Challenges to Challenge Yourself

     I have found over the past few years that challenges help me challenge myself and intensify my workout, whether it's a transformation challenge or what I've been doing the past 2 months are running challenges. It started when my cousin ran a half marathon just for the heck of it, which is crazy. I suggested in our Whatsapp group that we should do a challenges for the family, so he put together a cousin's 50 km challenge. to specify It was good because it got people up and about, even those that don't normally workout. About 60 % of us completed it, 1 only needing 8 days to finish, craziness! 

     Fast forward to this month. I decided to put on my own 40 km challenge for friends and family, I just put it out on my social media. A handful of people signed up right away and others needed a little push.In total, 18 signed up. We are 9 days in a one person is done, and 5 or 6 within 5 kms to finishing, should have made it a 50 kms.... who knew?? Funny part is, some of the ones on the top of the leader board are the ones that said "40 km is too much" or "I don't run, I would die." Apparently it's not the case...

   

  For our challenge, we use the Nike Run Club app. It's a nice app that tracks your distance, time, pace, and calories burned. It also maps out your route and shows you your run speeds on the maps as well. You can view the total distance you put in for the month as well as people on your friends list, it gives could possibly push you to do more if you're a competitive person. haha. You can download the app for free for android and Apple products. The only phone you can't is Huawei that I know of because my mom was't able to. You'll also need a data plan for your smart phone in order to track. Another cool feature about the app is that you can join monthly challenges with others in the Nike Run Club community, so you don't need to have friends on the app to do challenges. 

    So that's it, if you feel like you've hit a rut in your exercise routine or just want a push to get started, find a challenge to do. If you don't like running, google search exercise challenges and you'll have a ton of others like 30 day squats, abs, push ups, etc,. Pick one, do it, you won't regret it. Make it fit into your schedule. Good luck. :)




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