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It’s Time for Goal Call Monday
By Cindy | April 28, 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…Lisa of Workout Mommy. Congratulations! Your special reward is a $5.00 Gift Card for Old Navy. Way to tackle the night snack attacks. Keep up the great work!
Ready to Share?
1. Enter your goal in the comments (anytime during the week).
2. You’ll be listed in the Goal Call section next Monday. Enter your results/progress to be entered in the drawing.
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
How did you do? Did you accomplish your goal, get stuck, have a funny story to tell?
- CFO: 5 Cardio/2 Yoga. Yep, that food trigger is elusive.
- Lynn: Way to go on your first week of the Couch to 5K. Your cooking class sounds like fun. How are the steps coming along to teach beginners?
- Susan: Great job getting the house all spiffy and the garden, too! How did those leg workouts go?
- JoLynn from The Fit Shack 5 cardio sessions at30 minutes/ 2 body sculpting sessions. What did you do for the body sculpting?
- MomWeightLoss: 3 Runs/3 Strength Training. Check?
- Blaine: 40s/50s in mileage. Hey isn’t that the temps in Maine? Keep up the great work!
- Rachel: No more vacation. Working out everyday. What was your favorite workout?
- Carrie: 45 minutes/ 4 days a week, plus cutting out after dinner snacking! You go girl!
- Workout Mommy: What’s the verdict this week? Did you survive the night snack attacks? I’m sure you did.
- Cindi: Planning ahead to avoid junk food. Excellent point. It really is helpful to be prepared!
I look forward to hearing how you did with your goals. Great job focusing on the small steps! 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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thanks Cindy, this is a great reminder for me to stay away from the snacks at night! I did ok, but can do better this week. I have no snacks in the house and since my hubby is out of town, I have no way to go and buy them at night.
Last week did not involve much in the way of running. I only ran a little over 30 miles. I was exhausted from my trip to Boston and never really seemed to have any energy. Since I’m tapering anyway, I took the opportunity to keep the running to a minimum and the sleep to a maximum.
This week is my goal marathon for the Spring. The major goal will be to maintain a 6 minute per mile pace (around a 2:37:00) – I should at a minimum run a PR sub-2:48.
I ran yesterday, so my goal is to get in 2 more runs this week. I’m not focusing so much on time or distance, but rather getting my shoes on and getting in my runs!
Cooking class is going great! I have about 20 students, which surprises me, but I’m having fun and I’ve already had a couple of my students write back and tell me how much they’re enjoying the class.
This week, I’m focusing on my health. I seem to have caught a cold, and I’ve stressed my knees out from running. The doctor says it’s just a bit of a stress injury and nothing to worry about, but not to run until it stops hurting. So, back to just walking this week. Blech.
But I think I’ve been pushing myself pretty hard these days, with my class, and my house cleaning, and my exercise, which made things just a little too easy for the germs to make me sick.
So this week, I’m focusing on taking care of myself, not blowing my eating plan while I’m sick, and recovering from this knee injury.
Well, perhaps trying to tackle 2 at one time is a bit much – I did exercise 4 days this past week, but one of those days was crazy-short – just 20 minutes. I did avoid the midnight snacking.
This week, my goal is to exercise 5 days out of the week. I think I can do it!
I stretched every day, but I skipped a couple of days on my strengthening exercises. Maybe it’s in my mind, but I do believe there’s a slight improvement in my ‘bum’ knee. I haven’t been feeling soreness when I climb up and down the stairs. I think the stretching really does help. I like to get in a few minutes of stretching right before bed too.
So, I’ll keep working at this, and we shall see if my knee continues to improve.
I ended up doing 6 cardio sessions and 1 yoga. I struggle with the yoga, but it’s my day “off” so to speak, and I know from experience that if I keep it up, I will eventually have the benefit of looser shoulders and healthier knees, and a back that doesn’t hurt! I think I’ll stick with 6 cardio and 1 yoga for this week, maybe if I know I’m only doing yoga once, I’ll stick it out for a longer session. Of course, I’m getting my period this week, so all bets are off!
I sound like a broken record posting thanking you every few weeks, but again, thanks for getting me to exercise again. I would still be sitting on my butt every day if it weren’t for GCM!
Hi, Checking in a little late..but here I am. Goals for this week? Don’t get injured by overtraining! Running a 10km on Sunday and I’ve already run 13 this week. Knees are talking to me.
Last week, fav workout was Pilates cause it’s one hour all to myself combined with tough strength training.
Good job on your Half Marathon! I’ve got one planned for June.
Hi Cindy,
I used my resistance bands for my strength training and also used the workout room in the hotel I was at over the weekend – worked out with weights and bench and also machines.
I completed 4 cardio sessions instead of 5, 30 minutes each, and am proud of myself for using the treadmill at the hotel for one of those workouts.
For this week, my goal is still 5 cardio sessions, 30 min. each and at least 2 strength training sessions.
Wow!!! All your updates are fantastic. The depth of progress is showing and everyone has stepped up their game.
Workout Mommy, Great way to curb the snack attacks by not having them in the house.
Good Luck, Blaine.
Brianna, your love for running is contagious. Way to make time (it isn’t easy) and rewarding yourself with your runs.
Lynn, I hope you’re feeling better. Congrats with the cooking class.
Carrie, great job on your workouts. Tackle what you can, when you can that is what keeps you going!
Susan, Hope the knee is feeling better. Way to slow down and strengthen and stretch it. There’s no need to rush. Your body will bounce right back into the exercise when you’re injury free.
CFO, Awe, thank you! You are the motivator. Without your dedication, you wouldn’t be here! You’re doing amazing. Wow, 7 workouts a week. That’s all you, chica.
Rachel, Good luck on your 10KM. Look forward to hearing how you do. I’m really starting to enjoy Pilates, too. It’s challenging, but does seems to strengthen everything!
JoLynn, Awesome report on working out while traveling. I’m getting a little nervous having to step away from the gym for two weeks, but I am planning on having all those body resistance bands, stability ball and jump rope nearby to maintain a high tempo workout while on the go! Great goals. Keep up the momentum.
I have been noticing that the top of my feet are slightly swollen! I have just had my well-woman and I am okay! My husband and I think I spend too much time on the computer and my feet dangle downwards!
I also tend to stand them up on my toes. I need to get up and move around more. This is my goal of the week. Thanks,Cindi