Thread: Does anybody else use Halloween as motivation for fitness goals?

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i'm in...lol!!!!

Wow! Congrats Scatterbrains! That's a big loss!

Great responses! I am glad that I'm not the only one who does this! lol.

Originally Posted by Scatterbrains

My exercise has nothing to do with Halloween, actually the time I spend exercising is detrimental to me accomplishing anything Halloween related these days......I dropped 40lbs a couple years ago and just don't want to put it back on. Right now I'm training to run Boston in April.

That's a good amount. Congratulations on keeping the weight off, Scatterbrains; I know how difficult that is to do, since I have struggled with my weight nearly my entire life. Best of luck in your marathon

that has never occur to me to do such thing except i think every year i would do something about my self for the coming summer and of course nothing happens.

Haha I use Halloween to motivate me! I always start in January and aim for the summer to achieve my goals to tone up, but usually throughout the summer I somehow lose my motivation....Come August, I'm in full swing again! I always think, I want to feel more comfortable with my body in my costumes I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this way though

Scatterbrains, that's awesome! Good luck with the marathon

Originally Posted by ZombieRaider

One year I was a fat ninja that got his butt kicked...Ninja outfit, black eye, missing tooth, throwing star in the forehead, num chucks wrapped around my neck.....ZR

OMG. I LOVE this. (Standing up and clapping. And laughing)

Originally Posted by Terra

heh. I'm on a perpetual Halloween diet because I make tutorial videos throughout the year The diet ramps up to a fever pitch right before Transworld though.

Oh, that's brilliant! ( <-- rushes off to make YouTube account)

I like to drink beer.

And wine.

Sometimes gin & tonic..... or vodka & tonic, too.

Also like a bourbon & coke once in a while.

When I have mixed drinks, I use diet tonic or diet coke. That's my diet.

I have worked out for 20 years and have even had a 6 pack.Very lean close to fitness competitor stats(when I was 30).I have let myself go so to speak and am ashamed that I have.I am working on it this year and hope to get back into the six pack shape soon.I love insanity(the workout lol).Right now I am doing crossfit at home mixed with bootcamp workouts at home.I have lots of dvd's and all the equipment needed to do it at home.I have seen lots of costumes I wanted to wear but wouldn't because of the bulges.I have some cute costumes I want to wear so hopefully I will do it.

Originally Posted by halloween71

I have worked out for 20 years and have even had a 6 pack.Very lean close to fitness competitor stats(when I was 30).I have let myself go so to speak and am ashamed that I have.I am working on it this year and hope to get back into the six pack shape soon.I love insanity(the workout lol).Right now I am doing crossfit at home mixed with bootcamp workouts at home.I have lots of dvd's and all the equipment needed to do it at home.I have seen lots of costumes I wanted to wear but wouldn't because of the bulges.I have some cute costumes I want to wear so hopefully I will do it.

:::Bows in presense of greatness:::

I wish I had the self discipline to workout at home. Running I can do...the eliptical I can do...I show up for classes I sign-up for, but staying home and doing the push-ups, stretchin and weight liftin and all that get a six-pack stuff is not me.

I dropped the pounds by learning to run again and hittin the elliptical...4 straight months of 2 hours of cardio a day and eatin healthy crap. Now I'm back to eating stuff I like and run to try and break even. A year ago I started taking a low level boot camp class at the gym and a pilates class at the high school through the adult ed program. Didn't bulk up, but the work on the core and especially the stretching helped improve my running. BTW: I don't find it intimidating at all that I'm the only guy and there are over 20 girls/women in the pilates class.