This community health initiative with tons of effort from diligent Steemians needs some help! ...We're also about to cross 400,000 team exercise reps!
The Challenge:
At least 100 honest reps of your choice of exercise every day. 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) - Pull-Up
- Make sure the bar you're using is SECURE! (Don't fall to make a gif for the web)
- Do not rock or kick for momentum! Use your back and arms to pull you up.
- Various grips and widths target different regions.
- Do your own research to confirm the mechanics.
*BONUS TIP - never do this:
Daily Update:
- 15 Steemians contributed 5,148 daily reps.
- Thanks for your support.
Overall Summary:
- 389,922 overall by 48 Steemians from 12 countries in 125 workout days.
- I can only upvote so much without exhausting my voting power daily, so please help me reward their effort.
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. (18 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:
-50 Calf Bar Raises (75 pounds)
-25 Bar Squats (75 pounds)
-25 Bar Shrugs (75 pounds)
My Daily Assessment:
I seemed to have a muscle strain or ligament issue in the front of my right shoulder from pitching, so I have to figure out work out around it to keep exercising, but also let it heal.
See All Of My Progress Pics After 93 Straight Days & 11,212 Reps
Original Intro Post With My Motivation
@rmsbodybuilding with attendance of 125/125 days.
@steemmatt with attendance of 124/125 days.
Last Daily Rep Count:
984 - @faizan07
801 - @rjunaid12
700 - @cryptoteen
420 - @rmsbodybuilding
400 - @belemo
350 - @rj1
266 - @gruber.muc
205 - @mgood
200 - @aussieninja
200 - @mackmck
190 - @bitfiend
132 - @drhag
100 - @robertperini
100 - @steemmatt
100 - @musclegirlfusion
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 support our hard work and dedication and ask any questions in the comments below.
Daily Challenge Completed - 305 reps
Physical
200 reps - Walking 30 minutes X 2; 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)
plus +
4 hours - doing my tax returns - mentally draining.
(All reps from yesterday and night)
Could you give me some information about "pranayama"? I'm just curious :)!
There are many different pranayama techniques. Different ones will create different effects. The one I do is a basic pranayama - alternate nostril breathing. This gives a settling, calming effect and it is great to do right before meditation or just to calm down.
Pranayama technique:
Breathe in
Use the right hand - ring and middle finger close off left nostril and breathe out gently thru the right nostril.
Then breathe in gently thru the right nostril.
Lift fingers off of left nostril and Right thumb closes off right nostril. Gently breathe out thru left nostril.
Breathe in gently thru the left nostril. Then switch nostrils again by lifting thumb from right nostril and using right ring and middle finger to close off left nostril. Breathe out thru right nostril.
Keep repeating for 5 minutes.
Try it. See how you feel.
Daily Challenge Completed - 100 reps:
-50 Calf Bar Raises (75 pounds)
-25 Bar Squats (75 pounds)
-25 Bar Shrugs (75 pounds)
20 min cycling
20 min treadmill
100 jumping jacks
100 high knees
100 squat jumps
Biceps work out.
4 sets Olympic bar curls 60 reps
4 sets dumbbell curls 60 reps
3 sets dead hang preacher curls 30 reps
3 sets ez bar preacher curls 45 reps
4 sets rope hammer curls 60 reps
3 sets reverse grip curls 36 reps
3 sets incline dumbbell curls 45 reps
3 sets incline hammer curls 45 reps
3 sets across body curls 45 reps
Total 726 reps
Challenge completed - 142 reps + a MTB ride
36 Pullups.chinups
12 Muscle ups - not strict ones, I bounced out of an arch at the bottom of each rep
18 HSPU's (on parallettes)
76 Kettlebell snatches -24, 28 & 32kg
22 km MTB ride
I did an OAC today!
It was very ugly but I got my chin to the bar.
https://steemit.com/fitness/@khufu/f3jfb80n
Will add 200 reps for the bike ride. Not sure you long that took, but good to see you back.
