259,071 Total Team Reps (+6,117 added) - Steemit Daily 100+ Rep Fitness Challenge - Day # 103 - 3/19/18
Please take a minute to see this inspiring post with tremendous team effort. While crypto charts are ugly, the one below is turning into a bull run.
Daily Update:
-21 Steemians contributed 6,117 reps today (both HUGE new highs)!
-Welcome @soumon from Bangladesh who's getting motivated to start losing weight by walking.
Overall Summary:
-259,071 overall by 41 Steemians from 11 countries in 102 workout days.
-Please help me recognize their effort since I can only upvote so much without exhausting my voting power daily.
The Challenge:
At least 100 honest reps of exercise every day. No excuses. No bullsh*t. Just actions, positivity, and results. Only post AFTER your reps are done. Always support each other.
- You choose what types of exercise reps to do.
- 30 minutes of fitness walking, running, spinning, biking, cross-country skiing, etc., can count as 100 reps if you need to rest or can't use weights.
- I'll award 1 SBD for every 10,000 rep milestone you hit. (11 SBD paid)
- I run the numbers daily which is sometimes harder than my reps.
Conditions:
- Weights not required.
- Do real reps with good form, aiming for 100+.
- Start your reply with "Challenge Completed".
- Reply with a list of the exercises and reps you did.
- Cumulative tallies are appreciated as a separate line.
- Only submit reps you've done, not ones you're planning to do.
- Use the tag "fitnesschallenge" on associated posts.
- Upvoting or resteeming is appreciated to reach more.
Advice:
- Stretch before and after exercise.
- Breathe properly on each rep.
- Quality over quantity.
- Eat a healthy snack after and stay hydrated.
- Start with exercises you enjoy to build up for harder ones.
- Take before pictures to appreciate results over time.
- Feel good about your accomplishments.
My Daily Challenge Completed - 140 reps:
-100 Calf Bar Raises (75 pounds)
-40 Squats (75 pounds)
My Daily Assessment:
My arms and right shoulder are still "pre-season" sore from my baseball batting and pitching this weekend. It happens for the first 1-3 weeks and then is a non-issue once I get those muscles activated. At this point, I'm still too tight to lift upper body, so it's more legs for now.
See All Of My Progress Pics After 93 Straight Days & 11,212 Reps
Original Intro Post With My Motivation
@rmsbodybuilding and @steemmatt with attendance of 102/102 days.
Last Daily Rep Count:
760 - @faizan07
526 - @gruber.muc
450 - @bitfiend
400 - @soumon (Great first steps. Welcome to the crew.)
364 - @rjunaid12
345 - @rmsbodybuilding
335 - @mgood (mind & body)
305 - @myleskshupe
291 - @musclegirlfusion
280 - @belemo
268 - @mightpossibly
250 - @rj1
238 - @wa2qr
209 - @notorious562
200 - @lordcarlo297
200 - @aussieninja
193 - @kbarrett
159 - @khufu
144 - @mudasirfarooq
100 - @steemmatt
100 - @thevillan
New feedback from @bitfiend:
"After starting 6 days ago I already feel stronger. This is definitely the most consistent exercise I've done in an extremely long time but I am happy to be taking part! While I walk around mostly in pain, I know it's all for a good cause! My health! I am feeling better and I'd say my sickness is mostly gone now. I think that if I had not been exercising, I may have been sick for a bit longer. Persistence pays off!"
Feedback from @mightpossibly:
"I find it deeply satisfying to do these reps, which is a big deal. I've always hated the gym and prefer to exercise at home. But I've lacked the discipline to do it. It sort of feels like I have gym buddies now, without the hassle of going to the gym."
Feedback from @notorious562:
"I seriously cannot explain how much this group pushes and motivate me to keep working harder. I love this fitness community and the support and encouragement will help us achieve our goals."
