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Walk 2 Miles Push-Ups W/Front Leaning Rest Pauses: 1X20 Chin-Ups 1X3+3 Negatives Short Bridges: 1X20 L-Sit Tuck: 1X20 Seconds Third World Squats: 1X15 Seconds My thighs are very sore from the running yesterday. I tried working on my walking form today, focusing on landing on the ball of my foot directly under my hips, taking quicker steps and standing straighter. When I focused on my form, my foot pain started to dissipate. Gonna try and apply those to running tomorrow. I believe I found these from a Chi Running video. One thing that's worth noting, I felt like I could go way longer using this 'form'. So I might even go for a walk a few hours after running. I might have to chip away at those 30 miles and then do a longer walk towards the end of the week. I would like to at least do 5-6 miles each day by the end of this, though. Not sure how to best prep for Army PT. It's mostly just Push-Ups, Sit-Ups, and Overhead Arm Claps judging from the Future Soldiers meets I went to. I might do a circuit out of those three every day, plus some Bridging to keep my back in check. I think a decent night's sleep can get most of the soreness out of the way for tomorrow.

Thank you Lulu!

Run 1 Mile: 15:28 Yeah, I've got some work to do. I did learn to: Don't eat anything beforehand, that this is normal according to Google when I searched "15 Minute Mile", and I should drop a few minutes quickly. I'm gonna try to just breath through my nose to keep my heart rate around 60-65%. But then again, that's like a half jog for me. We'll see how everything goes I guess. Push-Ups w/Front Leaning Rest Pauses Set 1: 18 Chin-Ups Set 1: 3+3 Negatives ----------------------------------------------------------- I got up at 4:30, shaved and ate. Then ran. Took a nap because I wasn't feeling that great. Woke up and did the rest of that stuff, and I'm still kind of sick. I guess it's good to start slow anyway. I definitely want to really ramp everything up. Until tomorrow, I'm watching numerous running form videos.

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Ok, my situation is that I'm pretty much out of work now. Not officially, but it's pretty clear I want to join the Army to my dad (my boss) and that is the priority now. So, these are my goals: 1: Pull-Ups And Chin-Ups 10 Each (From about 2 each) I plan on doing a lot of Max Sets. And then filling the rest of the set up with Negatives. So something like: Set 1: 2+8 Negatives or something. It's gonna suck to be that sore, but I can use those T-Rex mode days to get a ton of walking in. 2: Push-Ups And Sit-Ups 50 Each (From 10 for Push-Ups and IDK for Sit-Ups, it depends on whether my ankles are held down or not. Not much though. Probably none unanchored) 3: Walking And Running I want to walk 30 miles a week at least. (UPDATED 4/17/13) New Walking Goals 4/15-4/22: 8 Miles (8/8 Miles Completed) 4/23-4/30: 12 Miles (07/12 Miles Completed) 5/1-5/8: 18 Miles (0/18 Miles Completed) 5/9-5/16: 25 Miles (0/25 Miles Completed) 5/17-5/24: 35 Miles (0/35 Miles Completed) 5/25-5/27: 40 Miles (0/40 Miles Completed) I want to be Running 2 miles by the end of the Challenge in 18 or under minutes. I have a route about 10 seconds from my house that is 1.05 miles from one point to another and back according to Map My Run. 4: Losing Weight As much as possible. I'm about 221 right now. Just water, some tea, more eggs and oats and cutting out all of the silliness. Keeping a clean diet is really the crux of my plan. That along with the Walking (low intensity cardio) should boost my Calisthenic numbers as much as the training itself from the weight loss. MOAR! Along with all that's listed above, I'm gonna be working on Bridging, regular Army PT (Overhead Arm Claps, Flutterkicks, etc...), Sprinting, and Burpees. I'll add more if I see the need to, but this about sums up the Challenge. ----------------------------------------------------------- How Does This Fit Into The Overall? If I can totally smash this Challenge, I should be totally fine to talk to a Recruiter (maybe even sooner). The idea is to just be somewhat fit so I can show that I'm serious about this. And when I get my MEPS date, I can get together some ASVAB materials and nail some studying for a few weeks. I'm not worried about the ASVAB that much though, I've already taken it before and have gotten an 82/99. It's more about basic problem solving and some basic technical knowledge. I'm aiming to improve my basic technical knowledge and brush up on problem solving.

Challenge Wrap-Up 1: Got my Pull-Up and Dip Negatives to 30 Pounds each. 2: I'm down to about 218. 3: I dropped my Burpee time about 2 minutes. Next Challenge is entirely Army based.

I have, but I think both of my parents were wishing it was just a phase or something. I'll just have to wait a week and then just set a deadline that I have to go by. I think that might go over better.

