Tom's 30-Day Exercise Challenge

Tom has one month until the end of the IsaBody Challenge.  Here is the exercise challenge he is going to do to finish up with a BANG!!!

Tom’s 30-Day Challenge

Day 1 Pushups: 10 Squats: 50 Situps: 10 Lunges: 20	Day 2 Pushups: 12 Squats: 55 Situps: 15 Lunges: 21	Day 3 Pushups: 13 Squats: 60 Situps: 20 Lunges: 22	Day 4 Pushups: 14 Squats: Rest Situps: 25 Lunges: 23	Day 5 Pushups: 15 Squats: 70 Situps: 30 Lunges: Rest	Day 6 Pushups: 16 Squats: 75 Situps: 35 Lunges: 25	Day 7 Pushups: 17 Squats: 80 Situps: Rest Lunges: 26
Day 8 Pushups: 18 Squats: Rest Situps: 35 Lunges: 27	Day 9 Pushups: 19 Squats: 100 Situps: 40 Lunges: 28	Day 10 Pushups: 20 Squats: 105 Situps: 45 Lunges: 29	Day 11 Pushups: 21 Squats: 110 Situps: 50 Lunges: Rest	Day 12 Pushups: 22 Squats: Rest Situps: 55 Lunges: 31	Day 13 Pushups: 23 Squats: 130 Situps: Rest Lunges: 32	Day 14 Pushups: 24 Squats: 135 Situps: 55 Lunges: 33
Day 15 Pushups: 25 Squats: 140 Situps: 60 Lunges: 34	Day 16 Pushups: 26 Squats: Rest Situps: 65 Lunges: 35	Day 17 Pushups: 27 Squats: 150 Situps: 70 Lunges: 36	Day 18 Pushups: 28 Squats: 155 Situps: 75 Lunges: Rest	Day 19 Pushups: 29 Squats: 160 Situps: Rest Lunges: 38	Day 20 Pushups: 30 Squats: Rest Situps: 75 Lunges: 39	Day 21 Pushups: 31 Squats: 180 Situps: 80 Lunges: 40
Day 22 Pushups: 32 Squats: 185 Situps: 85 Lunges: 41	Day 23 Pushups: 33 Squats: 190 Situps: 90 Lunges: 42	Day 24 Pushups: 34 Squats: Rest Situps: 100 Lunges: 43	Day 25 Pushups: 35 Squats: 220 Situps: Rest Lunges: Rest	Day 26 Pushups: 36 Squats: 225 Situps: 100 Lunges: 45	Day 27 Pushups: 37 Squats: 230 Situps: 100 Lunges: 46	Day 28 Pushups: 38 Squats: Rest Situps: 100 Lunges: 47
Day 29 Pushups: 39 Squats: 240 Situps: Rest Lunges: 49	Day 30 Pushups: 40 Squats: 250 Situps: 100 Lunges: 50	CONGRATS!! YOU MADE IT

We Won! We are Corvallis' Greatest Losers!!

I am so excited to announce that my husband Tom and I won the first Corvallis' Greatest Loser Challenge!! This challenge was sponsored by The Sue Long Team (Keller-Williams Realty) and Bill Zipp Consulting.

Tom lost 10% of this weight in 12 weeks, and I lost 8.6% of mine. This was a city wide contest and we were up against people in all programs, ViSalus, Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers, MediFast, etc. The Isagenix System really proved itself.

The next contest starts on April 16th and we would really appreciate your support!!

Thanks!!!

We made the Paper!!

Weight-loss competition organizer hopes to inspire community

By Anthony Rimel, Corvallis Gazette-TimesCorvallis Gazette Times

Next Wednesday marks the end of a competition between a small group of local residents who have been waging one of modern society’s most perennial battles over the past 12 weeks: trying to shed their excess weight. Modeled after the NBC show “The Biggest Loser,” the competition is called the “Corvallis Greatest Loser,” and its 12 participants already have lost 139 pounds collectively.

Sue Long, a Corvallis real estate broker who organized the competition, said she hopes their efforts will inspire other local groups to organize similar competitions.“My goal is to make Corvallis the healthiest community in America,” she said. Long, who was a dietitian before she became a broker, said she modeled parts of the program on a similar competition in Lebanon.

At the start of the competition, participants each contribute $20 to a pool and agree to pay an additional $10 if they miss their weekly weigh-in at Long’s office, or if the weigh-in indicates that they’ve gained weight. At the end of the competition the money collected will be split between the male and female contestants who lost the greatest percentage of body weight.

Participants meet every few weeks for a discussion with experts on various exercise, health and nutrition topics. Long said they also have weekly challenges aimed at healthy living, such as drinking a total of 64 ounces of water each day for a week or getting eight hours of sleep every night.

Long said she participated in the competition herself, so she “felt the pain of what was going on, too.”
Being the leader of the group inspired her to stick with the program — even after she broke her ankle four weeks in — because she felt accountable to the group.

Donna Helm, a wellness coach from Corvallis, was one of the contest’s participants, and she said that she and her husband participated because they thought it would help to motivate them.  “I think accountability is the big thing we needed. That, and support,” she said.  Helm said she has lost 23 pounds over the course of the competition; she has lost 85 pounds since June 2011.  She chose to participate in part because, she said, she had reached a plateau in her weight loss, and she thought this would be a good opportunity to push herself more.

“My husband and I tended to not make the best food decisions,” she said, and now they eat less meat and more vegetables. She added that they are exercising more, and have started to use the gym equipment they had bought in the past, but never used.  “We kept thinking buy the machine, and you’ll get thinner. We forgot you had to use it, too,” she said.

After the competition ends next week, Long plans to start it again April 15. Helm said that she will participate again.  “It has been really beneficial to be part of this challenge,” she said.

Anthony Rimel covers K-12 education. He can be reached at 541-758-9526 or anthony.rimel@lee.net.