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Squats, Push Ups And An Eight Mile Run

Started off the day with W2D2 of the Two Hundred Squats plan. For those of you who tackled the Hundred Push Ups and/or Two Hundred Sit-Ups challenges, there’s a new kid on the block – the Two Hundred Squats challenge! Not surprisingly, the program follows a similar exercise schedule as the other two challenges and [...]


Fitness Friday

Started off the day with Week 2 Day 2 of Hundred Push Ups: Required: 14 16 12 12 at least 17 Actual: 14 16 12 12 20 Muscles were a bit sore on the first set, but the soreness soon went away as I progressed through the workout. Finished with a straight 20, but could [...]


Hundred Push Ups iPhone Application

Last year I launched what turned out to be a hugely successful fitness web site – The Hundred Push Ups Challenge. As more and more people signed up to take the challenge, I received many requests for a Hundred Push Ups application to run on the popular Apple iPhone/iTouch products. As luck would have it [...]


Catch Up Time Again

I just realized earlier today; I haven’t posted anything for almost a week. Must be the Twitter influence and the busyness of the holidays…. To make amends, here’s a quick summary of what I’ve been up to: December 24th – 10k Strength Builder on the treadmill and the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. December 25th [...]


Hundred Push Ups; I Did The Hundred (Again)

Spent the last six weeks working through the Hundred Push Ups program for the third time since June. This time around there were no repeat weeks, no skipped workouts and no failures. Don’t get me wrong, the workouts were still challenging and on several days I was hard pushed to complete the max set (pun [...]


Rainy Eight Miler, Push Ups & Action Wipes

Thoroughly enjoyable eight miler in the rain earlier today. It was raining when I set out and raining when I finished about an hour later, but luckily it wasn’t cold and the miles flew by. The first mile was a nice easy 7:44, but I was soon splashing through the puddles in the low sevens. [...]