December's "Get Your A$$ On The Trainer" challenge! (Page 8)

This challenge is exactly what I needed to get myself going again. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten on the trainer at all this week.  Thank you Max!!

 The next 3 days will be a true test.  I have a conference to go to and then have to stop in at work for a while each night.  I know I'm not going to feel like doing anything when I get home so I'm going to plan to get up really early.  Hope u all had a great day!!

Am happy to do this for whoever needs it.  And that included myself as well!  Let us know when you get home...we'll show up in your log and inspire you to get on the trainer!

5 minutes is better than zero minutes.  And some day you'll get on for a planned 5 minutes and maybe stay on for 15 or 20.  The hardest part of actually doing a workout is getting out the door, or in this case, onto the trainer!

Three straight days of spinning classes. 68 minutes today +10 bonus. I'm nothing if not consistent

Nice job to all for getting on those trainers!

I just saw that while I was updating the spreadsheet...nice effort!!

5 > 0.

So, well done.  Tomorrow, do 10!!

I can see this bonus thing being a real incentive for those who consistantly don't miss a day.  By the last week of the month you'll have the possibility of picking up over 100 points per day, thats more than a half hour of riding!  Add that to a steady diet of 30-60 minute rides and peel of 10 lbs (1,000 points) and we're talking some big numbers!

Nice effort Karen, I could see in your log that it's not always easy to get on the trainer and hopefully everyone is getting the inspiration from each other!

Results to date:

Yes, and can't lose those bonus points! Thanks for the encouragement.

Hey everyone is doing great!  Once you get a streak going you hate to break it!  Here's the latest update...there still might be another report coming in, from the west coast, but this is what I have as of nearly 1 AM eastern time:

Wed is always a late night for me but I got in 30 min! Wow, great the BEST challenge Max! I got on the trainer just to get it over with. I was planning on just riding 5 minutes. Then a good song came on (Beck - Nicotine and Gravy - check it out) and I got a great workout in!

Sorry lots of exclamation points, but I was just having such a bad day and the only thing that got me on that bike was this challenge - Great job everybody and thanks Max!

Oh yeah!  Nice job getting it done!  I got home from work and noticed that you had posted the workout and added it to my spreadsheet.  Yep, December is normally a pretty lazy month and many people slack off a bit, only to make a New Years resolution to get back on track.  Hopefully this will help many of us avoid that and we'll go into January with a decent base from a month's worth of riding!!

That is exactly what I've been doing.  It's hard.  Eventually we'll get up early enough to get in more than 15 minutes.  I totally failed today! 

Just wanted to say I got in another 60 minutes on the Drainer....shhhh don't tell anyone but I'm actually enjoying it!!

See, you're getting suckered in with those bonus points.  Soon it will be nearly impossible to miss a day and give that up!  LOL

Mav has jumped out to a lead, mostly because Newleaf is probably stuck in his cubicle for the day.  We'll see if this gets him out on the bike this afternoon! 

Wow...I'm kinda behind. I know what I'm doing this weekend. 

My starting weight was 163.5.  Hopefully weight loss bonus points will help me out.

I've been trying to so the same thing!  Once I get into a routine of getting up earlier to ride, it's no problem.  It's just the first week or so that's brutal!  Yesterday I was somewhat successful.  This morning was a total failure....I don't even remember the alarm going off the first two times!  Then I bargained with myself that I could go back to sleep, but I'd have to do at least 75 minutes on the trainer tonight.

newleaf will be on the trainer tonight from 8:00 - 9:20.