{"id":116,"date":"2008-11-28T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/day-20-of-fitness-plan\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T18:40:01","slug":"day-20-of-fitness-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/day-20-of-fitness-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 20 of fitness plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished redoing the second week of the hundred pushups plan. I’ll do a progress test Sunday morning to determine whether I’ve improved enough to move up to week three.<\/p>\n

I think I’ve found a way to make the pushups easier, or I could just be fooling myself. I trying adding a kind of pop to the end. Instead of pushing myself back up slowly and steadily to the point where my arms are fully extended, I started trying to pop back up quickly after a slow start. It might at least help me build fast-twitch muscle fiber which will help me with throwing a baseball or swinging a bat.<\/p>\n

Weight:<\/strong> 283.0 pounds<\/p>\n

Exercise:<\/strong> Week 2, Day 3 of the hundredpushups.com<\/a> plan. 5 sets (5,7,5,5,8).<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s breakfast:<\/strong>1 cup All-Bran Strawberry Medley cereal, Half-cup skim milk, 1 orange. (5 WW points)<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s mid-morning snack:<\/strong>skipped it<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s water:<\/strong>Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s lunch:<\/strong>It was Thanksgiving dinner so there was a ton of stuff: turkey, mashed potates, chicken noodles, rolls, sushi, tortilla chips, pumpkin pie, apple pie, pumpkin crisp, cool whip, etc. (5,000,000 WW points)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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