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It's 2 weeks away starting 16th September and I've just got over a spasming back so have motivation for regular back-strengthening exercise. I, for one, an in.
Edit: if someone could add the history of Munrobiker's friend for context please...
Multiple aches and pains plus chest infection here.Need to think about this.
in. time to spare.
In. Been making excuses when I've had the time and need to address some health issues
Blimey, cant believe it has come around so quickly…damn I’m getting old!
I’ll give it another go, anything that might to help motivate me off my arse!
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
I'm currently on day 820 so will be carrying on anyway, but I'll also post up here for encouragement/ideas/support. I also love seeing everyone's photos as we transition from late summer into winter.
I've just got to get over a spasming back so have motivation for regular back-strengthening exercise.
Hopefully, I'm in.
Having just ditched the booze this week with the intention of going to Christmas AND also massively changed my diet AND built a new bike AND vowed to get back to the gym this week, seems like I ought to give it a go.
Aim is to lose a stone - currently around 13st 10lbs
Think I'll give it a miss this year as the last two times I've tried I've been going really well before getting wiped out late November.
I had my reservations, currently recovering from a double fractured humerus and my physio is quite brutal but gradually getting better.
But, seeing as I have completed this challenge every year, I’m not giving up this time. Looking forward to getting back into a routine and taking a few photos for @scotroutes.
Im in!!
need to start running again, plenty of yoga and bodyweight,
its usually the evening after eork and once the kids are in bed before i can do something
fitting it 30 mins of exercise around things like birthdays, trips away and xmas parties is extra hatd
As I'm already doing 30-40 mins a day rehab'ing my broken (now joined) collarbone it would seem lazy not to go again this year. It was excellent motivation last year and I think I went about 130 days. Or about 1/4 of a @scotroutes 🙂
I can now go back in the gym, so that's tues and thurs, ride weds and one at the weekend. Turbo and Treadmill to take up the slack. Should be fine 😉
Any body worked out how to avoid the autumn bug fest.It normally gives me a kicking
Criteria? What sort of exercise, how often?
I’ve played at this a few times, however having recently stepped away from work/possible retirement I reckon I’m in.
I’m already exercising about 5 days out of 7, with riding, both outside and Zwift, swimming and yoga, and whilst I walk the dog on average 3 times/7-10k a day, I don’t think that counts, as it’s ‘routine’.
I know that with my next birthday early next year being the big 60, I ought to add in some gym strength stuff, and have a trainer session booked at the gym week after next to set me a suitable programme. I think if I can add that in twice a week it will fall into place.
I've started getting this guy's stuff popping up on Facebook - like the look of the exercises. Once my back's in a better state, think I'll use this to plug imagination gaps
https://fit4racing.com/the-zone/category/workout-of-the-week/
Will give it a try. With the nights drawing in and the big cold approaching, I'll need something to motivate me.
Good luck to anybody giving it a go this year. I've done it a couple of times and failed a couple of times.
I'm not going to bother this year. I'm gradually picking up the amount of excersise I'm doing and still need to improve and eat better, this year after the 100 days last year went very south for me for many reason and being 'forced*' into doing excersise every day doesn't work for my mental state. I need to balance it out and an hour long dog walk doesn't work for me to count as excersise*. I'm going to the gym and starting to run again, but haven't ridden a bike for ages.
*I know it isn't forced, but thats the kind of pressure I put on myself and I get very stressed if I don't do it right.....
Good luck everyone, Christmas eve will be here in no time....
I've started getting this guy's stuff popping up on Facebook - like the look of the exercises. Once my back's in a better state, think I'll use this to plug imagination gaps
https://fit4racing.com/the-zone/category/workout-of-the-week/
I do some of his stuff I see on insta.
Some of it is really tough (I'm not flexible enough). Some really easy. But I hadn't seen that page I'll check it out.
I'm in. I try and do some exercise every day anyway, although sometimes I really, really, need a rest day! The difficult bit for me this year is that I'm away loads throughout the next two months... best take my running shoes and some resistance bands 🙂
Think I might go wild and try to ride a bike everyday, even if I have to resort to rollers on the shitty days..
