{"id":3931,"date":"2010-04-20T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2010-04-20T07:30:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:30:01","slug":"the-100-push-ups-challenge-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/the-100-push-ups-challenge-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The 100 Push-ups Challenge – Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>ell, this push-up thing has taken on a life of its own — as seems to be the case in an alarming number of things in my life! What started out as a poorly formed idea to be able to do *some* proper, full-body push-ups, with perhaps the capability to do some unspecified amount of *more* push-ups by some date three or four months in the future has now migrated into a formal challenge where a bunch of us are going to try to do 100 <\/strong>push-ups. In SIX WEEKS!<\/p>\n

Yeesh, that peer pressure thing never really does go away, does it? So far, I know Finola <\/a>and Nat <\/a>and Christy <\/a>and Barbi<\/a> are playing along — did I miss anyone?<\/p>\n

And you know what the really funny part is? I’m already a quarter of the way to the goal! Yep, yesterday, for Day 1 of Week 2, I managed to do 26 push-ups. Remember, it’s only been three weeks<\/a> since I first tried and could not do a single push-up, and now I can do 26. Yay!<\/p>\n

Here’s the secret — it’s not 26 all in a row. This hundredpushups.com<\/a> site has an amazing program where you start out doing two push-ups, then rest for 60 seconds, then churn out three, then rest — it’s almost too easy that way. And it increases incrementally, so yesterday I did five sets of 4, 6, 4, 4 and 8 push-ups with 60 second rest-periods in between — 26 push-ups in five minutes. On the site, they have a tracker so you can log your progress, and if you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, there’s an app for that<\/a>!<\/p>\n

So I knew that I’d probably improve the muscle tone and shape of my arms and shoulders (hello sleeveless season!) but what I didn’t expect is that between the push-ups and the rowing machine I’m suddenly starting to see a lot of definition in my abs. Mind you, it’s definition with about 3\/4 of an inch of belly fat, but definition none-the-less. After five pregnancies and three 10 lbs babies, I’m now working on my first-ever six pack — who would have guessed it!!<\/p>\n

So there you go, I’m officially more than 1\/4 of the way to the ludicrous and accidental goal of being able to to 100 push-ups. Ain’t serendipity grand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this push-up thing has taken on a life of its own — as seems to be the case in an alarming number of things in my life! What started out as a poorly formed idea to be able to do *some* proper, full-body push-ups, with perhaps the capability to do some unspecified amount of … Continue reading “The 100 Push-ups Challenge – Week 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}