Woke up this morning with high hopes for starting this challenge. I'd been thinking about my strategy for a couple days but it wasn't until this morning when I walked in the gym that I made my decision. For now my strategy is pretty simple, do as much as I can for the time I spend at the gym. Sounds easy right? I figured I would be able to crank out 150 pushups & situps with relative ease then knock out a couple miles on the cross-trainer. I got on the cross-trainer in the cardio theatre at my gym to do my usual 5 minute warm-up (the movie today was Fantastic 4 just in case you were wondering). It seems my strategy is already evolving. Instead of getting off at minute 5 I decided to stay on the cross-trainer, do a mile, do my pushups & situps, then get back on the cross-trainer and do another mile or two. In my head this was a good plan. In reality, not so much. Here's why. IT TOOK ME 22 MINUTES TO DO 1 STINKIN' MILE! Shame on you Fantastic 4 four distracting me! I think it's safe to say I was doing more movie watching than cross-training.
I had only planned on being in the gym for 45 minutes. With only 23 minutes left I was going to have to hustle to get in some pushups & situps and try to squeeze in another mile. So on the floor in the cardio theatre I go alternating between sets of pushups and sets of situps. I stop at 112 pushups and 100 situps then jump back on the cross-trainer for one more mile before I have to leave. 13 minutes later, another mile taken care of. It's time to go, but as I walk out of the gym to my car I realize I'm going to have to step up my "running" a couple levels or there will be a good chance I will fall short of the 100 miles.
After work it's off to teach my Bootcamp Class. I couldn't go to sleep tonight only having done the number of pushups & situps I did at the gym this morning, not in good conscience anyway. So during bootcamp I snuck in another 75 pushups and 65 situps.
Here are my totals for Day 1:
2.1 miles in 35 minutes
187 Pushups
165 Situps
I can live with what I accomplished today. I'm excited to see what tomorrow brings. I'm also curious to see how sore I'm going to be. Hmmmm. . .
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"Don't think of it as losing weight, think of it as gaining health. Do that and the weight will take care of itself"-Mike Huckabee
My day one:
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100 wall pushups (gotta start somewhere)
2.5 mile walk pushing kids
After having 2 kids in 2 years via c-section, my abs are feeling it...but that's what it will take!
Nice job Tammy. It's nice to see a mother two taking on this challenge.
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