7 Day Push – Week 1: Exercise 15 Minutes

June 12, 2011 by

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Week 1 Challenge: Exercise for a minimum of 15 minutes every day

This week’s challenge is to exercise a minimum of 15 minutes per day. Whether it be running, walking, swimming, sports, playing your Wii or Kinect – it doesn’t matter. The point is to push yourself beyond your usual limits and accept no excuses for not doing it. If it’s too hot or raining out, do something indoors. If you had kids, get them involved. If you have to work late, spread out the 15 minutes into 5 minute increments throughout the day. If you have just too much to do, push something off that isn’t necessary to just get in those 15 minutes of exercise.

It’s just that easy.

Taking 105 minutes out of your 10,080 minute week really isn’t that much time, is it?

This week I’ll be focusing on walking for the most part as it’s one of the most relaxing things for me to do and I tend to do it with my husband and our beagle Meg. I always find a reason not to do it though and I think forcing myself to put an end to those excuses, even for a week, will remind me why I enjoy doing it so much.

Joining us this week? Link up your challenge related posts below and be sure to check out other people’s posts to help motivate each other. We’ll be using the hashtag #7DayPush to discuss our achievements and bumps along the road on Twitter!

Please do not link up your blog – only challenge related posts will be accepted. All others will be deleted.

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Comments

  1. mama marchand says:
    June 12, 2011 at 7:35 AM

    You can do it, lady! Love this! :)

  2. Adrienne says:
    June 12, 2011 at 7:44 AM

    Great idea, love working in a team :) I'll post (and link) mine tomorrow.

  3. Gertrude says:
    June 12, 2011 at 7:46 AM

    Great initiative. I don't know why I find it so hard to exercise every day!

  4. Marilyn says:
    June 12, 2011 at 11:18 AM

    I almost feel like this is cheating for me hee hee! Every day I walk from Grand Central station to my office which is roughly a 10 minute walk, I do this twice a day and mind you, it's my city walk so it's pretty fast. I'll try not to count that thought. :) I have been exercising in the mornings before I get dressed, a little bit of yoga and do a few curls with my weights so I'll amp that up.

  5. Shalyn says:
    June 15, 2011 at 9:30 AM

    I love this challenge! I sometimes give up on my workout knowing I can't get a full hour in so I need to remember I can split it up- it all adds up! Thanks for this:-)

  6. Trish says:
    July 19, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    I am starting today and I just did 15 minutes of zumba..that was fun..I am up for the challenge..

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