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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

100 Push Up - 100 Sit Up Programs

I'm going to begin the 100 Push Ups and 200 Sit Ups programs tonight.  Yesterday, I did the initial test for the Push Ups and Sit Ups programs.  I didn't totally push myself to the limit, but enough to find that I should start in Week 3, column 3.   I did chin ups today too, but the Chin Up program isn't established yet.  Still, I'm recording my start point and I'll try to follow the basic principles of the push up and sit up programs and see if I can get to 25 chin ups. 

Push Ups: Initial Test = 60
Sit Ups: Initial Test = 100
Chin Ups: Initial Test = 13

Those numbers start me out in Week 3, with 6 weeks total to try to get to the goals of 100/200/25 respectively.  I'm a little skeptical.  I can't picture being able to actually do 100 push ups or 200 sit ups consecutively.  I've never done that before.  Is 4 weeks actually enough time?  I'll try to be diligent and see.  August 25th will be the "due date."

I've been hawking my calories in/calories out since June 26th, working on a set of dietary goals to get my cholesterol healthy.  Since that date, I've recorded a rough estimate of a 7700-kcal deficit, which equates (again, roughly) to 2.2 lbs of fat loss.  I started at around 147.5 lbs and today I'm weighing in at 145.0 or thereabouts.  Pretty good.

Also checking my calorie distribution, I've gone the last 4 1/2 weeks with my intake being 54% carbs, 19% protein and 26% fats (and, I think, the fats have been better Omega-3s and Omega-6s in good proportion).  I'm pretty happy with that.  Another week and a half to go and I'm going to have my cholesterol checked again.

I avoided running again today, even though the calf muscle feels totally fine.  I spend 50 minutes on the "elliptical-like" Adaptive Motion Trainer (AMT) by Precor.  It's been awhile since I used that.  I used the HR program, staying within 75-80% of HRmax.  The machine severely overestimates calories burned and speed.  It tallied 750 calories and 8 miles in 50 minutes.  No way I did that kind of work, especially at 75% of max.  I'm not counting it as running, and I'm only taking credit for 500 calories burned, based on the underestimate of 10 calories per minute.

No strength work again due to time constraints, but I'll get the push up and sit up work done tonight, and maybe a Wii Fit session with Quin.  Or a ParCourse lap or two.  How am I going to get him in shape?

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