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    Finishing up week 1 of the push ups and chin ups

    Kent Cowgill

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    on Sunday, August 03 2008, 8:33pm

    July 18:
    Whoops. I meant to do week 1 day 3 today. Good thing I didn't, because...

    July 19:
    Seems like I needed to rest up for the big effort.

    Push ups: 15 then 13 then 10 then 10 then maxed out at 16. And a half, but I'm not counting halves. Resting about 2 minutes between sets, for a total of 64 push ups within about 10 minutes. These felt pretty good, except for the last few of the last few sets. It seems like I'm well on my way to being able to do 100 in about 6 weeks, at least according to hundredpushups.com. I just hope I can keep this up. For the push ups, anyhow. Because next up were...

    Chin ups: 5 then 4 then 3 then 3 then maxed out at 3. At least 3 short of the goal of the program. I rested about 2 minutes between sets for a total of 18 within about 9 minutes or so. So 5 more than on Wednesday - so at least that's something. But because of my failure to hit the mark, I think I'll repeat this whole week. Which means I'll have a bit easier of a time hitting my number on Monday. I briefly considered just repeating today's program until I got it, but I struggled every day of the week 1 program applying it to chin ups. I'm thinking that for push ups, the schedule is realistic - since push ups seem like they're easier overall than chin ups. But chin ups are a little tougher, so it might take a little longer then the 6 week goal. Like maybe twice as long. But that's OK - 100 consecutive chin ups would be a very impressive feat.

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