Twigs Fitness Prop ITT

There comes a time in every man's life when he realizes something is wrong. He realize's something is out of place and a crisis unfolds. All his purpose in life vanishes and he no longer knows who he is. Lives are torn apart in his turmoil.


Fortunately that isn't either of us. ITT will be the resolute success or astounding failure of a two kids trying to get into physical shape or pay the ultimate price....DEATH!


No, not really. Blogs are supposed to have cool intros to hook you, and if you're not hooked by now than oh well. Mcatdog and myself will be doing a variety of exercises over the next 13-14 weeks chronicled ITT. These activities will be broken up into weeks and if either of us fail our goals for the week that individual will have to donate $20 to charity.

GL GL us imo.

First.

My plan is to do a certain amount of running, push-ups and sit-ups every week. I'm not really sure what I should be able to expect with the push-ups and sit-ups by summer, so I'll just set new goals every week.

First week: 2 miles x 3 days, 3x10 push-ups x 2 days, 3x10 sit-ups x 2 days.

I'll be starting on Monday. If I fail, $20 goes to Charity Water.

Week 1.
If I fail monies this week will go to St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

2 miles x 3
w/e pushups x 3 (this will probably be an accurate number in Week 2 but as of this moment i have 0 clue how many legit push ups I can do.)
20x3 x 3 crunches

I think I'm going to alternate running with crunches and push ups every other day with one day leeway. Comments on the regimen and concerns about me dying are always appreciated.

What are your actual goals? "Getting into shape" is really vague, but definitely the first step to figuring that out. Are you guys looking to improve strictly cardio abilities, or trying to get stronger? Getting a little more insight into these areas will make a huge difference in terms of the help people will be able to give you as well as the progress you will be able to make towards that goal

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Originally Posted by andy-akb

Are you guys looking to improve strictly cardio abilities, or trying to get stronger?

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Mostly the first one. I'm pretty into outdoor sports and I go on a few trips a year for backpacking, rock climbing, biking, or other such things. I don't have any particular plans at the moment but I'd like to improve my general level of fitness (which used to be a lot better but I've gotten away from regular exercise the last couple of years) so I can get more out of it the next time I travel somewhere outside of the flat, ugly state of Missouri.

I also feel like I'm more alert and play a little bit better poker when I've been getting exercise.

mostly cardio abilities. to the point of being able to play a few hours of pick up basketball or footy without dying would be pretty nice. i'm really not in this to get like 'ripped' so to speak, just to improve endurance for sports.

sounds good. Especially the weekly assessment of where you're going with this. Being fit is nice.

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Originally Posted by bikes

Week 1.
I think I'm going to alternate running with crunches and push ups every other day with one day leeway. Comments on the regimen and concerns about me dying are always appreciated.

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note that abs are a muscle group that you can train everyday because they have incredible recovery. So you aren't limited to rest-days between crunch-days.

glgl

day 2, on pace. feel like dying.

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Originally Posted by daven

note that abs are a muscle group that you can train everyday because they have incredible recovery. So you aren't limited to rest-days between crunch-days.

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I've heard that this is a myth, and the reason most people can work out their abs everyday, is that they don't actually work them out to the point of fatigue, but there isn't actually anything special about them and they do require rest days.

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Originally Posted by bikes

day 2, on pace. feel like dying.

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lol :(

GL guys!

Great success in the first week. The push-ups and sit-ups were a real struggle for me, but the running was easy. I expected it to be tougher after this long. Didn't even have to push myself really to do 2 miles in 16:00. I need some harder goals there.

Week 2 goals
2 miles in 15:30 x 4 days
3x10 sit-ups and 3x10 push-ups x 3 days

Poker-wise I had a great week too. I was in a bit of a funk so I decided to beat up on some easier games for a couple weeks, also made an extra 1K in RB and bonuses not shown here.

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/7957/satsl.jpg

Week 1 Success! Err barely a success. I am having a hard time running the 2 miles in a respectable time so I'm gonna stick there for awhile. Crunches are at a good number so I'm going to keep those there as well. Push ups are going to be 10 3x a day because my attempts are sets are just horrific.

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Originally Posted by mcatdog

Poker-wise I had a great week too. I was in a bit of a funk so I decided to beat up on some easier games for a couple weeks, also made an extra 1K in RB and bonuses not shown here.

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:clap:

Just finished my first run and crunches/pushups workout of the week. It might be tough to get everything done this week. :(

Yo Bikes, LIFT WEIGHTS BRAH

Last week i got talked into doing prone holds by some people i run with. I had never heard of them before. They're really good for core strength and probably worth including in your routine at some stage.

