The fitness craze enters its second month with mixed news. My policy of not worrying about diet on the weekends has caused some backsliding on the scale. So I decided that what I needed (along with better self control on the weekends) was some new goals.
So yesterday I woke up determined to act out my own, admittedly odd, version of 300. I would do 300 pushups before I went to bed. That’s 10 sets of 30 over the course of the day. Since doing pushups at work outside of law enforcement or the military will get you some funny looks I had to squeeze them all in at home. And so I began.
One set before my shower, one set after and one set just before leaving the house. 90 down, quite a few to go.
Another set as soon as I got home. One right before dinner and another after brought it to 180. My arms were pretty unhappy at this point but life is hard when you have a goal I suppose.
Sparing the gory details, I squeezed out the last four sets before bed and I gota say that the last 20 or so pushups were not of the highest caliber, but they were completed.
The really odd thing is that I’m not sore today at all. Its been so long since I’ve been in any kind of physically fit condition that I forgot such things could happen.
I’ve read stories before about Herschel Walker’s workout schedule and been envious. But now that I’m trying stuff like this, it seems a bit more realistic.
From the linked article:
Walker’s work out is a staggering 2,500 sit ups and 1,500 push ups a day. Those numbers are right. 2,500 sit ups & 1,500 push ups every 24 hours. That definitely proves that Walker’s body isn’t just for show: those muscles know how to work. Walker’s philosophy on working out is simple: start every day very early in the morning before the distractions of the day come around, and do that work out without quitting every single day, 365 days a year, 366 on leap years, no matter what.
