I waited until lunch time, made sure I was well hydrated and went for it. Actually, the whole final test was a bit of an anti-climax. I managed the two hundred sit-ups easier than some of the workouts from the last couple of weeks and didn’t really feel the burn until the final 15-20. Excellent news!

Just one question – what’s next on the list?

Week 6 Day 3 – the final workout of the Two Hundred Sit-Ups challenge. I made it through to the end with no real problems and probably could have done more at the end if my life depended on it.

Required: 39, 39, 50, 50, 39, 39, 33, 33, at least 105

Actual: 39, 39, 50, 50, 39, 39, 33, 33, 110

I’ll attempt the 200 some time on the weekend and am pretty confident I’ll be able to make it. Once the sit-ups challenge is out of the way I may go back to doing push-ups and possibly start up another attempt at the 12-week StrEndurance exercise plan.

Required: 30, 30, 36, 36, 27, 27, 33, at least 70

Actual: 30, 30, 36, 36, 27, 27, 33, 100

A few extra sets thrown in for good measure today which made the workout slightly more challenging. To hurry things through, I also lowered the recovery time to 30 seconds between sets. Good workout and nice to do over 300 sit-ups in a session…

PS Two Hundred Sit-Ups iPhone App now available!

Over the course of the weekend I performed the end-of-week-four exhaustion test to determine which column I’d be following in Week 5. After knocking out a straight 100 in several of the previous workouts, I was sure column 3 would be the one for me. I managed 110 sit-ups during the test before calling it a day – no need to really push it any further.

So, Monday morning soon arrives and it’s time for Week 5, Day 1 – 5 sets of crunches with 60 seconds recovery time between each set.

Required: 54, 60, 45, 36, at least 60

Actual: 54, 60, 45, 36, 100

No problems today, and no real burn until I got to about 65 in the final 100.

Day 2 looks slightly tougher with several extra sets built in to the plan. Wednesday’s workout should be interesting…

PS Two Hundred Sit-Ups iPhone App now available!

Good to get the sit-ups out of the way early on in the day. No real problems, but I wasn’t totally focused and it was a bit of a chore to work my way through the reps.

Required: 45 50 45 45 at least 60

Actual: 45 50 45 45 100

Not bad though – 285 sit-ups in a workout with the burn definitely kicking in midway through the second 45.

I’ll do the exhaustion test on the weekend, but it looks like I’ll be following column 3 in Week 5.

Another round of the sit-ups, a little tougher than Monday, but still quite manageable.

Required: 38, 45, 38, 38, at least 54

Actual: 38, 45, 38, 38, 100

By the way, word from the developer responsible for the Hundred Push Ups iPhone App – the Two Hundred Sit-Ups iPhone App has been submitted to Apple and should be available in the next few days from the iTunes App Store. I’ll post a link when it’s been listed….

Here we go again – Week 4 of the Two Hundred Sit-Ups program which is gaining in popularity every day. Looks like people love a challenge!

Anyway, details of my workout are as follows:

Required: 32 38 32 32 at least 48

Actual: 32 38 32 32 100!

After taking the weekend off (in terms of sit-ups anyway), I felt pretty good today and was able to breeze through the first 4 sets no problem at all. I reached the required 48 in the final set and decided to see how many sit-ups I could manage. The burn started around 70, but I kept going until I reached 100.

Good workout and one step closer to completing the challenge….

Toughest sit-up workout of the week, but still manageable.

Required: 33 42 30 30 at least 45

Actual: 33 42 30 30 50

I could already feel “the burn” on the set of 42, but with 60 seconds recovery between each set I was able to make it through to the end quite comfortably. Correct breathing is very important and crucial to the success of the plan. Inhale on the way down, exhale on the way up.

Two days to rest the core before making a start on Week 4.

PS Forgot to mention, I’m still following the 30-Day Shred DVD and just completed another Level 1 workout. Not ideal to do it first thing in the morning, but it is nice to get it out of the way before work….

No problems with Week 3 Day, although I definitely felt “the burn” in the final 38.

Required: 30 38 23 23 at least 38

Actual: 30 38 23 23 38

Progressing nicely….

Naturally I’m taking the challenge too and therefore did the initial test over the weekend. I made it fairly comfortably to 80 consecutive good-form sit ups before calling it a day and moving on to another day of the Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred workout.

Anyway, back to the sit-ups. The initial test of 80 put me right in at Week 3 Day 1 Column 3 (see below) – 5 sets of sit-ups with a 60 second rest period between each set.

Here’s what I needed to do:

Required:21 27 21 21 (at least) 30

Actual:21 27 21 21 30

Towards the end of each set I could definitely feel the burn, but the 60 seconds rest was just long enough to recover and prepare for the next set.

All in all a good workout and a perfect compliment to the Hundred Push Ups challenge which I recently completed for the third time.

Can you do two hundred? Find out more at the Two Hundred Sit-Ups web site…..