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November 2024 Activity Challenge
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Cooler weather means longer workouts. Switching out Pilates and kickboxing to HIIT and cardio. Still doing strength training in the start and yoga at the end.
Two weeks of COVID followed by two weeks of significantly reduced stamina make November's goal less laughable than you may think. But I'm feeling almost 100% now, so thank goodness for that. Plan to get this one early, and get a harder one next month.
14 times?? Consider yourself lucky I guess!!
That is some crazy challenge, I think. I assume they're talking about active calories, ones burned from recorded activity. For me to burn about 700 some or 800 some calories via activity requires me to do a long run of about an hour which is about 7.5 miles. I can't do that 14 times in one month. Right now, that would be way too many times.
I need to fill all three my rings 24 times this month.
Yet another 14 day challenge here. All I ever seem to get. Will have this done by the 14th.
I do a mix of running, dancing, walking, HIIT, and cycling, and since April my daily average is 1,020 calories per day. You think mine is crazy; webbuzz’s is 1,550 calories/day.
That is pretty awesome that you have such high active calories! Awesome!
Before I got sick I had got up to 1500 a day. Now I'm on 1000 but hope to get back to 1500 before the end of November again.
Greetings MacRumors members. I'm hoping other regulars from iMore (Hi Annie!) will start posting here now that it has closed. I'm looking forward to meeting and learning from fellow Apple Watch enthusiasts! My November challenge should be pretty easy to accomplish in about 16 days (2 rest days).
I agree - this is a pretty stout challenge. But, I'm betting Mackilroy can do it because he probably averages pretty close to that now.
I average about 110 calories per mile, so my typical daily run of 6-7 miles gives me 700ish calories, and that usually gets me to 950-1000 active calories for the day. If I throw in some weight lifting or core work, the total bumps up to around 1200. Of course, calories burned per mile of running can vary quite a bit based on a variety of factors.
Not sure I'm up for this this month.
I'm not in my best form in general, and repeated (light) cold/flu viruses don't seem to go away this fall, and to top it off the weather is awful and will be on the bad side in general in the foreseeable future.
I'll give it a go, though...
I'm not in my best form in general, and repeated (light) cold/flu viruses don't seem to go away this fall, and to top it off the weather is awful and will be on the bad side in general in the foreseeable future.
I'll give it a go, though...
the challenges were quite different up until 2 years ago, eg if you did 1000 cal/day your challenge was to burn 31000 cal for the month, if you did eg 60 min of exercise, your challenge was 1860 min for the month, double your move goal every day and so on. lots of people complained as it went up by ~5% every month, didn't allow for rest days etc ...
Now for the past 2 years I've gotten do this or that 14 times, and I exercise every day, so for me, these aren't challenges anymore. But that's ok, I'm in a daily routine and I tbh can care less about these badges, the only one I care about is the longest move streak and I'll post that toward the end of the month when I hit a round number again.
Having said that, participating here is fun and I encourage everyone to do their best to meet or beat these challenges, in the long run you will be better off
Thanks! When I started last year my goal was only to burn at least 300 calories a day, so doing 1,000/day feels like quite the accomplishment.
It looks like we've picked up some new folks this month, that's great! My challenge this month should be easy to do as it's my goal to close all the rings each day. Good luck everyone!
