Challenge Winners Announced

I'd like to start by saying how proud your coaches are of all of you for sticking with the challenge all the way to the end.  Every single one of you showed overall improvement on the workouts at the end, and all of you are better athletes now than you were 6 weeks ago.

For the scoring we measured percentage improvement on each of the 9 workouts and then ranked you from 1st to 15th on each.  So the person with the highest percentage improvement on workout 1 would get a 1st place and the person with the lowest would get a 15th place and so forth.  We then totaled your places for the 9 workouts.  This would leave the person with the lowest score being the winner.  In order to give value to your food and activity logs I used a random number generator to randomly select 10 days of the 39 day challenge and scored your food and activity for those days.  I gave you 1 point if you posted your food, and 1 point if you posted an intentional physical activity.  I did not give a point for things you would have done anyway that just happened to have a physical component to them.  For example, going for a walk around your block and doing some squats counted, but having a job that required you to walk around and bend over and pick up things did not.  The point was to give you credit for intentionally doing something over and above your normal routine in order to advance your fitness.  Once we had those 10 days scored (maximum of 20 pts, 10 for food and 10 for activity) we subtracted that number from your total from the workouts, once again leaving the lowest score as the winner.

After scoring the food and activity logs Gerald and Bethany tied for the most points at 18.

After scoring the percent improvement on the workouts, Bethany was the lowest by far with a total of only 30 points.  That means that she had an average place of about 3rd across the 9 workouts.  Considering the variety of movements, to perform that consistently across all 9 is incredible.  So, without further ado, the winners of our 2014 Fall Challenge are:

1st Place - Bethany Long (12 pts)
2nd Place - Hannah Lenz (36 pts)
3rd Place - Margie Green (41 pts)

We decided at the beginning of this challenge to not charge a very big entry fee, and because of that to only pay the top 2.  Bethany will receive $200 and Hannah will receive $100.

Congratulations to all of you!