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Week 6 of the 35 42Day Fall Fitness Challenge (The last week…YAH!)

I should have stopped after Week 5 because I was a little bored with the program this week.  I still met my target, but I had to load up the last day with weight training circuits, interval training and a session of intermittent fasting to do it.  I didn’t get a long walk or hike in because my cranky knee decided to act up again.  It didn’t bother me during weight training circuits (except for the constant and off-putting grinding sound), but it almost made me cut short my interval training yesterday.  Looks like a return trip to the doc is in order.

Week 6 looked like this:

Overall, I’m pleased that I stuck to the program and far exceeded my goals on most weeks.  My average weekly point total was 25.8 or 86%.  My target was 80%.  The purpose of The 35 42 Day Fall Fitness Challenge was to provide motivation during the late fall months when I have a tendency to start feeling very unmotivated to work out.  I really only had one bad week so I’d say it fulfilled its purpose.

An added benefit was that I kicked the Diet Coke habit.  I’ll have one or two per week now, but I’m not drinking them daily.  Prior to the 35 42 Day Fall Fitness Challenge I’d have at least one every day.

I’m disappointed that I only lost a couple of pounds, but that’s offset by the fact that I’m stronger and the interval training has really increased my aerobic and anaerobic fitness levels.  Of course, the main point was just to work out consistently and I’ll give myself an A on that account.

This week will be a mixed bag of weights and interval training.  I’m just going to make it up as a go along.  Next week is a recovery week, but I need to come up with some plan for the weeks after that so I can keep this going and not fall into bad habits again.

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