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camwyn64 pushups in two minutes. don't know how much of that was actual upper body strength and how much was the venti-sized iced coffee I made myself this morning. Waited a minute afterwards and then added 16 triceps pushups (with my thumbs and forefingers touching each other directly under the center line of my collarbone) as I have been told this is a good archery exercise and I would like to be able to draw a 55-60 pound bow for pig hunting when the time comes.
Situps later. Doubt I'll be cycling today as the temperature is supposed to go up to 97 and I can barely see the Manhattan side of the East River from the window (normally I can see the Pepsi-Cola sign in Queens from that window) due to haze. My lungs have enough to deal with without inhaling that. But it will all pay off when it's time to ride for the Leukemia society. Core strength prevents back pain from sixty miles hunched over the handlebars, after all.
ETA: 54 situps in two minutes. not in the same hour as the pushups, though, so it doesn't count towards an Army style fitness test. Good to know, though.
Situps later. Doubt I'll be cycling today as the temperature is supposed to go up to 97 and I can barely see the Manhattan side of the East River from the window (normally I can see the Pepsi-Cola sign in Queens from that window) due to haze. My lungs have enough to deal with without inhaling that. But it will all pay off when it's time to ride for the Leukemia society. Core strength prevents back pain from sixty miles hunched over the handlebars, after all.
ETA: 54 situps in two minutes. not in the same hour as the pushups, though, so it doesn't count towards an Army style fitness test. Good to know, though.
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Date: 2011-07-21 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-21 03:32 pm (UTC)Well, I kinda won a free three-day-two-night hog hunt in Texas. I can schedule it for any available time between now and next December. Doesn't cover airfare, just the stay and the guide and the meals and the actual pig (less than 100 pounds; larger hogs they charge more for) and that stuff. And since the only firearm I've ever used was a .22 rifle, I'm thinking it'd be wiser to stick with the weapon I know best, which is the longbow or recurve. Texas has no minimum draw weight on hunting bows, but NJ requires 35 pounds of pull to hunt deer, and archery sites recommend at least 40, preferably 50 pounds of pull and at least 400-grain arrows with broadheads. Translation: I need to get really good triceps, lats, and delts workouts and build some decent upper body strength to pull a bow strong enough to kill a pig before the pig decides to reenact the Kalydonian Boar Hunt.
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Date: 2011-07-21 04:58 pm (UTC)Good luck with your lats, triceps and delts! That's going to be a lot of working out.
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Date: 2011-07-21 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-21 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-21 05:17 pm (UTC)(Although I do have a few friends who've indicated they plan on trying to find me in the event of surviving a zombie apocalypse. I don't know that this is such a good idea. I don't own a shotgun or a decapitation weapon, unless you count the crowbar.)