Members - please read the notes at the bottom.
The Challenge:
At least 100 honest reps of your choice of exercise. No excuses. No bullsh*t. Just actions, positivity, results and progress. Only post AFTER your reps are done. Always support each other. Full guidelines and conditions below.
Daily exercise idea (not a requirement) - Romanian Deadlift
Bonus tip to never do this:
Daily Update:
- 16 Steemians contributed 5,589 daily reps.
- Congrats to a very dedicated @gruber.muc for crossing 20K reps and getting another SBD award.
Overall Summary:
- 538,627 overall by 54 Steemians from 14 countries in 148 workout days.
- Thanks to everyone for each vote, mention, and resteem.
Challenge Overview:
- 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. (32 SBD paid out)
- I run the numbers daily which is sometimes harder than my reps.
Conditions:
- Weights not required.
- Do real reps, use 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.
- Try to upvote as many contributors as possible to motive each other.
Advice:
- Stretch before and after.
- Breathe properly on each rep.
- Quality over quantity.
- Eat a healthy snack after/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 - 100 reps:
-100 Full Russian Twists (10 pounds)
My Daily Assessment:
Saving my strength for baseball on Sunday.
See All Of My Progress Pics After 93 Straight Days & 11,212 Reps
Original Intro Post With My Motivation
@rmsbodybuilding with attendance of 148/148 days.
@steemmatt with attendance of 147/148 days.
Last Daily Rep Count:
1,300 - @abdt (incl lots of biking - capped reps)
900 - @vibrantyogini (long bike ride)
404 - @drhag
400 - @soumon (walking only)
305 - @mgood
300 - @manolisthan (swim)
300 - @toufiq
300 - @gruber.muc (crossed 20K reps)
280 - @cryptoteen
200 - @byebyehamburgers
200 - @rmsbodybuilding
200 - @thevillan
200 - @hefziba
100 - @steemmatt
100 - @bitfiend
100 - @izaid (swim)
From @musclegirlfusion:
"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!!"
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!"
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."
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."
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 READ:
**Please take it into consideration that the focus of this fitness challenge is workouts with weights or fitness reps. Cardio was a traditionally intended to be a supplement unless it's the only thing you generally do.
...Extensive cardio work/calisthenics/recreational activities are all amazing, but are ideally not intended to be the focal points of this competition.
...While I want you to have everyone be motivated and happy, I also don't want to make people who exercise with 100-200 strong reps look like they're not matching the competition with high reps counts from the aforementioned activities. We're a team and should try to keep everyone feeling great about what they're doing. Quality is better than quantity.
Rep on,
@steemmatt
COPY OF MY COMMENT TO @steemmatt IN YESTERDAY'S POST!
Just thought about copying this here, because I believe that something like this could be a solution to the "cardio problem"! Also, I'd like to get some discussion going! Do you have a better solution?
↓ The comment ↓
I fully understand this! I'd recommend possibly capping the "maximum reps" for cardio to 200 or 300. Also, something that's worth thinking about is making the 100 reps=1 hour of cardio instead of the 30min currently!
This is truly something that needs to be addressed because, as you said, soon there will be those 1,000+ rep days of just walking or cycling... If I started counting the walking I do every day (not for working out purposes), I'd easily have 1,000 reps every day :/. I understand counting walking/cycling as cardio if it's specifically for WORKING OUT purposes (i.e. going on a walk in the evening after work) not just counting the walking that you do every day at work/school!
↑ Something like that might be good to mention in the rules ↑
PS. I personally think that sports should definitely be included in the "cardio" section of this challenge (even if they're just for fun)! Of course, this depends on which way you want to take this challenge, but still, if I play 1h of tennis, it's definitely more intense cardio than walking for 3 hours :D! But the idea of capping the cardio reps is a really good idea in my opinion!
great
I agree with the 1 hour = 100 reps bit. It makes more sense when it comes to effort.
Challenge Completed! 200 Reps
On Day 46 I tested out doing a lot of reps on 1 specific exercise and did 200 leg ups / knee ups on my power station in different angles. This made me actually feel that I worked it out even though I could have done more of them. I also again went on my morning run and plan on tracking this once I buy something to put my phone around my arm. Next day I want to do 300 Push-Ups...
great play and enjoy your baseball game
Daly challenge completed
150 reps in push-up
150 sit stand
400 hand exercise
2.5 hhr bike ride in jym
1 hr bke ride on road
Will count 1,000 reps here. Is the bike riding intense?
Daily Challenge completed - 06.05.2018 - 100 reps
Today regeneration - 40 minutes bicycle
Daily Challenge Completed - 230 reps
Physical
100 reps - Walking/hiking 30 minutes X 2; includes down and up elevation of 300 ft
10 reps - yoga asanas - 10 min X 2
5 reps - pranayama (yogic breathing exercises) 5 min X 2
15 reps - 15 minutes of light dumbells - presses;curls; flies
Mental
100 reps = 1+ hours X 2 Transcendental Meditation and advanced TM-Sidhi (morning and evening)
(All reps from yesterday and last night)
Challenge completed!
