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#1895120 - 02/07/14 08:20 PM
Re: 2012 Pushup Challenge
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The crackers of course, not the animal. Just to be clear. Don't want people thinking that eating the animals gives you special powers!
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#1895123 - 02/07/14 08:22 PM
Re: 2012 Pushup Challenge
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The crackers of course, not the animal. Just to be clear. Don't want people thinking that eating the animals gives you special powers! Being that goldfish live in fresh water it is not like you don't wash it first. 
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#1895176 - 02/07/14 09:43 PM
Re: 2012 Pushup Challenge
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I stand on it for other exercises as well. It's great for your leg's stabilizing muscles and helps a lot if you're dealing with uneven terrain when running. Everything is to make my running better! Speaking of running, quick rant. Mostly born of jealousy. One of our maintenance guys is upper 40's, just started running in the last 9 months, and is up to doing 11 miles on the treadmill with a pace in the low 8's. He has cheap $40 shoes, wears cotton shirt/shorts, has a diet that I'm pretty sure is made of Natural Ice and goldfish, and is sporting a beer gut. It doesn't even make sense that he can do what he's doing! UGH! I just wish that worked for me. He's not a former star athlete who's returning or anything. Never ran before this past year! Not fair. Matt you can always console yourself as I do when faced with such situations... 1. Realize that you are running to improve your health and quality of life. Not to impress him or any one else 2. Be content with the gains that you make, however modest. 3. Smile when you realize that he is ugly and will never look as good as we do in running tights!
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#1895185 - 02/07/14 10:08 PM
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No joke Ed!! There have been two kids in our races lately that cannot possibly be older than 12 at the outside and the little buggers run like wounded deer! I wouldn't mind even that if werent for all the lauging and gigling while they're doing it! They obviously have no respect for my physical superiority and just run right by me! 
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#1895188 - 02/07/14 10:13 PM
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Did you throw a medal at them as they passed?
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#1895191 - 02/07/14 10:16 PM
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Did you throw a medal at them as they passed? Two of them actually. If you tie them together just right, they work like South American bolos! 
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#1895299 - 02/10/14 02:53 PM
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We're hitting the point in the year where skipping a day and making it up the next day should be punishment/motivation enough to make sure you do them every day. But since I had to do 81 this morning, it's clearly not working on me.
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#1895836 - 02/11/14 04:23 PM
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Done 21 earlier! Started to just go ahead and get it over with.
OH! Last night, for something different, I did them with hands on a foam roller...kinda interesting on the stability challenge..not hard, just different for sure.
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#1895854 - 02/11/14 04:46 PM
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Yeah...I used to do them with feeet on balance ball...I'm a little worried I might make my shoulder really mad if I do that, but may work at least some in that way later on in the year as I find a way to make them less boring.
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#1895904 - 02/11/14 05:47 PM
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Definitely going to work your core a bit more. Anything you can do to make 'em harder now will be good, and make you more prepared to do 300 later in the year! Maybe thats what the new "300" movie will be about!?! Pushups!!
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#1895988 - 02/11/14 07:24 PM
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I feel like I'm in a rut again. Running feels fine, no boredom there, but the doing the same leg exercises and have been ignoring upper body.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
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#1896159 - 02/11/14 10:23 PM
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Crawl out of the rut! That alone should provide some upper body!  Pushups Dips Chins get a punching bag Use power bands do walking lunges with dumbbells in you hands with your arms extended....
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#1896209 - 02/12/14 12:25 AM
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do walking lunges with dumbbells in you hands with your arms extended.... OMG--that's what we have been doing in one of the blocks in Insanity (the instructor said we were on disc 5). Burpees...I really dislike burpees.....
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#1896349 - 02/12/14 04:26 PM
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They only call them "burpees" because when they first came up them, they were called "Racked with pain" and nobody would do them.
Day 43 pushup peeps!
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#1896356 - 02/12/14 04:30 PM
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<<<---has done 30 of them.
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#1896374 - 02/12/14 04:43 PM
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Is it bad when your shoulder clicks with each pushup? Especially when you partially tore the rotator cuff this past fall? Asking for a friend.
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#1896397 - 02/12/14 05:03 PM
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It could be bad. It could also indicate bad form (shoulders not packed, elbows flared out). It could also mean you need to scale back the type of push-up to reduce the load.
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