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So time and time again, friends and myself talk about incorporating more exercise into our weekly routine. We usually start off with good intentions but eventually end up stopping shortly thereafter. Some reasons for stopping include:

motivation – it’s often nice to have a workout buddy to help motivate you. Without someone else going through it with you, it’s easy to skip a workout or two, which often leads to giving it up all together.

time – so you find someone who also wants to workout, but you guys cannot find the time to get together to workout.

discouraged – maybe you have a workout buddy and you guys have worked around any timing issues, but they are at a different level than you workout wise. This can leave you discouraged because you either feel like you are not making enough progress comparatively or that you are being limited.

So I sat down and gave it some thought on how to try to minimize these potential setbacks. I’ve come up with ‘The Challenge‘. Our challenge is simply this, to incorporate more exercise into your weekly routine and to stick to it.

It is NOT a contest and the challengers are not competitors.

It is a personal challenge each individual makes to themselves, and fellow challengers act as support.

It is NOT points based. That is to say you do not acquire more points the more you work out.

It is pass/fail based. You set your own goals, and you either achieve them or you do not.

Also, it’s on the honor system. So you have to keep yourself honest.

Having it this way we give the challengers workout buddies(their fellow challengers), helping to keep them motivated by seeing others successfully completing their own challenges. We allow them to choose times that works for them, which will hopefully result in continued participation. Lastly, by assigning your own goals(times and days) and only measuring whether or not you’re successful, people will not be limited or discouraged by the workout routines of the other challengers.

Interested so far? Visit The Challenge and get started! Want a few more details before deciding?

The Setup

Membership
To participate in ‘The Challenge’ you’ll need to be a member of jeffwithag.com. (No worries, registration is free)
Create Profile/Promise
Once a member, you can visit The Challenge and create a challenger profile. Your challenger profile will contain a name, the number of days you commit to working out in a week and the number of minutes you commit to working out a day.

Entries

Ok, so now you’re a member and have created your profile. Entries are as simple as visiting The Challenge, selecting a date and hitting add. Doing so states that that is one of the days for which you have completed your daily minutes promised. Note: Dates can only be added for the past 7 days. This helps 1) keep statuses up-to-date; 2) keep us honest in the sense that the short time frame will lessen the likelihood of remembering a workout date incorrectly. This also means if you wait a week to report your workout, you lose it. Hopefully, this will keep people on top of things and motivated to workout and report it in a timely fashion, thus motivating others.

Statuses

Status is measure based on the previous 7 days. This is not a week to week deal, but any 7 day span. So status measures how many days you’ve worked out in the pass 7 and compares it to you days promised. For example, if your promised 4 days but have only worked out 3 days of the last 7, your status will read 75% (3 out of 4). If you’ve worked out 4 or more days, your status will read 100%. Note: Your initial status could be low as you’ve yet to complete your workout days. But once in the swing of things, the goal is to keep status at 100%.

So how about now, interested? Come join The Challenge and add a little more exercise into your life!

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