, that has all changed.
\nI am embarking on a one year fitness experiment designed to take me from couch potato to spud muffin (pun intended) and I wont be doing it alone.
\nJoining me on this adventure thus far are Midnight Detective, Skyman, Levionne Clay,\u00a0 and Silver Sentinel…Valerie Finnegan of Heroes Fallen Studios, and a few others have also joined in to show support for the rest of us…there are a\u00a0some who have been invited but have not officially\u00a0signed on yet…AND I am issuing an open invitation to anyone else who wants lose weight and get into shape to join us.
\nThis program is based loosely on military basic training.\u00a0 We have a thirteen week pre-basic schedule, a thirteen week intense shape up, and a 26 week advanced training to reach our ultimate fitness goals.
\nThe plan is set up using weekly benchmarks.\u00a0 Each week we have a set of goals that we are working toward being able to achieve by the end of the week.\u00a0 For example if your Benchmark on Sunday is 10 push ups then you have to be able to do 10 push ups by Saturday of that week in order to pass the benchmark for that week.\u00a0 If you dont make it, you dont stop there…you just work toward the next week’s goal.\u00a0 Everything progresses in small steps so it shouldn’t be that difficult.
\nThe reason for using this system instead of a daily “do this” kind of workout is because we are all different.\u00a0 We have different strengths and weaknesses and we will have different challenges to overcome as we go through this.\u00a0 I already know that
\nchin ups are a problem for me, so I will have to tailor my training to compensate for that or I will not be able to make the grade in that area.
\nI’ll be keeping a food and training log and sharing the highlights of it on the CROSSFIRE ACADEMY FOR SUPERHEROES blog…and encouraging the others to share their victories there as we progress.\u00a0 We will also be sharing training tips, new exercises, and much more on the blog as we move forward with this.
\nAnd I will be keeping a group weight lost tally there as well…I might even do some sort of funky pie chart or bar graph to show our success.
\nI have even enlisted the aid of our resident personal trainers Flora V Arbor and Amazonia\u00a0to assist us with any problem areas we may encounter along the way…and we couldn’t ask for better coaches.
\nSO…if you are one of the RLSH communities “heavy hitters” and you want to give this a try then please feel free to join us…we launched October 1st.\u00a0\u00a0 You’ll need your list of weekly goals so message me and I’ll send you the full one year list of benchmarks.
\nIn the meantime, here is the first quarter (pre-basic) training schedule for anyone that wants to get started right away.<\/p>\n