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55 Day Lifestyle Challenge Creator

Welcome to the Ignite55 Lifestyle Challenge Creator form.

This page has been designed to help you create your very own Ignite55 Lifestyle Challenge.

It’s up to you to create the rules to your own challenge, which must be challenging for you, but also achievable.

The idea is to set yourself a challenge that will help you improve your lifestyle, make it healthier, make your live better, and is also achievable by you.

As you complete your challenges through-out each week of Ignite55, tick them off on the Lifestyle Challenge Tracker wall chart (available just before the challenge starts).  

Once you have the Challenge Creator form filled out, submit it, and it will email both you and your coach your unique challenges.  

After that, you simply need to use the Lifestyle Challenge Tracker wall chart to keep track of your progress.

Get to work on completing your mini-challenges and ticking them off.

Creating Your Challenge!

The Ignite55 Lifestyle Challenge is made up of 3 or 4 mini-challenges, and one Big challenge, that you must complete over the 8 weeks.

Mini-challenges can be from any part of your lifestyle, related to improving your health and fitness.  Although 1 from each of the categories below will give you a good balanced challenge.  Here’s a few examples.

Nutrition

  • I challenge myself to eat 3 meals a day
  • I challenge myself to consume at least 1800 good calories per day.
  • I challenge myself to eat a healthy breakfast 5 days a week.
  • I challenge myself to only eat a homemade lunch at work.
  • I challenge myself to eat at least 5 portions of fruit per day
  • I challenge myself to cook at least 1 meal per day.
  • I challenge myself to cook a family meal at least 5 times per week.
  • I challenge myself not to snack between meals
  • I challenge myself to replace take-aways with fake-aways.
  • I challenge myself to eat a pre-workout meal before each workout.
  • I challenge myself to only eat bread 3 times per week.
  • I challenge myself to eat protein sources at with at least every 2 meal per day.
  • I challenge myself to only eat out once a week and make it a healthy choice.

You can copy any of the examples above, and change the numbers to suit yourself.  Or you could create an entirely different nutrition challenge.

Training / Exercise

  • I challenge myself to do at least 2 workouts every week 
  • I challenge myself to do at least 1 workout session with weights per week.
  • I challenge myself to add an extra spin class to my weekly routine.
  • I challenge myself to do 10 minutes extra cardio after each workout.
  • I challenge myself to stretch for 10 mins at least 3 times per week.
  • I challenge myself to workout at least once every weekend.
  • I challenge myself to workout with my kids at least twice per week.
  • I challenge myself to workout every Monday
  • I challenge myself to do 1 PT a week
  • I challenge myself to do at least 1 early morning class or workout per week.

The key with workout challenges is to set yourself something achievable.  Quite often, once we get the first session of the week done, we often want and crave more, and end up doing more than we challenge ourselves.  But on the more difficult weeks, as long as you get the minimum done, you’ll still benefit.

Activity

  • I challenge myself to go running at least once per week.
  • I challenge myself to walk for 20 minutes at least twice per week.
  • I challenge myself to go swimming at least once per week.
  • I challenge myself to cycle at least 30 miles per week.
  • I challenge myself to go hiking at least once per week.
  • I challenge myself to do at least 1 hour of vigorous cleaning or gardening once per week.
  • I challenge myself to cycle to work at least 3 days per week.

Your activity challenge can be anything that causes you to be more active than you normally would.  Activity is usually something that is either less intense than a gym workout or class, however, sports can be included here also.  Although darts doesn’t count lol.

Lifestyle

  • I challenge myself to go to bed before 10pm at least 5 nights per week.
  • I challenge myself to drink at least 1.5 litres of water per day.
  • I challenge myself to use my phone no more than 1 hour per day.
  • I challenge myself to not use my phone in bed.
  • I challenge myself to get out of bed before 7am at least 5 days a week.
  • I challenge myself to not talk negatively about myself 

Your Lifestyle challenge can be anything that would make your lifestyle healthier.  More sleep, de-stressing yourself, mental training etc.

You can use any 3 or 4 of the above examples, or any other challenge you wish to set yourself.  Challenges that you know will improve your health and lifestyle.  You can set mini-challenges from different areas of your lifestyle, or all the same areas.  It’s totally up to you.

Big Challenge

The Big Challenge is one that you set, that you know will be difficult for you to achieve, but that you know it will make a massive difference to your lifestyle if you do achieve it.  Below are some examples of a Big Challenge.

  • I challenge myself to cut out take-aways for the 8 weeks
  • I challenge myself to have no more than 2 take-aways during the 8 weeks.
  • Feel free to substitute takeaways with any of the following: alcohol, fizzy drinks, sweets, chocolate, crisps, buns and biscuits, etc. etc.  Whichever one is your #1 unhealthy habit.
  • I challenge myself to climb Slieve Donard, Slieve Gullion, Mount Errigal etc.
  • I challenge myself to complete a couch to 5k.
  • I challenge myself to run 10 mile without stopping
  • I challenge myself to use the rower for 30 mins without stopping.
  • I challenge myself not to use the scales for the whole 8 weeks.
  • I challenge myself to walk 100 miles over the 8 weeks.

You’re Big Challenge should be something that you will feel a real sense of accomplishment from.  The more we accomplish, the more self-belief we attain, the higher we aim for ourselves as we grow.  

We are always trying to get people to have confidence in themselves, challenge themselves, but at the same time, be realistic.  Being realistic doesn’t mean aiming lower.  It means understanding how long it takes to make changes.  Realising how much effort is required.  You can 100% achieve every goal you set for yourself.  But you won’t necessarily achieve them as quick as you would like to.  Change takes time.  Don’t rush it.  Don’t try to go from Zero to Hero.  Aim for small manageable changes.  Be proud of the small improvements.  Understand that big changes are the results of lots of small changes stacked up.  Enjoy your Ignite55 journey.  It’s not the end, it’s only the beginning. 

Feel free to use any of the examples above as your Big Challenge, or of course, set yourself a different big challenge.

Fill out the form below and submit it.  This will email your challenge to us, to you, and if you have a Maxx Coach, you can select them to receive it also.