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Here’s a quick look at my fitness exploits this past week:

Weight

As usual, I started out the week by weighing in. For the second straight week, I weighed 236.4 pounds. I’ll be interested in seeing what tomorrow brings. I suspect it might be up a bit, as lived it up all last weekend and early in the week with friends from out of town. On top of that, I slacked off a bit on the workouts (more below).

Hundred pushups

I survived all three “Week 4” workouts this week, though Day 3 was a bit rough. For the week, I did 217 pushups. Once again, I stuck to the prescribed 60/90/120 second breaks. The nitty-gritty details can be found on my hundred pushups log page.

Given that I’ve been languishing way back in Column 1 since the last exhaustion, and that I barely made it through the week, I decided to skip the exhaustion test this week and repeat Weeks 3 and 4. There’s no real reason for this beyond a gut feeling that I need to build up a stronger based before moving forward. In the interest of continuing to push myself along, I’ll be bumping myself up into Column 2.

Food and drink

Not much to report here. I packed my lunch a couple of times this week and hit the cafeteria for fish (albeit fried) on Friday. Dietary changes haven’t figured very prominently into my plans thus far. Time will tell if that changes.

Other exercise

I got off to a slow start this week cardio-wise, as we had friends in town and I missed both Sunday and Monday. I got back on track Tuesday with a 1 km warmup row and 30 minutes on the elliptical. I then worked in a 7 km of rowing on Wednesday plus some free weights afterward (plus my pushups earlier in the day). I skipped Thursday and then really hit it on Friday with a 30 minute elliptical session before work, my pushups around mid-day, and then 7 km of rowing plus free weights at night. No formal exercise Saturday, though we spent a few hours at the pool.

Oh, I almost forgot… Saturday night I spent some time playing Wii Sports — I’m still undefeated against the computer in boxing (not really a huge accomplishment) and have now worked myself up to “Professional” level (1000+ points).