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Originally Posted by daven

Last week i got talked into doing prone holds by some people i run with. I had never heard of them before. They're really good for core strength and probably worth including in your routine at some stage.

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Prone hold aka plank

Superb for core strength!

http://www.standuppaddlingfitness.co...11/Plank-2.jpg

over 10 of my 16 tables broke within 10 mins of me finding good ones. an obv sign to start run #2 this week.

i am debating adding planks into the workout. but just looking at that picture makes me nauseous in the worst way.

Sea sick?

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Originally Posted by CBAT

Sea sick?

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Nah the chick obviously has a B-cup or bigger... *gross*

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Originally Posted by kingnat

Nah the chick obviously has a B-cup or bigger... *gross*

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Wut

commencing final run of week 2 to finish out another successful week

I also tasted success yet again this week.

I've been doing 2 mile runs on the treadmill in 15:00. I feel like I could go faster if I wanted to but I don't want to injure myself. I'll just keep this pace for one more week before I start doing harder workouts.

For the exercises, 3 days of 15x3 push-ups and 15x3 sit-ups, and 10x3 lat pulldowns at a yet to be determined weight. I want to be able to do 5 pull-ups again but I can't even do one now.

Ok I screwed up my knee on Sunday to the point where it hurts a lot to run. I mean a lot. So instead I'm going to walk a bunch and do upperbody type stuff. I have a bench in my basement that has been unused since like senior year of hs.

So today i shovelled a royal crapload of snow and that is going to count for day 1

I'm going to walk 3 miles 3x
and bench squat and bench some more x2. don't ask me about weight yet because frankly its been about 3 years since i've lifted.


Gl me.

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Originally Posted by bikes

Ok I screwed up my knee on Sunday to the point where it hurts a lot to run. I mean a lot.

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see a doctor/physio?

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Originally Posted by bikes

So instead I'm going to walk a bunch and do upperbody type stuff. I have a bench in my basement that has been unused since like senior year of hs.

So today i shovelled a royal crapload of snow and that is going to count for day 1

I'm going to walk 3 miles 3x
and bench squat and bench some more x2. don't ask me about weight yet because frankly its been about 3 years since i've lifted.


Gl me.

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have fun shovelling and lifting!

walking is about 1000x more boring than running.

where's it hurt? What kind of pain? Swelling?

one more lift for successful week #3

hooray. my solo lifting abilities are really bad and that's all i have to say about that

Another successful week.

I'm going to stick with the same lifting goals for another week because I'm pretty sore still. 10x85 lbs lat pull, 15 push-ups, 15 sit-ups, three times and 3 sets per workout. I'm going to start running a little harder though. 4 runs, 2 of 3 miles at 8:00 pace, and 2 of 1 mile at 8:00 pace, 1 at 6:30 pace, and 1 at 8:00 pace.

lifting weights is something i will not do for awhile as it only makes me feel pathetic

inrelated news another successful week.

i really wish it was warm out so i could actually run, instead of sitting on a treadmill not going faster than 8mph out of fear of something catastrophic happening.

3x 3mi runs pace should be about 25mins total. i'm not gonna fret if it's within 3-4 mins.
3x push ups, sit ups and crunches

you'll be hard pressed to ever do a pull-up if your plan is to get there by doing lat pulldowns

you would be better off doing inverted rows, negative pull-ups, or jumping pull-ups.

I'd assume you'd like rock climbing Mike, that'd be awesome for putting on mass if you ate a bunch.

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Originally Posted by bigspenda73

negative pull-ups, or jumping pull-ups.

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jump up, lock at the top, lower down as slowly as possible -> monster rate of progress. Lowers are the best way to train for one-arms if you get there eventually too and you'll get some decent lock going on. If you ever see a peg-board get on it = great for abs, everything.

I'd rather be doing some of those exercises but I'm doing the best I can with the crappy equipment my apartment's fitness center has to offer: 2 treadmills, 2 ellipticals, lat pulldown machine, bench machine, and 3 tanning rooms (lol). Do you recommend just setting the lat pulldown machine to more than my body weight and doing negative pull-ups on there?

And I could do a few pull-ups in college mostly as a result of doing lat pulldowns even though it's not the exact same motion.

Got everything done this week. I'll post my next set of goals tomorrow.

Failed =(.

Weather pending changing things to
.5mi warm up
suicides till near collapse
.5 warm down

crunches, pushups

Success!

The weather is v nice outside for the time being so will be doing a repeat of last week

i'm so glad i fell off the wagon by fucking up my leg and then DOJ nails the coffin closed.