TODAY's BINGO CALL :
***through New Years I'll be posting 2 calls per day so that we can have a chance to do almost everything from the list before we end the game on New Years. You can do both calls, or either of the two calls - just only mark the ones you actually complete on your card. -Thanks & good luck with those [b]BINGOs!***
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
*Happy New Year!* -Today is the last day of BINGO!!
Regular 1) - 50 Crunches
2) - 20 Lunges
Super 1) - Today you will walk or jog 2 miles or 30 minutes more than you typically work out
2) - Pick your favorite activity and do it again or pick any unused choice from your card.
Ok my buddies – with all the holiday business and stress I think we need something fun to keep us on a healthy path even if we can’t stay 100% on program, so today we’re having a little Christmas party –put on some Christmas music, grab your favorite healthy snack, get ready for a party game that starts today and continues through the holiday season. So, find a pen and some blank paper (and maybe some glue and glitter to jazz things up) because we’re going to play Fitness Bingo! Each person who wants to participate will make their own Bingo card (instructions to follow). Instead of numbers in the squares, each square will have an activity.
Each day you can either pick an activity yourself or you can check here because I will draw and post an activity for you. When you complete it, mark a big X on the square for that activity. Bingo happens when you get 5 squares all X’d out down one column or across one row or diagonally (first square first row, then second square second row, middle square 3rd row, 4th square 4th row, to the 5th square 5th row or backwards starting from the first square in the O column over to the left bottom square in the B column). When you get a BINGO post it on THIS thread - And don't forget to yell really loud, jump up and down and wave your arms madly when you get a BINGO because that's the fun of being the first to hit BINGO!
Since some people like a more intense challenge, there are 2 sets of activities. One for regular Fitness Bingo and another set of more challenging activities for SUPER BINGO. You can actually mix activities from both sets but that would probably make it a lot harder to hit BINGO.
Instructions – How do you make the Bingo Card? Since in Bingo, all the Bingo cards are different (with different numbers in different places) we will each have to make our own Bingo Cards.
1. Make a chart with 30 large empty squares on it – 5 columns across, 6 rows down
2. At the very top row in each of the boxes write one letter to spell out B-I-N-G-O across the chart.
| B | I | N | G | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | I | N | G | O |
*The card has 6 rows down and 5 columns across. However, you write the letters B-I-N-G-O in the top row across the columns, not playing that first row so you would have 25 actual playing squares (5 rows down after the BINGO line and 5 columns across the page) .
3. Decide if you want to follow the Regular Fitness Bingo or the Super Challenge. In random order chose from the activities list and write one in each square until you’ve filled up 24 the squares..
Remember that the center square (row 3, column 3 is the FREE SPACE square). However if you are doing the SUPER BINGO challenge, there is no such thing as a free square – for the center square fill it in with “chose any activity you like and do it again” – this is the only “repeat” activity allowed in this session.
4. You now have your Bingo Card ready to play..
Instructions – How do I know which activity to do? There’s 2 ways you can do this. If you’d rather pick the activities yourself then take each of the items you have written on your card and write each one on a slip of paper. Each day draw a slip of paper and do that activity and then X off the square when you’ve completed it.
Or you can let me choose for you. Each day I will be posting 2 activities – one for the Regular Fitness Bingo, one for the Super Bingo Challenge. I will enter them in the first post on this thread so you can come to the same place to check each day. If you let me pick, then you HAVE to do what I selected that day. Do the activity and then mark it off your card with a big X when you’ve finished it.
Free Space – If you’re playing the Regular Fitness Bingo mark the center square of your card (row 3, column 3) FREE SPACE and X it out as this is a freebie bonus. If you are playing Super BINGO instead of FREE SPACE, mark in Pick a favorite activity from your card and do it again - You can do this at any day within the first 5 days of the game.
Regular Fitness Bingo Activity List. Fill in each square with one activity. Don’t fill them out in the same order as they are listed here or we will all have the same Bingo Card. Select an item and write it in Row 1, column 3, do the next in Row 4, column 1 and keep filling them in randomly until your card is full.