For those who are looking to exercise as a means to lose weight, I’ll share my own experiences. Turned 60 this year and distinctly remember getting on the scales in January and it being a little north of 70kg. I do try to run, bike and kayak as much as I can but the Hebrides in winter is often not conducive to exercise, plus we don’t have a gym here. Running was often intermittent due to recurring niggly injury although whilst still averaging 12k+ steps per day. Having been diagnosed with a benign enlarged prostate a while back I’d been under active surveillance and an annual MRI which unfortunately came back positive for stage 2 cancer. Anyway cut to the chase, by eliminating most of the sugar and processed food from my diet I’ve lost over 7kg and my blood PSA has declined. The weight loss has also considerably improved my exercise - I ran my first 10 miler in over 5 years, the back pain that hinders my cycling is way better and set a few PBs for speed and distance in my kayak. I still enjoy a couple of glasses of wine per week and the occasional take-away treat. I’ve got an elliptical trainer, some kettlebells and a chinning bar I’ll endeavour to use more over winter now that the nights are drawing in, but the change in diet from me has been more effective than any exercise programme but the most significant is the lack of food cravings/need to snack. Previously, when I wanted to lose weight, I’d simply exercise more but it get harder as I’ve got older.
That’s great to hear, out of interest, how is the reduced PSA impacting the journey towards better defining the cancer and treatment options ? Maybe a stupid question, as you may have had biopsies etc as part of the diagnosis and as such the PSA is less relevant.
Yep, the big dog's in
I’m in. Hoping to make it to the end after failing in the latter stages of 23 and 24.
@jimmy - Here’s the intro that @munrobiker provided last year for context:
The premise is simple - exercise for a minimum of half an hour a day everyday from the 16TH OF SEPTEMBER for 100 days, which means the 24th of December is the last day.
Rules are not particularly tight - me and my mates have a fairly strict one about commuting (if you do an active commute of under half an hour, you need to do an additional half hour) but other than that, exercise is what you count as exercise (bikes, running, weights, yoga, a walk, whatever) and if you miss a day you don't have to beat yourself up or make it up on another day - just keep going.
If you start feeling ill, rest up. I canned it last year because I was struggling with a concussion and it was less healthy for me to exercise than to rest.
Use this thread to seek and give motivation and post pictures of what you're up to.
Finally, a reminder that this challenge was dreamt up by my mate Chris who I used to race bikes with - he used it as a way to keep momentum up going into winter and to help him realise that going out in the rain and cold isn't so bad. He was killed in an avalanche in Glencoe back in 2013 and I only found out about the challenge afterwards, but it's good motivation to keep going.
I'm in too. Hopefully I'll do better than last year when it all went wrong in early -mid November
I've borrowed my bro-in-law's weighted vest.
If I wear it for dog walks, that will count, right?
, but the change in diet from me has been more effective than any exercise programme but the most significant is the lack of food cravings/need to snack. Previously, when I wanted to lose weight, I’d simply exercise more but it get harder as I’ve got older.
Can certainly relate to that last part! Despite increasing my exercise weight isnt changing. Interested to know what has driven the lack of food cravings/need to snack though? If I increase my exercise that just gets worse!
Yep, I'm in again. Didn't make the full one last year but still got me moving better than not trying at all.
My commitment this year is not to 30 minutes daily, but to something meaningful daily.
I started this week 🙂 Need to get fitness/strength back after 12 weeks off with a busted collarbone. So it's Swim-Gym-Run-Ride-Gym class-Ride and then something to make up the last day. Plus shoulder rehab which is 20 mins ish a day but I don't bother recording that.
Little and often works for me. Apart from the rides everything is around an hour.
Ill have a bash
For 30 minutes a day? It'll fall off.
Oh god. Alright then. I'm about 3 stone overweight, so I need to do something drastic.
Is there going to be a Strava club?
I kicked off my 102 days of cycling with a lesson in riding a penny farthing, even got to ride it down the Mall to Buckingham palace.
The only way I've managed to lose weight is fasting, which isn't for the evangelism of fasting effects but it simply cut out the time in the day when I would usually snack (late night, mid morning). Takes some management to not be hungry at those times but it's simple when you've done it for a wee while.
Not lost much weight but swapped my shorts for jeans last night and they’re very lose. Being doing compound weight lifting most lunchtimes plus swimming.
