I need to up my photography on rides, flat Cheshire spin yesterday so swung past Jodrell Bank before heading up the Wizard.

Pleasant ride after Saturdays soaking.

Day 69 has taken me on a shorter local loop and I was surprisingly full of beans, wish I’d gone out longer now…

Is that Brad?? Or the Hoff?

Hop about on the trials bike yesterday afternoon as the light faded, another hop about this evening under street lights, usual spots. Yesterday felt a bit frustrating, today a few positive charges dotted about here and there.

Excellent. Happy birthday Scotroutes 🙂

Back in isolation again here as p20 has got a temperature. Once again awaiting COVID test result (given his work, we aren’t optimistic). I’m thinking that as I feel ok some light garage gym is probably on. Keep HR and cardio load down.

I definitely haven’t bern successful in getting every day. Bit have been much more active so classing it as a win!

Anyone interested in a grease the grove – working from home – 100/200/300 club challenge tomorrow?

We decide on the exercise of the day. We have between 830 and 530 to do the total number. Post up in WhatsApp etc as we go along.

Choice of…
100 pull/chin ups
200 press-ups
3 min worth of handstands
300 parallel bar(kitchen stool) leg lifs
Or something else?

200 press-ups in 8 hours.

That’s 12 per half hour. 6 per 15 min. It will barely raise the heart rate.

Definitely didn’t think you were in your 60s Scotroutes. Happy birthday!

Upperbodyweight here this evening. About an 1 hours worth. Some laundry sorting during the rests between sets. I guess if I find the first set of 5 pull ups harder than the 2nd or 3rd I’ve probably not warmed up those muscle groups enough. Pull ups 25 total. Dips 21 total. Bodyweight rows 40 total. Clappy push ups 12 total, regular push ups 23 total.

@earl, I’m not feeling committed, but it is tempting. Would go for push ups, 12 every half hour you say…

Yep – 12 every half hour is easy. Worth mixing it up too – norms, narrows, Hindu, clap, chest slap, deficit, archer…. Lots of fun!

Grease the groove – for those who haven’t heard of it – aim is not to go till failure.

Right – 830 start. I’ll post up here my days goal then.

Ok for anyone who’s wants to join today.

200 press ups – go!

Well this time, this is me checking of out the challenge for the foreseeable. P20 has COVID and imagine I’m heading that way too. Going to take it easy – but will keep checking in here to see how you are all doing. Good luck with the press ups!

Ah, bollocks. Take care (both of you). Don’t push yourself too hard/too quickly on return to exercise.

Look after yourselves ahsat, you’ll be missed

No one huh? Oh well.

Pulling tomorrow if you wanna play – 100 pull/chin/Aussie/TRX between 8:30 and 5pm.

I’ve never tried doing a large number spread throughout the day so curious to know how well I might do.

TBH – its easy. Number sound high but its so spread out. I can only do around 30 press ups max so today I did 10per set for 20 sets. All done by 12:30 without pushing it. I just made a rule every time I got out of my chair, for coffee/wee/parcel delivery. And taking my eyes away from the screen every 30min is a good thing. Finished each set with a downward dog too.

Its the opposite of ‘Muscle and Fitness’ style intensity training but I think it still has its benefits. And there is nothing stopping you doing the last 50 with high intensity if you wanted.

Tomorrows pull ups I’ll need to warm up to (showing the age of my cranky elbows) so it will look something like 1,1,1,2,2,4,8,8,8,7,7,6,5,5,5,,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,2… until I ring the bell.

Out for a couple of hours on the single speed Onion. Visited a collapsed chambered Cairn. Stashed a beer for our beerienteering group. Checked out some forest harvesting. Slipped and slid over some rooty trails. Discovered another riverside track I’d somehow missed.

80 per set? FFS!

Earl, I started a couple of years ago on holiday when my lad challenged me to do 20 press ups and it bloody hurt.  When I was a teenager I could do 50 no worries, and I kinda of just thought I still could.  Anyway I resolved to get back to 50, and just started plugging away.  First just doing 50 a day, then slowly bumping it up.

Lockdown has plateaued my attempts to do repeated sets at 100.  I can do 100 but struggle to repeat it.

Just an odd thing that got stuck in my head, also its helped with smashing through rock gardens so have seen bike fitness improvements.

I’m going to pick it up.again in the new year, at the moment I’m enjoying riding everyday for this challenge so not feeling motivated to crash out press ups.

On a similar but less fanatical theme, I did 80 minutes exercise at my local park gym.This included,15 minutes of pull ups,push downs and rowing.I agree with Earl’s point about sudden release from dips etc and the probability of shoulder damage.I have caused some damage that way myself.
On a brighter note,last night I bopped for 80 minutes to “Substance”by New Order.It was an enjoyable change and I still got a good sweat on!Hope your all well and ahsat is recovering.Neil

.Think clapping gurning chimp goading an enemy troop.

I feel ya buddy!