Smallegan.com » Fitness http://www.smallegan.com/blog Geeks rule the world. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:04:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Day #5 – Blog Moved http://www.smallegan.com/blog/2007/10/09/day-5-blog-moved/ http://www.smallegan.com/blog/2007/10/09/day-5-blog-moved/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:16:42 +0000 Ryan http://www.smallegan.com/blog/?p=115

I relocated the fitness related posts to…. http://www.smallegan.com/health

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Pushups – 13
Situps -13

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12-Pushups
12-Situps

10 mins before midnight I finally get around to posting. The posts will get more verbose and filled with technical and fitness type content soon. I am just really working hard to get some side projects wrapped up. Also in 10 more minutes I will have went an entire month without pop/soda …yay me….. Also I have stuck to no deep fried foods for the last few days and haven’t died thus far. It figures that one of my favorite places to grab lunch “The Shnitz Deli” starts offering french fries as a side the week I decide to part ways with my dearly beloved strings of greasy potatoes. Caloric intake hasn’t been my focus in “giving up” certain foods/types. I have a very strong habit forming personality however and this is the first step in being able to take a serious look at what I am putting into my body. The more crap I can eliminate and replace with healthier alternatives the easier it is going to be to come up with a meal plan that works for me and my schedule. I think I am ranting now…and I only have five minutes to get this posted. Pardon any typos as I’m not going to read through it again :-P Goodnight world…

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Pushups: 11
Situps: 11 

Busy busy today…lots of work to be done…

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10 – Pushups
10 – Situps

Slow and steady wins the race…Just gotta tell myself that because 10/10 is way to easy, but I know when I get up to 40/40 every morning I’m going to be feeling it. And hopefully increasing at a pace of 1 per day will ease that pain. On another note, I’d like to mention the fact that pushups are less fun with a software developers gut.

Also I wish this romanian guy I know would get his “meal plan” posted so I can decide if eating on a weird schedule with not so ordinary food is something I can do :-)

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4 days from now I will have given up pop for an entire month. For those of you who know me that is considered a pretty big deal. The pic of the Mt. Dew bottles you see in the picture above is at my desk and it will be there for 4 more days as a reminder of how much pop I was drinking.

In the interest of keeping things moving in the right direction Adrian has challenged me to a fitness blog off. Earlier this year he did a 30 day stint where he blogged about his fitness progress (how many situps and pushups he did each day). Starting tommorrow we will both be blogging for 31 days straight (Nov. 4). This will be similar to the fatblogging done over at Calcanis.com

This is a good idea for multiple reasons.

  • It gives you a running log of your progress
  • Others will be watching so the pressure is on
  • It can help motivate others to move in a similar direction

A couple of guidelines I am setting for myself are the following:

  • I will start my day each morning with pushups and situps
  • I will start with 10 and increase the count by 1 each day until I max out or the 30 days is complete and I am up to 40 of each.
  • I will blog my results each day. (I’ll try to include something technical or geeky for those of you who could care less about my physical well-being ;-) )

As a final note I will also be attempting to give up all deep fried foods. This has to be my second most unhealthy/biggest vice beyond pop.

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