DaveGetsFit

I find myself in catch-up mode again! So here goes:

Monday
My winning streak against Neal came to and end. I blew a 13-10 lead in the first game, fought back from 2-7 in the second to win, and was tied at 8 in the third before running out of gas. I really put a big time effort into coming back in that second game. It was a great workout—gotta start a new winning streak next week.

Tuesday
I played Ron for the first time in awhile and he put a whuppin’ on me. I really didn’t play all that bad, however, and hit a handful of really good shots. Earlier in the day I had walked to his office with the intention of postponing our match until Thursday because I wanted a break after the match with Neal. But it’s hard to turn him down—I just enjoy playing. As a matter of fact, I’ve scheduled a match for Thursday against another guy in our office that I haven’t played before—should be interesting.

Prior to playing with Ron, I did three sets of pullups on the Gravitron. I lowered the weight stack from 120 to 110.

Today I disappeared into the library stacks and did four rounds of pushups: 12, 10, 7, and 7.

After the ride home today, I’ll be three-for-three with the bicycle commute. The weather has been great but I may get a strong headwind going home today.

Nutritionally I’ve done well this week once I got passed the chocolate left over from Easter.

My morning weight has been 206 the last two days.

And with that, I’m caught up!

Last year sometime I started following a program on the web that was supposed to result in being able to do one hundred pushups. I had no illusions that I would get to that stage but I followed it as best I could because a pushup is a GREAT body weight exercise, especially for someone who has as week an upper body as I do. While I was doing it religiously, there were visible results in my physique—my bathroom mirror told me so. I backed off on the program at one point, and then couldn’t restart because of the nerve injury in my hands. But now I’m able to do again so I’m restarting. I’ve retained a little of the strength so I can start at a higher level than I did originally, but I did have to take a big step back from the level I had attained. A classic case of “use it or lose it.” So today:

Pushups

• 10
• 10
• 6
• 6

Notes:  Took roughly 90 sec rest between each; quit when form was going downhill.

Morning weight: 204