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Hundred Pushups

Matt — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:13:28 +0000

We got back from Disney last week, and we’re already focusing our running for the Shamrock Shuffle at the end of March. But I wanted to do something more than just running three or four days a week. So I’ve come up with a couple of things I can do, whether it’s the Cardio Abs workout from Insanity, or Ab Ripper X from P90X, or just a routine from Runner’s World, I hope to do some core work a couple of days a week.

I also decided to start the One Hundred Pushups Challenge again. I went through it once before, and it definitely got my pushup max higher, but I never got to 100. So this time I’m hoping to do it right, and not move on until I get the proper max, and hopefully end up with a max of 100 pushups at once. The plan has you doing between 5 and 8 sets of pushups, with a structured amount of rest in between sets. It gets progressively higher, and is aimed at getting to 100 in six weeks. I’m not sure I can do it in six, but Day One last night already went better than I remember from the first time through. I hit all of the first four sets, and maxed out at 20 on the fifth set, where the goal is just nine. I’ll try to at least post my max every day I do it (Mon, Wed, Fri), if not some more thoughts on how it’s going.

Insanity Day 4

Matt — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:55:35 +0000

We’re now four days into the Insanity program, and it’s going well so far. We’ve now done the Fit Test (might post the results later), Plyometric Cardio Circuit, Cardio Power and Resistance, and Cardio Recovery. We’ll take them each one at a time below.

The Fit Test walks you through the eight exercises you do for one minute each to see how fit you are. You’re supposed to do as many of them as you can for one minute, and write it down. You then do this again every other week to track your progress as you go.

More later.

Insanity!

Matt — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:39:56 +0000

I’ll post a little more about it later, but just wanted to quickly let everyone know I’m about to kick things up a notch – with Insanity. It’s a new 60-day workout program from the same company as P90X, and they claim it’s the hardest workout ever put on DVD. From what I’ve seen, that could be true. We’re two days in but have only done one workout (plus a Fit Test on day one) so far. Tonight we do the second workout, and I’m hoping it lives up to the hype.