Smile Friday!

I got all my push ups & v-ups done:

25+29+25+25+36= 140

Thank you, v-ups for enabling my abs to still be semi-visible even though I’m still up a little in weight.

I had to pick up a couple things and got hungry even though I had lunch not long before I left. I was right by a Sonic, but I didn’t get a Reece’s blast, which is probably my #1 secret food thing- even when I’m not hungry. I went home and ate here.

Still no leg pain, so I’m good to go with the hiking. Speaking of which, I need to get my camera pared down and make sure I’m ready since we’ll leave pretty soon after Jeremy gets home.

My last set of 32 v-ups, unless I miscounted. They get pretty sloppy once I get tired, but the first 16 or so are pretty tight (though blurry in the video).

Week 4, day 1 (level 3) of push ups & v-ups: 21+25+21+21+32=120

They were hard today.

Feel free to critique me if you like.

Yep. Another outfit picture. 2 things about this:

1. This is not what I wanted to wear. I wanted to wear my flowy, high-waisted skirt with the ovals with my bright red shirt, but because of my eating the past few days, it was tight on my waist and created a muffin-top thing that you could see since my skirt was tucked.
2. Does the scarf look silly? I just wanted something interesting

Now for my day…

what I had planned after baby-sitting (crossed-out=accomplished)

• Call the tag office to get a new sticker (Jeremy has to do it because it’s in his name)
• push ups & v-ups (20+25+20+20+28=113!!! I’ve now doubled my starting number)
• some laundry (3 loads washed)
• take pics of the jeans for the give away for small people
• read my Bible
• pick up milk
• put away the things I brought home from school
• eat healthy stuff all day because I shot up to 136.0 this morning
• Gospel meeting at 7 pm

Happy Sunday!

Today is the start of our gospel meeting at church which meant a fellowship meal for lunch- and dinner every night through Thursday. We’re probably only going tomorrow because it’s our team’s night to set up & clean up. I didn’t eat much of anything healthy (there really wasn’t much healthy stuff that I like), but I didn’t get over full, so I’m still set to get my LDLC food point. Oh, and there was RAINBOW CAKE! 

This afternoon I redid week 4, day 1 of 100 pushups since I hadn’t done it since Tuesday, so that’s 18+22+16+16+25=97 reps of push ups and v-ups.

I can tell I’m still not completely recovered from giving blood. I got all weird feeling this morning when I got hungry and, once again, I ate more food than usual.

I’ve eaten so much the past few days, but it seems like I’ve needed it.

Full SOS under the cut since it’s getting long- today I was 133.6.

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was one of those days where I felt like I was eating SO MUCH, but I don’t know if it really was. Let’s see: Kashi GoLean w/ milk | 2 doughnuts w/ coffee | flat out wrap w/ turkey, spinach, & provalone, apple, carrot, strawberry Greek yogurt, bite of another teacher’s chili cheese fries | clementine | shrimp, potatoes, salad | popcorn w/ milk | Arctic Zero.  No idea what it adds up to. Not really worried about it. I may even eat 1 more time before bed.

One of my coworkers did comment, “Look at Nikki over there crunching on her carrot while we’re all chowing down on chili cheese fries.”

WOD:

Week 4, Day 1 of 100 push ups (hands on a desk) with matching number of v-ups

18/22/16/16/25= 97 total. 

If I can control my eating for a couple days, all the v-ups are going to make my abs ripped. Or so I hope.

My wrist is grouchy today.  Even doing the push ups on a desk made it hurt a little, though usually it’s fine. :(

Jeremy has stuck with the push ups, too. I write out his reps at the beginning of the week. He’s nearly doubled what he could do at the start. Tonight I told him that I could tell a difference since he started doing push ups, and he said, “Yeah, I’m pretty huge now.”

I said, “I wouldn’t say that, but you definitely have more muscle than before.”

He’s always liked to joke around like that.

Week 3, day 2 of 100 push ups (level 2) with v-up reps to match (I’m going for 100 v-ups, too. That will be pretty hardcore, I think.)

14

19

14

14

22

total=83 plus a 15 sec v hold at the end

My shoulder feel so dead. I’ve never felt the push ups in them this much before.

Check out my bitty ponytail. It may be too dark to see, though.

Tonight’s WOD:

Jumping with the slow rope 25 jumps each leading right foot, leading left, and with both feet. 

12 push ups

12 v-ups

25/25/25 jumps

17 push ups & v-ups

25/25/25 jumps

14 push ups & v-ups

25/25/25 jumps

13 push & v-ups

25/25/25 jumps

17 push & v-ups

25/25/25 jumps

18:45

Apparently the Warrior Dash made my arms & shoulders more tired than I realize because I accidentally did level 2 instead of level 3 of Week 3, day 2 for 100 push ups and could barely complete the reps. 

Also, jumping with a cloth rope is a lot harder when you’re used to a speed rope, but the speed rope is a bit wild for our living room.

