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pegkerrI'm trying to recommit to healthy living. I'm unhappy about my weight and I've been out of exercising for several months, due to the knee, but I want to start building myself back up again. I have a call into my doctor to get the name of the referral for my knee. I've re-started the exercises I was given at the sports clinic to start rebuilding strength in the injured leg. I've started tracking my food and exercise again at Sparkpeople.com. And, knowing that if I'm going back to karate I need to start building up my strength again, I gritted my teeth and did a pushup assessment. (I hate, hate, HATE pushups.)
I managed 14 pushups (from the toes, rather than the knees) before collapsing. Much much worse than when I was in better shape, but still, that's right at the average for a woman my age. I'm going to re-start the 100 pushups program. I may not make it all the way--in fact, I don't really expect to do so. But I hope to get my upper body strength jacked up to at least a higher level, enough so that I won't be embarrassed when I do the pushups at the beginning of each karate lesson when I (hopefully) start lessons again next month.
I managed 14 pushups (from the toes, rather than the knees) before collapsing. Much much worse than when I was in better shape, but still, that's right at the average for a woman my age. I'm going to re-start the 100 pushups program. I may not make it all the way--in fact, I don't really expect to do so. But I hope to get my upper body strength jacked up to at least a higher level, enough so that I won't be embarrassed when I do the pushups at the beginning of each karate lesson when I (hopefully) start lessons again next month.