Welcome to Eat.Sweat.Blog!
October 1st - 31st. Our latest experiment in massive collective healthiness.
So glad you're here. Eat.Sweat.Blog is the fourth Social Workout challenge, and the first ever focused on healthy eating. Our mission, as always, is to fight back against the urban grind — the overworking and undersleeping, the serial restauranting, heavy cocktailing, and missed gym dates, not to mention the creeping cigarette or caffeine habits.
The city is like a giant buffet: Fabulous, and easy to abuse. Staying in touch with body and mind is absolutely possible, but it requires some effort, and vigilance. We've found that setting goals helps a lot, as does a bit of group energy and inspiration. We've got your back. Here's how it works:
STEP I
Join Social Workout, (if you haven't already.) It's absolutely free, entirely safe, and we'll give you a nifty personal page complete with workout tracking capabilities.
STEP II
Sign up for the challenge. This means you're committing to getting exercise on at least 20 days in October, AND to completing 10 of our 22 feats of healthy eating. (See list at right.) Piece of cake!
STEP III
Track your progress by "blogging" your workouts. (For simple instructions on how to create a "workout post," and examples, see here.) To "achieve" a feat, you simply go to that feat page, and click "Feat Accompli!" Very satisfying. Want to see how you're doing relative to everyone else? Check out the challenge Stats page.
STEP IV
Feel great, look amazing, win prizes, and save the world! Your health is your greatest award, but to push things along a little we've sweetened the pot. For the first 100 challengers who sign up, Whole Foods Market will donate $20 to City Harvest, the world's first food rescue program.
WHAT ELSE?
What constitutes a workout? And who will see your posts? And can I post more than one workout a day? The answers: 1.) You tell us, and 2.) Everyone, 3.) No, and 4.) Look here for answers to these and other frequently asked questions!
Workout
starting it off right
This challenge is an amazing motivator. My alarm went off at 6 am today, and I promptly shut it off and rolled over back under the covers. Five minutes later I remember it's October 1st and that I have to get myself out of bed. So workout for the day:
33 mins elliptical
10 mins stretching
Wing contest, failed!
OK can I just say...HOLY TONS OF NEW PEOPLE ON HERE! And...Welcome new people! I can't believe how many people have started blogging on here I can barely find my trusty regulars' blog posts!
More...New York
DAY 1!
When I saw Marisa (MarisaVH) post about this, I was so intrigued. After looking into it, I decided this would be awesome, especially because Marisa was doing it with a group of friends I could also be encouraged by and feel a part of.
More...Other Places
Nothing Like Starting off with a Bitchy Self Righteous Blog - This is for those of you who are already clicking Feat Acompli!
Can I just be the annoying, hand-in-the-air that says, um hi cut that shit out!
We all get it, you're vegan. You're a daily brown bagging fool. You're practically a walking food diary. Or you rescued 10,000 cows from certain death and keep them in your back yard. Dairy? Never!!!!
More...A little overwhelmed - already.
I started scheduling my 20 workouts for the next month and I'll be very surprised if I can accomplish this challenge. The most I've ever worked out in a month is about 13 times, so only 7 more, right? Yikes.
More...Other Places
REMINDER TODAY:Hot Yoga for a Cause! Come join me!
So my friend told me about this cool Yoga Studio on the Lower East Side and I've been meaning to try it! I think it's especially -so hot it's cool- because it gives discounts to students, seniors, teachers, and anyone who works for a non profit.
More...Eat.Sweat.Blog.
Pssst... What are you doing in October?
Scene at Social Workout HQ: Writers furiously writing new feats. Our Design Guru tweaking templates. Oliver gearing up to make official pronouncements. At Whole Foods Markets all over town, colorful posters poised to go up, and post cards set out on display. Ditto at various neighborhood Equinoxae. The party hasn't started yet, but thought we'd let close readers know: The door is already open. Come on in....
way to motivate!
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