The 100 Point Challenge

This challenge is going around the Beachbody Message Boards!  I love the idea!

I'm going to up the stakes and change the rules a little.  

If you are one of my coachees, you qualify to play the game.  If you want to become one of my coachees, its free, just click here and fill out the short form.  If you have any issues, then drop me an email at HeatherB@BeachbodyCoach.com and we can chat.  If you are not one of my coachees, you can still play the game you just will not qualify for the prize.

Here are the rules of the game!

100 POINT CHALLENGE: Adapted from the 100 point challenge on John Stone Fitness Forums (thank you John Stone!)

THE MOTIVATION:
It is a mathematical fact: if you workout 6 times a week, eat clean 6 times a day (every 2-3 hours), and track your progress, ripped is a mathematical certainty. So that is the basis of this challenge, to track that mathematical certainty with a little math.

MATHEMATICALLY CERTAIN OUTCOMES:
These are what I believe to be mathematically certain outcomes of doing these things with consistency and discipline:
# 1) You become happy, with a happiness and inner self-esteem that you alone control
# 2) Your whole life goes to a new level - everything following your fitness - your work, your relationships and friendships, your hobbies and interests, your success
# 3) You get ripped

PREMISE OF THE 100 POINT CHALLENGE:
The premise of this challenge is pretty simple: Each participant starts the month with 100 points. A point is deducted each time a workout is missed, a meal is missed, an unscheduled "cheat" meal or snack is consumed or a daily update to your official challenge post is missed. The goal, of course, is to finish the month with 100 points!

THE 100 POINT CHALLENGE RULES:
# 1) Since I am just announcing this, the challenge begins on Sunday January 4, 2009 and goes to the end of the month. In Feb. it will start on Feb. 1.  The game is performed one month at a time. My plan is to do this Jan-June 2009, and then reassess.
# 2) It doesn't matter if you are aiming to lose weight, bulking up or maintaining. The common goal here is 100% consistency.  It doesn't matter what program you are doing.
# 3) Each person participating in the challenge should start with a challenge post. This means you must post or email me that you are in the game!  Your initial posts should have your initial measurements!  (photos optional)  Your progress must be updated each and every day. The updates won't take long (examples below). If you miss an update, you must deduct a point.  For those that are regulars on the boards, you must post your update on either one of these 2 threads:

Why Wait's Turbo Jam Thread

The Second Floor.

I'm going to add this in, for those that are my customers and do not visit the boards, maybe now is the time to join.  Click here to join the community message boards, then click the links above to find me.    Again, its free.  I know visiting everyday will keep you accountable.  But, for Jan. I will allow you to email me every week with your results.  This means, the week is Sunday to Sunday!  I need an email by end of day Monday with your previous week's results.  If, I do not hear from you on Monday, you must deduct 7 points.  If you post on the boards everyday, and miss a day, its a deduct of 1 point.  So, posting on the boards will keep you more accountable and not give you as much of a setback for missing a accountability post.  I will re-evaluate for Feb. if I will keep going via emails or only on the boards posts.  

# 4) Miss a workout for the day for any reason, deduct a point.  I strongly recommend you log into WOWY and play the Million Dollar Body game!  I would love to see your WOWY calendar with a big X to show you are working out!  For Jan., I will not require this, I just want you to workout everyday.  But, I may give a bonus or something in Feb. to those who log into WOWY everyday!  Again, to join WOWY is free!  (WOWY= Workout with you, the online super gym!).  I may use the person with the most logged in workouts as a tie breaker.  So, it may be worth it to join us in WOWY.  If you are a member of WOWY, include your screen name in your initial email and I will add you to my success buddy list.  If I schedule workouts, I will request you to join me if you can!

# 5) Miss a meal for any reason, deduct a point.   You must eat 3 meals, 2 snacks a day!  This means 5 points per day allowed, each missed is - 1 point.
# 6) Eat an unscheduled "cheat" meal or snack, deduct a point.  This is -1 for each cheat meal/snack of the day!

Feel free to post before/after pictures if you like (optional).  But, you should take your stats every 30 days to track your progress.  

Of course this challenge is based on the honor system. You can cheat, but that would be pointless.


EXAMPLE POSTS FOR THE 100 POINT CHALLENGE:

DAILY LOG (Note: Each entry should be completed the day after, or at the end of the same day after all meals/workouts are completed. Will be sure to keep a running total of my points, as shown below.)

JAN 1: I did my cardio and ate all meals as scheduled.
-0 points [100 points]

JAN 2: My car broke down and I missed my back workout. I walked to Burger King for dinner and had an unscheduled cheat meal.
-2 points [98 points]

JAN 3: I missed my cardio today, but ate all meals as scheduled.
-1 point [97 points]

JAN 4:

JAN 5: I missed yesterday's update, but I did my delts and traps workout yesterday, and ate all meals as scheduled (including my scheduled cheat meal). Today I did my cardio, ate all meals as scheduled and did my leg workout.
-1 point [96 POINTS]

You continue in this fashion until Jan 31, and then the February 2009 100 Point Challenge starts again. I intend to do this from January through June. My goal is to keep all months above 90, and to get a 100 on at least one month.

The reason that everything is worth 1 point equally, ie the workouts, each meal, and tracking progress, is because they are all equally important. If all of these 3 things are done, the workouts, the nutrition and the tracked goals, ripped is a mathematical certainty.

Now the prize offered only to my coachees!  I will send the winner at the end of the each month a copy of one of the Tony Horton's, One on One Workout videos!  The winner is the person with the highest point value at the last day of the month.  Your final results for the month, must be sent to me or posted no later then the first of the next month.  So, I need your final point count for Jan. by midnight Feb. 1!  I would like you to include your month'send result measurements (photo optional) posted in the final check in.  I'm not going to use this for any reason, just to help keep you on track.  I will have to come up with a tie breaker if we have a tie.  I'm thinking, it maybe to see the person who logged into WOWY the most to track their workouts as the tie breaker.  If that still results in a tie, then I will see how many people are in the running!  I'm going to see what Jan. brings to see if we need to tweak these rules for Feb. on!

Now, let's get ready and really bring it!  Let's get the body you always wanted!  And, why not go for it, you can get a new workout at the end of the month!

Here is a video of Tony's One on One videos!

Let's bring it!  

Heather

You can always email me with questions/comments.

HeatherB@BeachbodyCoach.com