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30-Day Fitness Challenge Checklist

Day Twenty-Nine

Date_____________________

Active Challenge:  Accumulate at least 10 extra minutes of walking today.

_______ YES  _______ NO

Exercise Challenge:  Part One:  Lower Body:  Perform 2-3 sets of 12-14 reps of the following upper body exercises:

  • Ball Squats

  • Lunges

  • Deadlifts

  • Bent Over Leg Lifts

  • Inner Thigh Squeezes

  • Leg Press with Band

Or, other moves from the Lower Body Progression Workout.

Part Two:  Choose one of these ab workouts or your own exercises and spend at least five minutes strengthening your abs after your lower body workout.

_______ YES  _______ NO

Flexibility Challenge:  Perform all the stretches shown in this Lower Body Stretching Workout or choose any previous flexibility routine and do the exercises after your strength workout.

_______ YES  _______ NO

Nutritional Challenge:  Change at least one of your daily snacks to make it healthier.  Use the information you got from yesterday's nutrition challenge in which you learned the real calorie counts of several common snack foods. Choose one of the snacks from your own list and change it by doing one (or more) of the following:

  • Substituting something healthier
  • Eating a smaller portion
  • Having something healthy and filling (like an apple, some water or some tea) before you eat the snack
  • Not eating it at all.
_______ YES  _______ NO

Mind/Body Challenge:  5-minute meditation.

_______ YES  _______ NO
Record your workouts and meals in your journal _______ YES  _______ NO

If you haven't completed some of the things on this checklist, make a note of what you still need to do and when you'll do it:

 

If you did complete all the assignments, write down what you found the most challenging and why:

 

List any other tasks you'd like to accomplish in addition to or instead of the challenges listed above:

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