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July 21:
Having mostly successfully completed last weeks regimen for push ups, I'm moving on to the week 2 program from hundredpushups.com. Having failed to complete the week for chin ups, I'm starting back at the beginning of week 1, hoping I can use the opportunity to rest up a bit while still gunning for more during the "max out" set.

Push ups: 12 then 12 then 9 then 7 then maxed out at 15. Resting about a minute between sets for a total of 55 within about 6 minutes. Five more than the minimum goal for today, which is good. Nine less than saturday, but in a shorter amount of time. The last one or two of the second to last set seemed pretty tough. The last few on the last set were very tough. I didn't quite push myself to the point where no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't possibly do another. But I felt fairly sure that I wouldn't be able to do a full one after the last one. I have my sights set on doing the 66 on Wednesday. I don't find it likely that I'll do more than the 15 on the last set. But we'll see - so far I've managed to surprise myself in the short amount of time I've been doing this.

Chin ups: 2 then 2 then 2 then 2 then maxed out at 4. Resting about a minutes between sets for a total of 12 in about 5 minutes. These felt pretty good except for the last two, which I really had to struggle with. But overall I shouldn't be surprised since it's a bit of a step back from the end of last week. Wednesday ought to be similar - the minimum for the goal is only 15, and I know I've already succeeded in doing more than that. Granted, it was with more rest - but the push ups have shown me that this kind of progression is at least possible.

No geek update today.