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The 100 Pushup Challenge

I’ve been curious about the 100 pushup program and some of my buddy’s have been too. Even one of my young nephews was trying the program. Unfortunately he got bored with it and stopped. So I decided to take on the challenge.

The first thing I did was to exile push-ups and any other chest exercises. I haven’t done them in three months. I performed a max test and wow, I could only do 35. I learned a long time ago that endurance work gets lost pretty easily when I stop doing it. High reps of push-ups is usually considered muscular endurance work and now that I’ve lost my muscular endurance it’s time to get it back.

How To Control The Size Of Snacks

Sometimes if I get my snack on, I don’t even realize how much I’m eating. I can easily go through an entire bag of Cheese Doodles in one sitting. And I’m not talking about the itty bitty $0.25 bag. I’m talking about the big ‘ole giant family size bag.

Will I lose muscle if I stop working out?

I say, yup. My body, just like yours, has muscles on it. The purpose of those muscles is to move my skeleton. My body has just the right amount of muscle it needs to perform my daily activities.

I always like to refer back to my time in the Navy at sea. My first watch station required me to go up and down sixteen very steep flights of steps. I had to do that once every hour for five hours. After about two weeks my thighs had ballooned up.

Portion sizes: Do they matter?

If you look on pretty much every package of food there is a nutrition facts label. On that label there is a breakdown of how many calories per serving, fat, carbs and protein content. Depending on what it is, there may also be vitamin levels shown. There is also a serving size. The serving size is not really a recommended portion size. It is there to tell you how much of the breakdown is in each serving.

Why Do I Swim For So Long, If I Am Against Long Boring Workouts?

If you’ve ever noticed in my weekly log, when I go to the pool I end up swimming for 1-2 hours. Why? Because I love the pool. I look forward to it all week. If for some reason I end up not going I can’t wait until the next time.

Train for Functional Strength

In order to train for functional strength, you should focus on training movements, not muscles. Rarely does the body only use one muscle at a time. They work in concert with each other.

I want to workout and get in shape, but I just can’t find the time.

Maybe you want to workout to get in shape, lose weight, gain endurance or get stronger. But when you try to, you just can’t stick with it or you just can’t find the time.

Think you don’t have time to workout? I say you do. If your life is too busy to fit in 30 minutes to an hour of exercise, like the world tells us to, then don’t. Instead do small 1 minute workouts spread out throughout the day. If you do an intense exercise, you may find that 1 minute is all you need.

Why deadlifts are the best exercise for your legs and butt

The butt muscles, or the gluteus maximus and minimus for you latin types, are some of the strongest muscles in the body. Unfortunately, because of our modern lifestyle they don’t get worked out as often as they normally would. Also, since they are so strong, it becomes harder to actually make them work. All our normal daily activities are too easy for them.

Why didn’t I lose weight when I stopped drinking soda?

I’ve read plenty of stories on the net and have even seen it on TV. People lose weight when they stop drinking soda. There’s even one of those commercials for a women’s diet pill.

Exercises That Celebrities Do

I was looking around the internet today, when I came across this article called The 5 Workouts that celebrities swear by. The first one is apparently Reese Witherspoon’s go to move. The article calls it Reese Witherspoon’s super lunge.