I've packed in the booze until Christmas now, may as well get in some daily exercise. Aim is 30mins run in the mornings, unless it's a riding day.
+1 for fasting started it accidentally in late January when life got very busy for a spell. I was often away from home and didn't have access to snacks at night also had early starts at work so ended up taking my breakfast in to eat at about 10 am. Have been fasting 10pm-10am since . Gave up all the crisps etc cut biscuits down to about 3 or 4 per week. Eat lots of fruit and full fat yoghurt. Anyway lost 2 and a half stone from 17st 5llb to 14st 12 lb weight has been steady for the last two months
Is there going to be a Strava club?
Yep - there's one still running since last year
I'm assuming for stuff to show in that group it has to be visible to everyone? Or does that not apply because it's a group.
Will have another go this year. Just sent a request link to rejoin the strava group for 2025. Good luck all.
I’m in. I pretty much do more than 30 min a day anyway with dog walking and cycle commute.
To make it more of a challenge I wont count the dog walk. The daily cycle commute is 18 miles which I could include, but for more of a challenge I think I’ll discount it.
Unfortunately I’ve got a broken toe which discounts running but I’ll make up for it at the gym or on the bike. I also hate wearing a watch to log gym stuff for Strava so I’ll try and manually add it.
Personally I don't include dog walking, as I'd be doing that anyway. It needs to be something above and beyond your base line.
(Which does include dog walking: if you only walk the dog 30 minutes a day, taking Fido out for a 2 hour walk would count. Just not the once-round-the-block you'd do on a normal day...)
It needs to be something above and beyond your base line.
Yeah, but my current "baseline" is already more than 2 hours per day and I'm definitely not commiting to increasing that by 30 minutes 😂
2 years ago I completed it with some dubious 11pm yoga or weight sessions and walks around gatwick departure lounge.
Last year I managed 98/100 with the self imposed rule of half hour of cardio.
Not sure what to do this year. Debating only counting outdoors? Most days I think thats acheivable. Tuesdays, due to work, I cant do anything until about 6pm. If its pouring and once the clocks change, that might be what breaks me.
There's nothing "dubious" about yoga and/or weights. I consider these as essential for maintaining a healthy, fit body and have them in my normal routine.
Looking forward to it. For me it’ll be a combination of Zwift, swimming, yoga, some outdoor rides and some gym sessions. I do walk the dog 3 times a day but not planning on counting that, I don’t think…
Dubious in my level of effort applied to doing it. My thought being that if I'm picking it as the easy option because I don't want to do a 30 minute brisk walk, it must be of less benefit than that walk. Done properly I'm sure its good, but I'm probably not good enough at it to do it right.
My main motivation for this challenge is mental health rather than physical as the nights and weather draws in - hence my possible plan to not count zwift riding which is also oging to be of benefit.
There will be quite a few days where the brisk walk will be my only cardio. Running or biking hard every day which I know I have no ability to do for 100 days straight is going to lead to burnout and fatigue and be counter productive.
I will still do the weights and yoga (admittedly sporadically) but not sure I'll be counting it in terms of the 100 day challenge.
I anticipate some late night yoga (not a euphemism) and walks around the village. Weighed in this morning at 87.5kg. I'm hoping that a bit less "garbage in" will also help that come down a little in the next 100 days.
My main motivation for this challenge is mental health rather than physical as the nights and weather draws in - hence my possible plan to not count zwift riding which is also oging to be of benefit.
When I was doing this challenge a few years ago, pre-turbo days, I'd sometimes be out running in some atrocious weather. You're right that it probably had more mental health benefits than a dour Zwift session 😀
Personally I don't include dog walking, as I'd be doing that anyway. It needs to be something above and beyond your base line.
(Which does include dog walking: if you only walk the dog 30 minutes a day, taking Fido out for a 2 hour walk would count. Just not the once-round-the-block you'd do on a normal day...)
What the **** is a once around the block dog walk?!
Enquiring minds would like to know.
https://imgur.com/a/uPD9AgB#C7bATNw
Hesitant to make a (quasi-anonymous) commitment in a public forum, but I'm in!
Expect I will find it difficult to be that consistent. Which I guess is exactly why I should do it...
...My main motivation for this challenge is mental health rather than physical as the nights and weather draws in...
a lot of that....
