200 situps

[ailbhe]

Rob and I both did the two hundred situps initial test today. They use "crunches" as their basic situp, and the initial test is to do as many as one comfortably can. Rob and I both fudged the test a bit; I did my situps while looking at and talking to Astrid, in her bouncy chair, instead of while looking at the ceiling and exhaling in a controlled way. Rob did his situps without getting his shoulder-blades off the floor, because he couldn't work out how to get his abdominal muscles involved at all; he's used to using his shoulders and legs instead. It looked painful.

Anyway, those caveats taken into account, I managed 17 and he managed maybe 7.

We're both disappointed with our results - and pretty surprised by his - and planning to have a go at the program. But I'm not going to do it if it hurts my hips; I want more core strength to make things like carrying the baby in a sling easier, give me more oomph when my hips are up to cycling again, etc, and that would all backfire totally if I damaged my joints.

Anyway, by this logic, we should be doing Week One Day One on Friday evening, probably while the children are at Girls' Brigade.

(Also, I have a cunning plan: I told the children that if they were in their pyjamas when Rob got home I'd ask him to set up the Wii for them).

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[ai731.livejournal.com]

I worked on the 100 push-ups (press-ups) program for a while this summer, while I was still able to jog and when I was seriously trying to get fitter and loose a little bit of weight. I got about half-way though the program before Life & Stuff(tm) intervened. Thanks to the Karate classes that I've done on-and-off for years, I can do large numbers of crunches relatively easily. I did a modified version of couch-to-5K this summer, and before I hurt my left hip I was able to jog 8km a day!