Monday, March 3, 2014

March fitness update

Did my monthly self-test today -- a few days late, because I 'hurt' my shoulder last Wednesday at my PT session. I'm saying 'hurt' because if I say 'injured' that gives me an excuse to stop. I hurt it, but still went for a run and played soccer in the meantime.

Today was hard, but mostly a slight improvement on February.

Max pull-ups: 10 -- up from 9 in Feb. Actually, today is the first time I've ever done 10 in a set. And I felt like I could've maybe done half of another one.
Max push-ups: 40 -- up from 34 in Feb, which I called "pathetic" at the time.
Burpees in 2 minutes: 24 -- down from 26 in Feb. Actually, it looks like last time I did burpees before push-ups. That might explain the improvement then failure. But also I haven't really done any burpees in my routines in the past month, so there's also that.
Plank: 2:10 -- up from 2 minutes flat in Feb. But in Feb I remember the first minute was ok, then I started shaking. Today I had a false start when I started shaking at 45 seconds. I took a short rest then went again. And started shaking at 45 seconds, but this time held it. Having a target to beat sure helped!


Also, most people have probably seen this by now, but worth posting again for good vibes:

"My friend Tyler is trying to lose weight and he asked my other friend Orlando to train him. Tyler was embarrassed to go to the gym though so Orlando is taking care of that by dressing up as characters when they go to the gym so that the focus isn’t on Tyler but on himself. So far Tyler has been trained by a Jedi and steampunk Batman. This is one of the nicest things I have ever seen done for someone else." -- A Collection of the Wonderful