TDetroit’s ramblings and nonsense

you ever have one of those great timing events at the gym?  I was going through my work, and drinking my water.  I noticed I was getting low on water, so before my next set, I loosened the cap on my thermos so I could run between sets to the fountain to get a refill. 

Since I was doing my sets on strict timing for endurance, I needed to get it filled and get back to hit the next set.  Just 10 feet away from the fountain, another guy came into view 2 steps ahead of me and and refilled his.  so I had to use the low fountain and could only fill up half way.   what are the chances that would happen?

 So, my workout was with speed and endurance.

Arc trainer 5 min, at 45 fro 87 calories

laying DB flies with 25’s 4 X 10 with palms twisted upward at the top

DB front raises with 15’s 4×10

DB Presses with 50’s 10, 10, 6

DB Raises with 40’s 4×10

(all of the DB sets above had exactly 25 second rest periods except for the 3rd set of front raises which was 30 seconds due to the aforementioned unlikely bad timing, which was not my fault)

Arc Trainer 5 min, at 45 for 89 calories

1 handed DB rows at 60 2 sets of 10 each side no stopping 

inclined DB rows with 60’s 2×10  25 second rest between sets

protein bar and fruit and nut bar

then I cam home and mowed the tall weeds with my walk behond mower.  2 hours of cardio and a lot of heavy pushing to get the mower to move in the tall weeds.  (can’t use the auto drive in the weeds because they wrap around the axle and jam it up)

salmon and 2 peices of red meet with espresso

I doubt the weight spike to 180 will hold after the day I’ve had.

you start a stop watch, and do ten pushups.  then when the next minute ticks over, you do ten more pushups.

every minute that ticks over, you do 10 pushups.  this totals 600 in one hour. 

I only got to 130 pushups.  probably could’ve done 2 more sets - maybe 4.  I was just expirementing this time.  I’ll try again for real and let you all know how I did.

In the future, I’d like to do something with situps and pushups all in one day.

have you heard of the 600 pushups in one hour bit.

You start at the top of the minute.  do 10 pushups, and then rest for the balance of the minute.  when the next minute ticks over, you do ten more pushups.  do this for one hour, and you’ve done 600 in one hour.  your arms will be like jelly, but you did it.

well I attempted something similar with situps.  I figured 25 situps per minute for 10 minutes.  what I learned is that you definitely cannont shortcut the workout - at least if you are a beginner to it.  I did 25 per minute for 5 minutes and then 20 in the next minute.  I was done. 

today I will try doing 15 per minute and see how long I can go.

I’be been too busy to blog, but I did a few sets of situps.

Monday was 200 and Tuesday was 300 = 500

So I am at 2680.  Still have wednesday workout to go, so day 11 is not done yet.

I finally did it.  500 situps in one day.  that makes 2180 since I started 8 days ago. 

I feel great, but I will stop for tonight anyway.  I can do 500 more tomorrow. 

will it take only 14 days to do 6000?  I don’t know at this point, but I will still try to make it.  If I can do 500 per day for 6 more days, that’s 3000 so I will still be short by 820.

still need to step it up.

I finally did it.  500 situps in one day.  that makes 2180 since I started 8 days ago. 

I feel great, but I will stop for tonight anyway.  I can do 500 more tomorrow. 

will it take only 14 days to do 6000?  I don’t know at this point, but I will still try to make it.  If I can do 500 per day for 6 more days, that’s 3000 so I will still be short by 820.

still need to step it up.

I’ve done 250 so far today.  doing sets of 50.  really getting tight in the abs. number 49 is a killer and 50 takes it all out of me.

I have to go to a dinner soon, I’ll try to give it a go for a few more when I get back - would be nice to get to 350 for today.  Then tomorrow, I’ll get some done in the morning, and have to go to work on a basement for the better part of the day.  My cousin lives across the street from that house - they are having a birthday party for one of the kids at 4 pm - can you say taco bar?  I am there–

did 360 so far.  may do another set in a bit.  did 140  last night too.

so that is 930 +140+360 = 1430 to this point.  about 1/4 of the way through.  at this rate, it will take a whole month, but I got a slow start, and will finish much sooner than that.

more tomorrow

well, the wife was sick this morning, so I had "kids get on the bus duty".  Amid all the interruptions and speed cooking for my lunch, the microwave bit the dust, and my daughter gave me a whole lot of trouble regarding brushing her hair.  In the end, one of my sets of 60 was interrupted at 30.  Due to an appointment at work, which I ended up being 15 min late for, I only got in 140 instead of 170 or the wishful thinking 180. 

So, 790 + 140 = 930.  That’s where I stand on the morning of day 5.  If I can make up the 30 and get a 180 tonight, plus to 3 sessions each day of the weekend, I’ll be looking good to finish 6000 in 14 days.

I’ll have to wait 1 month to do it again and try to beat 14 days or wherever I finish. 

it turns out, I am not yet ready for 3 sets of 60.  instead, it is still 2 sets of 60 and 1 set of 50.  still, after 4 days, that’s 790 situps.  averaging about 200 per day. 

theoretically, tomorrow I will do another 340 situps and total 1130 for 5 days, which is 226 per day.  so the average is going up and I am getting there.  17% by end of the day tomorrow.  by the time I finish with the weekend, I expected to be getting toward half done in week.  Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I’d like to get 3 workouts of 3 sets of 60 each day, that’s 540, for 1620  for three days.  So I will be near the half way point.  Then next week, I can push it to really up it, and get to almost 6000 by the end of the second week.  at this rate, I am planning on 16 days for 6000