The Summer 2014 Whole Life Challenge is in full swing and I could not be more excited Somehow, based on word of mouth and a barrage of mentions on my Facebook page, I accumulated a team of about 30 people !  It sort of blows me away really.  A few of them did it with me over the winter and a few are new real life friends and or co-workers who signed up.  The rest are friends of friends and truth be told there are a few who I have no idea how they found out about our little rag-tag group.

I am proud of each of them. I know they think they are getting a lot of support  and inspiration from me. But what they don’t know, is that being in this position, a position of motivator, of someone who is looked up to for guidance, well that’s not a position I could have ever imagined myself being in just s few short months ago.

I have already blathered on enough about how The Challenge changed and possibly helped save my life, so now I just want to talk about my team.

I was honored to be able to be part of the baseline workout for my wife, a second time participant,  and 4 others, all of whom are rookies.  These people came out and rocked it. Besides Agnes, there was Sabrina, who, from what I understand does spinning and other fitness things.  Poor girl showed up having had a tattoo done earlier in the week and had one arm all sore and as a result could not do any upper body stuff.  When it came time to alternate between push-ups and squats, it was all squats and I am willing to bet her thighs were wide awake this morning !  The rest of my little group of novices, Mike, Violetta and Courtney, had no real idea what they were getting into and I am sure the two minute set they had to do of running, push-ups, squats, sit-ups and more running, seemed like 20 minutes each, but each of them pushed it to the end.  I acknowledge that I have been a bit of an inspiration to people due to my successes in the past two challenges, but there is no way that could compare to how inspirational it was for me to see these guys give it all they had.  They all CRUSHED it.

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Since then our page has been on fire with people sharing recipes and ideas, photos, links and support.  It had sort of taken on a life of it’s own and I am proud and humbled to even be a part of it.  I of course have some physical goals that I would like to accomplish, but if all I get out of this one is the interaction with these wonderful people and the honor of being their friend and in some ways, their mentors.

The Whole Life Challenge is for sure one of the best things I have ever done for myself. !

Getting psyched for the upcoming challenge ?  I am. I am also prepping.

First off I am increasing my water intake and stocking the house with sparkling water.  I am horrible about hydrating and I HATE flat water.  Having the type of water I like to drink at arms length, will make it much easier to keep up with hydration , nothing worse than trying to make my 85 ounces per day goal in the last two hours before I go to bed !

Secondly, having lost considerable weight and inches in the last two challenges, my goal here, is more lean muscle.  To achieve that, I know I need to increase calories, specifically, increase protein.  I am nervous about that because I know if I see my weight going up I am going to freak out and want to starve myself.  I’ll to have to keep reminding myself that it’s about body fat % not weight.  On that note, I went ahead and got a Fitbit Aria scale which allows me to monitor my BF%.  I know it is not as accurate as the hydrostatic tanks, but who can afford to do that weekly ?  With Aria, even if the numbers aren’t perfect, it will at least track progress or lack thereof.

Thirdly (is that a word?) I, or I should say we, my wife and I, are scouring the internet and health food stores for good deals on WLC compliant, sugar free, gluten free, snacks.  I am going to be off work, unless some day player stuff comes up, for the entirety of the challenge and that means a lot of movies and videos at home.  I don’t know about you but, for me, snacks and movies go together like yin and yang.  Having tasty stuff around that is satisfying and clean food, will definitely help.
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Anyway.  I hope my plan, or the fact that I am planning at all, will help motivate and maybe educate some of my teammates, because another one of my goals for this challenge is to assist and possibly inspire people