^ Wonderful!
DILLINGER ... see what you gone and done now ... the Bromance is over!
I enjoy a challenge, kmart.
At the current rate of progress, this challenge should be over in about 4 weeks.
I've actually always been good at sit-ups and have never found them difficult. One day at school at about age 14, the PE teacher decided to get us all to do sit-ups, press ups, etc, in the sports hall. "Do as many was you can do until you can do no more", he told us. He wanted to know who could do the most of each exercise. Whereas I could only manage about 25 or 30 press ups, I kicked ass with the sit-ups. I got to 102 and could have done many more but he told me to stop!
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I believe Cyrille is going to take up the challenge as soon as he nails his dildo to the floor.
800 squats today (10 x 80).
850 sit-ups yesterday (10 x 85).
Is that a typo and should read 85 and 80x10 very respectively
I don't see a typo, Dill. 800 squats today, 850 sit-ups yesterday.
Must be a robust fit kinda guy, Nev.
Got me beat.
Cheers!!
When I think of squats I usually add a couple hundred pounds to the bar.
Is this just the squat to take a shit thread?
I meant are you doing 85 sets of 10 rather than 10 sets of 85 which seems gruelling, just one set of 85.
Im sure you can do the math but if you did 100 sets of 10, Fark that's one set every 6 minutes for 10 hours. But surely that's more recoverable than sets of 85?
Respect anyway
Oh, I see. I did 10 sets of 85 sit-ups and 10 sets of 80 squats.
The plan is to finally do 10 sets of 100 squats and to do the lot in 20 to 25 minutes. Today each set took between 80s and 87s. I then had 33s to 40s rest before doing the next set. So each set with rest took me 2 minutes today and the lot took 20 minutes in total today. I've tried to keep the rest period mainly between 30s and 60s. Thirty seconds is usually enough rest for the squats but I find it easy to lose tack of which set I'm on so I use a stopwatch and use that to remind me of which set I'm on, so if do the sets in 70s or 75s, for example, I'll wait until the next minute starts and have 45s or 50s rest. That system should be OK up to 85 reps a set then it will get a bit tougher as the rest period becomes less that 30s.
The sit-ups take longer, about 40 in a minutes, 80 in 2 minutes, 85 in about 2m5s or a bit more, but I also need a longer rest than for squats. Yesterday's sit-ups took about 40 minutes in total and for some reason I found them much tougher to do than last week, but once I start I'm going to finish the sets.
Nev, I'm genuinely in awe.
What was/is the motivation?
Why the focus on squats and sit-ups?
Once you've achieved your stated goal above do you plan to include any more exercises?
Inspirational Nev
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I've just started back playing squash.
The young runners, I can't out play them, I have to out think them.
Come off the court knackered, but after cooling down, the endorphin rush comes and it does feel great.
I was thinking of taking up the challenge but I lose interest once I can do something well.
First squat: Well I've got that nailed on to the next challenge.
I came across the video I posted in the OP and was impressed, and as I like a challenge myself, I decided to accept that challenge.
It's worth watching the video if you have the time, or watching the first 5 minutes and then scanning the rest if you're short of time.
The sit-ups just grew out of that. I was doing some sit-ups one day, can't remember how many exactly but probably about 4 sets of 50. and thought it would be a good idea to do more and maybe see if I can get up to a thousand. It looks like I've made that a formal challenge to myself now.
I'm still thinking about that, Dave.
Thanks, Dave. The OP video inspired me. Maybe I can inspire you to do something similar even if it's not 1000 of anything.
Good luck with the squash. Maybe you could think of something to do with that where you could challenge yourself with a specific goal for you to achieve that you'd have to work at to succeed.
This thread is exhausting me.
Time for a beer and a smoko!
How are the knees holding up?
Maybe just playing squash is exercise he enjoys?
And something from which improved fitness will inevitably result?
But yeah, he could try the 'challenge' of just hitting the ball against the wall, say, a thousand times, I suppose.
If he can work on being a fucking misfit.
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