Our eight year old asked me a funny question the other day:
“How do you build muscles in your nipples? I wanna make my boobs dance.”
Apparently he saw someone on TV flexing their pecs and making them bounce, and he wants try it out himself. I told him to go do some pushups, and off he went.
P.S. Catchy title, huh?
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I have a quick little fitness anecdote to share… Earlier today when I went upstairs to exercise, I discovered our eight and nine year old working out together. They were doing sit ups, pushups, etc. And best of all, they weren’t fighting.
I mentioned about a week ago that I had starting tracking my weight online with PhysicsDiet. At that time, however, I didn’t have enough data to post a meaningful chart. Now I do, so here it is…
I’ve been lax about updating here, but that doesn’t mean I’ve slacked off (as much) in the real world. I’m still pushing forward with my pushups, still rowing, and still using the elliptical. The latter two have been less regular than I’d like, but what can I say? It is what it is.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve started doing my pushups at work. I’m in the lucky position of: (1) not having to dress up for work, and (2) having a private office. The benefits of these midday pushups are twofold.
That’s a bit of an odd title, I know, but I’m not sure how else to word it. Given the recent fascination with pushups, I got to wondering about how much weight you’re actually moving when you do a pushup.
As I noted earlier in the week, I experienced a setback in the 100 pushup challenge when I passed the Week 2 exhaustion test, but failed on Day 1 of Week 3. I think a couple of things factored into my failure.
When last I wrote about the Hundred Pushup Challenge, I was two-thirds of the way through week two, and hoping to finish strong. Week 2, Day 3 (completed this past Friday) was challenging, but I made it through.
Since we’re out of town on vacation, I don’t have access to my usual workout gear. Thus, I have to make do with what’s available. In this case, I have the floor and the great outdoors.
Just a quick update to say that I’ve officially completed day #1 of the One Hundred Pushups training program. My plan has been to mix these workouts in with my rowing regimen rowing, so I did the initial test shortly after an 8km row, and only managed to do ten before my form started to break down.