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30-Day Fitness Challenge

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Updated December 14, 2011

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21. Day 21

Day 21 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge has you sitting on an exercise ball, working your cardio and focusing on upper body training. You'll have an easy stretch for the lower body and spend some time writing in your food journal about any junk food issues you may have. Your mind/body challenge is all about organizing one small corner of your life so you can breathe easier and feel more in control in a world gone mad.

22. Day 22

Day 22 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge involves walking an extra 20 minutes today, a lower body workout, an ab workout, lower body stretches and a focus on eating vegetables with every meal. These are all tough challenges and your mind/body challenge is also a tough one, involving concentrating on some of your strength training exercises. Bring your focus for this one.

23. Day 23

Day 23 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge has you doing a little yoga both in the morning and evening. Your cardio workout will push you a little harder than usual, which will make your flexibility exercises feel even better than usual. For your nutrition challenge, you'll slow things down and your mind/body challenge involves a long relaxation before bed tonight.

24. Day 24

Day 24 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge will have some familiar challenges, like setting an alarm to go off as a reminder to stand throughout the day and a total body strength workout. Your nutrition challenge focuses on fruit while your mind/body challenge involves a 3-minute meditation you've done before. Hopefully, you're getting better at it.

25. Day 25

Day 25 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge is a little easier than previous days with a simple active challenge, a short core workout, a few simple stretches and an experiment with portion sizes - Specifically, how you can make them smaller. Your mind/body challenge is all about taking a break in the middle of the day to refresh and rejuvenate with some specific activities.

26. Day 26

Day 26 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge involves a little extra walking, a low impact cardio circuit workout and an upper body workout, so I hope you're ready for that. Your flexibility challenge includes a band to deepen your stretches, your nutrition challenge involves spending some time with your journal and your mind/body challenge is all about injecting a little more fun into your day.

27. Day 27

Day 27 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge involves some challenges you should recognize. You'll sit on exercise ball, complete an interval cardio workout and do some simple, relaxing stretches. You'll also focus on creating a healthier lunch and spend 5 minutes relaxing.

28. Day 28

Day 28 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge takes you ever closer to your goal. You're two days away from finishing the challenge and today you'll spend some time exercising while you're watching TV, cardio with lower body strength training and a lower body flexibility workout. Your nutrition challenge is to focus on your snacks, and your mind body challenge is all about listening to some of your favorite music.

29. Day 29

Day 29 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge nvolves an easy 10 minutes of extra walking and a moderate cardio workout. You'll also stretch, work on your diet and complete a 5 minute meditation.

30. Day 30

Day 30 of your 30-Day Fitness Challenge is the finish line. This is the last day of your 30 day fitness challenge. Today you have no assignments other than to reflect on how far you've come and celebrate all of your successes. Remember that success isn't being perfect through all of the challenges, but the fact that you tried your best and made it all the way to the end. Congratulations!

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