As a side note, and maybe the reason why I’m struggling a bit.  I’ve started doing bicycle crunches on the days that I’m not doing pushups, I’ve started with doing about 40 (2 sets of 20).  I’m wondering if this is tiring me out for my pushup days?

All that aside, I think I’m going to do 6 weeks at the level below and then 6 weeks at the highest level, I don’t want to push it too hard and hurt myself and I’m really interested in a longer term program that I can keep up. Heck, I might even drop it down to the lowest level and do all 3 levels over the course of 18 weeks, we’ll see how I feel tomorrow morning .

I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled on the 100 Push ups Training Program, but it immediately caught my attention as something I could integrate into my existing exercise program (note: my current exercise program consists of nothing more then waking up every morning). The frequency and pace of the program seemed like something I could handle so I’m going to get started. You basically go through a steadily increasing routine of pushups, 3 times a week for 6 weeks, I think it’s an achievable goal and I have a plan for sticking to it.

One of my favourite blogger’s Leo Babauta of Zen Habits offers some great advice on staying motivated to achieve a goal, basically the idea is that to hold myself accountable to this goal I’ll post a weekly update on my progress through the program.

Here’s to the gun party at the end!

so about 2 weeks ago i went out and bought a bike. nothing special mind you.. I didn’t want to be one of those people that goes out and spends 1000 bucks on a bike, rides it for a month and then leaves it in the garage until it rusts apart. So to start with i spent about 120 cdn on this. I figure if i can keep with it for this year (my goal is to go out 4 times a week) i’ll treat myself to something nicer next year.

so tonight i went out for about 45 minutes, it was a really shitty ride though. I kept yawing during the whole thing and i crashed really hard about 1/2 an hour in. What i have been doing is starting out with about 10 minutes of really low impact to get warmed up, then i try and go pretty hard for about 1/2 an hour and then do about 15 minutes of gradually slowing down. Well tonight for some reason about half way through my legs’ just gave out and i had to stop for about 5 minutes or so… thinking back it might have been that i did alot more uphill riding this time. Or maybe I ate too close to going out? I did eat later than usual… well i think i’ll consult my boss (he’s an avid rider with a lot of experience) about a few of these things.