My guess is that everyone has a weight-related goal each year that they do or don't achieve. We live in a visual society and there's been a real shift towards health and wellness. So, I have revived my previous weight loss resolution for the new year, and I have added on two additional challenges, thanks to my friend BySarah: 100 Push-ups and 200 Sit-ups! Check out my Week One, Day One results...
Before you can start the plan, you have to do a placement test. No cheating is allowed and they assume many people will score low on these tests. This is nice because you don't have to feel like a failure if you can only eke out a few reps. Here's how I did:
Initial Pushups: 7
Initial Sit-ups (crunches): 34
I wanted to put up my actual numbers so people can see (in 6 weeks) just how far I've come! Now, on to day one's results. Don't worry, I'll only be posting results once a week:)
Day One Push-ups
Set 1: 6
Set 2: 6
Set 3: 4
Set 4: 4
Set 5: 6
Day One Sit-ups
Set 1: 21
Set 2: 27
Set 3: 21
Set 4: 21
Set 5: 30
I find it curious that my muscles really had a problem with the crunches, even though I consider myself very weak in the upper body...huh...learning something about my body already!
Until next time...
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Pushups and Situps Challenge
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Yay for you! I did the 100 push-up challenge a few months back. It's amazing the progress that can be made following the program.
yay for you! And thanks for the site. I am joining you, starting with an abysmal 4 pushups. That is actually more than I thought I could do, even though they are only pushups from the knee. So I'll be excited to chart both your progress and my own.
see you on Rav, Janina
Oh, I hope I didn't give the impression these were regular push-ups, LOL! I'm doing girlie ones too! Glad you're on board:) Go us!
YEAH!!!
Thanks for joining.
I think 34 situps is good.
I could do 7 push-ups too.
I didn't do the situps test, cause I was going to do it this morning, but forgot and then shoveled for 2 hours. Now I am dead. Will do the test tomorrow. And I am doing my 10 minutes at lunch or in the evening before dinner - I havent completely worked it out, when are you doing yours??
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