Week 9 via Ben

Week nine is here and it's the end of another month. One more remains in the New Year Challenge.

New month means new assessments.

This week's theme: Pushing farther.

Challenges

• Go back to Day One: New Year, and pull out your assessments. Where were you and where did you want to be?
• Go back to the end of January are do the same thing.
• Where are you today? Assess yourself in whatever ways that means. Weigh yourself, do your pushups, do your planks. What else did you want to improve? Be completely honest with how far you've come and write about it in your journal. How are you doing?
• This week we're pushing hard. We're going farther and harder than we have all year. Focus this week on every single workout. If you can kick up the intensity, do it. If you can add a mile, do that too. Give it everything you've got every single time. Don't slack on any. Not this week.
• Encourage your partner to do the same. Plot some workouts for each other. If you don't have a partner, plot some tough ones for yourself. Get outside your comfort zone.
• Stick with focusing on food, too. Now's not the time to slack.
• Pick one of the following and do it every night.
  -- 50 pushups
  -- 100 situps
  -- 150 jumping jacks
  -- 40 burpees
  -- 3 minutes of planks (doesn't have to be all at once)
  -- bonus points for anyone that does all of them every night
• PUSH THIS WEEK.