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It’s Time for Goal Call Monday
By Cindy | March 3, 2008
What is your goal in health, diet or exercise this week?
Goal Call Monday is your opportunity to be focused, accountable, and motivated to make your goal a success.
This week’s Winner is…Chief Family Officer where you find tips on food, finances and fulfillment. Congratulations, Cathy! Your focus to be active is paying off. Keep working in those moments for yourself, you deserve it! Your special reward this week is a Victoria Secret MIdnight Mimosa Silkening Body Splash (8 fl oz).
Ready to Share? It’s simple:
1. Enter your goal in the comments below (anytime during the week).
2. Enter your results in the next Goal Call Monday to be entered in the drawing. You’ll be listed in the Goal Call section!
Why You Want to Participate:
Focus on your top one-week goal in health, diet or exercise.
Accountability is shared here in the comments and by coming back with the results.
Motivation will be provided through your desire to achieve your goal and return with good news or the challenges you faced. As an extra motivation, I’ll enter anyone who participates in a random drawing to receive a surprise reward (different prizes given each week).
Goal Call from Last Week
Five contestants are up for the drawing this week. How did you do? Did you accomplish your goal, get stuck, have a funny story to tell?
- Blaine: How did the “Fat Ass” 50K Race go? I love the motto, “No Fee, No Awards, No Wimps”
- Workout Mommy: 2 veggies for lunch and dinner. What was your favorite combination?
- Rachel: Along with Runner Core DVDs sessions, you wanted to add 1 strength training session to your routines. Did you work with free weights or machines? How was the experience?
- Susan: Starting a food journal is a great way to really know what you are eating. Were you surprised by what you found?
- CFO: One Cardio and One Yoga workout. Two great ways to add physical fitness into your week!
I look forward to hearing how you did with your goals. A surprise reward will go to one of you for commenting on the results (good or bad)! Check in and report any time during the week before the next Goal Call Monday is posted! To see their original goals, click here and read the comments.
Are you ready? What is your goal in health, diet or exercise this week?
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I would like to complete all of my workouts for the coming week without missing a single one. That’s my goal for this week. I’m on my last four weeks of Body for Life and I really need to kick this into high gear!
Last week was a good one running wise; I got over 60 miles running and managed to get a 3×1 mile track workout in.
The “Fat Ass” was a lot of fun, but it was tough. We got a couple of snow storms last week that dumped a couple of more feet on the ground, and there was a half mile section that you had to run each loop that didn’t really have any packed down snow other than what a couple of snow shoers were able to do over the past week (most of which was before the last storm, which was the day before the race.)
I fell a good half dozen times when my foot ventured off of the path there a little, and there wasn’t anything to stop it from going through the 5 feet of soft snow other than the river underneath it or the length of my leg if I managed to stay on the “packed down” part.
The first loop I ran wasn’t too bad, but once the sun had softened the snow (and the snowmobilers had dragged it and taken away the last bits of ice we were running on) it became so soft and slippery that it was almost like running in loose sand. I couldn’t even walk in parts without slipping and sliding, which makes it hard to run.
I managed to finish the whole thing in less than 4 hours (I only did 2 of 3 laps, so about 21.3 miles) which was what I was expecting to run. As tough as the conditions were, there were no surprises for me. Given the weather over the past week and the forecast for yesterday I had a pretty good idea of what we were in for. One advantage to running there almost every week.
There were 11 humans and 1 dog that ran. 3 people did 1 lap, 3 did all 3 laps, and the other 5 people and the dog did 2 laps.
This week I’m going to concentrate on getting a good interval session in, running either mile or kilometer repeats at the track. Hopefully I can time it when somebody else that runs at a similar pace will be there.
I did okay–although not perfect. It helped me increase my intake though, so that is a plus! I’m a broccoli kinda girl, it’s definitely my favorite. I usually ate that along with my son’s sweet potato leftovers. Yum!
This week I’m focusing on sleep again. No more bringing my laptop into bed!
Continue with above goals. Didn’t get 3 sessions of Runner-Core! Need to work on it some more.
The food journal was interesting. I see that I eat way too much refined flour/sugar! I snack more when I feel nervous, antsy, or bored.
I recorded breakfast through mid-afternoon. Then I stopped. I’ll need to work on journaling the evening hours, as those are important too!
So, one of my goals this week is to work on journaling dinner and to be a little more mindful of my snacking.
I actually started this yesterday, and meant to post, but I got sidetracked.
I got another new workout dvd (netflixing them is such a money saver!) which has several pre-programmed workouts on it…
Monday is upper and lower body toning, which I did (backwards lunges SUCK!)
Today is cardio
Wednesday is upper body and core stretches
Thursday is cardio again
Friday is core stretches and lower body
Saturday is basic yoga
Sunday is off
These are all 20 minute workouts, and my previous workouts were 30 minutes, 3 times a week. This is 20 minutes, 6 days a week, which brings my total exercise time up by 30 minutes (and doesn’t count the 2 mile walks that my husband and I do 3 times a week).
So, my goal is to do the whole workout dvd this week, as scheduled.
Aw, thanks, Cindy! That’s very cool. Unfortunately, I never got my yoga session in. I’d like to blame it on one of the kids getting the stomach flu, but of course, there’s really no excuse. I still owe you a huge thanks, though. Because of Goal Call Monday, I’ve figured out that I can at least do cardio on the elliptical when we go to my in laws’ house (and we usually go once a week), so I pretty much get at least one weekly workout now. And that’s one workout more than I was getting before you started GCM!
This week, I’ll stick with my usual: one cardio and one yoga session.
Wonderful goals, everyone. Your focus and resolve is showing! Keep up the good work.
My goal for this week is to complete 3 strength training routines.
Sauchagirl, Welcome to GCM. How are you enjoying Body for Life? One day at a time with a focus on your workouts and before you know it, the week will be finished.
Blaine, Your running adventures are always entertaining and awe inspiring. It sounds like you had a blast.
Workout Mommy, Yummy, yummy veggies. Way to keep thinking about them and sharing with your little guy. You’re setting a great example. Good luck with the battle for sleep.
Rachel, Way to keep focused on adding a little more to your current routine. It’s a challenge to try and step it up with everything in life going on, but staying focused and looking ahead is what will get you there!
Susan, great job with the journaling. I like how you’ve broken it down to start with the day and now focus on incorporating evening. Journaling can feel overwhelming at times. Great job.
Lynn, the workout DVD sounds awesome. May I ask which one? Oh, I love Backward Lunges. Isn’t it great to feel the muscles in your body working?! Okay, maybe a bit too much enthusiasm there, but they are a great example of how using your body to strength train works.
CFO, What a great job you’re doing! You’re making the changes and that is what really matters. Keep it up.