Monday, June 30, 2008

Below 200 again

june26-40,june27-400,june 28-167 total push ups/chins- 109,140
weight 199.5 bf %23
calories left to burn 50750

Dianne Feinstein:
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

As I mentioned on my other blog
http://awesomebody-lmath.blogspot.com/
I am trying to get in two hours of working out a day-to shock my body into losing more weight. Yesterday only about one half hour of this time was doing chin ups-but I did exceed my two hour target. Went hiking in the mountains with the family-the actual hiking time was 2hours and twenty four minutes (not including time for breaks). Earlier this weekend my weight was up to 203-so the two hour thing is working so far.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

averaging 265 a day

June 22-300,June 23-194,June 25-170 total 108,533 push ups/chins
weight 200.5 bf%21
calories left to burn 54250

Eleanor Roosevelt:
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Year to date I am averaging a little more than 265 push ups/chins a day. Obviously some days I am doing nothing other days I am doing quite a few,but ytd it averages out to about 265. I have a google alert for the words "push ups" -the google alert sents me an email each day with all the posts on google that have the words "push ups" in them. I have noticed that quite a few people are trying the program I mentioned on my other blog( http://awesomebody-lmath.blogspot.com/). The program claims to get you up to one hundred push ups in a row. Certainly a worthy goal. Currently even though I am doing a couple hundred push ups a day- I can only do about 40 or so in a row. Usually I am doing sets of 10 or 20 to make up the total. Any way -if you try it -good luck. Let me know how it goes.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

over 107k

June17-382,June19-450 june 21-476 total push ups and chins 107,889
weight 202 bf%21
calories left to burn 58715

Louis Pasteur:
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

As you can see my weight or the calories left to burn to my goal of 185 pounds doesn't seem to be plumetting downward. Howhever I am still getting some pretty decent push up and chin ups totals in at least half of the days of the week. Work being a little crazy and a lot of travel for work is affecting my workouts. Nonetheless as I mentioned about half the time I am getting some good workouts in. I have the words "push ups" as a keyword in google alerts and I am surprised how many people are posting on thier blogs that the are doing the 100 push ups program on this site: http://hundredpushups.com/. Good luck to all those people trying the program

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Up and Down Cycle

june14-396,june15-335,june16-186 total push ups and chins 106,581
weight 202.5 bf %21
calories left to burn52273

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.Charles Simmons

I have noticed that I made at typo on my last blog entry. It should read 202 pounds not 220. I haven't been watching my diet the way I should-but it hasn't been that bad. All the fathers day celebrations and the graduation celebrations are over and the temptation to over eat is back to its usual daily level. Have been working out fairly consistently. In North American life their always seems to be another reason to overeat just around the corner. On a given week I would say my weight is a couple ( maybe 3 or 4 ) pounds heavier around the weekend and then it slowly goes back down as the week progresses. On the weekend I am much more likely to workout consistently-however we are much more likely to have a big family dinner-order pizza -etc etc. I guess the key is to live with the ups and downs through the week-but try to make the down cycle bottom out a little lower each week.

Friday, June 13, 2008

My corner of the universe

June 10-275,june 11-200,june 12-135 total 105,664
weight 220,bf21%
calories left to burn 52500

Aldous Huxley:
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

I have been a little more consistent this week with the push ups/chin ups. I haven't posted big numbers, but have tried to make sure I at least did a few chins /push ups a day. Big day today ,my oldest is graduating with a bachelors of kinesiology and a masters of teaching. Taking everyone for dinner tonight-so the clean eating thing might fall by the wayside a bit.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

105k

june 8-500,june9-218 total push ups and chins 105,054
weight 202.5 %bf 21
calories left to burn 58894

Henry David Thoreau:
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

This year (since Jan 1st) I have done 48,853 chin ups and/or push ups. This works out to an average of 270 push ups/chins a day so far this year. At this rate I am doing a little less than 100,000 push ups and chin ups per year. Pretty good although I have read that Paddy Doyle did a million push ups in one year to set a record. I am sure there are not a lot of people who do 100,ooo or 1,000,000 push ups in a year either way.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

off the wagon

June 2-325,june7 -1000 total 104,336
weight 202.5 bf%22
calories left to burn 60566

Bruce Feirstein:
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

You could sort of say I had another week off the wagon this week. Everyday a 12-14 hour day-so as you can see above the push up /chin up numbers were not so big. Yesterday I figured it was time to really get back on the wagon, so I made sure I did 1000 chin ups /push ups by the end of the day. This week is not quite as hectic so I am hoping to keep on the wagon this week.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Still at 200

may 29-127,may30-20,may31-155,june 1-245, total 103,011
weight 200 bf%21
calories left to burn 50654

Has not been the greatest week for working out or eating right. As a result my weight is staying pretty much were it had been. Pretty busy at work-so not able to get a lot of time in to log more push ups or chins. This week will better. Today was not a bad day, walked the dogs, got a work out in and only had one big meal.