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my little bar that shows "everyone's progress" has ceased showing me the grand total number of minutes. Does anyone know where we stand? Its killing me not knowing how many minutes we all have left!!!!
Submitted by yeahredgymnast on 08.05.10 at 04:38.
We're at 953,360. If you sign out, the total will show at the top where your totall nomally is.
Submitted by sassmolass on 08.05.10 at 05:49.
300 minutes per day on average? bullshit. love you guys, but that's ridic.
When's someone going to make a fake profile and say they worked out 50000 minutes akready?
:-*
Submitted by Mr. Mohawk on 08.05.10 at 05:54.
haaaa mohawk. I was thinkin the same...
Submitted by Eis4Emily on 08.05.10 at 10:51.
thanks sassmolass!!! that's uber helpful :-)
Submitted by yeahredgymnast on 08.05.10 at 11:04.
my theory about the 300 peeps is that they are as sick of this challenge as I am and are trying to make it end.... is that wishful thinking?
Submitted by FatBottomSlim on 08.05.10 at 11:05.
whatever happened to that woman who was biking under her desk all day? she sort of disappeared...
Submitted by Fraidy on 08.06.10 at 06:32.
@Mohawk -- Need to rebutt the BS call....when you sit at a desk job all day and it makes you feel like a caged animal, all other hours, minutes and seconds of the day are most enjoyed MOVING. I take my dog out before work, hit the gym after work, get home and take the dog out for more! And the weekends -- non-stop!! I love to move all day if I can help it!! Luckily, my friends gladly join on walks, runs, gym dates, etc....
No couch potato'ing here!!
Love you all, but don't call BS ;)
Submitted by michlny on 08.06.10 at 08:50.
Nope. I call BS. 5 hours of it, to be exact.
Submitted by Mr. Mohawk on 08.06.10 at 09:06.
You're back now, what - two days??? and already you're starting a fight! Nice ;o)
You're just jealous! - You haven't worked out in weeks!!!
HA!!!!!
Submitted by michlny on 08.06.10 at 09:30.
Mohawk! Welcome back, and thank you for injecting some contrarian energy and the whiff of scandal into the final minutes of the MMM. That is meant sincerely, by the way. (Also, FYI, meant to welcome you properly on your own return post, but got sidetracked by my own long journey in the land of SW 2.0 upgrades.)
I have two things to say on this debate. First, as msh258 points out elsewhere: This challenge is expansive, not limited to "workouts" of the sort that a professional athlete might do, and allows people to include all of their minutes of intential physical activity. Second, as FatBottomSlim points out above, this challenge is interminable (but epic), and so I am profoundly grateful for michlny and bwaytapper, and some of the other Super Mloggers for dragging my sorry ass to the finish line! Thank you!
And one third point: Today I will spend some substantial part of my day contemplating how we will properly celebrate One Million. Your suggestions welcome.
Submitted by Oliver on 08.06.10 at 09:31.
@mich:
I regularly eschew public transit, and still do skateboard pushups, boxing with light weights, and can still bang out some one armed chin ups. That puts me at, hm, at least 30-45 minutes of "activity" a day that is much to dull to blog about, so I don't. I'm not jealous, I promise I've been living a very fulfilling life without Crunch in it ;)
@Big O:
I've always thought "activity" was a loose definition, but that's probably because you're inifinitely more generous than I will ever be. I suggest the celebration, in light of this stirring debate, actually include a debate, where mloggers and fluggers discuss what was the most rigorous and, er, lest rigorous activity they blogged about. The mlogger who argues they had the most rigorous workout gets a pat on the back. The flugger who argues they had the least rigorous gets a strip of bacon.
Submitted by Mr. Mohawk on 08.06.10 at 09:59.
bacon!!!!!! (yes, my contribution to this debate)
Submitted by msh258 on 08.06.10 at 10:05.
Americans are a sedentary society - that is part of why obesity is alarmingly high. I see this challenge as a challenege to incorporate more activity into out lives....to get MOVING!
Not everyone has time or money for the gym and SW is doing a GREAT service showing and encouraging people to just add activity to their lives.........
Submitted by michlny on 08.06.10 at 10:40.
I am cocking my eyebrow at you.
(1 minute of activity down...)
Submitted by Mr. Mohawk on 08.06.10 at 11:11.
Um, no.
Submitted by michlny on 08.06.10 at 11:16.
I already logged that one minutes, don't make me log another!
Submitted by Mr. Mohawk on 08.06.10 at 11:20.
I'm sorry...I have to say I agree with Mohawk. Maybe I am a little puritanical about what should be considered activity but it seems excessive and exaggerated. I work for a gym and I tried to count up 5 hours of activity and it was impossible. So while I won't out and out call BS I have a hard time believing it. All except MSH258 her minutes are legit.*
*One shall not mess with ones nookie provider. Love ya baby!
Submitted by killercadoogan on 08.06.10 at 07:51.
My one contribution to this debate (along with my relatively low overall MMM count due to an injury all the way back in APRIL-- is that how long this effing thing has been going on????) is that it IS actually possible to do more than five hours of actual exercise a day. You just have to be on a yoga retreat. When I clocked 360 minutes of exercise a day this weekend, it was 100% legit.
(Which is not to say I am calling bullshit on anyone at all. I think we've probably got some people who do spend almost every waking minute that they're not at work exercising. More power to 'em.)
Submitted by joesgirl on 08.09.10 at 07:32.
@Joesgirl. That's one weekend. Total difference to saying you can do it daily.
Submitted by killercadoogan on 08.09.10 at 10:23.
Point taken, killer. I couldn't do what I did this weekend every day, that's for sure.
Submitted by joesgirl on 08.09.10 at 04:04.