The Fitblogger Challenge

Welcome to our first monthly challenge!

To start, the challenges are not a competition with others, but with ourselves, to strive for something we maybe didn’t think we could do, and challenge our own definition of ourselves.

Drastic change isn’t done overnight (or it likely won’t be drastic very long) it’s a million tiny changes, a million baby steps that result in a completely different life, over time. The goal of the challenges is to help you make those small changes. Each month, a change that builds on the last, builds on your success.

The challenge can take whatever form of goal you’d like fitness, nutritional, it’s entirely up to you and what your personal goals are (with one exception, see below.)

How it Works

1. Pledge your participation in the comments below.

2. Write a post on your blog, this week, detailing your goals, where you are starting, what improvement you hope to make, etc.  Using those goal setting techniques will be very helpful here. (If you don’t have a blog, their are tons of free options, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, and if you want a self hosted WordPress blog, Fitblogger does that too. What we’re saying is there are no excuses!)

• You can pledge minutes, miles, consistency (like 5 days a week).
• For this challenge, no weight related goals please. That might be a bonus for a more active lifestyle but we’re focusing on health. You might want to work in a nutrition goal, like drink 8 glasses of water a day, eat 5 fruits and veggies, etc.
• Try to use SMART goal setting. If you want to review goal setting, or mission statements, check out our recent the articles about those very topics.

3. Once you’ve completed your introductory post, please link it below in the link tool included at the end of the post.

4. Each Monday, we will publish a new Challenge post here, week 2, week 3, etc. All  you need to do is write one post per week with a goal update and link it to that weekly post.

5. The links will enable everyone to see who is participating and cheer each other on. You do not have to achieve all you goals, you simply have to be actively working on them and posting about it!

That’s all there is to it. Make goals, work towards them and let everyone know how you’re doing by linking up here. And of course here’s the badge code or you can copy paste the image too if you prefer, just link it back to http://fitblogger.ca/challenge/

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