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Come join the 10x Club! It’s a new BlogHer group designed to help you take positive steps towards eating better, getting in shape, and feeling your best in 2010. No pressure though—if your goals are to eat more jelly donuts, spend more time watching TV, and experience a lot more stress and anxiety, you can still join the group too. You just might have to modify the suggestions a little.
It’s a running joke that most New Year’s resolutions and other “get healthy” pledges are made with great enthusiasm, then abandoned two days later. So how is the 10x group supposed to help make this year different? Well, we don’t have the resources to dispatch specially trained health and fitness ninjas to your house to wrestle you out of bed and force you into your gym clothes. (Maybe next year we can budget for some ninjas). But we do have a few secret weapons at our disposal, the most important being… social support and encouragement? Well, sure, that’s nice, but I was thinking… bribery!
The idea is to have a little fun while we try to accomplish a few of our fitness goals.
Here’s how the 10x group works:
1. Every weekday in the forum, I’ll post a suggested health or fitness challenge. I might even propose a couple different variations. However, everyone has different abilities and preferences and laziness levels, so there's no way I can predict exactly what YOU would get the most benefit from. So always feel free to design your own challenge! Then come back and tell me why mine was stupid and lame.
2. These challenges are designed to be small steps—something doable in a reasonable amount of time. They can either help ease you into a new routine if you’re just starting out, or serve to add a little variety to what you’re already doing if you’re an old pro. Given the 10x in 2010 theme, there is a good chance the challenge might involve 10 repetitions of something. But it depends on the challenge. If 10 turns out to be a totally dumb number for a particular challenge, we won’t force it.
3. Along with the challenge, I’ll also post a “reward” link. But don’t click on it when you first see it! It’s for later.
4. After you do the challenge, or your own personalized, vastly superior version, come back and tell us about it. Go ahead, gloat! Or not. You can keep it a deep dark secret if you're the inhibited type. But do come back to click on the reward link.
5. So what is a “reward” link? It’s an entertaining bit of webfluff that should keep you amused for a few minutes. It could be something funny or helpful or just plain weird. It’s the sort of link your friends who spend way too much time online might dig up and forward to you. But instead of using it to procrastinate, like you normally would, you’re going to be good and use it as motivation to get healthier. Right? (And don’t worry—it’s not creaky old Crabby McSlacker who’ll be finding the links—it’s the hip energetic BlogHer editorial folks who actually know where the cool stuff on the web resides).
6. Want some more help with your goals? In addition to the forum challenge suggestions, there will be blog posts featuring health and fitness information and tips, some by me, and some by other, smarter writers. And of course I’ll be keeping my eyes out for other bloggers who write about health and fitness so I can link to them and steal all their brilliant ideas let you know about other great resources. So if you yourself are blogger who pops into the forum every now and then, and you have some great health and fitness or weight loss posts, I may very well try to exploit your wisdom for the common good!
7. Besides giving you some support for your health and fitness goals, we’d like to encourage you to hang out here a bit at 10x… because we like company! So there may be some sort of cute widget thing available at some point to post on your blog, if you have one. Plus, BlogHer likes to encourage this sort of healthy hanging-out behavior, and will therefore try to acknowledge 10x participants via Twitter and the Facebook Page. But mostly we want you to come here to have fun! Or to whine and commiserate; that works too. Whatever gets you to your goals in