I just needed to have a place to rant... -------------------- Just an update, I've been working late every day this week. Also kind of bummed out. I work for my dad, and I want to join the Army soon, but he's making it pretty difficult. I want to do everything I can for him, which includes giving him enough time to find somebody to replace me, but he's really dragging it out. I don't know, it's just sad. I've put it off for so long, and when I actually want to go do it, he tries to make it as hard as possible. And every day now I'm miserable at work. I've literally brought this up a half dozen times before, and now that I actually want to do it it's a surprise, I should think about it more (I've been thinking about it since junior year of high school) and, since he probably won't be finding anybody soon, I'm giving him way more than a two week's notice. I would love to be the "bad guy" in this situation and just quit, but there's just so much work that leaving outright would probably put us on bad terms for a long time. But it's so frustrating to bring it up Monday, wait until today (Thursday), bring it up again, and then he tells me to wait until the end of next week to find out if he can get somebody on Co-op from my sister's high school (voc-tech school). I talked to her today about it, and she doesn't know anybody in the shop. So, another wasted week next week.

Today is an off day. I woke up feeling surprisingly decent, but my shoulders especially have just been getting stiffer and stiffer. I had planned on just doing some Sprints and Squats or something, but between the time we left the job site and the time I got home, there was just no way. So I'm gonna listen to the radio and play Mount And Blade until bed. I did get up at 5 though, and I didn't fall back asleep. I just kind of laid there for two hours and watched the news, though.

Pull-Up Negatives: 3X3X20 Pounds Dip Negatives: 3X3X20 Pounds Handstands: 2X15 Seconds Bar Hangs: 2X15 Seconds Bridges To Head: 2X4 L-Sit Tucks: 2X15 Seconds 25 Burpee Time: 4:39 I dropped two minutes and fifteen seconds off of my Burpee time. And considering I'm having trouble writing and holding my arms up long enough to dry my hair, tomorrow is going to be a rough day. I really pushed myself on most of these, so it might just be a good idea to rest after work.

Pull-Up Negatives: 3X3+10 Pounds Dip Negatives: 3X3+10 Pounds Walk: 2 Miles Sorry, changing my sleep schedule and being sick has messed with my recovery. Back to our regularly scheduled programming soon, though. List of things I want to get to in my workouts: Weighting Bar Hangs and L-Sit Tucks (Might have to use my Transport Pack with this)Army stuff (Regular Walks, Regular PT, Starting Running, maybe more)SprintsSo, yeah, I'm just gonna keep waking up at 5.

Haha, thank you! I'm gonna add the 10 pounds to the Pull-Ups and Dips starting tomorrow.

Pull-Up Negatives: 3X3 Dip Negatives: 3X3 As predicted, I indeed woke up in a panic when the music when off. Unfortunately, this workout took place in the afternoon after work. I kept myself awake from 5-7 (when I usually get up for work) and got up for work, but it was definitely a rough first day on this new sleep schedule. And considering that when I went to bed at 9:30 I couldn't fall asleep until 10:30, it's a wonder I didn't fall back asleep. I think it will be easier to fall asleep tonight, I already feel pretty tired.

As a matter of fact, today is the first day my lungs didn't feel awful in about a week now. I'm still not great, but ok, so I'm gonna use this opportunity while I'm very tired to get on a new sleep schedule. I'm going to go to bed about two hours earlier today (9:30) and I'm gonna wake up at 5 AM. Also, I'm gonna do a simple 3X3 for the Pull-Up and Dip Negatives tomorrow (hopefully in the morning, and hopefully posted before work) and then start adding weight the day after. And I want to start adding Push-Ups, Sit-Ups, and all that fun Army stuff. So, I'm gonna keep my ear buds in all night and my ipod will be going off full blast tomorrow at 5. My wake up song is gonna be Slayer's Angel Of Death. I expect my first sentence of the day will be "HURRRR MUSIC LOUD".

Updating again, I'm trying to get better and sleeping a lot. I thought I was finally done with this yesterday and I woke up totally destroyed. I got about twelve and a half hours sleep last night but I stilI feel exhausted, and my eyes feel crusted over. I think I'm just gonna have to buckle down and really focus on recovery so I can make up for lost time.

Sorry, I got a bad stomach bug. I should've probably updated, but I've been sleeping a lot. Between being sick and the snow finally being gone, I feel very shut in and desperate to get back to it. I just wish when I got stomach bugs that I could just puke and get it over with quickly. I have been thinking about dedicating this weekend to a lot of Burpees. I was thinking that I could develop my stamina and conditioning by easing into it, relatively speaking. But that's just not how conditioning works, so I'm gonna charge into it. Also, I want to start adding weight to my Dip and Pull-Up Negatives when I restart (hopefully tomorrow).

Not yet. I want to, but we unfortunately got about 8 inches of snow more than we thought, so hopefully it will melt tomorrow.

