July 2008

Weight training training is good for your health!

Weight training only for those who want to bulk up? Ok, the title may be obvious, but how many times have you talked to someone about doing exercise with weights, and get a response along the lines of “Oh, I don’t want to bulk up” or “If i lift weights I’ll just get those big [...]

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Pushups are not happening this week apparently

Well, I was planning on doing week 5 of the 100 pushups challenge this week, but every day something just seems to come up and get in the way.  Yesterday we didn’t get home from a gathering at a friend’s house until late, and I was too tired to do any pushups.  Tonight I had [...]

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Time for another fitness post roundup, and 1 month review!

Site recap Well quicktofit.com has been live for about a month now, and it’s been fun interacting with all of you out there, comparing pushups and keeping each other accountable. While the site is still new, I’ve been gratified to find that there are a bunch of other people out there reading my blog, and [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4 Exhaustion Test

Week 4 – what column will I be doing in week 5? This morning I was waiting around for some workers to finish fixing a crack in my foundation. While I waited around I decided to do my exhaustion test for week 4. If you perform 30 or less pushups you go back to week [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4, Day 3

Week 4 – will I have to repeat it like week 3? Today was day 3 of week 4 on my 100 pushup challenge. Once again it looked tough, so I wasn’t sure if I could do all the pushups. Every time that I surprise myself and complete a set my confidence climbs though. I [...]

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Wii Fit – Good fitness tool, or just a fad?

photo credit: austinANOMIC I was over at a friend’s house the other night, and noticed that they had purchased the Wii Fit exercise program. I’m naturally a bit of a skeptic, so I tend to think that the exercise benefits you would get from working out with a video game would be minimal, but I [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4, Day 2

Week 4 resumes! Here we are on week 4, day two.  Pretty similar to day one of week 4, but slightly more pushups. I took the day off yesterday because I had such a hard day having to put my dog to sleep at the vet. Not something I ever want to go through again. [...]

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No pushups last night. Too sad. Maybe tonight?

Well, I was supposed to do the 100 pushups, week 4 day 2 workout last night. Unfortunately I had other things going on. My 14 1/2 year old dog Buddy had to be put to sleep last night.  You can read all about Buddy and how special he was at my other blog in the [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4, Day 1

Week 4 of the challenge is here! Here we are on week 4, finally! At the end of week 3 I was able to power out 25 pushups in my final set, which was my new high. Today I am starting week 4 in column one: That means I’ll be doing 16, 13, 13, 11, [...]

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Running. Love it or leave it?

One thing I used to just hate doing was running.  I would rather die than go running.  Running is hard, it makes you sweat and it always leaves you as a heaving sweaty lump on the floor. Well that’s how I used to think about it at least. Since I’ve been working out and trying [...]

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