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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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An update

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

I know I’ve mentioned before that I have a bad ankle. Its kinda frustrating, when I walk for a time it tightens up and starts to get sore. I work through it, and I don’t want to use it as an excuse. I have avoided trying to jog much in fear that my ankle wouldn’t handle it. Until today. I decided it was time to at least attempt to jog a small portion of what I have been walking.

I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to do it much at all. It hurt like hell at first, but amazingly, my ankle loosened up after a bit while doing it. It was weird really. I jogged till I was fairly winded (which didn’t take too long, heh), but I did it. Its given me some hope for the possibility of reaching my goal of a 7 minute mile. In addition to being able to do HIIT and sprints in the future.

I’m also pretty happy to say I hit the 50 lbs. lost mark yesterday. I’m trying to really push for my goal this month, I may not make it due to hitting a plateau for a week and a half, but I’m definitely trying. I would really like to be able to say I did it, despite the issues.

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So much water

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I’m sick of water. So I spent all of Wed night keeping the basement from flooding. Sucking up water with a shop vac and then emptying it into the sink down there. Stupid sump pump. It was fixed by 7 AM, but I had a joyful 6 hours lifting 2 full vacs full of water every 15 minutes. Each weighing about 80 lbs.

So I didn’t really “work out” on Thursday. I figure all the lifting and so forth was more then enough. I also didn’t do any weight training today.

On top of it, we had to move a bunch of stuff around, so I don’t currently have access to the treadmill. I didn’t want to skip two days of my cardio, so I went for a walk. It was raining when I left, though it did stop and the sun even came out for a short bit.

I walked about 3.25 miles. I’m not sure exactly how long it took me. That wasn’t my concern. I just knew I wanted to get some cardio of some kind in. I’m sore, but it felt good to get out. I think I’ll make a habit of walking outside a bit more instead of being cooped up in the basement.

I also think I’m going to have to start eating a bit less during my dinner meal. I know I’m not going over on calories, but I’ll eat, and I feel very full for hours. Like I ate a bit too much. Maybe I’ll just try to eat slower so I feel more full quicker. I eat pretty fast, habit from when I worked in fast food (wanted to get done super fast to have time to smoke a couple cigs during my break). Either way, I don’t like feeling like I’m stuffed. Will have to work more on not letting that happen.

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So nice here today.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The weather is so nice here today. 60 degrees, sun is out, light breeze. So I went for a walk outside. Normally I don’t do any exercises on the weekends, as its my time off, but I felt compelled. It’ll help balance out my slip up earlier this week, though that’s not what motivated me to do it. Its just SO nice outside.

So I walked the same thing I did the very first day I decided to start working out. Why did I go walking in the middle of January in Wisconsin? Yes, perhaps its because I’m crazy. The real reason, I tried to get the treadmill working and it wouldn’t work. Not sure exactly what was wrong with it, as it worked fine the next day. So my next thought was to walk in circles inside my garage. After a few times around, I felt like it was counter productive and I’d probably go insane doing it. So walking outside it was. It had snowed the day before, so there was still snow covering most the sidewalks. So I walked on the road. It took a lot out of me. I hadn’t worked out in anyway in…a long time, lol. My legs hurt, my feet hurt, my ankle hurt, I had worked up quite the sweat under my jacket.

Today was the first time I’d walked it since. It took me about half the time. My feet, legs, and ankle were sore, but after 5 to 10 minutes for them to relax and it was gone. It actually felt good.

Which made me think again about how crazy the human body is. How it responds when you push it and train it. I do stuff now that probably would have figuratively killed me back in January. If I’d be able to even do them at all. It helps to put things in perspective, and gives me hope for the future. It also keeps me motivated, I don’t want to go back to how I was, how out of shape I was, how unmotivated I was. I just need to keep at it, and I’ll achieve the goals I have set for myself. It might not be as quickly as I want, but I know its attainable with time. That’s a comforting thing to know.

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Just keep on keeping on.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Its been a month and a half since I started my diet and excersise regime.  I quit smoking a week and a half befor that time. I’m down 30 lbs in that time. So how do I feel?

I feel great, as scary as that is.  I mean, my ankle hurts, my knee hurts(cause of my ankle) and I’ve had a blister the size of a quarter on the bottom of my foot for a week. None of that really lessens how I feel though.  I wake up every day, and I feel more rested then I used too.  There are times during the day that I feel like going out running or something else.  I just need to be active.

Sometimes I kick myself, because this seems so easy, why didn’t I do this sooner? Why did I wait to start changing my life?  Then it dawns on me.  People do not change untill they are ready too.  You can force someone to quit something, but they will start again if they don’t truely want to stop.  I think that goes for anything in your life.

I’ll try to get a larger post with some of my thoughts in it up here eventually.  I get a lot of time to think while I work out, and spend a lot of it contemplating what I want to accomplish, and such.

Here is to keeping postative, and staying active.

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