-20 Push Ups
- Climb the stairs today – get 5 sets done by the end of the day
- Eat 2 servings of fruit today
- Do 20 minutes of relaxation – stretching, yoga, or quiet & peaceful thinking
- 20 Squats
- March in place or around the room for 15 minutes
- Take a fitness class or do a fitness video
- 30 Jumping Jacks
- Eat 2 servings of Vegetables today
- Get your blood pressure checked (many pharmacies have machines where you can check your pressure)
- Walk or jog 1 mile today
- Drink at least 48 ounces of water
- FREE SPACE (goes in center square of card)
- Park your car at the far end of the parking lot today and walk a little farther
- Try a new fitness activity
- 15 minutes of stretching
- Get 8 hours of sleep
- 30 minutes of Cardio
- 20 Lunges
- 50 Crunches
- Eat 2 servings of Fruit (small to medium piece) AND 2 (half cup) Servings of Vegetables today
- 20 minutes of Weight Lifting
- 20 minutes of stretching
- Take lots of extra steps today. No matter where you go today – take the LONG way to get there.
- Ride a bike – a real one, an exercise bike or on your back, legs in the air and pump those legs!
Super Bingo Fitness Activities. These are a little more challenging. Fill in each square with one activity. Don’t fill them out in the same order as they are listed here or we will all have the same Bingo Card. Take an item and write it in Row 1, column 3, do the next in Row 4, column 1 and keep filling them in randomly until your card is full.
- 50 Push Ups AND 50 Squats
- Each time you pass a set of stairs today, go up and down 2 flights.
- Find 2 new healthy snacks (with nutrition info) and post your finds on the thread to share with your team members
- Do 30 minutes of relaxation – stretching, yoga or just quiet and peaceful thinking. Can be broken into 3, ten minute sessions if that works better with your schedule
- 100 Crunches
- 1 hour of Fitness Classes or Videos
- 50 Jumping Jacks or Knee to chest lifts
- No eating anything 2 hours before bedtime tonight - 3 hours would be better For example - if you go to bed at 10pm then you don't eat anything more after 7 or 8pm tonight
- 20 minutes of dancing to your favorite songs – singing along optional!
- Substitute 2 items that you had planned on eating for more healthy choices
- Get 8 hours of sleep
- Walk the perimeter of EACH room in your house or apartment. Do this 10 times today.
- Run, bike, swim. Ok so maybe it’s too cold to swim. “Air Swim”. Stand in place and curve your arms cutting through the air for at least 5 minutes. Run in place if you can’t jog outside. Bike on a real one, an exercise one or on your back legs pumping in the air.
- No matter where you go today – take the LONG way to get there – take extra steps every chance you can. Or if you watch TV, every time a commercial comes on you have to march in place or do crunches during the commercial break.
- 15 minutes of stretching upon wakening, 15 minutes of stretching before bed with 10 deep, slow cleansing breaths.
- Take a walk after lunch today
- Two 30 minute sessions of weight lifting today and tomorrow. Upper body one day, lower body the next. (You can X this off the first day, just make sure you do the other set tomorrow.
- It's a colors of the rainbow fruit and vegetable eating day – eat ½ cup of a red item, a green item, a yellow item, and and orange, blue or purple item. If it’s white get it out of sight – no white items (potatoes) allowed. Bananas are ok because they are yellow on the outside. Same goes for apples.
- Take a 30 minute Power Walk or do sprints
- Park your car at the far end of the parking lot for the next 3 days and get some extra walking in. (Maybe a quick jog if it's raining )
- Free Space – oops sorry – no free space on the Super Challenge! Instead pick your favorite activity and do it again.
- No beverages other than water today will pass your lips
- 60 minutes of cardio
- “No Sugar Tonight” – or all day for that matter. You can't eat anything with refined sugar in it today.
- Today you will walk or jog 2 miles or 30 minutes more than you typically work out
So there's the lists -I expect lots of particitation from my buddies (even if you have to play along by drawing your own cards on those days when you are too busy to check in) - so let's have some fun and see who can get that BINGO or SUPER BINGO before New Years!
- Make your card today because I start posting activities tomorrow morning.
-Val
12-18-2007, 02:00 AM
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I'm so glad people are excited about this! And feel free to modify your list of activities if you don't like or can't do something - just make a note to yourself of what you are replacing since I'll be calling from this list. I'm optimistic about our chances to have the option to try almost everything from the lists - I'll be calling one thing from each list from now until Christmas, then as a push to New Years for anyone who has goals they are trying for between now and then I'll be calling 2 things from each list - you'll have the choice to do one or the other or both - just mark off any space you complete. I think that should get us close to using everything & give us options to keep moving. It should be fun - I made my card today & my 6 year old will be drawing the numbers each night before he goes to be so I can post sometime over night - so if you don't like what's picked, just remember I didn't pick it -I'm suffering right along with you, because I wanted to play too, although looking at the list of activites I'm sure some days I'll regret it 
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