Daily Challenge completed - 373 reps
1 hour gymnastics in my gym KRABA - 100 reps
1 hour Kraba Club Training:
5 rounds of:
Kettlebell Goblet Squat 32 kg - 5 deep breath bottom hold, then 5 reps - 25 reps
jumping squat, 5 reps - 25 reps
KB At-At with 2x18 kg, 10 reps - 50 reps
Slingtrainer FacePull - 5 deep breath hold, then 5 reps - 25 reps
Pushups, 5 deep breath bottom hold, then 5 reps - 25 reps
PlyoPushups 5 reps - 25 reps
Ladder knee to chest 12 - 1 - 78 reps
Wheelbarrow with AB-Wheel 10m - 10 reps
Wheelbarrow 10 m - 10 reps
Challenge completed!
Rest day
"Pesäpallo" (Finnish version of baseball):
2,5 hours=200 reps?
Push-ups:
20 reps
Pull-ups:
10 reps
Stretching:
20min=not counted
Changing a car's tires:
This pretty much count as an exercise... Well, at least when it's sunny & hot outside :D!...
IN TOTAL
=230 reps
Will count 200 for the baseball here, but we'll try to cap it there. I play 6-7 hours of baseball one day a week and know it's cumulative work (and much harder when you're pitching), but there can be lots of downtime.
Yep! I play as a pitcher, but in "pesäpallo" the pitching is mostly about throwing, cathing, and having a good eye for the game, not about "pitching" because the pitch is literally throwing the ball straight up :D...
Of course, there are some technical stuff to it, but still... lol
Daily Challenge Completed - 350 reps
25 pull ups
50 chin ups
50 one arm push ups
50 incline push ups
25 dips
50 squats
30 minutes of running
Today was #50pushupchallenge day and 100 rep day. Got another 100 push ups in and did 50 negative pull ups to work up to getting to a regular pull up.
Sounds like 150 very solid reps to me.
Hell yeah!!
Daily Challenge Completed 250 reps
I love pullups! But I like to do them with assistance as I progress much faster! I can probably only do 2-3 right now! But before, when I had assitance, I upped it to 7 which is good for me :)
Anyway...
Today's Fitness Completed
My Daily Assessment
I skipped yesterday -let's call that the rest day!!! I had a really bad headache all day but I have a feeling this is due to perhaps picking up the start of a bug briefly, which has gone today. I tried everything to get rid of it naturally; drinking lots of water, resting, 3 headstands for 5 minutes to flow the blood to my head, backbends such as camel pose and cobra pose to help with deep breathing, but although it went temporarily it crept back! So glad it has gone today!!!
Today I happily went for a lovely walk, practiced yoga and then completed 200 squats!!
Wow, most people take a pain reliever and lay down when they have a headache. But YOU, you do headstands and yoga... That's the sign of a true champ.
Haha thanks! I just try not to take over the counter medications if I can help it, especially paracetamol :) Have a great weekend!
I am busy with exams these days so thats why can't give full details.. Anyways number of reps biceps day 824..
824 reps for biceps, you should have guns like arnie ;)
Daily Challenge Complete! - 150 Reps - A bit on schedule today but I am getting pretty tired already. Up early and I'll be up late.
I've never been able to do a pull up, I'm not overweight. I guess I just have low strength. I'm not in the military or in gym class so maybe I never will.
25-Shoulder shrug with 20lbs weights
20-Curls with 20lb weight
55-situps
Pull-ups are very hard in the beginning.
You could try using rubber bands to support your weight, to make it less "impossible". (explanation and pictures on link -- no affiliation) https://www.rubberbanditz.com/info-center/pull-up-bands/
I still can't do pull-ups properly without these.
Challenge completed
Shoulder exercise Total 1100
Cardio 100 reps
Jog + walk 200 reps
Warmup 120 reps
Main exercise 560 reps
Forearms 120 reps
Hey all, Sorry for my absense have had a few days off from the gym so I can recover. Plus had some other things going on.
Need to get back on the horse :)
I hope everything's OK bro
Thanks bro yeah I'm ok just my arm from my old accident has been playing up, been getting some real bad pain.
It happens every now and then, is feeling much better today :)
Tell me when did you miss your daily reps... 124/125 when did that happen... Will come with my reps later..
here ... I went out with a friend and stayed out far longer than I planned, and then accidentally fell asleep when I got home...
I wanted to ask the same question...