Feedback from @khufu:
"Your challenge has helped immensely to keep me motivated lately. I've had a lot of... problems going on so your challenge has been a quantum of sanity in an insane world for me."
Please support our hard work and dedication and ask any questions in the comments below.
Please also resteem this new format/replace in your post links if you don't mind to try to get a fresh start on spreading the word on our challenge.
Daily Challenge Completed - 140 reps:
-100 Calf Bar Raises (75 pounds)
-40 Squats (75 pounds)
Everyone: please try to upvote everyone and their linked blog posts. Even if just a little, it all adds up.
Good job upping the reps, you will be up to 500 in no time ;)
Challenge completed - 560 reps
On a whole other level!!! I gotta start doubling up!!!
Daily Challenge Completed - 305 reps
Physical
200 reps - Walking 30 minutes AM; 1 hr night time; includes down and up elevation of 300 ft
5 reps - pranayama (yogic breathing exercises) 5 min X 2
Mental
100 reps = 1+ hours X 2 Transcendental Meditation and advanced TM-Sidhi (morning and evening)
(All reps from yesterday and night)
See post Secret of Longevity.
Challenge complete today
1 hr 23 min cycling = 200 reps.
Tuesday Challenge complete: 343 reps
80 push up will be added to your count. Yay!!!!
Thanks for joining the challenge.
Hit 222!!
I want to thank you. Since I started posting in this challenge, you've given me a reason to blog on steemit. No matter how discouraged I get when it seems like no one is reading what I write, I know I can write it and post it here and it adds to the challenge. So thank you for giving me the motivation I need to stick with blogging!!
Here's my latest blog with my workout!
You're welcome. I know the feeling. Even with nearly 1,000 followers now, it's usually a core 30-50 people who actively view my stuff, and it gets sliced down even more into segments based on which category I write in. It's usually the niche I care about most like fitness, drumming and thrifting that get the least views and rewards, while simple jokes make almost all of my rewards here.
Keep working out and keep posting in a way that keeps it fun for you. Don't burn out on Steemit, just keep innovating and trying new things to get a new quality follower each day. Get to know people by chatting with them on discord and asking feedback from others so you can see your hard work from the eyes of someone else. This helped me a lot lately.
Awesome advice!! I am on only a handful of discord groups and am always unsure of what to talk about Lol!! I'll try asking for feedback!
Just get to know some Steemians from the site and then ask them to direct chat on discord or steemit chat to ask for some of their advice on blogging. For discord, all you need to share if your ID # for them to connect with you.
Todays workout.
INCLINE DUMBBELL HAMMER CURL 3 sets 12 reps
INCLINE INNER-BICEPS CURL 3 sets 12 reps
STANDING CONCENTRATION DUMBBELL CURL 3 sets 10 reps
ZOTTMAN CURL 2 sets 10 reps
HAMMER CURL 2 sets 10 reps
Total reps = 142
Never heard of Zottman curls before. Looks like an efficient way to hit a lot of muscles. Thanks for the intro.
In this movement, you hold a dumbbell in each hand and have a palms-up (supinated) grip on the way up and a palms-down (pronated) grip as you lower the weight, so all of your elbow flexors get hit!
Some of your elbow flexors act as supinators as well, so rotating the wrist and forearm during the curl instead of at the bottom will load up that function.
@steemmatt I feel like this would be a great bicep/forearm exercise for your baseball swing. Its a great lift!! Rich Piana (RIP) would do these. Here s his video
I am so going to start doing these!!! :)
@mudasirfarooq - might want to cite your source before cheetah bot finds it!
Challenge Completed - 150 Reps
https://steemit.com/fitness/@lordcarlo297/challenge-completed-300-day-s-of-pure-madness-day-45
Daily Challenge Completed - 360 reps:
That just sounds so painful.
Yeah... guess how much fun this all was?
zero. It was zero fun.
I had to do it in two different sessions... but it's all done and I'm sure I'm heaps strongerer now.