Progress Report #8: February 19-25

Please report your "miles" for February 19-25 (Friday through Thursday). Please take a minute to make sure I have your correct total from last week.

Progress Report #8

Did you have any triumphs this week? Any hurdles to overcome?

What goals do you have for the upcoming week?

If you have an update on your own blog leave your link in the comments below. (Be sure to also leave your miles in the comments so I don't have to track them down!) Take a minute to visit the other participants and cheer them on!

Guest Posts:

If you would like to guest post (recipes, exercise tips, motivation, etc), please let me know via email at trishsreadingnook[at]gmail[dot]com!

Have an awesome week!



Last call for your favorite workout videos. See details in last week's Progress Report. Please email me no later than this weekend with your favorite videos!

Progress Report #7: February 12-18

Please report your "miles" for February 12-18 (Friday through Thursday). Please take a minute to make sure I have your correct total from last week.

Progress Report #7 (Half-way!)

Did you have any triumphs this week? Any hurdles to overcome?

What goals do you have for the upcoming week?

If you have an update on your own blog leave your link in the comments below. (Be sure to also leave your miles in the comments so I don't have to track them down!) Take a minute to visit the other participants and cheer them on!

Guest Posts:

If you would like to guest post (recipes, exercise tips, motivation, etc), please let me know via email at trishsreadingnook[at]gmail[dot]com! Anyone, anyone anyone...? Bueller?? :P

Have an awesome week!



And a small request for those who workout with videos. I'd like to write up a post with short little reviews of favorite workout videos. If you have a workout video that you just love, please send me an email this week (by February 26th) with the title of your video and a small paragraph about why you love the video so much. If you can provide a link to it on Amazon, that would also be helpful (and let me know if you're an Amazon Associate so I can link that, too). Hopefully we can put together a great post with video ideas!

Progress Report #6: February 5-11

Please report your "miles" for February 5-11 (Friday through Thursday). Please take a minute to make sure I have your correct total from last week. If you missed last week's progress report, you can just leave your total in the comments below--no need to go back.

Progress Report #6

Last week I proposed a mini-challenge to introduce something new into your exercise routine. Let us know how it went in the comments below!

Did you have any triumphs this week? Any hurdles to overcome?

What goals do you have for the upcoming week?

If you have an update on your own blog leave your link in the comments below. (Be sure to also leave your miles in the comments so I don't have to track them down!) Take a minute to visit the other participants and cheer them on!

Guest Posts:

Getting Out of Your Exercise Rut Mini-Challenge

*I loved hearing about your different workouts so I'm continuing this one.

If you would like to guest post (recipes, exercise tips, motivation, etc), please let me know via email at trishsreadingnook[at]gmail[dot]com!

Also make sure that you subscribe (or become a follower) so you don't miss any guest posts or giveaways. Yes, I said giveaways...

Have an awesome week!

Progress Report #5: Jan 29 - Feb 4

Please report your "miles" for January 29-February 4 (Friday through Thursday). Please take a minute to make sure I have your correct total from last week. If you missed last week's progress report, you can just leave your total in the comments below--no need to go back.

Progress Report #5

Last week I proposed a mini-challenge to introduce something new into your exercise routine. Let us know how it went in the comments below!

Did you have any triumphs this week? Any hurdles to overcome?

What goals do you have for the upcoming week?

If you have an update on your own blog leave your link in the comments below. (Be sure to also leave your miles in the comments so I don't have to track them down!) Take a minute to visit the other participants and cheer them on!

Guest Posts:

Getting Out of Your Exercise Rut Mini-Challenge

If you would like to guest post (recipes, exercise tips, motivation, etc), please let me know via email at trishsreadingnook[at]gmail[dot]com!

Also make sure that you subscribe (or become a follower) so you don't miss any guest posts or giveaways. Yes, I said giveaways...

Have an awesome week!

Getting out of your Exercise Rut (Mini-Challenge)

I don't know about you but if my exercise isn't varied I get bored, then burned out, then find every excuse in the book not to get in my workout. Sure it's easy to just hop on the treadmill and crank out two or three miles (kudos to those of you who can stay focused enough to do more than that!) or plop on the bike with a good book and pump those legs, but varying your workout can be important for multiple reasons.

Varying your workout can help you stay fresh and interested, it can help you reach numerous goals, and it can also help your fitness levels. I don't pretend to be a fitness guru but it seems that everyone will tell you that your body can quickly get used to certain exercises which cause you to have to work harder in order to see the same results.

Although this is the 100 Mile Fitness Challenge and we track our progress in miles, I'm going to challenge you to switch things up this week or during the following weeks. I suspect that there are lots of walkers in this group, which is great, but there are so many physical activities one can do to stay fit. Belong to a gym? Check out an exercise class--yoga, spin, step, kickboxing, strength training. Don't belong to a gym? Play basketball or tennis or even just grab those dusty set of handweights and do basic squats, lunges, bicep curls, etc.

So go out and shake things up a bit. If you write a weekly progress report, tell us in your progress report how you're switching things up a bit. If you don't blog about your exercising, tell us in the next Friday progress report.

How do you switch things up when you're regular exercise routine gets old and tired? Leave us some suggestions in the comments below. I know I love hearing how people keep their workout regimen fresh and hopefully you can gain some pointers, too.