August 15th, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Motivation, News, Series, links from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Over the past few years I’ve learned quite a bit about what it takes to get healthy and fit. I still haven’t reached my goal of being “fit”, and applying what I’ve learned is the part that’s easier said than done. At the same time I feel like I have a decent amount [...]
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August 6th, 2008 — , Biking, Exercise, Fitness Resources, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
When I got home from work tonight I decided to do something I haven’t done for quite a long time. I decided to go for a ride on my mountain bike.
Once I got on all my riding gear (special pants with cushy rear, bike shoes, helmet), I went to grab my bike. I then [...]
August 1st, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 5 looks tough!
Well last night was day one of week 5 in my 100 pushup challenge. How did it go?
FAIL!
Ok, it wasn’t all that bad. It was a pretty tough week and I wasn’t sure I’d even be able to make it through the first 2 or 3 sets. After day one it gets [...]
July 28th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 4 - what column will I be doing in week 5?
This morning I was waiting around for some workers to finish fixing a crack in my foundation. While I waited around I decided to do my exhaustion test for week 4.
If you perform 30 or less pushups you go back to week [...]
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July 26th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 4 - will I have to repeat it like week 3?
Today was day 3 of week 4 on my 100 pushup challenge.
Once again it looked tough, so I wasn’t sure if I could do all the pushups. Every time that I surprise myself and complete a set my confidence climbs though.
I was a [...]
July 26th, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Video Games, Workout Tips, nutrition, wii fit from Peter @ Quick To Fit
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I was over at a friend’s house the other night, and noticed that they had purchased the Wii Fit exercise program.
I’m naturally a bit of a skeptic, so I tend to think that the exercise benefits you would get from working out with a video game would be minimal, but I was [...]
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July 24th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 4 resumes!
Here we are on week 4, day two. Pretty similar to day one of week 4, but slightly more pushups.
I took the day off yesterday because I had such a hard day having to put my dog to sleep at the vet. Not something I ever want to go through again. (But I’m [...]
Related StoresJuly 21st, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 4 of the challenge is here!
Here we are on week 4, finally!
At the end of week 3 I was able to power out 25 pushups in my final set, which was my new high. Today I am starting week 4 in column one:
That means I’ll be doing 16, 13, 13, 11, 16. After [...]
Related StoresJuly 19th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week three of the 100 pushup challenge… again
This morning was day 3 of week 3 of the 100 pushups challenge. I did the same week last week, and I failed on my day 3 pushups in the last set of 16. I made it to 12, and then had to finish from my knees.
This [...]
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July 17th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
This week is my second time around doing week 3 of the 100 pushups challenge.
I did my pushups on Wednesday just before going out to play tennis. I pushed through them at a good pace. It wasn’t as tiring as the last time I did them, but it was still hard.
I started out with the [...]
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July 17th, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Workout Tips, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Indoor workout routines
During the winter, and when the weather is nasty outside I have to find a way to exercise indoors. Usually for me that means one of a couple of choices. My first choice is usually running on our new fuel treadmill. It has a high intensity interval training (HIIT) setting [...]
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July 16th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Download, Fitness Resources, Workout Tips from QuickToFit @ Quick To Fit
When I started the 100 pushups workout I found that I wasn’t always near a computer on the days I needed to do my workout. It was a small issue, but a pain nonetheless. It would have been nice to have the entire workout in my hands so that I could just reference it when [...]
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July 15th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Saturday was day 3 of week 3 in my 100 pushup challenge. As I mentioned in a previous post I failed on the last set - only making it to 10 of the required 16 minimum pushups, although I did complete the pushups from my knees. This week I’m doing week 3 over.
I didn’t [...]
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July 13th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Report, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Saturday was day 3 of week 3 in my 100 pushup challenge. I was still pretty sore from the pushups on Wednesday, but I decided to give it a go anyway.
I did my pushups around 11:30 in the morning before my wife went out to do some exploring on our vacation this weekend. I [...]
Related StoresJuly 9th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Report, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today is day 2 of week 3. Monday’s workout was tough for me, and I just barely made it through the last set of 15. Today’s workout steps it up another notch, and I am 50/50 on whether I’d be able to finish or not.
To get some added inspiration today I checked out [...]
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July 7th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today is the big day - day one of the 3rd week. After yesterday’s exhaustion test I’ll be starting in column one of this week’s regimen.
That means today’s workout was 15, 12, 12, 10, 15(max) pushups. Even though I’ve been progressing, this seemed like quite a bump for me, but what else can I [...]
Related StoresJuly 6th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Report, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
On friday I finished week 2 of the 100 pushup challenge. As they suggested on the 100 pushups website, I waited a couple of days, and then did the exhaustion test to find out what column I should be starting in tomorrow for week 3 of the challenege.
I got up this morning, got hydrated by [...]
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July 4th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today is day 3 of week 2, and once again it’s slowly upping the number of pushups.
Tonight is our 4th of July BBQ, so I figured I better get my pushups done in the morning before I get weighed down by hot dogs, burgers and beans. It is not going to be a healthy [...]
July 2nd, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today was day 2 of week 2 of the 100 pushup challenge. I was not feeling it today, and was not looking forward to doing my set of 11, 9, 7, 7, 10(max). I changed once I got home, and got to work.
It seems like the first set or two I’m usually pretty [...]
Related StoresJuly 1st, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Workout Tips, soreness, tips from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Last night I did my pushups for week 2, day 1 of the hundred pushups challenge. Afterwards I went running for about 1.5-2 miles. It feels good to get back into the swing of things, and once you get going you can feel that your body enjoys getting the exercise (mine does at least). Your [...]
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June 30th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Monday evening I began my second week in the 100 pushup challenge. Week 1 was tough, but not exceedingly hard.
After doing my reps for day 1 of week 2, I felt pretty good after I finished. At the end of the sets I was able to max out my pushups with 15 pushups, which [...]
Related StoresJune 30th, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Workout Tips, home gym, tips from Peter @ Quick To Fit
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A few years ago I decided that I wanted to build a home gym in one of our extra bedrooms, so that I could stop paying my high monthly fees to the gym we belonged to, and just start working out at home.
I wasn’t sure how expensive it was going to be, [...]
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June 28th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Saturday was day 3 of week 1 for my 100 pushup challenge. I didn’t get to my pushups yesterday because I was entertaining, and people showed up early. So I performed my pushups this morning.
Day three was a bit harder than day 2. Once again the reps on each set of pushups was [...]
Related StoresJune 27th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports, Pushups from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Wednesday was day 2 of week 1 for me in the 100 pushup challenge. Tonight I’ll be performing the day 3 routine. But first, how did day two go?
Day two was similar to day one, but the reps for the number of pushups you performed were slightly increased. If you wanted the rest period [...]
Related StoresJune 26th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports, Pushups from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Last week I decided that I was going to start getting back in shape by joining in the 100 Push-Up Challenge that several other bloggers have been talking about the last coule of weeks. J.D. over at GetFitSlowly.com started the trend last week by asking who else would join in the program. I [...]
Related StoresJune 25th, 2008 — , Fitness Resources from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Over the past few days I’ve been putting together a list of some free online resources that helped me in losing weight last year, and I’m sure that can help you as well.
A caveat I should put here - I’m a firm believer that there is no big secret to weight loss. Any successful [...]
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