Active rest day. It was probably the first "summer" day in Finland so I spend most of my day outside with friends and family!
Walking in a nature park:
~55min=100 reps
Basketball:
~5h... A lot of it was just shooting and we also just chilled a lot (definitely didn't play for the whole 5h)!
=100 reps sounds pretty fair for this
Bodyweight workout at the park:
Including; different variants of push-ups, pull-ups, chin-ups, dips, etc.
=150 reps
IN TOTAL
=350 reps
Daily challenge completed - 150 reps
Finishing the week with a little olympic lifting and a team workout.
2 rounds of:
Every 30s for 2:30 - 3 touch and go snatches
Rest 1 min
Then 2 rounds of:
Every 30s for 2:30 - 2 touch and go clean and jerk
Rest 1 min
Ripped my hands doing this. I’m really bad at cycling reps touch and go without dropping the bar between reps, need to work om this more.
Team workout, teams of 3:
400m sandbag run, 100 deadlifts
400m sandbag run, 80 hang power clean
400m sandbag run, 60 front squat
400m sandbag run, 40 push jerk
400m sandbag run, 20 clusters
Reps were split evenly across the team. Everyone on the team had to run together and carry a 25 kg bag.
This doesn't look like it was fun.
Challenge completed - 640 reps
Good ol chest and back day
Daily Challenge completed 100 reps
5x20 push ups
I am sure these were diamond or wide stance push ups huh? LOL
Great work my man!!
Daily Challenge Completed: 305 reps
5x20 pushups
4x15 Barbell Curl
3x15 Seated Dumbbell Press
150 sit-ups
I think that's great! This should be more of a lifting focus and not cardio. There's enough cardio challenges in the world and rarely any relating to lifting.
Today was a chest day. Focusing on lighter weight and higher reps, but still focusing on getting close to or reaching failure. I hit 402 reps today! Including 61 pushups for #50pushupchallenge
61 push ups woo hoo!!! Ill add them to your count. Did you by chance do any push ups from Thrusday-Saturday? Sorry I was sick, but want to make sure I add all of your push ups in.
Thurs I did 56 and didn't do any fri or sat. Hope you're feeling better!
Okay I will add them to your total. Sorry for dropping the ball!
I am now thanks for your concern.
Nice effort here.
Daily Challenge Complete- Sunday 5.6.18
Push ups- 55
Squats-60
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Total reps- 115
My notes:
Finally started feeling better today. The last few days were not the best. I was pretty much not eating or holding down and food I tried eating. I was able to finally knock down some push ups and squats for my #50pushupchallenge and #50squatchallenge. I am hoping people start to join me on this new challenge. If you are interested hit me up or resteem it get more people on board. I hope that someone out there is inspired and motivated with my daily post. I would love to hear people success stories so please comment them below.
Hello, I will try to achieve your push ups and squats haha.
Great can't wait to assist you on your fitness journey.
How did you do the 55? how many try to complete it?
I started doing only 2x25. Now I am doing 30 per set with 40 in a set being the most. As long as 50 is done by the end of day you are completing the challenge.
Wow! You're strong haha. Sooner or later I can beat your 2 x 25 by 2x26 hahaha
Tomorrow I will jump on it. Had to save my legs for ball today.
Daily Challenge Complete - 200 reps - I am with ya on the "cardio problem". I've been trying to make sure I get decent reps in. Today was no different - Squats, Biceps & Triceps.
50 Air Squats
50 Standing Curls- Left Arm - 20 lbs
50 Standing Curls - Right Arm - 20 lbs
50 Extensions - Both Hands - 20 lbs
Daily Challenge Completed - 100 reps:
-100 Full Russian Twists (10 pounds)
Challenge completed - 270 reps:
5 min treadmill (0.8 km) (0)
12x3 squats (36)
10+10+8 lunges (28)
16x2 burpees (short brake) (30)
12x3 kettlebell swings (36)
4min continuous plank (each of the four types) (48)
16x3 reverse crunch (48)
10x2 similar exercise like above, except legs "scissoring" (20)
8x3 ab machine (24)
Give you props on the Burpees! I hate doing Burpees! ha ha
Daily Challenge Completed - 400 reps
-300 reps walking
-100 up down
Can you explain what an up down is? Great to see you building off of your walking.
it is stand and sit down.
My first-day daily challenge:
Welcome to the crew! Cardio is currently 100 reps per every full 30 minutes you cross, so this will be 100 here.
Thank you so much! It's my pleasure to join this challenge! It motivates me more.