By the time you’re reading this, it’s about a month into the New Year. If I were writing to members of another gym or fitness organization I would likely be either congratulating you on how you have amazingly made good on an entire month of your get-fit New Years resolution, or writing to ask you whether you’ve forgotten about that resolution and to where you’ve disappeared. Not this group. As a community that’s made lifelong fitness a committed priority, I know you need neither my reminder nor my congratulations.
But can I perhaps offer you an additional incentive, a goal to add to add a little spice to those resolutions you’ve already made for the year?
If you took part in last November’s Train the Trainer fundraiser – and if you did, please accept our thanks again – you’re likely familiar with our supporter, CHIMP, an online, customizable fundraising platform. Well, one of our friends at CHIMP – who is also a friend of IF, sports, and health development in general –Will Cromack, has let us know that he’s going to be leading the charge for CHIMP’s recently-announced Healthy Habit Charity Challenge, while in the process putting his money where his health transformation commitment is, in support of the 60 Minute Kids’ Club.
The short version goes like this: you have a health/fitness goal. You commit to it publicly, align with your charity of choice, and you challenge your friends to support you in your goal by pledging to a financial commitment to the charity if you reach your goal. And you self-incentivize by committing to pay out to your charity yourself if you fall short.
So if you think a little extra accountability would help you reach your 2015 weight loss goal, bench press 1RM, or other fitness goal, consider starting your own Healthy Habit Challenge. We hope you’ll keep us in mind when you do.
Regardless, good luck with all your goals this coming year!
Rumon Carter, B.Sc., LL.B.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation 60 Minute Kids’ Club (60MKC)
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Rumon Carter is the Communications Director of the Heart & Stroke Foundation 60 Minute Kids’ Club, a multisport adventurer and occasional occupant of the training floor at Innovative Fitness Victoria. You can bench more than he can. 
