Who is ready to enlist in a 6-week boot camp, work out, compete, and lose some weight?

The idea is this:

For 6 weeks, we will track our points each day and then post a weekly total. We will earn points like this:

1 point for every 10 minutes of exercise (cardio, weight training, etc. Please don't include activities like yard work, washing the car, housecleaning, etc.)

2 points for each day that we eat healthy (This will be subjective, but if you can look back over the day and feel you did a good job, give yourself the points.)

5 points for each day we accomplish the Special Challenge

What is the Special Challenge? For the first week, I will decide what it is. It will be an activity that will we will strive to achieve in order to get the 5 points, either keeping a food diary or drinking 8 servings of water, or anything else.

After week #1, the person with the MOST points for the week will be the Squad Leader and will decide what the following week's Special Challenge will be!

The person with the LEAST points for the week will be eliminated.

Week #1 will run from Sunday, September 13 through Saturday, September 19. Please track your own points each day and post your weekly total before midnight on that Monday. Not posting your points on time could result in elimination. We will need points quickly so that the Squad Leader can be determined and we can get going on our Special Challenge!

The 6 week boot camp will run from September 13 through October 24.

If you would like to enlist, please sign up here! I will start new threads for each week and will post their links here.

Welcome to the boot camp, and I hope you will join me!

Our Boot Camp cadets:

MJ
Teresa
Shaina
Leida
Joy
Samantha
JD

(I will keep updating this list as people sign up!)

Sign me up! I do still have some lbs I want to lose, but more than anything right now I just need to work on consistency. Lately I've been trying to get by with the bare minimum, both with my eating and with my exercise. "Well, just for today cupcakes and ice cream will be ok for lunch!" Plan to run 4 miles, but instead just do a 20 minute very slow jog, etc.... Need to get my butt in gear, and I like the sound of Boot Camp. I need a frikkin drill sergeant right about now! The special challenges like a fun surprise too, and the whole thing about the bottom person getting kicked out is sure to light a fire! I used to think it was sort of mean and counter productive to kick people out of the game, but having been through several challenges, I now think that players (myself first and worst) tend to get complacent when there's not much incentive "to win".

Anyway, sounds like a great challenge MJ, can't wait to get started!

Welcome to Boot Camp, Shaina! I agree, participants tend to get a bit lax when there is no negative consequence for it. I know I won't slack if it means getting eliminated from my own challenge!

I think I'm in.

Originally Posted by MJ

Welcome to Boot Camp, Shaina! I agree, participants tend to get a bit lax when there is no negative consequence for it. I know I won't slack if it means getting eliminated from my own challenge!

I cant join due to another challenge I'm personally doing but this is interesting, I hope you do another one in the future. Glad to see you back in full effect MJ.

I am on board! I hope to be well enough by Sunday to start doing vigorous workouts!

Hi Joy and Leida! Thanks for joining. We will need quite a few more participants so that as people are eliminated, we don't end up with hardly anyone left. We still have a few days before we begin (Sunday the 13th). I'm looking forward to getting started!

Need anyone else for this challenge? I would love to join

Welcome, Samantha! Thanks for joining!