May
Get Fit!
Rules
How It Works
Users will track their workouts using the Fleetly website or mobile app (currently iPhone only).
Since it's possible to record fictitious workouts using Fleetly, this competition will work on the honor system.
All exercises must be:
Safety Note
Some safety tips from Joshua Loomis (2013 Get Fit! Special Challenge participant):
I want to stress again that y'all please be careful to not hurt yourselves. Torn tendons, broken rotator cuffs, and dislocated joints are not allowed. A good, stiff body the next day is fine, but no ER visits. :P That in mind, some of y'all may want to get a friend to go workout with you, especially with gym exercises. Not only does it make it more fun, but y'all can also keep an eye on each other and keep each other from hurting yourselves (like I did with my buddy who decided to get on a squat machine and set the weight to 410 lbs :roll: ).
Likewise, drink lots of water and pay attention to how you're doing physically. If you set out to do 25 push-ups, but start blacking out after 5, please stop before you start seeing that bright light at the end of the tunnel. I've gotten vertigo, nausea, and all the fun stuff from working myself too hard before. It's not fun, and it's not worth it. Work yourself just enough to feel that burn in your muscle and to get some sweat on your brow, but please don't over do it. Hydration is a big part of that. Water and Gatorade are gonna be your best choices for staying hydrated, so keep a bottle in reach while your exercising. Take a sip every few minutes while running up those stairs, or between sets of repetitions on your sit-ups. And if you need to sit and just breathe for a few minutes, do it. A guy I used to work out with used to say "Your only competition is yourself from yesterday." Don't let what other folks around you are doing convince you to try more than you can handle. In fact, pay no attention to how many weights they're lifting. It's just between you, yourself, and ye. :P
So, I'll go ahead and end my rant there. :P Hope this helps y'all with getting started, and clears some stuff up. Once again, looking forward to working out with y'all. 8)
Fitness Level Tracking
Spirit Leaders should create a Fleetly account and instruct Group members who will be participating in this challenge to create a Fleetly account and add them as a friend on Fleetly. For all participants, it's fine to use an already-existing Fleetly account.
Spirit Leaders will be granted access to a spreadsheet where they will record each member's starting fitness level and weekly progress according to the following schedule:
Workout Guidelines
Fleetly has pre-made workouts that you can do if you'd like, or you can log your own custom workouts (takes a little more time but it's not too hard). It's up to you - whatever will help you push that fitness level higher!
For the purposes of this Special Challenge, individual exercises make up a "workout." Log an exercise (of any length/number of reps) and you'll earn 0 or more points on Fleetly. A workout is just a convenient way to refer to a group of exercises, and a good workout is what helps you get in (and stay in) shape!
A "workout" needs to contain a substantial number or intensity of exercises and take some time (at least 20 minutes) to complete. Use common sense - if you told a friend you worked out and the friend asked what you did for your workout, my guess is saying you went for a 5-minute walk wouldn't fly, so the "Tell-a-Friend" test is a good one to use when determining if the activity you're involved in counts as a workout.
For best accuracy, you should always log sets of exercises. Thus, you'd log 3 sets of 15 push ups, not as 45 push ups, but as 3 sets of 15 push ups. If you log 45 push ups, Fleetly thinks you did that many in a row, resulting in an artificially-high fitness level due to the extra points earned.
All exercises on Fleetly are allowed for this competition except Butt Kicks. The provide a disproportional amount of points while doing little to promote overall fitness.
Scoring
The goal of this Special Challenge is to determine the most fit CollegePlus Group. To that end, all members in a Group will be taken into account when determining a Group's overall fitness level not just those members of a Group that participated in the challenge.
This means that not only will higher participation potentially earn more points for a Group but higher participation will also help a Group's overall fitness level be higher.
