Social Workout

January 11 - February 12

Now is a time of serious chronological potential. It's also a time of short days and overheated TV rooms. Must seize the first and avoid the second! We've found that if you want to live a healthier life, i.e. eat more kale, exercise more often, or get more sleep, it helps to actually tell someone that you want all that, and then to be held accountable, daily, for doing something about it.

That's where we come in, and this challenge, which is our very first of the new decade, and created in collaboration with the excellent people of Whole Foods Markets and Crunch Fitness. If you commit to the challenge, and track your progress online, we'll bring the Internets into your corner: Friends and complete strangers willing to cheer you on, and/or to answer your questions. To prod you, and to commiserate. Really, it's sort of cool the way it works....

As in past challenges, the New Year's Edition combines an exercise component with a collection of feats of general healthy living. Most of these are food related, but some have more to do with living green. Several are time tested classics, and others are brand new and experimental. Taken together, however, we can more or less guarantee they'll be effective. Curious? Join us!

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 over the 33 days of the challenge, AND to completing 10 of the brilliants feats listed at right. Yes you can!

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, and win some sweet prizes along the way!

WHAT ELSE?

What constitutes a workout? And who will see your posts? And can I count 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!