Yesterday we had our first team Challenge.  With so many members of the GFC unfortunately it wasn’t too much of a “group” effort but more, come in when you can and earn points for your team.  I met a few from my team at 10:30 and we started with the YMCA trivia portion of the challenge.  All of the information could be found within the gym, the pamphlets, or Google.  Not sure if we were supposed to use Google but as far as I know the record keeper, Rick, doesn’t read my blog, so he’ll never know… shhhhh

Once that was done, it was off to the Fitness portion of the challenge.  2-1/2 hours later I finally finished!  We started as a group but through the various exercises got separated.  I’m not sure what happened to the rest of my team, you guys bailed on me!  Let’s just say that you better have brought some points in girls or I’ll tell Tom to give you double work on Thursday ;-)

The fitness part of the challenge was a list of exercises, 5 points for each completed.  I am proud to say I finished them all!!  I had to break them up and made some mini supersets, but I finished, slow but sure!  So far as I write this on this beautiful Tuesday morning, I am not feeling the pain…I’m pretty confident that will change in the next couple of hours.  Here is a list of all that was on our challenge:

• 5 minutes on the Stairmaster
• 2 laps around the building
• 50 push-ups
• 20 burpees
• Leg press, 3 sets of 15
• Dumbbell curl press, 3 sets of 12
• Climb 250 vertical feet on the treadmill
• Row 1000 yards
• 50 sit-ups
• 100 jumping jacks
• 50 stability ball leg curls
• Choice of any 3 circuits, 2 sets of 15
• 25 frog hops
• 2 minutes of low plans
• 2 minutes wall sit
• 1 mile on the treadmill
• Push-press 25 reps
• 50 body weight squats
• 100 calories on cardio
• Bench press 25 reps
• Pull-ups 25 reps
• Lat pull downs, 3 sets of 15
• Bracing heel taps, 30 each leg
• Lunge walks 100 steps
• Dumbbell swings 50 reps
• Machine chest press 50 reps
• 40 Mountain climbers
• Inverted rows 30 reps

Whew!  I’m tired all over again, but this monster I conquered!!!  Somewhere it became personal.  Not about points, not about winning, but about giving a task to HELP me and to see where I wanted to take that.  Sure I wanted to kick the crap out of Rick who made this program on my 19th burpee, but in the end, I knew it would only help me.  At the end of the day, did I want to lie in bed and think, “I shouldn’t have let it beat me” or did I want to think, “Dang, I did that!”  I chose the latter…