First Day on the Challenge
Phew!
Today I started the one hundred push up and two hundred sit up challenges.
My abs hurt a tad, and I’m sure I’m going to feel it even more tomorrow!
For the challenge, you follow a six-week program whose goal is, that’s right, for you to do 100 push ups, and 200 sit ups (you can do these programs separately, but I’m not!). Three days a week (I’ve chosen Monday-Wednesday-Friday) you do sets of the exercises - 5 sets with a rest of 60 seconds (or more if you need it) in between sets. So, as I explain the sets, I’ll give 4 numbers and then the 5th is always the max you can do as long as it’s over a certain number which I’ll denote as max >#.
I started on Week One for the push-ups, and decided to start in column 1 (I could have started in column 2, but I honestly don’t think I’m there), which means I did 2, 3, 2, 2, max >3. My max was 6! It was hard. But it seriously only took about 5 minutes in total.
For the sit-ups (or crunches, to be more precise), I got to start on Week Three, column 2. That means I did 18, 25, 19, 19, max >25. My max was 37! I think the crunches were actually harder than the push ups, probably because I started so far along in the program for them.
Oh, and if you’re wondering, if you can’t manage a day, you just keep repeating it until you’ve mastered it.
(I’m anticipating getting my post-partum body into better shape than before I got pregnant!)
