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

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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 was [...]

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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. (But I’m [...]

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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, 16. After [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 3 (again)

Week three of the 100 pushup challenge… again
This morning was day 3 of week 3 of the 100 pushups challenge. I did the same week last week, and I failed on my day 3 pushups in the last set of 16. I made it to 12, and then had to finish from my knees.

This [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 2 the second time around

This week is my second time around doing week 3 of the 100 pushups challenge.

I did my pushups on Wednesday just before going out to play tennis.  I pushed through them at a good pace.  It wasn’t as tiring as the last time I did them, but it was still hard.

I started out with the [...]

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My preferred indoor workout routine – “The Biggest Loser Workout”

Indoor workout routines
During the winter, and when the weather is nasty outside I have to find a way to exercise indoors. Usually for me that means one of a couple of choices. My first choice is usually running on our new fuel treadmill. It has a high intensity interval training (HIIT) setting [...]

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Download the 100 pushups challenge for your Ipod!

When I started the 100 pushups workout I found that I wasn’t always near a computer on the days I needed to do my workout.  It was a small issue, but a pain nonetheless.   It would have been nice to have the entire workout in my hands so that I could just reference it when [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Back to Week 3, Day 1

Saturday was day 3 of week 3 in my 100 pushup challenge. As I mentioned in a previous post I failed on the last set – only making it to 10 of the required 16 minimum pushups, although I did complete the pushups from my knees.  This week I’m doing week 3 over.

I didn’t [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 3

Saturday was day 3 of week 3 in my 100 pushup challenge. I was still pretty sore from the pushups on Wednesday, but I decided to give it a go anyway.

I did my pushups around 11:30 in the morning before my wife went out to do some exploring on our vacation this weekend.  I [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 2. Challenge Participant Roundup!

Today is day 2 of week 3. Monday’s workout was tough for me, and I just barely made it through the last set of 15.   Today’s workout steps it up another notch, and I am 50/50 on whether I’d be able to finish or not.

To get some added inspiration today I checked out [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 1

Today is the big day – day one of the 3rd week. After yesterday’s exhaustion test I’ll be starting in column one of this week’s regimen.

That means today’s workout was 15, 12, 12, 10, 15(max) pushups.  Even though I’ve been progressing, this seemed like quite a bump for me, but what else can I [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 2 Exhaustion Test

On friday I finished week 2 of the 100 pushup challenge.  As they suggested on the 100 pushups website, I waited a couple of days, and then did the exhaustion test to find out what column I should be starting in tomorrow for week 3 of the challenege.
I got up this morning, got hydrated by [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 2, Day 3

Today is day 3 of week 2, and once again it’s slowly upping the number of pushups.
Tonight is our 4th of July BBQ, so I figured I better get my pushups done in the morning before I get weighed down by hot dogs, burgers and beans. It is not going to be a healthy [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 2, Day 2

Today was day 2 of week 2 of the 100 pushup challenge. I was not feeling it today, and was not looking forward to doing my set of 11, 9, 7, 7, 10(max). I changed once I got home, and got to work.

It seems like the first set or two I’m usually pretty [...]

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