I completed my first week of the hundred push-up challenge and the two hundred sit-up challenge. Both challenges were opportunities to focus on my personal health and fitness in the New Year. While I want to lose weight (doesn’t everybody?) I am more concerned on long time health than just a couple pounds. And, by focusing on fitness instead of weight, I can have the side effect of losing weight while I get in shape.
Both challenges presented aspects I wasn’t expecting. For instance, I have had far more success with the push-up challenge than I initially expected. I have been able to complete all of the expected sets and the quantity involved in each set. Not only that, but I have been using a technique that is a bit more difficult than normal push-ups. In addition I have been able to exceed my max by 5-7 each day.
The sit-up challenge on the other hand has proved to be more difficult. Once again I have been able to complete all the sets in each of the challenges. However, the first couple of days I was able to exceed the programs max. However, on day 3 I was merely able to meet my max. The reason for this could be one of several things:
- My arms, shoulders and back are in better shape than my abs, or
- The sit-ups challenge is a little bit more aggressive than the push-ups challenge.
Of course I prefer option two, regardless, I am going to need more work in this area. On day two of the challenge I noticed that I may not have been doing the technique quite as well as I thought. I made the necessary adjustments and this is when everything became a whole lot harder. I am glad I found this out early however, this way I can ensure myself the best results possible.
How are you doing with your New Years goals? Are you still on track, determined to follow through on your goals for the New Year? Or have you already fallen and determined that your goals are to difficult to succeed? Hopefully you are still on your path. Since we are not yet two weeks into the New Year it’s not to late to get going and focus on small successes rather than minor set backs. Share your journey and what it’s been like so far in the comments.
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