I was supposed to run today, but I was sad and didn’t feel like running in the rain today even though I usually love it. There was another reason, too, but you probably don’t want to know…

On an unrelated note, I’ve decided to participate in S.O.S., but I will couple it with measuring my waist, too. My main reason for this is to track fluctuations and also to possible help others struggling with maintenance (because this is still a struggle).  I’m going to graph both numbers. I’ll start tomorrow because I don’t remember the exact numbers from this morning.

Oh, and 2 points today for LDLC! I was wanting secret fast food so badly today and resisted!

100 push ups Week 2, Day 1 complete!

This time the abs I mixed in were v-ups and side-double-leg-raises. I did the same reps for ab stuff as push ups

14/14/10/10/max(at least 15- I did 18!)=66 total

That makes 198 ab reps.

I still had some left in me, so I added 40 reverse crunches with my shoulders held off the floor and a 1 min. plank, so really it was 138 ab reps + the plank.

I decided to do v-ups every time because it would be awesome to be able to do 100 of them.

Jeremy got his push ups done, too. He’s actually on Week 4, day 1 because he started on week 3.  He saw me doing the v-ups and asked if they were hard. I told him he should try and see. 

He said no, but I got him to do 1 just to try and he tipped over. 

Today was not a good food day, so I get 1 point for Lindsay’s challenge.

Me between Sunday school and worship yesterday and then after my run

I don’t know if you can see the bit of purple in my hair, but it’s a silicon headband I got from the dollar tree. $1 for 3 and it didn’t budge during my run. No flyaways in my face. I highly recommend them for people with smallish heads. Of course it didn’t help with the sweat dripping in my eyes.

lots of rolling hills

You know how it feels when it’s been cloudy and raining, and then it stops raining, the sun comes out, and it heats up 10 degrees while it feels like the water in the puddles has turned to steam? That was yesterday. I also rolled my ankle because I got too close to the edge of the road where it slants sharply, but I didn’t hurt it.

Saturday, I did week 1, day 3 of 100 push ups, plus abs.  This time I did butterfly sit-up to standing with no hands for the first 2 sets and regular butterfly sit-ups (CrossFit style minus the abmat) for the last three. I also did fast bicycle crunches, counting each right-left series as one rep. On the last set, I switched to super-slow bicycle crunches, which are about 5x harder than quick ones.

The numbers: 11/15/9/9/13

so 57 push ups, 26 butterfly-stand-up-sit-ups, 31 butterfly sit-ups, 44 bicycle crunches and 13 super-slow ones.

This was just a smile for the camera. I was not feeling good:

The pain is pretty sharp and poked me some tonight while I was trying to mop.  

Please, please, please be gone by Wednesday when I run again.

My tiny, crooked pig tails.  I forgot to pack things to use for putting my hair up, so I had to work with what I had.

After I got home, I restarted week 1 of 100 push ups. Jeremy’s actually starting on week 3. He got his done, too.

I mixed it up with some abs. My push up sets were 10/12/7/7/9. I do them with my hands on the desk because of my wrist.

In between each set and after the last I did abs with the stability ball.

My first thought was to match all the moves with the push up reps, so for the first round I did 10 ball passes, 10 double reverse crunches, 10 side planks with the ball between my feet (each side), and 10 side leg lifts with the ball between my feet.

My shoulder was hurting, so I switched it up for the other rounds. Rounds 2,3, & 4 matched the push ups with ball passes and something I kind of made up where I held the stability ball with my legs between my thighs & calves and like doing a reverse crunch. Then I put my hand behind my hand and twisted from left to right imagining trying to bring my shoulder to my opposite knee. 1 twist each direction was 1 rep.

The last round I did as many of each of those as I could. I did 12 ball passes before my form got bad and 30 twists.

Total that makes 45 push ups and 154 ab reps.

I’ll do mine on the desk & he’ll do real ones.

He was talking about how he wants to get stronger, but he forgets. He also said that he knows that when people have others helping them, they do better and that I have my “tumblr buddies” but he doesn’t have anyone but me to remind him.

He also said he probably won’t run with me much because he’s afraid he’ll get skinnier.

I did day 1 on Monday, but when my allergies got really bad, all the sneezing made my back hurt, so I didn’t do it any more this week. I’ll start over with him this Monday.

Since I was able to do 15 in my classroom, I started on level 3:

10

12

7

7

max-12

total= 48

plus the 15 I did at school makes 63. I’m really going to be feeling it tomorrow.

note: These are push ups with my hands on a desk because my wrist does not allow me to do full push ups.  I do bring my chest to the desk for full range of motion.

That’s all the exercise I did today because my back has been hurting a little/ feeling weird and I don’t want to take any chances.

jbizzle329:

I’ve had a few questions about 100 Pushups Challenge.

It was all the rages few months ago…

This is the app that is also available on Android.

I’m starting today and so is Anna.

Post your pushups with the tag 100Pushups.

I think I’ll do this with my modified wall/desk/cubbie push ups.