These Internets are really a cool thing for seekers-of-all-knowledge like myself. One can totally see how a person could lock herself in a climate-controlled room with a feeding tube, IV-drip, catheter, and T1 connection for her laptop, and never emerge again. Sort of a Matrix redux as you get “the feed” pumped into your brain for whatever floats your boat.
My latest attempt at getting back on the fitness bandwagon began in typical Internet-segue fashion with the quest for a solution to a nagging software problem. After finding the answer on a blog – thank you, Trevin Chow! – I naturally had to surf the site a bit to see what was there (since Trevin had some similar interests to mine, e.g. photography and technology). He had an interesting note in there about hundredpushups.com and the Hundred Pushups training program. This piqued my interest.
Essentially, Steve Speirs – the owner of the domain – has put together a six-week program to enable virtually anyone to perform 100 consecutive pushups. And no, it’s not a scam, there’s no catch, you don’t have to pay anything, yada, yada, yada. It’s something he did himself, and decided to formalize it to make it available to others. He’s got a great, clear, easy-to-follow web site with stupid-proof instructions, and you can even log your progress online and hold yourself accountable (thanks for putting the pressure on, Orlo…) by utlizing Andreas Viklund’s very nice Pushups Logger site.
So check it out. I’m on Week 1, Day 2. Oh, you want to know what my baseline was? 14. I could maybe have squeaked out 15, but my arms were already shaking. I’ll let you know how it goes. I’m gonna see if I can get mi esposa to participate as well.
P.S. Here’s something else cool that I found during this foray: pocketmod. A new turn on the old tech of paper-folding. Turn an 81/2” by 11″ piece of paper into a small book that contains anything you want: day-planner, to-do list, or hundred pushups log!