DDH Fitness Challenge

Team	Push Ups	Squats	Bicycle Crunches	Yoga
	67	70	84
	58	55	63
	58	51	77
	61	68	96
	38	43	57
	57	52	76

The Challenge!

The NHL fitness challenge is a simple workout plan that gives you exercise targets based on the performance of your favourite NHL team. Each morning after your favourite NHL team plays, check this table. It contains exercise targets; a number for push-ups, squats and bicycle crunches and a link to a Yoga YouTube video. Your task is simple: locate your team in the table and complete the Yoga video and target number of push-ups, squats and bicycle crunches by the end of the day.

How the Workouts are Determined

# of Push Ups = Shots x 2

# of Squats = (Shots + Shots Against) x PDO

# of Bicycle Crunches = SV% – (Goals Against + 1)/(Goals For + 1) x SH%

WINNING TEAMS: 5 more reps are added to each workout.

Why I Started the Challenge

I often struggle to find motivation to exercise, and this problem gets worse during wintertime. However, whenever I find the motivation and exercise for even 15 minutes, I FEEL AWESOME, both mentally and physically. I make the mental note of how great I am feeling and promise myself to start being active everyday, or even every other day. It doesn’t happen.

While watching the leaf game a few weeks ago I had a moment of motivation and decided to do X pushups whenever the leafs got a shot, where X was their current shot count for the game. That started out very easy and ended being very difficult. Anyways, that push-up challenge got me thinking about making a workout plan that revolves around hockey games. I thought it could help solve my “winter low motivation” issue because gamifying exercise and adding the element of unpredictability makes things more fun, at least for me.

This workout plan won’t turn you into Arnold Schwarzenegger. But, it’ll keep you active and hopefully feeling pretty good. Some people will hardly consider this a workout at all – you can still join in though 🙂 use it as a warmup, or multiply every target by 5. Others may feel these numbers are unattainable – that’s perfectly fine too! Everyone starts somewhere – divide the numbers by 2,3,4, whatever, or just set yourself a goal of 10 push-ups, bicycle crunches and squats for the day after your team plays (and do the Yoga, trust me it’s awesome).

I hope you decide to join me in this challenge (I’ll be doing the Leaf workouts btw) Good luck 🙂