Pull-Up Negatives: 1X3 Bar Hangs: 1X8 Seconds Bridges To Head: 2X2 Burpee Pyramid: 1-2-3-2-1 My Pull-Up Bar is covered in snow and ice and I'm still sick, so I just did this really quick workout today.

Thanks Loren. Pull-Ups: 2 Dips: 2 I am still feeling kind of sick(ish). Like, it wasn't that cold today, but I could feel the draft in the house in my bones. Just really weird, sore, and fatigued. Hopefully I will get some good sleep. And hopefully, the storm we're getting isn't that bad. So, I just tested Pull-Ups and Dips to get something done today.

Thanks broseph. If you're talking about Push-Ups, I think the most I ever got was 25. But, considering I thought it would take a lot longer to get back to even close to where I was, I would count it as a PR for the past 6 months. Anyway, I'm exhausted. For some reason, my sleep doesn't feel like sleep. It just feels like a second went by and I wake up as tired as when I woke up. So, today is a Rest Day. And I think three days in a row is enough since I just restarted 9 days ago, so I don't feel bad about it. And one more update, it sounds like we have a lot more work coming our way. I'm gonna say we have about five houses to wire and two to finish now that the walls are plastered. It looks like the workouts are gonna stay between 30-45 minutes for now.

Dip Negatives: 2X3 Tuck L-Sits: 2X8 Seconds Wall Handstands: 2X8 Seconds Burpee Max Sets Set 1: 10 Set 2: 10 I did not get a lot of sleep last night, and even less restful sleep. So, I think I did ok today. Also, in the middle of the day I decided to do a set of Push-Ups and ended up getting 10. Not sure why I felt the urge to try, but whatever.

Day A Pull-Up Negatives: 2X3 Bar Hangs: 2X8 Seconds Straight Bridges: 2X15 Burpee *Freestyle Ladders: 2X 1-2-3-4-5-3 1-2 Straight Bridges suck. I'm gonna move on to Bridges To Head next Day A (Tuesday). I just need to do these vigorously every Day A considering my back has been hurting the past 2-3 weeks. *Freestyle Ladders are what I call resting the time it took to do a set, after the set. So, after one, rest the time it took to do one. Then, after two, the time it took to do two, and so on. I know I said that "Effort Day" for Burpees would be about numbers, but I think dry heaving is "Effort" enough. I think I'll keep this day flexible for Burpees. As long as it's 100%.

Haha, thank you LoD

Thank you Loren.

Pull-Up Negatives: 3X2;1X3 Dip Negatives: 3X2;1X3 Bar Hangs: 3X5 Seconds Short Bridges: 2X20 Burpee Max Sets: 2X Set 1: 8;Set 2: 6 ---------------------------------------------------- Brainstorming I could split up Dip and Pull-Ups to different days. Then it would make more sense to do stuff like Bar Hangs and Supports (or even Tuck L-Sits to use that time more efficiently. I need to work all of it out. I'll do that here and update when I'm done. Ideas 1 A: Pull-Ups;Bar Hangs;Bridges;Burpees (*Effort Day) B: Dip Negatives;Support/L-Sit Work;Handstands;Burpees (Max Sets) 2 A: Pull-Ups;Dips;Bridges B: Bar Hangs;Support/L-Sit;Burpees I'm definitely liking number one a lot better. I'm thinking to progress in Bar Hangs, I should do something similar to my Pull-Up and Dip Negative progressions, except with time obviously. So, 3X15 Seconds and then start adding weight I guess. At some point, I'm gonna switch to One Arm Bar Hangs. The only thing is when it would be appropriate to switch over. I think the best way would be to figure out when weighted with two arms would be close to unweighted with one arm, maybe 3/4 Bodyweight. With two arms the weight added is split in half, and, for easy mathz purposes let's say the person is an even 200 pounds. So, (Bodyweight+AddedWeight)/2=3/4(Bodyweight) for what I'm trying to accomplish. Going by this, (200+X)/2=3/4(200), and X needs to equal 100 pounds. I think when the Bodyweight plus Added Weight, divided by two arms, is equal to 3/4 of the total bodyweight, then I should be able to move on. With this example, 150 pounds per arm to 200 pounds with one arm might seem like a big jump, but I should be able to get at least 5 solid seconds with one arm. For the L-Sits, I think 3X20 Seconds should be good. I think I might even weight the Tuck L-Sit for a while, maybe looping the weight belt around my knees. Maybe then I can have enough time to figure out the flexibility to get the full L-Sit. I never could get it, even though I ran through the progressions decently, I think. *What I would define as an "Effort Day" is where I would pick a number like 100 and just trying to get as close as possible to it over the course of the workout. Another possible way to use an Effort Day would be to do Pyramids (1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1), or just any way to get some numbers in. Ok, I think I'm done for now. And I'm definitely going with Plan 1.