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 Crunches - 100 (Damn 512)

 Pushups - 75

 Pullups - 20

January totals:

My month times look like some of your weekends.  I guess that's what I get for joining a group of veterans , but that is just what I need; you never improve if you don't compete with/against someone better than you.  Now that I have to wait for exam scores this month, I'll be adding swim workouts, concentrating on nutrition more (eating more lean protiens, cutting back on the Starbucks, tracking water vs soda, etc), and adding two-a-days at least twice per week.

 Closing in on Spring...  Woooo Hoooo!

Here are the totals for the Challenge:

Alex: CRUNCHES (510) PUSHUPS (213) PULLUPS (25)

Grady: CRUNCHES (100) PUSHUPS (75) PULLUPS (20)

Gary: PUSHUPS (2)

Kimberly: CRUNCHES (560) PUSHUPS (68)

Keith: CRUNCHES (93) PUSHUPS (163) PULLUPS (110)

The crunches winner is KIMBERLY

The pushups winner is ALEX

The pullups winner is KEITH

THE OVERALL WINNER IS ALEX!!! with 748 total repetitions!!! Great job, Alex.

You're doing great.  All of us are training for different events and require different training plans.  Don't just look at volume.

Hopefully you're not including me as a veteran.  I've only done 3 tri's (2 Sprint & 1 Olympic).  I started training around last May & picked up my first road bike some time in middle to late June.  Good luck with your exams and your training goals.

Sweet!  I'm going to keep up with this stuff though.  I might add some plank and leg lifts.  I would not have started any core if it wasn't for this competition.  Thanks for the motivation guys.

Just for fun: What's on your iPOD?

Jeff Buckley -- Hallelujah (one of the greats)

Dispatch -- The General (jam band...great song)

The Killers -- Hot Fuss, etc. (for when I want to go fast)

Tim O'brien -- Forever Young (remake of Dylan's song)

John Lennon -- Imagine (learning to sing & play it on guitar)

Brett Dennen -- Blessed (heard it on a Hawaii trip...every time I hear it I'm back there)

Keb Mo -- Every Morning (some Blues)

I think I"m like most people with the ipod..even though I've got a lot on there I go through phases with the different playlist's   Lately it's been a mix of

BB King and Stevie Ray Vaughn
Sting both during the police days and after
Demon Hunter & Thousand Foot Krutch - most people never have heard of them unless they listen to christian rock

My iPod is pretty diversified, off the top of my head:

Rush, Triumph, Metallica, Van Halen, Journey, Huey Lewis, ZZ Topp - Results of being in Highschool in the '80s

Pink, Katy Perry, Jay Z, Will Smith (with and without Jazzy Jeff), LL Cool J - I like some pop & rap

Toby Keith, Kenny Chesney - I like some of the new country

Candy Dulfer, PM Dawn, Enigma - good for at work for background noise and during the walk portion of the Program

CPA Exam review - Mostly blah, blah, blah - these will be removed after I get some passing scores.

heck ya,,,  

thanks

I must be the last person on earth that does not own an ipod..... 

I do have a small radio that I will occasionally wear when I'm doing a bike workout in the gym.  If I do it would be tuned to a country station, I'm more likely to plug it into the little box on the machine that gives me the audio on one of the TVs so I can catch up on the news.

My mp3 player (no intention of spending the extra money on an ipod)

Has too much music to really list all of it.  But, off the top of my head:

The Doors

The Roots

The Urge

Prodigy

311

Steve Earle

Dropkick Murphys

Soundgarden

Audioslave

Bad Religion

Beastie Boys

Sublime

Deftones

System of a Down

Black Sabbath

Howling Wolf

First and foremost is Podrunner.  I love it.  DJ Steve Boyett.  Other stuff includes:

Deftones, Metallica, ZZ Top (favorite band), CCR, Tom Petty, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, Offspring, Cake.  That's all I can remember at the moment.

I think that is the same weekend as my IM.  I would love to do it but (John Wayne Voice) I'll have to pass on this one pardner.

If you noticed a difference when doing yoga you might try and stretch really well after you warm up.  I read somewhere that you should not stretch while your muscles are cold.  Just because there is pain in your soleus does not mean that's where the pain originates....  Look up pain patterns and it may help you track down the source of the problem.

Decided tonight to sign up for the St. Patrick's day Tri.  I can't wait.