The Magic Bus Trip

Erasmus · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

Day 64 Week 10:

push-ups: 10
knee bends: 64

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Day 65 Week 10:

push-ups: 10
knee bends: 65

-E

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Erasmus · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:14 am Post subject:

Day 66 Week 10:

Ummmm... Kind of forgot to do it. Oops

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Day 67 Week 10:

push-ups: 10
knee bends: 67

-E

Erasmus · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject:

Day 68 Week 10:

push-ups: 10
knee bends: 68

-E

Erasmus · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject:

Day 69 Week 11:

push-ups: 11
knee bends: 69

Day 70 Week 11:

push-ups: 11
knee bends: 70

-E

Erasmus · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:17 pm Post subject:

Starting a new posting method....

Week 11 Days 69-75:
Days on goal : 7

Goals:
push-ups: add 1/week
knee bends: add 1/day

Feel free to join me Dean. I heard you were in need of exercise. LOL

-E
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“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.” - Anthony Bourdain

Heather L · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject:

Erasmus- How's the linear challenge progressing for you this week?

I am reporting in with a group of 30, 20,and 30 boy push-ups for a total of 80. Whew. (Ouch!) This leaves me winded at the end of a set!

I am limiting it to what I can do in 5-6 minutes in order to give the challenge structure for me.

Erasmus · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject:

Heather L · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject:

E- Congrats to you as well. 40 squats must really make your legs burn. Good job.

Erasmus · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

Starting a new posting method....

Week 12 Days 76-82:
Days on goal : 5

Missed two days. Oops

Goals:
push-ups: add 1/week
knee bends: add 1/day

-E

Erasmus · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject:

Week 13 Days 83-89:
Days on goal : 6

Squats are now in sets of 40 with 90 second rests, push-ups are proper but shallow for the first few and clean and deep for the rest, all in one go.

Goals:
push-ups: add 1/week
knee bends: add 1/day

-E

SandyDown · Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 28 Gender: Female

Hey E, will start by doing 15-20 squats a day, and about 5 push-ups, am hopeless with push ups, my upper body is seriously weak.

Ok, did you see any difference in the way your thighs looks? I know the effectiveness will vary between males and females, am not after huge bulging thighs, just to tone up would be fine.

I heard squats, lunges, push-ups are way more effective than using weight machines, so wondered if anyone can testify to that...

Lawd, am happy I don't have to do lunges on this challenge
LOL

Erasmus · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject:

Nope. Thighs look the same. Still covered with fat. LOL

I don't know if they are more effective, but they do have the advantage of NOT requiring any equipment. So... No excuses! Devil

Glad to see you on board!

-E
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“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.” - Anthony Bourdain

SandyDown · Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 28 Gender: Female

Erasmus · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject:

I don't know if this will make you feel better or worse but...

When I started out I could feel each of the four quads in my quads. You see they each had a distinctive pain signature. So I know they are all getting a workout, and therefore toned, under there somewhere. I'll let you know how it worked when I get around to taking off my fat suit.

-E, who would like to dance the Mamushka like Gomez, rather than Fester.
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“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.” - Anthony Bourdain

SandyDown · Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 28 Gender: Female

Hey E, just to report, I did my 20 squats today, also did some crunches and a very long walk outdoors, am gona give the push-ups a miss for now Happy

I was thinking, I tried callanetics a few years ago, and I did see a difference within 3 weeks... only the callanetics is so time consuming, I'd need a whole 45 minutes to do it, may be I'll extract the legs workout out of it and try to do it on its own.