After a couple of days without being able to log in, the President's Challenge Website is back up. I was trying to remember everything especially as "home repairs" and "household chores" are fitness categories! Considering I spent 3 hours painting motorcycle parts (details on how that project is going are in my other blog) and doing stuff around the house I might as well get credit for it! I'm progressing along and am now 36.05% of the way to the bronze award and 1.4% of the way to the Platinum award! WOO HOO at this rate I'll have to live to be almost 150 to get it....
But I need to ramp up a real fitness plan mixing 5x5/powerlifting (big compound movements) and high-intensity aerobics-more just for me, but getting the awards won't hurt.
Showing posts with label Presdiential Fitness Champion Challenge. Show all posts
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Monday, September 2, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
More on the Presidential Fitness Champions Challenge
Just a couple of quick points. Last night while looking at the results for the 2013 Platinum Champions list (1,000,000 points-wow!) I saw a name that looked familiar but wasn't who I was looking for. Off to FaceBook and sure enough, it was a FB friend who is a powerlifting Lutheran pastor! So I shot him a quick post and yes, he's now on his way to a second million point award.
And that leads to my second point. As you can see by looking at the various "exercises" that you can earn points doing here there are some weird events. Since I can juggle, I've logged a few minutes juggling when I tried teaching some co-workers that important skill, but exercise? How come "snowmobiling" is an approved activity, as is moto-cross riding but not regular motorcycle riding? The only logic I can think of for "skydiving" applying as exercise-1 step, then falling, then a few seconds of pulling your chute in so you don't get dragged away on the ground or in the water-the sheer terror factor, could apply the way some of us ride! Yes I am a motorcyclist with a blog and am a little biased but some of the exercise choices are truly bizarre.
Enough for that rant, and I am one-third the way to bronze and about 1.4% to Platinum!
And that leads to my second point. As you can see by looking at the various "exercises" that you can earn points doing here there are some weird events. Since I can juggle, I've logged a few minutes juggling when I tried teaching some co-workers that important skill, but exercise? How come "snowmobiling" is an approved activity, as is moto-cross riding but not regular motorcycle riding? The only logic I can think of for "skydiving" applying as exercise-1 step, then falling, then a few seconds of pulling your chute in so you don't get dragged away on the ground or in the water-the sheer terror factor, could apply the way some of us ride! Yes I am a motorcyclist with a blog and am a little biased but some of the exercise choices are truly bizarre.
Enough for that rant, and I am one-third the way to bronze and about 1.4% to Platinum!
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