I’m partway through the Two Hundred Situps challenge at the moment. It’s a nicely laid-out program to build up your core strength. I think they started out with a site called Hundred Pushups (and I’ve got my eye on that for the next challenge).
The idea is that they give you a graded series of exercises – you do five sets, three times a week, with the number gradually increasing. There are six weeks in the program altogether. At certain points you monitor your progress with “exhaustion tests”, doing as many situps as you can.
I’m tracking my progress using the third-party site pushupslogger.com, which has been set up for that purpose, and it shows me that I’ve already almost doubled the number of situps I can do after completing two of the six weeks. (Over a period of three weeks, I have to say, because of, you know, life.) At the time of writing the logging site is running very slowly, but hopefully these issues are temporary.
I’m not sure how they figure out the numbers exactly, but it seems to be working for me. There’s an iPhone app, or you can do what I did and print out and fold the PocketMod booklet so that you don’t have to go back to the website all the time.
I’ll post again when I’m finished – that’ll help to motivate me.
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