August Exercise Challenge: "Every Day is a Good Day for Disney - AND for Exercise"

[PollyannaMom]

Good morning, and Happy August!!

I'm starting off with my favorite kind of character photos for our first "Silly Saturday" - Disney characters with their animal counterparts. These two pics are from Pinterest:





Good luck to everyone who has signed up, or is here to sign up now. It's going to be a great month!!

 

[scdak]

I would love to join, never done the monthly challenge but its time to try it! I have a Disney trip planned for late Sept/early Oct so I am trying to increase my activity and drop a few pounds! I think I can go with 1000 to for this month - exercise won't kill me

 

[kathleen27]

Happy August!!! Hope everyone is having a great Saturday!

I'm starting off with my favorite kind of character photos for our first "Silly Saturday" - Disney characters with their animal counterparts.

Love the photos - Adorable & Silly!

18 minutes core / ab workout this morning.

18/1100

 

[Rattpack]

I keep joking about needing to bring my dog to Disney World to meet Pluto.

99 minutes at the gym
99/1000

 

[scdak]

113/1000 on stationary bike for me today - its my day off so that's a lot of minutes for me, but back to the grindstone tomorrow

 

[chbc]

Thank you for hosting Pollyannamom!

60/900 Walking.

 

[scdak]

Quick ? since I am new to the thread, do I need to break down my minutes into type of activity? I am using my Fitbit that records my active minutes ie exercise and sometimes its a combination of walking and riding my stationary bike. If I need to list it separately I can do that, I would need to just keep track of it as I walk or ride.

 

[Dentam]

So glad I found this thread! I'm going to WDW in early September and want to add exercise to the mix to lose an additional 10 pounds before I go. I'd like to set my goal at 1000 minutes for August.

Thanks!

 

[hmack]

I was tttthhhhiiiissss close to my goal last month, but despite the strong start, I just didn't make it.

August is a crazy month as the "kiddos" come back to the college I work at so there's a lot of prep. However, I also know that for my sanity and everyone's safety I should exercise. So I'll go with:

1600 minutes

today I'm at 78/1600.

I did a 10K today with 6,500 of my closest friends.

I decided that running a race is a lot like a mullet - business in the front and a party at the back.

My husband was MUCH more towards the front than I was and he talked about stats and heart-rates and passing folks and I lined up towards the back and had a great time high-fiving all of the little kids a long the way, checking out what everyone around me was wearing, reading spectator signs and encouraging and chatting with fellow run/walkers.

 

[jmaussies]

I'm in for 620 minutes this month.

 

[PSUTraveler]

Did my required training for the day; 9 mile run. Starting off strong!

96/1500

 

[Rattpack]

Quick ? since I am new to the thread, do I need to break down my minutes into type of activity? I am using my Fitbit that records my active minutes ie exercise and sometimes its a combination of walking and riding my stationary bike. If I need to list it separately I can do that, I would need to just keep track of it as I walk or ride.

However you want to keep track is fine. I think people just like to include the type of exercise for fun. Just happy to have you aboard!

 

[sophy1996]

23 minutes walking.

23/1200

 

[Dentam]

35 minutes walking.

35/1000

 

[galaxygirl76]

Starting August with 45 minutes of cardio HIIT and a 5x5x5 upper body workout.

60/1200

 

[5xdisneyfans]

walked tonight
30/1000

 

[PollyannaMom]

Quick ? since I am new to the thread, do I need to break down my minutes into type of activity? I am using my Fitbit that records my active minutes ie exercise and sometimes its a combination of walking and riding my stationary bike. If I need to list it separately I can do that, I would need to just keep track of it as I walk or ride.

However you want to keep track is fine. I think people just like to include the type of exercise for fun. Just happy to have you aboard!

Absolutely! You can just say "30 minutes - walking and bike" or something like that. If you make it too much of a chore, you won't want to do it!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Good morning! The team got off to a great start yesterday, and we already have two color changes!!

Congratulations Rattpack & scdak on turning Cloudless Sky Blue!!!!

I have no minutes to report myself, as I was at a big family event yesterday, but I'll get everyone else's total into the first post right away.

For "Cinema Sunday," we have this trivia question:

We all know Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and it even won little honorary Oscars, but what was the first Disney animated feature film actually nominated for Best Picture?

 

[Dentam]

We all know Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and it even won little honorary Oscars, but what was the first Disney animated feature film actually nominated for Best Picture?

Was it "Beauty and the Beast"?

 

[PollyannaMom]

Was it "Beauty and the Beast"?

Yes!! "Beauty and the Beast" was nominated for best picture in 1991. It didn't win in that category, but did win two others for music.