BONUS CHALLENGE: 12 Days of Christmas Challenge

[BarefootDawsy]

Greetings Rebels,

Our latest challenge is over, and we're all full of holiday cheer. Instead of writing off the next couple weeks to bad eating and sloth, who wants to join me in an inter-challenge challenge?

I call it the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge, and it starts TODAY! To participate, all you need to do is perform the listed exercises over the next 12 days:

Day 1 (Dec 25): 1 minute planking
Day 2 (Dec 26): All of Day 1, plus 2 burpees
Day 3 (Dec 27): All of Day 2, plus 3 inverted rows
Day 4 (Dec 28): All of Day 3, plus 4 bird dogs
Day 5 (Dec 29): All of Day 4, plus 5 push-ups
Day 6 (Dec 30): All of Day 5, plus 6 bulgarian split squats
Day 7 (Dec 31): All of Day 6, plus 7 leg raises
Day 8 (Jan 1): All of Day 7, plus 8 lunges
Day 9 (Jan 2): All of Day 8, plus 9 mountain climbers
Day 10 (Jan 3): All of Day 9, plus 10 squats
Day 11 (Jan 4): All of Day 10, plus 11 star jumps (jumping jacks)
Day 12 (Jan 5): All of Day 11, plus 12 squat thrusts

 

 

I've amended the progression to be a little bit more sane after reaching day 6 and nearly killing myself. The new way to do it it is:

 

For example, on Day 3, I will be doing:
3 inverted rows, 2 burpees, 1 minute planks


Bonus points for humming/singing the song as you do them!

Merry Christmas, Rebels!

[Goldie]

This is awesome! Fab idea! Nice Christmas and New Year theme too.

Although I only read it today so will be a day late but definitely count me in. :0)

[Shukar]

This could get interesting by the end but alright, I'm gonna give it a shot.

[BarefootDawsy]

Thanks for the company! Just completed day 3

[Relic]

as soon as I have room in my living room I'll be trying all 12 days at once.

hold me to it and I'll let you know how it goes.

[BarefootDawsy]

as soon as I have room in my living room I'll be trying all 12 days at once.

hold me to it and I'll let you know how it goes.

Consider yourself held to it!

[Shukar]

No turning back now. It be too late to alter course.

[Relic]

No turning back now. It be too late to alter course.

hehe, aaaaand yet again Phylanx gets in over his head.

(just re-read and it looks like more that I originally thought)

oh well, happy sweating time a comin'

I'll have to write up what I'll be doing before I start otherwise I'll get so lost

[18ck]

Ooh, I see I'm late to this party but I'll see if I can catch up today and go along with you!

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[BarefootDawsy]

hehe, aaaaand yet again Phylanx gets in over his head.

(just re-read and it looks like more that I originally thought)

oh well, happy sweating time a comin'

I'll have to write up what I'll be doing before I start otherwise I'll get so lost

Yeah sorry about that, I just updated the description to make it a bit more clear what I had in mind...still trying to work out if I'm masochistic or sadistic...

[Siferiax]

Ooooohhhh this sounds interesting!!! I'm a little late to the game, but I'll give it a go

[BarefootDawsy]

The more the merrier!

[OrangeJorwell]

Whew, that update made this seem like a lot more work. Haha. I guess I have some catching up to do...

[cardoso_c]

Just saw the topic today, but I'll do it for the nex days, until the gym opens again!

Very nice idea, congrats.

[Relic]

okay, so I actually figured it out, and if my calculations are right...

if I want to do all 12 days in one day I'd have to do :

78 minutes total of planking, 132 burpees, 165 inverted rows, 180 pushups...(plus more)

oh, boy...

[Relic]

Yeah sorry about that, I just updated the description to make it a bit more clear what I had in mind...still trying to work out if I'm masochistic or sadistic...

so you had in mind that we'd be doing this with the 12 days of Christmas tune up to whatever day we're on, right? (you have it sort of backwards in your example but it's the same amount of work)

I was originally thinking (wishfully?) that on the 12th day of this we'd be doing just the 12th day of Christmas (12 total sets, instead of 78)

You are indeed a sadomasochist. You are willing to do this to yourself AND happy to take us with you

[18ck]

*Reads amended bit*

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?

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[Shukar]

Sometimes I hate you Dawsy. You evil genius you. I'll give it a shot but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to keep up with that progression for very long.

Of course fairly quickly after this I decided I'm going to go a different route with it. Rather than do these as a ladder circuit I shall instead do each day once through as originally written in addition to my current daily workout plans. Slow increases of volume in this manner should be plenty challenging and add some variety.

[Siferiax]

Did day 3, but only got to do set 1. And only 10 sec of plank because my back gave out.

I feel I can't do the progression as suggested, but I'll do my best anyway

[Shukar]

I'm so glad I instapaper'd this or I'd have been behind due to the forum outage.

[BarefootDawsy]

OK, I'm dying...it's the 1 minute plank after each set that's killing me...maybe just the individual day is the way to go...amending it now, before I break myself and everyone else!

[Shukar]

You held out longer than the rest of us, good job on that front.

[18ck]

*Lifts lid on this thread*

Hello-ello Ello Lo Lo o

Is anyone still alive in here? here ere ere r

*Carefully replaces lid*

*Tiptoes away*

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[Relic]

OK, I'm dying...it's the 1 minute plank after each set that's killing me...maybe just the individual day is the way to go...amending it now, before I break myself and everyone else!

and we can't have you broken! You're almost fixed from the last time you broke yourself! (or did we break you? I can't remember...)

I'll be doing the whole song on Fri. I'll let you know how it goes...if it's easy (it won't be) I'll try it as originally authored.

*Lifts lid on this thread*

Hello-ello Ello Lo Lo o

Is anyone still alive in here? here ere ere r

*Carefully replaces lid*

*Tiptoes away*

hehe did you pick a race yet? It should be something playfully devious like a nymph, pixie, gnome, tooth fairy, gremlin, or, I dunno, a ferret demon or something.

If that was offensive, disregard cause your awesome

[Siferiax]

I've just been doing 1 go through and I end up on the floor at the end without fail.

Also I can only do like 10~15 seconds of plank at the end.

I really enjoy this exercise though, so after day 12 I just wanna keep doing this till I can get that 1 minute plank going haha!