About Kent Cowgill
Articles filed under...
.vimrc 9-11 acme aging algorithm andylester array attitude autocomplete baggyshorts BEGIN bestpractices big bike bikeshop bilk birthday blog bmi body_composition botanicgardens broken bugs bulge bumbo burnout bus butterscotch buzz cache calculator camera catalyst catnip cgi chart chin chinups chiropracter claim clog cloud code codger comics community commute complaint confusion constant coo cooking coworker cpan css dad database datamodel datatypes dbi deal debugging design devin docs documentation dsl ebook error exercise exhaustion Exporter feature_creep filecache firstpost fitness flattire flat_tire formatting fundraising funny google google_maps gravatar grilling groceries harness hash helmet highlight history home houston html humor identity ie imager indirect internet ipod journal kate kettlebell keynote kids ladder launch lazy legacy lisa lisanne list logarithmic lolcat macbook-pro maintenance map maps matthew memories meta michaelmckenna modules mom money monger mongers montreal motivation movie mvc mysql nasty notation objects offroad old oops optimize orm ouch outrage ownership park patrick paw pdf perl perlcritic phb photos pictures pinch presentation presentations principles programming progress push pushups rabbits racecondition rain rant reader recipes refactor requirements review ribs ride route run_on_sentences shadow shake site sitting slides sneaky soda sony sore soreness sorting spacebar speed spike spring sprint sql sqlite squeaky squeal statistics subversion syntax tag tags talk talks tap tasteofchicago tasty teachers technorati test testing tests text textile tire trac traffic trail training treats trick tricks tweak tweets twitter twitterpated updates ups vandalism versioncontrol video vim vimrc walk warren weather weblog welfare wikipedia winter wisconsin wishlist work workaround workouts xkcd yapc yapcna2007 youtube yummy zap

A R C H I V E S

(16)
(3)
(4)
(2)
(4)
(11)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(2)
(2)
(10)
(5)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(9)
(21)
(3)
(3)
(1)
(6)
(4)
(1)
(4)
(3)
(2)
(1)

    Is Kent Cowgill Online?
    View Kent Cowgill's profile on LinkedIn
    Add to Technorati Favorites

    Recent Entries...

    Week 3, day 2 for push ups

    I'm posting a bit more than a day or two per post, hoping I ...

    Chin ups week 1 column 2, push ups week 3

    August 6: Push ups: 27 then 20 (wow these seem tougher than...

    Exhausting chin ups, continuing with push ups

    August 4: I'm really glad I took the opportunity to rest ...

    Logarithmic tag cloud

    It's been a while since I've posted anything technical. Pos...

    Weekend bike rides

    August 2: I got out on my bike today. I had to raise the s...

    Still week 3 for push ups, finishing week 2 for chin ups

    July 31st: Push ups: 27 then 19 then 19 (the last 5 of whic...

    Tough push ups, and easier chin ups? Oh, kettlebell, too!

    July 29th: The push ups day I'm dreading. I'm feeling mostl...

    Push ups exhaustion test, continuing on with the chin ups.

    July 27th: Exhaustion Challenge, push ups. 31. Kind of dis...

    Weekend Respite.... or is it?

    So I ended up buying a kettlebell and getting back on my bik...

    Gotta keep going - on with week 2

    July 25: Super tired today. Woke up very early, had a pedi...

    Push ups and Chin ups - Week 1 Day 2

    Kent Cowgill

    Posted by
    on Saturday, August 02 2008, 9:08pm

    July 16th:
    Generally, I'm less sore than I was fearing today. Normally when I start exercising - or at least doing things way more than I had been used to - I get a bit sore the day after, and really sore the day after that. That really wasn't so much the case today. I have been exercising a bit for the previous several weeks, but nothing approaching the all out (or the nearly all out) effort I've been putting forward with the chin ups and push ups.

    Push ups: 12 then 12 then 10 then 10 then maxed out and 10 and a half. Resting about 90 seconds between sets - total of 54 in about 9 minutes. These seemed pretty rough, especially the last few of the last two sets. I wasn't half as sore as I thought I would be today, but also I was hoping to max out with more than ten on the last set. Friday is looking definitely possible especially with more rest between sets. And honestly, it's only 9 more than I did today. Having pulled off 11 more than I did Monday, a measly 9 more certainly seems doable. But we'll see. Because next up is what I'm really dreading...

    Chin ups: 4 then 3 then 2 then 2 then maxed out at 2 and a half. Very nearly three. The last half was half again halfier than the last half I halfed out on Monday. But I still won't count it as a whole. Again, I rested about 90 seconds between sets for a total of 13 in about 7 minutes. These weren't nearly as bad as I was fearing, but I still ran out of gas for what would've been the 14th. And I was hoping for 15. On the bright side, what I did today was 4 more than I did Monday. On the down side, I'm scheduled for 21 on Friday, which seems fairly unlikely - even with the longer rest period between sets. I'm guessing I'll hit 19, and peter out on the last set trying to go for 5 again. However, I won't condemn myself before I start. At least, not any more than I already have.

    On a bright and definitively geeky note, I've now built a web based body composition calculator, which calculates BMI, basal metabolic rate, calories needed for total daily expenditure based on activity level, and body fat percentage. All I need to enter is my height, weight, age, and a few skinfold measurements. On a fairly wide technological departure for myself, this is entirely done in javascript, helped along by my favorite javascript/AJAX toolkit, JQuery. I have yet to build a back-end for it to store data from day to day and draw a graph of the values calculated. For which I will naturally use perl.

    Filed under: fitness pushups chinups body_composition calculator
    Comment on 'Push ups and Chin ups - Week 1 Day 2'

    Main Page | Login

    Do you want to buy me ? Find more gift ideas at my wishlist