Knife draw x 55, Grand Total: 445
Pushups
You know, I never really intended to do an actual blog post after each and every set of reps, but it feels right. For now at least.
Today's knife work was very quick and simple. Draw, replace, draw, replace, etc. I find that I'm having trouble with this particular t-shirt and jeans combination, where the shirt will foul my draw somewhat. My hand gets snagged during the drawstroke, then I end up with a mostly open knife. In those cases, a flick of the wrist snapped it the rest of the way open. Still, I think I'll spend some time thinking about pulling the shirt out of the way with the other hand. Speaking of which, I did ten unofficial reps with my left hand, drawing out of my right pocket. It didn't work out so well. The wave didn't always catch, and when it did, I ended up bringing my left hand way out in front of me or way down below my belt line. So it looks like that will get some more work.
For February's secondary skill, I'm going to take the One Hundred Pushups challenge. Here's the link. So today, instead of doing my jab/cross work, I did my testing round for pushups. To say I'm disappointed with the results would be an understatement, but it really was no worse than I was expecting. Twenty One. That's all. 21 pushups. Those last 3 or 4 were tough, too. I wonder if there's an equivalent program for situps. I need to do loads of those as well.
I have been looking at the 100 pushups thing too. I actually started it with my daughter and did our day 1, week 1 today. Seems like it will be pretty good.
ReplyDeleteFor the situps, I did some searching and it turns out a lot of people are using the pushup plan for it. I did find this, which is a 200 situp workout. I'm thinking of doing the 100 situps and the 100 pushups on alternating days, maybe throw in something else for a little fun.
I've started working out more and going to some martial arts classes but I think I'm going to mostly keep that separate for now.
I'm in. I'm going to ask my manager's boss tomorrow morning if I can use his pullup bar. I guess I'll do pullups on situp days, unless you've got a better idea. Also, I'm not going to bother with testing for the pullups, because in my current weak ass fat slob state, I can't imagine being able to do one pullup.
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