I've decided to go ahead and take the One Hundred Pushups AND the Two Hundred Situps challenge. The idea behind each is that in 6 weeks, you will build up to 100 pushups and 200 situps, respectively. What I like about these two exercises is that they can be done just about anywhere, at any time, without equipment. Running requires either a nice outdoor area or a treadmill. However, I do hope to get myself back into running/cardio with a hope of getting below 21-minutes for the 3-mile run. I think if I did that run today, it would be 27 minutes or more.
Now, for me, I have a few advantages. I'm out of shape now, but I've been close to these levels before, thanks to my time in the Marines. One tricky thing is getting used to "civilian counting". In the Marines, one pushup is counted as "down up, down up". In civilian counting, this is two pushups. So in reality, I am taking the Fifty Pushup challenge. Situps are counted the same way. One advantage of the situp section is that I don't have to time it, I just go till I stop.
Today I did my initial test. I did 22 "military count" pushups or 44 "civilian count" pushups. On both excercises, this puts me slightly ahead, meaning I can start on week 3, 3rd column for each excercise.
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