Archive for August, 2008

The dog days are over

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

So the month of August has come and gone. As always, I’ve taken 2 pictures of myself and put them on my progression page. I did something to amuse myself with it this time. I wore one of my more “comfortable” shirts from when I was much larger. Its kinda funny to see exactly how big it is on me now. On to my goals.

August Goals

Get to 260 lbs - Nope, I’m good with 265 right now though.

Get a Job - Hell yes! I start this week.

Start the 100 push-up challenge - 1 week into it, no major issues thus far.

Get situated in school - One week of classes down. Doing well.

So once again, I do not hit my weight goal. Honestly I think I set them pretty boldly, so even though I don’t make them I at least have a high goal to work towards. However, getting to 265 means I have lost 100 lbs since I started this little endeavour. That’s a huge milestone.

I also start my job this coming week, and I’m in school. I’m having to adjust my schedule to still allow me to get my work outs in, but I’m determined to keep up with this. I feel so much better then I used too. I don’t ever want to go back to where I was.

September Goals

Get to 250 lbs

Keep my job

Continue the 100 push-up challenge

Get situated in school

Get to a 15 minute mile

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One hundred push ups

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

I’ve been meaning to post about this, so as to make clear what I meant by the “One hundred push up challenge”. There is a reason I’ve been late in getting this up, I strained a muscle in my right arm at the beginning of the month doing my weight training. So I’ve been taking it easy, still doing some lifting, but I didn’t want to actually hurt myself, or tear something. I’m feeling better now, so this past Monday I started my little challenge. I’ve been busy most the week thus far, and I’ll get into why in my progression/goals post at the end of the month.

What is the one hundred push up challenge? My goal is to be able to do 100 consecutive push ups. Where did I come up with this goal? I found a web site doing some surfing.

One Hundred Push Ups

Now I know I can’t just decided to do this in one month. And that web site is set up so that its not in a one month period. However I’m going to take what the web site does and go a step further. I will progress as fast as I feel comfortable doing. Meaning, if I can’t do the next step in the schedule, I will just repeat it until I can. This means it could well take me longer then 6 weeks, but I’m OK with that.

So far, 2 days down in week 1 no problem.

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