I know that this is the first time that I've posted about the 100 Push Up Challenge, but J and I have been doing it for the last 4 weeks and today we did a max test and we have officially gotten STRONG!
So, we started out by seeing what our max number of push ups was before we started. We were somewhere around 20 or 25. We did two weeks of the workout and then after week 2 we did another max out. In that max out, we were probably somewhere around 30 or 35... I can't really remember. Then we did two more weeks of workouts, three days a week, and we just did another max out yesterday. So, I started around 25, increased my max by 10 in two weeks, and this week... guess how many I did...
70!!!!!!!
So now we have two more weeks, three work outs per week, and then we do the final test.
100 consecutive push ups!
I'm feeling really good about the workout... when we started, I thought that we would never make it to 100, but when I did 70 yesterday, it started to feel like I was WAY closer than I thought I'd ever be.
WOOOO HOOOOO!
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March 8, 2011
January 15, 2011
Amazing Arms
I was reading the blog of a fellow bride-to-be (The Vintage Modern Bride) and she posted about a website called OneHundredPushUps.com that gives you a workout plan to help you reach the goal of doing 100 push ups in 7 weeks. She is planning on starting the workout plan to keep her arms and abs toned, and I think this is an awesome idea!
I teach group exercise classes and work out pretty regularly, but there are always those days that I just can't bring myself to put my running shoes on and leave the house. This is something that I can do at home, that I could do in my pajamas, that I could do on those days when I don't have any motivation to hit the workout hard.
I'm thinking I'll start with modified push ups for the first 7 weeks and then try for the normal push ups. I really can't imagine myself doing 100 normal push ups, but just think about how great my arms are going to look when I get there.
ALSO, check out The Vintage Modern Bride... it's a great blog!!!
I teach group exercise classes and work out pretty regularly, but there are always those days that I just can't bring myself to put my running shoes on and leave the house. This is something that I can do at home, that I could do in my pajamas, that I could do on those days when I don't have any motivation to hit the workout hard.
I'm thinking I'll start with modified push ups for the first 7 weeks and then try for the normal push ups. I really can't imagine myself doing 100 normal push ups, but just think about how great my arms are going to look when I get there.
ALSO, check out The Vintage Modern Bride... it's a great blog!!!
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