The precise way this challenge's winner will be determined will not be disclosed to protect the integrity of this competition. However, one of the formulas used to determine the most fit Group will be:
(Group Member 1 Fitness Level + Group Member 2 Fitness Level...Group Member x Fitness Level) / (Number of Group Members)
Bonus Points
Participants who work out for at least 20 minutes 3 days per week according to the following schedule will earn 50 bonus points for their Group:
Note that working out May 1 - 3 doesn't factor into computing the bonus points for this competition, although it will factor into your overall fitness level.
Also, please note that this is a one-time bonus of 50 points awarded at the end of the competition (not each week), and that these are points for the Groups competition; they are not Fleetly points.
FAQs
Users will track their workouts using the Fleetly website or mobile app (currently iPhone only).
Since it's possible to record fictitious workouts using Fleetly, this competition will work on the honor system.
All exercises must be:
- Logged as they're completed (for users with mobile app access or who work out at home and can access the Fleetly website) or,
- Recorded on paper and then entered after the workout (for users without convenient access to Fleetly during their workouts).
Safety Note
Some safety tips from Joshua Loomis (2013 Get Fit! Special Challenge participant):
I want to stress again that y'all please be careful to not hurt yourselves. Torn tendons, broken rotator cuffs, and dislocated joints are not allowed. A good, stiff body the next day is fine, but no ER visits. :P That in mind, some of y'all may want to get a friend to go workout with you, especially with gym exercises. Not only does it make it more fun, but y'all can also keep an eye on each other and keep each other from hurting yourselves (like I did with my buddy who decided to get on a squat machine and set the weight to 410 lbs :roll: ).
Likewise, drink lots of water and pay attention to how you're doing physically. If you set out to do 25 push-ups, but start blacking out after 5, please stop before you start seeing that bright light at the end of the tunnel. I've gotten vertigo, nausea, and all the fun stuff from working myself too hard before. It's not fun, and it's not worth it. Work yourself just enough to feel that burn in your muscle and to get some sweat on your brow, but please don't over do it. Hydration is a big part of that. Water and Gatorade are gonna be your best choices for staying hydrated, so keep a bottle in reach while your exercising. Take a sip every few minutes while running up those stairs, or between sets of repetitions on your sit-ups. And if you need to sit and just breathe for a few minutes, do it. A guy I used to work out with used to say "Your only competition is yourself from yesterday." Don't let what other folks around you are doing convince you to try more than you can handle. In fact, pay no attention to how many weights they're lifting. It's just between you, yourself, and ye. :P
So, I'll go ahead and end my rant there. :P Hope this helps y'all with getting started, and clears some stuff up. Once again, looking forward to working out with y'all. 8)
Fitness Level Tracking
Spirit Leaders should create a Fleetly account and instruct Group members who will be participating in this challenge to create a Fleetly account and add them as a friend on Fleetly. For all participants, it's fine to use an already-existing Fleetly account.
Spirit Leaders will be granted access to a spreadsheet where they will record each member's starting fitness level and weekly progress according to the following schedule:
- Thursday, May 1 by 11:59 PM PDT - Record each participant's starting fitness level
- Monday, May 5 by 11:59 PM PDT - Update fitness levels
- Monday, May 12 by 11:59 PM PDT - Update fitness levels
- Monday, May 19 by 11:59 PM PDT - Update fitness levels
- Monday, May 26 by 11:59 PM PDT - Update fitness levels
- Saturday, May 31 by 11:59 PM PDT - Record each participant's final fitness level
Workout Guidelines
Fleetly has pre-made workouts that you can do if you'd like, or you can log your own custom workouts (takes a little more time but it's not too hard). It's up to you - whatever will help you push that fitness level higher!
For the purposes of this Special Challenge, individual exercises make up a "workout." Log an exercise (of any length/number of reps) and you'll earn 0 or more points on Fleetly. A workout is just a convenient way to refer to a group of exercises, and a good workout is what helps you get in (and stay in) shape!
A "workout" needs to contain a substantial number or intensity of exercises and take some time (at least 20 minutes) to complete. Use common sense - if you told a friend you worked out and the friend asked what you did for your workout, my guess is saying you went for a 5-minute walk wouldn't fly, so the "Tell-a-Friend" test is a good one to use when determining if the activity you're involved in counts as a workout.
