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Hundred (whatever) dot com
This week I'm starting the six-week programs on both hundredpushups.com and twohundredsquats.com. I did the hundred push-ups one before, but got sidetracked sometime in week 3 or 4 by something shiny and forgot to continue. I did see some improvement at the time. Mind you, as I have no upper-body strength to speak of, I'm doing push-ups against the wall instead of on the floor: I figure once I go through the program, I'll transition to the floor. I'll have to do the girly knee push-ups instead of the toe ones, though, as my foot no longer bends that way from arthritis.
Mostly posting here as some sort of public declaration, which will hopefully keep me on track. And I've got a few specific goals in mind: I'd like my back to be strong enough that sitting with correct posture during an hour of piano class no longer hurts like hell*, and I'd like my legs to be strong enough that getting up from the floor is not a horrendous ordeal. Between not being able to bend my foot, and the relative lack of strength in my legs, it's quite the production to get up if there's nothing I can brace myself on.
Eventually, I want to do some weights work** to put load-bearing weight on my bones, as it's recently come to my attention that my mom's shrunk a couple of inches and I'd rather like to avoid osteoporosis for as long as humanly possible. Especially with that whole lactose-intolerance thing. I figure a nice reward to myself for getting through the six-week push-up and squat programs would be retail therapy in the form of a nice, small set of non-girly, non-latex-covered weights.
* I know, stomach muscles aid in that also. I'll probably start the sit-up version of the program at some point.
** http://www.stumptuous.com has been one of my favorite browsing sites for years.
Mostly posting here as some sort of public declaration, which will hopefully keep me on track. And I've got a few specific goals in mind: I'd like my back to be strong enough that sitting with correct posture during an hour of piano class no longer hurts like hell*, and I'd like my legs to be strong enough that getting up from the floor is not a horrendous ordeal. Between not being able to bend my foot, and the relative lack of strength in my legs, it's quite the production to get up if there's nothing I can brace myself on.
Eventually, I want to do some weights work** to put load-bearing weight on my bones, as it's recently come to my attention that my mom's shrunk a couple of inches and I'd rather like to avoid osteoporosis for as long as humanly possible. Especially with that whole lactose-intolerance thing. I figure a nice reward to myself for getting through the six-week push-up and squat programs would be retail therapy in the form of a nice, small set of non-girly, non-latex-covered weights.
* I know, stomach muscles aid in that also. I'll probably start the sit-up version of the program at some point.
** http://www.stumptuous.com has been one of my favorite browsing sites for years.