Day 88 - The Flu Sets In! 100 Push Up Challenge!

Last week as attitude readjustment! This week was the flu!

Since my great Sunday, I caught a dose of some bug that was going round. Sneezing, head aches and the like. Looking for sympathy. Getting none!

I was meant to do the 100 Push Ups Week 3 this week but didn’t attempt Day 1 due to feeling a little under the weather. I must also admit that I was a bit daunted at pushing out 25 in the first set. I just didn’t think I was going to succeed. So I avoided it. (See? It’s all in the head!)

Creative Avoidance

I learned years ago that people (i.e. me!) will do almost anything to avoid something they really don’t want to do. And this week was the 100 Push Up Challenge. I just had “other” things to do.

The result is that I am now behind in the schedule and feel like I should repeat Week 2 just to get back in the groove.

Relapse is Not Failure

However, I have also learned that a “relapse” is not a “failure”. You just get back up and continue forward. If you fall down 7 times and get up 8, you’re still in the game! I can’t change the past but I can change my future.

So I plan to do as much of Week 3 as I can. Allow the results to be what they may and then, perhaps, repeat Week 3.

I’ve also thought of slightly modifying Steve’s program. Just something I thought of doing, not to improve Steve’s program or negate it.

Here’s the plan.

If I do Steve’s Week 3 Day 1 successfully I would do a minimum of 99 Push Ups (25, 17, 17, 15, 25). So, basically I’m at the point of doing 100 push ups per day, just not in one go.

So, I’m going to do 100 push ups each day. If it takes me 10 sets then so be it. 100 per day it is.

These past two weeks have been a real slow down in my journey towards health & fitness. Hopefully they are just a relapse.

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