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Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts

Friday, January 16, 2009

50 straight

Jan13-445,Jan14-610,jan15-400

total push ups/chins 149,681

weight 203.6 bf%22.0
Well if this is the first time you stumbled on this blog site-I'll give you a bit of an update. I have goals in my personal life,goals in my professional life. Once you hit your 40's your body starts being able to do less of what it was able to do in your twenties. Somehow that doesn't seem quite fair and part of me thinks it doesn't have to be true. I figured I needed some kind of goal-aimed at proving it didn't have to be so. I stumbled across the blog one million push ups (link over on the left). Jack wanted to do a million push ups in his lifetime. Perfect goal-I could do that. It was a goal that would not quickly or easily be accomplished-it would take some persistance. The total above is where I am at in the quest for one million. Every chin ups I do counts as one, every push ups I do counts as one. So unlike Jack's blog where he is counting only push ups-I am counting push ups or chin ups.
On another note I tested my maximum for push ups( in a row). Yesterday I did 50 straight. Around New Years I thought I could probably do about 40-but when I tested myself I could only do straight sets of 30. 50 straight-halfway to one of my New Years goals.


Sunday, March 23, 2008

closing on 100k

Mar21-645,total 81,341

weight 201.5 bf%21
calories left to burn 49807

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.Viktor Frankl


Found an article that recommends push ups for happiness. Heres the link:
http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/03/5-simple-ways-to-inrease-happiness.html

Had two days with big numbers of push ups/chins and the shoulders are a little sore. I think it is just regular muscle soreness -but i might take it a little easy today-just in case. Well the weight finally dropped back down again. It has been hard to get back below the 200 pound barrier again. I don't know maybe there is something to that set point theory after all. Nonetheless I am not willing to abandon the idea that it is more about calories eaten versus calories burned than any other factor. I'm over 81,000 push ups and chins-going to push harder for that 100k point (maybe just not so hard today).