In which even 10-day breaks don’t seem to lower the efficacy of these nifty little free programs.
Okay, so I told you I’m doing these online exercise thingies, right? Where you do, like, an “exhaustion test” (that’s some kind of sporty-person lingo, apparently) and compare your results with this little table which tells you how many reps to perform per set, and after not very long you can suddenly do, like, a surprising number of reps of these exercisey things?
You’re supposed to do the program three times a week, but in looking at my logs it appears that I skipped an entire week once. Which totally sounds like me.
And yet!, today I did 132 squats, 202 crunches, and 50 (modified, girl-style) push-ups!
Did you hear what I just said? Fifty fucking PUSH-UPS, people! You know how many reps I could do when I started? Six. Six push-ups. So we’re dealing here with demonstrable improvement in body strength.
Plus I did over two hundred sit-ups today! Soon I’ll be able to do them consecutively. How cool will that be?
Since there’s a chin-up bar all handy in the basement, I’ll probably be doing the Twenty-five Pullups program when it launches. The last time I checked, I was able to do a total of ZERO CONSECUTIVE PULL-UPS, because girls and the upper body strength? Not so much. We’ll see if that’s changed after the other stuff.
Here are the links again, if you want to check them out:
Two Hundred Squats
Two Hundred Situps
One Hundred Pushups
(There are matching iPhone apps, but they cost a couple bucks each.)
Anyway.
In other news, here’s a link to The Hacker’s Diet, because it’s both geeky and tota11y full of teh win.
Let it be known that I’m so non-sporty I don’t even have a blog category for exercise.
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ok – I was supposed to start doing these exercises when school was over. School was over Friday, and I had kinda sorta forgotten. But your results are fucking amazing. Yeah. Astounding. How long have you been doing this? Do you feel a lot better? Is day-to-day life easier? When I used to go to the gym, I noticed that things like loading 40lbs of kitteh litter in and out of the car didn’t bug me anymore, and I could squat down and stay on my haunches to clean stuff or plant stuff or whatever, and my quads were suddenly ok with that. You noticing that kind of stuff?
Congratulations, m!!!
Nah, day-to-day living feels the same. I’m still chubby. It just happens that I can do more weird sporty repetitive motions now. *chuckle* -m
Nice progress. I’m impressed. Keep pushing. I’ve heard of the 100 push-up program, and I’ve always meant to give it a try. Sounds like it really works. I should probably give that 25 pull-up program a shot too.
I bet you can do a bunch of push-ups already! I tried a pull-up on the bar in the basement again and I can still do NONE. Ye gods, girls have no upper body strength! -m