Week 3 day 1 again

I decided to redo day 1 of this week on the easier column, it was still pretty tough. I still think doing this and going to gym at the same time probably makes it more difficult. Anyway in total I did 46, and my final set was 10, which was still difficult. I seem to be getting weaker not stronger!!

Week 3 day 1

Well I thought it would be tough and it was. I started on the centre column but couldn't manage the second set of 17. I skipped to the first column, and then could barely finish that!! I think going to gym before doing this may be slightly insane, I'll do these at gym from now on, before I do anything else. Managed 46 push ups in total.

Exhaustion test 2

End of week two asks for another exhaustion test, this morning I could do 22 push ups non stop. This puts me in the middle column for week 3 again. I'll give it a try tomorrow. What's a little disappointing is that two weeks ago I could do 15 in the first exhaustion test and now I can only do 22, and in 4 weeks time I'm supposed to be able to do 100?! Ja right! But I'll still persevere, perhaps it takes me another 11 weeks!

Week 2 day 3

That was torture!! I'm not really sure it's valid and I'll think about whether to continue with week 3 next week or to redo week 2. It certainly seems like it's necessary, I could barely manage the final 15 set, but I did the required 60... JUST.

Week 2 day 2

It doesn't get any easier! Last night was really tough again, I still wonder if going to the gym beforehand is affecting how many I can do. I did 53 last night and once again could only do the prescribed 13 pushups for the final set. Tomorrow requires that I do 60 in total!! OMG what have I started!!

Week 2 day 1

Wow! Today was MUCH more difficult, I don't really know why because I didn't even do that many more than Friday! I could only do the required 11 at the end... this is tough! In total today I did 47 push ups.

Week 1 day 3

I almost skipped this one. Dancing last night included a dip which I just couldn't get right! So I through the lady dipped and lifted the lady many times much to the dismay of the muscles in my back, which started complaining a few hours later. Now they are screaming at me..

I did 47, I would have settled for 42 which is all the program calls for but a good friend of mine would have made fun of me, so my last set was 15 as opposed to 10 :P

An imaginative name for a post

After gym, I did 39 today... still the middle column, day 2 of week 1 on the program. Managed to do 13 as my last set. I think Friday is gonna be a killer!

hundred pushups

I forgot to add the link to the program if you want to join me :P http://hundredpushups.com/

Come to think of it

I was at the cardiologist in Feb and the news was fantastic, I just forgot completely to post about it. My EF is something crazy like 45% and the size of my heart is within normal limits. I still have the odd bought of arrythmia, but on the whole it seems the ticker ticks pretty regularly. Still need to watch myself, but I think I'm well out of the woods, as long as I'm sensible, keep exercising and eat relatively healthy.

Here we go again

Wow, it's been 10 months give or take since I last blogged!! Unfortunately the last mission was a bit of a flop, I haven't yet finished my MSc, but I really really think it's close now!

Thanks to Jon, I stole his idea for this mission...if he ever reads it, he'll know which Jon he is. I'm going to the gym regularly, but sometimes find it a bit monotonous. So when I saw this challenge I had to do it! Started last night with the initial test and did 15 pushups. I could probably have done more, but because I wanted to gym today AND do the program I left it there, I'll get into the proper category after week 2 of the program.

Today I did the middle column even though 15 gets me into the right hand column, but whatever this felt ok. I'll get to 100 in 7 or 8 weeks I guess... or maybe 6! Whats cool about this site is that it doesn't stop at pushups. Theres a program for sit ups, squats and theres a program for pull ups coming! I'll see how far I get, but perhaps I'll do them all.

For now 100 push ups here I come.

More good news

I thought I'd take some liberties with my work time and write a quick post. I went to the cardiologist again today for a follow up appointment after my abortive cardioversion two months back and a month of amiodarone.

It was more of the same with an ECG and echo, I didn't even see the ECG but I assume it was fine, the echo concluded that my heart was of a normal size and my Ejection Fraction was 50% which is fantastic! So now it seems that my only real problem is my heart rythm which misbehaves from time to time, and still doesn't allow me to have full capacity while exerting myself.

I was however able to get hold of the report for the cardioablation that my previous cardiologist performed in 2004. Dr Guerra is going to contact an electrophysiologist and we will consider another ablation as the technology has improved greatly in the passed few years, but only if the other doctor thinks its worth the effort.

So perhaps there is some more hospital time in my near future, but if it is successful then I will feel a lot better ALL the time!

As for my MSc, it's pogressing slowly, but progressing, I had to take a bit of a break to catch up on the reading that I should have done, thats pretty much done now and I should be able to continue writing, and hopefully be finished by the end of the year latest.

All said the news is encouraging, I'm not going to say I'll write more often again, cause I probably won't but I'll try :)