Challenge
Objective
Some of us want to become more active. Some of us want to lose weight. Usually…well, in theory, becoming more active
may help you lose weight.
If your team captures the most electoral votes, you will
become the President and VP for a term (1 month). You should want that.
If your team loses weight…well, we will have prizes for 1st,
2nd, and 3rd place teams.
Rules/Guidelines/FAQ’s
As usual, this challenge is ON YOUR HONOR
If you feel like you have to cheat: 1. I don't know you as well as I thought, and
2. you're missing the whole point of this activity
Whichever team has possession of a state on December 31…say
5 p.m.?...gets the electoral points associated with that state.
Sayyyyy…different parties have been
"owning" Texas throughout the month.
Whoever has possession of Texas on December 31 at 5 p.m. gets the 38
electoral votes associated with Texas.
The team with the most electoral points at the end of the
challenge (December 31 at 5 p.m.?) wins the presidential election.
There are 535 electoral votes. Whichever team as the most electoral votes
wins the presidency.
Popular vote vs. Electoral vote
Ahhhhh, the age-old gripe for the
LOSING party.
You can't break up your exercises until there are multiple
exercises assigned to the state.
Texas. YES: run in the morning, row at lunch, and
bike in the evening. NO: run 1.5 in the
morning, run 1.5 at night.
Nebraska. YES:
stretch/breathe/get water between sets of 20 until you're done with
100. NO:
do 10 sets of 10 throughout the day.
Be reasonable.
Can a team tackle one state?
No.
If your running mate is working on one state, then you should be working
on another.
Take states away from other candidates. Campaign harder! You can take a state away by beating the last
requirement by 10%.
If I won Wyoming by going out for a
20 minute walk, someone else can take it from me by walking an extra 10% (2
min)...22 minute walk.
If I won Texas, someone else can
take it away from me by doing an extra 10% on EACH of the activities.
Making the most of your minutes: it's up to you.
if you went for a 60 minute jog,
you can: claim Virginia for sure, or
maybe even Pennsylvania. OR you can win
Oregon, Oklahoma, and Connecticut
Quantity requirements can only be done in 10% increments.
You decide that you want to take
Minnesota with 30 minutes of cardio. I
want Minnesota, so I run 40 minutes. The
40 minutes fulfills the 30+10% requirement (33 min). I won Minn with 33 min. If someone else is REALLY wanting Minnesota,
that person will have to win it with 33+10% (36.3 minutes). Get it?
If you want to overachieve, go for it, but it doesn't matter -- you only
get credit for a 10% increase.
Can you keep winning a state to bump up the
requirements? Sure. Why not?
Not sure how smart it is strategically, though.
I have a thing for Texas, Alaska,
and Wyoming. If I felt like it, I could
keep besting my own times to bump up the state requirements. BUT, you should probably try to gather more
votes from other states.
How would I classify downhill skiing?
I would suggest that it's weight
training since it involves a lot of isometrics.
And would I say that it would be fair to count 8 hours of weight
training for a full day of skiing? Nope,
because we all know that you SIT on a chair lift, and then there's the waiting
in lines, and then there's the trip to the lodge for a beer and some
gut-killing chili.
How would I classify tennis?
There's a lot of sprinting in
tennis, but an hour of tennis is NOT the same as an hour of circuit training,
for example. I would be reasonable and
say, maybe, that 30% of my playing time is "running".
Road biking? Ugh. Here we go again. Fine. This is an on-your-honor society. A LOT of coasting can be done on a road bike (that cannot be done on a stationary bike), and we all know it. Be very critical of your performance...I would error on the side of coasting too much. Road biking is scary -- be careful!
Road biking? Ugh. Here we go again. Fine. This is an on-your-honor society. A LOT of coasting can be done on a road bike (that cannot be done on a stationary bike), and we all know it. Be very critical of your performance...I would error on the side of coasting too much. Road biking is scary -- be careful!
Definitions
- Situp = any type of crunch, bicycle, squirm, reverse situp; machine or old school…I don't care.
- Pushup = traditional man-style, or ladies style. I don't care -- whatever your ego allows -- but the point is to get stronger, leaner, healthier.
- Cardio = seriously? Running, biking, rowing, fast walking, fast biking, fast rowing, circuit training, jump roping…
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