Week 2, Day 3

I'm tired today. Good thing I get two full minutes to recuperate after each set. Plus it's Friday and it's supposed to be a beautiful weekend! I'll keep that in mind as I'm going up and down. The sets for today are 16, 17, 14 and 14, with at least 20 for the max-out. Eighty-one push-ups and I'm done for the week. I'm sniffing the barn, so let's do this already...

First set done. I noticed I had a butt problem. It was too high up. Gotta stay flat. The girl in the picture's doing it right, and as usual that's clearly that's not me. Second set now...

Second set done. Forgot my butt again. Now for the first 14...

Fourteen done. Butt in place, too. And I remembered to breathe. The tendency is to want to hold your breath because you're entire abdomen is tense as you hold the plank position. You can quickly run out of air if you don't pay attention.

And 14 more. Butt in order. Breathing as needed. I think I'm getting the hang of this. We'll find out for sure when I try to get past the 20-push-up mark for this last set.

Twenty-three! The last five or six were a definite struggle, but here I am, done for the week with 84 push-ups today and 221 for the week. I didn't tally up at the end of last week so I'll just check... Including the 17 I did for the initial test, I did 177 push-ups last week for a total of 398 so far!

And I'm feeling every one of those. It's a good burn...