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100 push ups is A LOT of push ups in my universe.
It's A LOT in mine too!
You know what I suck at? Pull ups. I can do like... uh... none usually.
Me too! Though it's a very tough exercise. The related calisthenics pages for one hundred push ups are two hundred sit ups, two hundred squats...
And twenty five or fifty pull ups.
Go Sean! It sounds like a helluva workout, one way or the other.
My new vinyasa yoga teacher is a sadistic SOB in a good way. He wraps up the vinyasa part of the practice with crunches. Lots of crunches. With both legs down, then one leg up in the air, then both legs up and gradually coming down. I don't even count them, because I think I'd scare myself out of doing them.
I will have abs of steel before this is all done with.
Ah yes, exercise. I should be getting it, but I can't go to the pool until I've got a PA here (currently in the recruiting process). Thinking of trying the university gym. I could probably use the rowing machine and a few other upper body ones without it hurting me too much.
Zenkitty, your strays sound adorable (in a feral way).
New doctor today (oh joy, oh rapture). Looking through boxes for printer to print out medical history - saves a whole lot of questions. Then I'm popping over to uni to see what they have on offer at the freshers' fair. There's usually free kitchen stuff. Sometimes spatulas.
Hahaha! I often have that Penzance "Oh joy! Oh rapture!" sarcastically going through my head as well. I hope the doctor's visit goes well, Seska.
That reminds me, I need to schedule a physical with new doctor.
That didn't go very well. She blithely gave me all my medication (including sleep meds!) without question. Then I asked, in passing, about when the flu shots would be starting at the practice. She informed me that I am not eligible. The Girl, as my carer, is eligible - but I get to be so sick I can't move for at least a couple of months, because the government (which is shouting more and more loudly about how disabled people must WORK) won't pay for my flu shot. (Other doctors' practices I've attended, where they have given it to me, have apparently been acting against Department of Health policy.) I exploded, burst into tears, then told her it was a nutsy policy that didn't make any sense and was completely unjust and contradictory, and that I was sick of the government putting carers first because they save them money, and then started storming out. She informed me that I had to calm down and did an ineffectual job at helping with this. (Apparently she hadn't read the bit in my medical history about anxiety and doctor phobia - that or she thinks 'calm down' is a good response to these problems.)
Ooh, I'm so angry. I'm going to write to my MP. It will do no good, but I'll have said something at least.
On the plus side, I have sleep medication.
Crap, Seska. That's just crap.
P.S. Come to America, we have flu shots in grocery stores for $25.
P.P.S. Only for a visit though, because the rest of your nationalized health care is way better.
When I was in the Army, push-ups were part o the physical fitness test. At my age/gender, 11'was the minimum passing score and 69 was the maximum. For the guys, it was something in the 90s. I could never do more than 32 without reaching muscle failure.
The Army has a standard (of course) for how to do pushups. Some guys had strong enough abs that they could essentially just move up and down from the mid-abs up and those pushups didn't count.
Several of the individuals I work with have range of motion exercises. Any that are meant to be done while lying down, they do in their beds. At first I wondered how effective that could be. But then I decided to try it myself. Yeah, it works the muscles. So now I do the bridge, some curls, and leg scissors in my favorite place. Only ten reps each, but it's definitely making a difference in how strong I feel when I have to lift someone.
Dude, I stretch a lot in bed (That sounds wrong.)
But really. I do a lot of leg stretches, and hip openers.
Still sounds wrong. But it makes sense; I'm comfortable and warm, so I can hold the position for a good long while, while I ruminate about coffee or some such, and I get a really good stretch in.
Good morning!