The Workout Challenge

So, as part of my attempts to get back into a workout routine, and to help a friend with her motivation, I’ve started a workout challenge.

It’s not the perfect challenge to be sure, but I think it works well for our purposes. Hopefully!

Each week (Friday – Thursday) we track exertion in calories burned on MyFitnessPal and at the end of said week, we make a tally and whoever has the most, wins that week. Whoever wins the majority of the weeks in the month wins the month.

And then, at the end of the year, whichever one of us has lost the year, buys the victor a book. (A wonderful reward idea if I do say so myself.)

I’m rather certain this model would be more motivating if the winner of the month was entitled to a book… Perhaps a change is in order.