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Here We Go With The Two Hundred Sit-Ups Plan

January 1st saw the successful launch of the Two Hundred Sit-Ups Challenge and initial feedback suggests there’s quite a buzz about the six-week plan already. Great news and if the challenge turns out to be half as successful as the Hundred Push Ups plan, I’ll be a happy man. Naturally I’m taking the challenge too [...]


McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 15 Day 3

Week 15, Day 3 Phase: Marathon Workout: 65 to 75 minute Easy Run Purpose: Build Endurance Felt tired today. Actually I was half thinking of taking a very rare rest day today, but decided to head out the door and see how things developed. Funny thing is I had a great run. My pace in [...]


McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 15 Day 1 & Essential Abs

Week 15, Day 1 Phase: Marathon Workout: 45 to 60 minute Easy Run Purpose: Build Endurance Can it really be Week 15 already? Amazing. It seems like the last five weeks have flown by and now I *only* have six weeks left to pull everything together for what will arguably be the biggest race of [...]


End Of The Road For The Essential Abs Program

Just completed the last workout of the final week of the Essential Abs Program. Today the plan called for 15 reps of each of the following exercises with 7 seconds rest between each one: Corkscrew Hip Up Reverse Crunch Crossover Oblique Crunch Catch Toe Touch Crunch: legs up Crunch: frog legs Isometric back extension Now [...]


Hundred Push Ups Week 5 Day 1 & More Essential Abs

I knew Week 5 Day 1 of the Hundred Push Ups plan was going to be a tough one. I glanced at it briefly last night to refresh my memory and kind of wish I hadn’t bothered. I was even tempted to postpone the start of the week to Monday, but figured it would be [...]


Push Ups, Abs, McMillan

Thought I’d continue the trend of combining all three workouts into one post. Hope you don’t mind… I’ll start with the end of Week 4 Hundred Push Upsexhaustion test. Basically I just needed to perform as many push ups in one go as possible which would determine the column I’ll be following in Week 5 [...]