Feb/27-374,Feb/28-371, total so far 5946
A friend of mine asked if I was doing these chin ups and push ups in a row. He had kind of a "you don't look like you can do 300 push ups" look on his face. Am I doing the push ups in a row>? Hardly. When I started I could hardly do 20 push ups in a row and couldn't do 5 chins. Now I start with a set of 30 push ups wait 30 seconds and then do 5 chins. I keep repeating until I have done a couple hundred. Pretty quickly the sets of push ups are down to sets of 2o,15 and lots of sets of 10. Chin ups are the same -sets of 5 become 4's and 3's. 300 chins and push ups take me about a half an hour. If I am on a roll I might finish with some deep knee bends and some crunches. Days where I am up around 500 usually means I was ambitious enough to get a workout in the morning and one in the evening. I saw a workout on dragondoor.com-the evil russians push up workout. Basically you do so many push ups every half hour or every hour. I think I will give it a try when I get a few days off. I can't imagine stopping at work to drop and do some push ups. My wife is already starting to think I have obsessive compulsive disorder-so I will give it some time.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Cracked 5000 next goal 10k
Feb/24-0,Feb/25-545, Feb/26-250, total so far 5201.
RMHSA- we have our Cassie Campbell Street Hockey Festival Coming Up. As well as Cassie being there we have confirmed that Mister Hockey himself -Gordie Howe will be there to give out photos and drop the puck at the celebrity game. Should be an excellent event this year
RMHSA- we have our Cassie Campbell Street Hockey Festival Coming Up. As well as Cassie being there we have confirmed that Mister Hockey himself -Gordie Howe will be there to give out photos and drop the puck at the celebrity game. Should be an excellent event this year
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Fitday
Feb/22-274, Feb/23-300, total so far 4406. I kind of made it sound above like I just did a bunch of chins ups and push ups and lost 60 pounds. That is sort of the story-but I should add one thing. I started tracking what I was eating on fitday.com. I figured there is a whole lot of nutritional information out there and every diet guru tells you something different makes the critical difference. I figured at some level-if you burn 3500 more calories than you eat-you loss a pound-end of story. Everyday I just tried to make sure I had burned more calories than I had eaten. I wanted to eat better-but I knew I still was going to have fast food and junk. Usually at least once or twice a week I would blow it and take in more calories than I burned-but on average each week I burned more than I ate.
By the way -I posted the RMHSA website. We are building a new Ronald McDonald House in Calgary... There are some cool pictures of the progress on the website. 30,000 square feet-it is a monster but it still looks like home.
By the way -I posted the RMHSA website. We are building a new Ronald McDonald House in Calgary... There are some cool pictures of the progress on the website. 30,000 square feet-it is a monster but it still looks like home.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
One Million Push Ups
I want to do one million push ups. Well really one million push ups and chins ups. I figure I should do some chins ups so I don’t develop some sort of imbalance or rotor cuff injury or something. The goal could take me ten years to accomplish-but as they say the journey of a thousand miles; starts with a step.
Why would I want to do this? A couple of reasons I guess:
1) I thought I would try to do it as a sort of fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta. So if you want to help me you can send me a pledge. If you send me $25 or $100 the first 25 or 100 push ups that day will be pledged to you, and I will mention your name and pledge on my blog. God bless you if you send RMHSA a thousand bucks- however I will be doing a lot of push ups that day. Don’t send me the cheques directly. You can go onto the website at
www.rmhsouthernalberta.org
Either send the cheques to the mailing address or use your credit card to make an online donation. Remember in the comment line to say “push up blog” so I know it is a pledge.
2) Well like most North American adults-I could stand to lose a bit of weight. A couple of years ago I had a job that had a lot of travel. Lots of meals on the road or at restaurants. Over the period of three years I put on 60 pounds. When I left the job I spent about a year taking the weight off. I tried every kind of workout you could imagine. The only thing that really worked was really simple. I found a copy of a Navy Seals workout book. Pretty soon I lost interest in the running and swimming parts, but I kept doing the calisthenics. Essentially it was hundreds of push ups, crunches and chin ups. Fast forward a couple of years and I had found another job with its own special kind of industrial hazard. For almost two years I have been the Executive Director of Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta. RMHSA is a great place to work for so many reasons; however we have this little hazard. We have a few volunteer bakers and some groups who come in to make family dinners for the families staying at RMHSA. We love these groups and volunteers. There is nothing that makes a house feel like a home more than the smell of baking bread or cookies. We always have fresh cookies, squares or loafs sitting on the island. By Christmas of this year I was up to 224 pounds from the 195 that I weighed when I started the job. Starting to see a pattern? Well anyway for the most part I have sworn off the cookies- (I still have the occasional lemon square) and started doing push ups and chin ups everyday. It is starting to work –I am down to 206. Goal is to be back down to 195 or maybe just a little less. In February I started counting and recording the push ups/chin ups. Here’s the progress so far:Feb/10-475
11th-535
12th-0
13th-345
14th-245
15th-440
Feb16th-92
Feb17-277
18th-500
19th-558
20th-100
21 -301
Total so far 3832. Compared to a million –it seems like a single step.
I want to do one million push ups. Well really one million push ups and chins ups. I figure I should do some chins ups so I don’t develop some sort of imbalance or rotor cuff injury or something. The goal could take me ten years to accomplish-but as they say the journey of a thousand miles; starts with a step.
Why would I want to do this? A couple of reasons I guess:
1) I thought I would try to do it as a sort of fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta. So if you want to help me you can send me a pledge. If you send me $25 or $100 the first 25 or 100 push ups that day will be pledged to you, and I will mention your name and pledge on my blog. God bless you if you send RMHSA a thousand bucks- however I will be doing a lot of push ups that day. Don’t send me the cheques directly. You can go onto the website at
www.rmhsouthernalberta.org
Either send the cheques to the mailing address or use your credit card to make an online donation. Remember in the comment line to say “push up blog” so I know it is a pledge.
2) Well like most North American adults-I could stand to lose a bit of weight. A couple of years ago I had a job that had a lot of travel. Lots of meals on the road or at restaurants. Over the period of three years I put on 60 pounds. When I left the job I spent about a year taking the weight off. I tried every kind of workout you could imagine. The only thing that really worked was really simple. I found a copy of a Navy Seals workout book. Pretty soon I lost interest in the running and swimming parts, but I kept doing the calisthenics. Essentially it was hundreds of push ups, crunches and chin ups. Fast forward a couple of years and I had found another job with its own special kind of industrial hazard. For almost two years I have been the Executive Director of Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta. RMHSA is a great place to work for so many reasons; however we have this little hazard. We have a few volunteer bakers and some groups who come in to make family dinners for the families staying at RMHSA. We love these groups and volunteers. There is nothing that makes a house feel like a home more than the smell of baking bread or cookies. We always have fresh cookies, squares or loafs sitting on the island. By Christmas of this year I was up to 224 pounds from the 195 that I weighed when I started the job. Starting to see a pattern? Well anyway for the most part I have sworn off the cookies- (I still have the occasional lemon square) and started doing push ups and chin ups everyday. It is starting to work –I am down to 206. Goal is to be back down to 195 or maybe just a little less. In February I started counting and recording the push ups/chin ups. Here’s the progress so far:Feb/10-475
11th-535
12th-0
13th-345
14th-245
15th-440
Feb16th-92
Feb17-277
18th-500
19th-558
20th-100
21 -301
Total so far 3832. Compared to a million –it seems like a single step.
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