I was able to complete my first day of push-ups no problem. I started on Week 1, day 2 of the course, in the beginner's column. Here is the link again if you need it http://hundredpushups.com/. This day you take 90 second breaks between each rep, which I believe I could not do this without the break.
This workout is something I'm afraid will get really difficult later. In high school, I could only do two. Thinking of doing 100 is exciting and scary all at the same time. I am also taking the stairs at work now. It is a 3 story building and I work on the third floor.
Waking up this morning, I had lost all my willpower to do this. I was tired, from going to bed late. I will need to correct that soon. I am currently getting up at 6:30am. I think I am going to try and change this to 6am. I had tried switching from getting up at 6:30 before to getting up at 5:30. I was getting up OK when I did this, but the rest of the day my head was in a fog and my vision would blur during the day sometimes. I am hoping that by getting up at 6am my body wont be over taxed as much. This will give me more time to workout.
Pray that I do not give into my body and sleep late or stay up later than my body wants/needs. My wife gets up earlier than I, so she wakes me everyday. Thank you my love if you read this! There is nothing like having someone wake you up in the morning. I am a morning person, but having someone wake you up, it's just so gentle and loving. I'm afraid this will change if I am getting up earlier though. I hope it doesn't *crosses fingers*.
I will only have water today. I really don't like it though, unless it's ice cold. So if I sit around with a glass/bottle of water and it warms up, I more than likely will not drink it. My sinful taste buds want flavor. If you have an idea on how to keep it cooler longer, I am open to suggestions. I would love to want to drink more water. I think what I will probably do to solve this for now is get a cup of ice water from cafe here at work and go that route.
About Me
- Eric Whittington
- I have been a Christian since 2004. I desire to help people become the best Christian they can, and for the Lord's will to be done. I am married to a wonderful supporting wife, Stacey. I have one son, Kellen.
9 comments:
Congrats on your first day. And waking you is a definately a blessing for me as well. I hope some day to spend more time with you in the mornings. It makes my day go much better.
I would suggest trying to train your body to drink lukewarm water. I believe you will be convicted if you do the research that colder water is not as good for your body because of the icey stimulation.
Stacey...
You know, I knew that at one time but had forgetten that. It is a very good point. I still don't like the taste of it though.
What about squeezing in some fresh lemon, lime or orange juice
You may want to try different types of water, reverse osmosis has the best flavor in my opinion as it leaves in the oxygen and gives it a slight sweet flavor. Adding flavoring will also help as Stacey suggested, just keep it natural. The best way it overcome though is just to force yourself to drink it and over the long haul you will like it more and more. Eventually your body will crave it.
By the way, thanks for the link to the hundredpushups.com. It's interesting as just this week I ran across this website http://giveme27.com that is about doing pushups as well and I was thinking about following it. You may want to record your progress with them as well. You have inspired me and perhaps we can feed off each other. I have been getting quite a bit of exercise, mostly walking, some stair climbing and hiking while here in NC. I hope to also get back into working out in the mornings when we get back home.
Hey, I have a blog I started here as well, mostly for testing. http://britswhits.blogspot.com I have since moved to MySpace and now Facebook. You can blog on them as well and all your friends will see it. So if you want more people to be accountable to increase the eyeballs.
I seen you had a blog by looking at your profile yesterday. I realize I can do this on facebook. I wanted to try it here first since very few people I know will probably read it here. I wanted to one see if i liked writing everyday. Two see if the people that do read it, would tell me you suck at writing and need to stop. If I decide to stick with it I am going to make my own webpage. there reason I would do this is two fold. One to keep me on track as a Christian and Second to make extra money.
Hey Eric -
I'm the owner of GiveMe27.com. I just wanted to encourage you (and others who are reading this) to continue to exercise. I found myself in a situation like yours. I was busy and often too tired to exercise. So I decided to do something about it...that's when I decided to make GiveMe27.com.
The concept of the site is simply, help people do more push-ups. It has helped me and others stay motivated as we try to stay active and fit.
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
Best,
Doug
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