Challenge yourself today and this month. Do you like 30-day challenges? They’re a great way to develop a good habit and make a big change in only 30 days!
30-Day Yoga Challenge
On September 2, I decided to challenge myself by starting a 30-yoga-workouts-in-30-days challenge. I’m doing Vinyasa Flow Hot Yoga. So far, I’m on workout 5 of 30. I’m loving that yoga emphasizes flexibility, strength, meditation, and detoxification.
It’s also fun that Tom and I are doing most of the classes together. It’s more time for us to spend together. I feel great so far, and I look forward to seeing how I feel after my 30th yoga workout!
I typically work out most days anyway but usually use a mixture of gym, Zumba, Pilates, and yoga. I’m still going to add some of my normal workouts, too, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens with yoga as my main focus.
Challenges
I think a challenge can be a great way to set a goal and achieve a goal. It can also help you discover certain parts of yourself you didn’t know were as strong as they are. Other parts of you will be more challenged than you would have imagined.
Types of Challenges
Challenges can be done in any form. Common challenges are:
- Workout challenges
- Work-related challenges
- Nutrition challenges
- Sporting challenges
- Cleaning and organizational challenges
- Reading challenges
- Writing challenges
- Habit-changing challenges
- New-hobby challenges
I encourage you to set a challenge for yourself – any challenge you’re drawn to – when you read this article. It could be 5 days, 10 days, 100 days. You can start off small and lengthen the challenge or do lots of different small challenges.
It’s often said that it takes 3 weeks to develop a habit, so 30 days is a great length of time to develop a positive habit if that’s one of your goals.
30-Day Challenges
Here are some of the 30-Day Challenges here on Christina Chitwood Performance and at Fit Body Full Life!
30-Day Exercise-a-Day Challenge
30-Day Healthy for the Holidays Challenge
Ideas for Setting 30-Day Challenges
Here are two posts with great ideas about setting 30-day challenges:
What Do You Want to Change? from Bits of Positivity
30 Days–What do you have to lose? from Janet Callaway, The Natural Networker
Have Fun with Your Challenges
30-Day Challenges are meant to help you move forward and do more of what you want to focus on!
Have fun with your challenges!
Christina ❤
Photo Credit: Photo by Stephanie Carter at Flickr Creative Commons. Text added by Christina Chitwood.
Christina, aloha. What a terrific challenge you have set for yourself. No doubt about it, in 25 more days you will feel like a new person.
Thx so much for the link back to my post. Like you, Christina, I hope the message in it inspires others to a 30 day challenge for themselves.
Do keep me posted on your challenge. Until next time, aloha. Janet
Thanks so much for your comment, Janet (and for your great post on 30-day challenges)! I’m really enjoying my 30-day challenge. It’s been wonderful to have a specific focus for the month, and yoga is an especially rejuvenating focus!
love that mermaid pose! i’m doing ashtanga vinyasa! yay! well i have challenged myself but not just 30 days, it’s been almost eight months since i started 🙂 then i fell in love with yoga. been attending yoga workshops too.
Thanks for your comment, Kim! Congratulations on your love of yoga! That’s fantastic. Keep up the great work! 🙂
Certainly Yoga is extremely helpful. Lifting some weight about an year and a half ago, I suffered from herniated disk that kept me in bed for a whole month, and then with physio for two more months. Finally, I came across some Yoga exercises that worked wonders! I am now living a perfectly near normal life so long as I keep doing my Yoga on a almost daily basis.
Thanks for a great article.
Practicing yoga regularly will surely bring much more benefits. And will also help to stay fit and healthy.