For best accuracy, you should always log sets of exercises. Thus, you'd log 3 sets of 15 push ups, not as 45 push ups, but as 3 sets of 15 push ups. If you log 45 push ups, Fleetly thinks you did that many in a row, resulting in an artificially-high fitness level due to the extra points earned.
All exercises on Fleetly are allowed for this competition except Butt Kicks. The provide a disproportional amount of points while doing little to promote overall fitness.
Scoring
The goal of this Special Challenge is to determine the most fit CollegePlus Group. To that end, all members in a Group will be taken into account when determining a Group's overall fitness level not just those members of a Group that participated in the challenge.
This means that not only will higher participation potentially earn more points for a Group but higher participation will also help a Group's overall fitness level be higher.
The precise way this challenge's winner will be determined will not be disclosed to protect the integrity of this competition. However, one of the formulas used to determine the most fit Group will be:
(Group Member 1 Fitness Level + Group Member 2 Fitness Level...Group Member x Fitness Level) / (Number of Group Members)
Bonus Points
Participants who work out for at least 20 minutes 3 days per week according to the following schedule will earn 50 bonus points for their Group:
- May 4 - 10
- May 11 - 17
- May 18 - 24
- May 25 - 31
Note that working out May 1 - 3 doesn't factor into computing the bonus points for this competition, although it will factor into your overall fitness level.
Also, please note that this is a one-time bonus of 50 points awarded at the end of the competition (not each week), and that these are points for the Groups competition; they are not Fleetly points.
FAQs
What if you are already doing some workout? Should we start using fleetly on May first, or should we start before then?
You can start using Fleetly whatever you want - the goal is to see the biggest increase in your fitness level possible, which depends on consistency vs. when you started using the app.
You can start using Fleetly whatever you want - the goal is to see the biggest increase in your fitness level possible, which depends on consistency vs. when you started using the app.
When it comes to something like push-ups, lets say someone does 3 reps of 5 push-ups, and someone else does 3 reps of 50 push-ups. Would Fleetly consider those equal?
Fleetly will view that as your doing 150 push ups in a row, which will result in a significantly higher fitness score than if you enter 3 sets of 50 push ups each (logging 3 entries of 50 push ups). <--- That's actually the correct way to do it.
Fleetly will view that as your doing 150 push ups in a row, which will result in a significantly higher fitness score than if you enter 3 sets of 50 push ups each (logging 3 entries of 50 push ups). <--- That's actually the correct way to do it.
What happens when you take a short break during exercising? Does that mean you then enter one workout or two? For example, I went on a walk last week, with my phone stopwatch on to know how long I went for. After I'd walked for about 20 minutes, I needed to go into the village post office to post some letters. When I went in, I paused the stopwatch and then I restarted it when I left the shop and carried on with my walk for another 20 minutes or so. When I got home, I logged it as one exercise - 40 minutes walking or however long it was - which obviously didn't include the "non-walking" shop time as I paused the timer during that. However, would it have been more accurate to have logged it as two separate 20 minute walks - even though it's basically happening at the same time rather than, say, an early morning walk and an evening walk? Or let's say I'm out on the trampoline. Trampolining non-stop is tiring! So again, when I take a break, I pause the stopwatch, and then the time that I log on fleetly is the total time that I actually spend trampolining and doesn't include the breaks. Again, is that the best way to do it, or is it better to log each "go" separately and have lots of mini trampoline sessions?
I'd just use your judgment here. If the pause in walking is a pretty big one, I'd log it as two separate walking exercises. However, if you stop by the post office for 5-10 minutes, I don't think you'd need to log two separate exercises.
I'd just use your judgment here. If the pause in walking is a pretty big one, I'd log it as two separate walking exercises. However, if you stop by the post office for 5-10 minutes, I don't think you'd need to log two separate exercises.