I'm torn, for some reason I find it really tough to go 100 days unbroken. I'm currently doing an hour or so six days a week so you'd have thought adding something in on the remaining day of the week wouldn't be a big deal. But it is, for me. Maybe I should commit to an outdoor ride come rain or shine on that remaining day?
There's nothing "dubious" about yoga and/or weights
+1 on this. Weights three days a week for me, has been for the past two and a half years. Had an amazingly good impact on my riding and I'm now borderline evangelical about lifting. I also have a half hour yoga class tacked on after a Wednesday CrossFit session and know I should do more, it's definitely good for you. (more yoga not CrossFit, though CrossFit is certainly exercise)
If my vans back, hoping to start it with an evening ride!
My main motivation for this challenge is mental health rather than physical as the nights and weather draws in - hence my possible plan to not count zwift riding which is also oging to be of benefit.
When I was doing this challenge a few years ago, pre-turbo days, I'd sometimes be out running in some atrocious weather. You're right that it probably had more mental health benefits than a dour Zwift session 😀
I make a solemn promise that all 100 days will involve outdoor exercise 😂
Shit start today though as I had to go into the city for work so a quick home gym session and some city walking. Tomorrow will be just as bad...
Day 1: 7am, 40 min run. Swim at lunchtime.
Strong start, 99 days to go.
Good luck all!
Seem to have shaken my chest disease.Will exercise on my ebike later!
I'm gonna give it a go, even if I only get halfway it'll be a massive improvement on what I'm doing currently.
Day 1: About to squeeze into my lycra. Wish me luck. Quick spin around the woods we've just moved to.
30 miler done earlier. which i would have done anyway. same old same old here.
need something for a change. cant run with a fused foot and steel hip. walking is ok, but gets too painful if done day after day. swimming pool near home is a toxic cesspit. hate gym stuff with a passion. had 2 dogs over the past 30 years, dont want another yet. rowing hurts my knee, which needs replacing. bedroom gymnastics cost me a fortune in viagra.............. bowling could be the answer.
20 minutes of kettlebell stuff but heading for a bike ride later so that'll count.
I had a "shadow" metric other than the 30 mins elapsed. That's to try and get 1000 "exercise" calories burnt 4 days out of 7. I know the Garmin over-reads (esp without a decent HR strap) but sometimes it nudges me to do a bit more.
Felt surprisingly chipper swimming after a run. I do remember last year tho feeling very wearing from the start of December.
Bagged 22 minutes weights/stretches in the garden first thing this morning, and heading out for a 2-3 hour MTB ride this evening with a mate.
2.5k pool swim then a 45 min yoga class, business as usual. The 2 dog walks don’t count. Have a 60 min Zwift meet up with some pals this evening too
2.5k of pool swimming would take me all day 🙂 Assuming I didn't have to be rescued by the lifeguard!
^^^ 🤪. It takes me just under an hour, but I do go a couple of times a week !
I had a "shadow" metric other than the 30 mins elapsed. That's to try and get 1000 "exercise" calories burnt 4 days out of 7. I know the Garmin over-reads (esp without a decent HR strap) but sometimes it nudges me to do a bit more.
I have that as a regular daily target on my Apple Watch, I get it most days, largely down to dog walks.
Day 1 - wander up Ben A’an with the Mrs and dog. 1hr 30mins up and down, so off to a good start.
I unofficially retired 2 weeks ago, so should have a bit more time to get some decent efforts in between now and Christmas.
And we're of:
Been for lunchtime swim 1km and will do short urban ride tonight. Travelling tomorrow so hopefully i won't fall at the first hurdle but will run around the airport and lift randon large bags.
22 miles up on the South Downs this morning. May have stopped at Holden farm for a curry pastie though………
It looks like I'm having a go at this. in theory it shouldn't be a massive jump from what I normally do, but those extra days, that are usually recovery days will need some thought. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
40km gravel loop today around Aviemore to kick things off.
What the **** is a once around the block dog walk?!
Never said how big the block was 😀
Back to the gym today after quite a few weeks off, scary how fast you lose muscle strength if you don't use it... So that's me done for the day.
Day 1. Didn't have time, made some anyway.
Reckon the hardtail is going to be getting some use for this.
day 1 extra tai chi . Off work sick not fit for biking and it's sunny today. Scunnered