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So I managed to run for 5 mins straight at increasing pace on the treadmill from 6 km/h to 8km/h which is huge for me. Never ran that long before. I was at 4 mins when i decided to push for another 20 seconds then kept upping it in my mind as I went. another 15 etc. So mental fitness has improved in being able to push past my previous limits. I performed numerous exercises but didn't track them. Mostly Crunches with 15 Kg dumbell and finishing with 5 kg dumbell. Really felt my abs being used. Performed some variations on the crunch also to work obliques and lower abs. Dumbell Squats with 15Kg dumbell reducing to 5Kg dumbell. Not as intense on the legs as the running had worn them out. (will focus a little more on legs tonight) Pushups - didn't complete as many as I had hoped due to doing several on and off througout the day. Definately an improvement over the past few days in my technique and completing chest to floor ones of about 4-6 in one set now. Almost got a complete Pull Up. Overall I felt I didn't push myself hard enough but was feeling fairly breathless from the jogging. I rotated most of the activities with little break between any of them.

Workout evening tonight. Push ups, 15k goblet squats (may decrease) crunches of varrying types plus other activities depending on my mood. Going to aim for 30 total push ups but again quality not quantity. May be less may be more . One thing i will do is make sure the correct muscle is working correctly. Will record roughly what i did how it felt etc and post on here

I personally go with rewarding positive behaviour. Otherwise I would need to build in a negative consequence for not adequately punishing myself. Negative only works if someone else is involved (in my opinion). Accountability. Someone to enforce the negative punishment. If your disciplined enough to beat yourself up your disciplined enough to work hard. If you make excuses for not working hard you most likely make exuses for not punishing yourself.

I may be way off, but, I'd suggest a pub or some similar wartering hole. Well, for the drunken part anyway.

In a constant development and redevelopment of my mind and body I have decided to do away with charts and spreadsheets. Numbers where not helpful. I found I was sacrificing quality to keep up to the targets. My new mantra is quality over quantity. To that effect over the weekend I focused on technique and ensuring I was working my muscles correctly as opposed to just working them. I slowed down my crunches and pushups. The most I managed was 5 pushups in a set which was totally fine for me. I didn't work towards a target or at a specific time. Just when I thought about it and felt like I could or wanted to I would do either push ups or crunches. Throughout the week I will return to a pattern of evening workouts (this time suits me best) It may be daily it may not. Undetermined at this stage. I won't follow a particular program or schedule but will endevour to alternate between differet activities. Be it burpees, push ups, crunches, pull ups, squats, skipping, lunges and others. I will have a list on a white board of exercies in muscle group categories I will pick from. Then basically whatever I feel like working on I will. The focus will be on quality over quantity. Each activity I will complete untill the technique starts to reduce before alternating to a different activity. At this stage I think I ill work on a time frame of 30 - 45 minutes of quality. Stretching and warm up included. If anyone else performs workouts like this I would like to know how you find it? If anyone else has suggestions or comments feel free.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. The possession of anything begins in the mind. Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential The Wisdom of Bruce Lee.

@Fluffy_Shark nice work on not giving up. Third time respawning. Sometimes it takes a few goes to get going at something. I noticed you have a few penalties on your plan. Have you thought about possible rewards instead of penalties. Not sure what motivates you more but sometime negative penalties can have negative results on your adherance. Where as positive ones encourage. Definately work on the sugar cut back. That was the big factor for me. It has taken about a month or more of not having Dares for me to finally be able to walk passed the milk section without grabbing one. There are multiple studies and consitent links between good eating and exercise in reducing mental health issues. Certainly it won't clear it up instantly or remove it permanently but it may give you that edge and energy to fight it. Keep at it.

Ties in well with @SteveKamb's email today about informartion overload. Stop 'collecting underpants' hahaha

yum. and all i'm having is a bowl of microwaved snap frozen vegies

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nice work. keep it up for sure. i certainly didn't think i would be doing ten in a row at this stage. adding a rep a day made it manageble mentally for me (as thats my biggest blocker I'm sure) thinking of it as one more than yesterday seems to help me push out that one extra.

is this the one http://hundredpushups.com/ ?

@Hypotheticalfox developed it myself from reading articles on nerd fitness and other sources.

@Hypotheticalfoxslowly building them up but will hit 20 hopefully in 23 days time i think.

Gender - Male Bodyweight 86Kgs / 189 pounds Number of pushups completed in a single continuous set: 10 WOOT - first time in 20+ years