{"id":2065,"date":"2010-05-31T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2010-05-31T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T19:08:59","slug":"and-boy-are-my-wings-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2010\/05\/31\/and-boy-are-my-wings-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"And boy are my wings tired"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I did a hundred pushups! In a row! I had done lots more in a session, just not in a single set. Also some of those reps at the end would have been pretty hilariously sloppy to anyone watching. But it still counts!<\/p>\n

I’ve been following this workout plan<\/a> since, uh, the beginning of March. It’s a six-week plan, and you will note that it has taken me three months to complete! In retrospect, that progression gets a bit suspicious at the end; even on the best-case track, you’re supposed to go from around 60 to 100 in a single week. I had to repeat week six several times, and then repeat week six\/day one for a couple more weeks, adding five to ten more reps each time.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked before<\/a> about my complete lack of upper-body strength and how ashamed of it I’ve always been. I know how to maintain cardiovascular shape and build leg muscle–go running–and I have done so, because running is the only exercise that doesn’t bore and frustrate me. It’s also got a pretty low barrier to entry, whereas I perceived upper-body workouts to be fraught with torn tendons and requiring of huge weight sets. And if I want to actually build muscle in any serious way I probably will have to get some kind of free weights someday. I should probably learn to do the Ab Ripper first.<\/p>\n

But meanwhile I’m just going to keep doing a hundred pushups every night and see how far I can take it! I hear there’s this fancy kind you can do with one arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did a hundred pushups! In a row! I had done lots more in a session, just not in a single set. Also some of those reps at the end would have been pretty hilariously sloppy to anyone watching. But it still counts! I’ve been following this workout plan since, uh, the beginning of March. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,69,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-neighbors","category-exertion","category-landmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}