Showing posts with label crunches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crunches. Show all posts

Monday, April 19, 2010

The Triumphant Return!

Whoa! So, I was out of town all last week and just haven't found the time to write, but I'm back, and I'm going to go through last week pretty quickly. Here goes

Monday, April 12, 2010

PUSH UPS:
Week 3: Day 1: Column 2 www.hundredpushups.com
Total: 86

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

CRUNCHES: Week 2: Day 2: Column 2 www.twohundredsitups.com
Total: 99

JOG: 5 minute walking to warm up, 5 minute jog, 3 minute walk, 17 MINUTE JOG!!!! five minute cool down

I was very glad that they had a workout room, but I haven't run on a treadmill since high school. I don't know what allowed me to run for so long. Maybe I was running at a more consistent/slower speed? Maybe the room was climate controlled? Maybe it was because it was right when I woke up in the morning(6:30)? Whatever. When I got off I felt like the world was coming towards me, and I don't know if that's a side effect of running in place, or if I just over did it.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

JOG: 5 minute walking to warm up, 20 minute jog, 3 minute 40 second walk, 6 minute 20 second walk, 5 minute cool down.

So, I had planned on taking it easy today, maybe just walking, or maybe going onto a stationary bike, but there were more people in the gym today than yesterday, and there was this one girl that was in the same meeting as I was. O great, now I have to try to impress her, so that's how I wound up running 20 minutes...nothing like a cute girl to motivate you :) Only later did I find out she just got engaged. Go figure.

I begin thinking that, during the summer, it might be a better idea to run in the morning before work, that means I would have to wake up at least 40 minutes earlier. Maybe...

Friday, April 16, 2010

PUSH UPS: Week 3: Day 2: Column 2 www.hundredpushups.com
Total: 91

CRUNCHES: Week 2: Day 3: Column 2 www.twohundredsitups.com
Total: 106

Terribly hard today, I guess it could have been worse, seeing as I haven't done push ups since Tuesday and yesterday was the first day that I just didn't do anything. The crunches hurt my back.

I'm so tired from this week...I think it's because I woke up so early to jog...I don't think it'll go over well if I try to do that all summer. We'll see, I guess, but running in the afternoon is sooo draining when it's hot!

Finally, Today, Monday, April 19, 2010

PUSH UPS: Week 3: Day 3: Column 2 www.hundredpushups.com
Total: 97

CRUNCHES: Week 3: Day 1: Column 2 www.twohundredsitups.com
Total: 112

JOG: 5 minute warm up walk 30 MINUTE JOG!!! 5 minutes cool down walking.
Total: 4.33 miles in 40 minutes and 28 seconds Walking: 0.76 miles in 10 minutes
Jogging:
3.57 miles in 30 minutes

Alright. So I reached my first big goal in jogging for 30 minutes. I kept my pace as near as I could to what I was running on the treadmill, around 6.5 mph, and the weather was nice and I just went for it. I felt sooo good for finishing! My right ankle sort of hurt afterward, but other than that, It was great!

THE END! (or just the beginning, really)

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Sunday, Funday

CRUNCHES: Week 2: Day 1: Column 2 www.twohundredsitups.com
Total: 90

Again, the same as on friday, around sit-up #74 or so I started losing the technique. I guess there's nothing much I can do about it...

JOG: Same as friday: sets of 4 minutes jogging and 3 minutes walking.
Total: 3.43 miles in 48 minutes Walking: 1.46 miles in 19 minutes
Jogging:
1.97 miles in 16 minutes

It was pretty hot today, in the upper 70s, and I think I may have gotten a sunburn :( . The heat just makes running feel like a chore, but it didn't help, either, that I went out at the hottest part of the day. I'm going to be in Albany this week for work, and I hope the hotel has a gym, because I'm not looking forward to running around a strange city.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Running and Tacos, soul mates?

CRUNCHES: Week 1: Day 3: Column 2 www.twohundredsitups.com
Total: 84

Did good today. Around sit-up #74 I felt like I started losing the technique, I guess I was just getting tired from it all, so I did the last 10 as best I could and went out for a run.

PULL-UPS: 10 sets of 1 negatives

So, pull-ups are reeeaaally hard to do if you're a weakling like I am, and untill www.twentyfivepullups.com is up and running, I'm on my own. I used this article from www.artofmanliness.com. But now that I'm surfing a little bit, I just found www.twentypullups.com! Looks like I'll be trying this out.

Right now I'm attempting to do them from this stand-alone bench swing that my parents have in the back yard. The bench swing hangs from a bar, so I take the swing off and do the pull ups from the cross bar, but it's pretty low to the ground to begin with, so that I can't even hang from it without practically sitting on the ground (the curse of long monkey-arms). So I try my best, but I really have to set up something better.

JOG: Today I began and ended with 5 minutes of brisk walking. I jogged for 4 sets of 4 minutes with 3 minutes of walking between sets.
Total: 3.48 miles in 35 minutes Walking: 1.45 miles in 19 minutes Jogging: 2.03 miles in 16 minutes

I can't believe that two days ago it was 87*F! Such a difference today at 63*F, I felt like I could just keep going and going, but alas. I felt good through the run, my legs were a little chilly because it was pretty windy. Towards the end I was getting a little pain in my right foot ankle. Got to watch out for that. After the run, I made some killer tacos for the fam. It's not an exact recipe, and I changed it a bit, but I guess that's what real taco's are, just throw together whatever you got, wrap it up in a tortilla and eat it. May not always be pretty, but it sure is tasty!