One Hundred Sit Ups, Week 5

I completed week 4 of the program and started on week 5. I did the test two days later to find which column of week 5 to execute. That was too soon. I was still sore and not at full strength. I could only complete 50 sit ups in a row which is about the same as before. Anyway, to my dismay, it is still enough to qualify for the hardest column of week 5. It is a very big jump in difficulty with sets of 40,32,30,25, and 40 sit ups. That is 167 sit ups!!! I couldn’t finish it the first time through. So I repeated day 1 today and made it. I thought my stomach muscles were going to rip apart. The rest of the week will be a breeze.

One Hundred Sit Ups

I’ve been reading a number of fitness blogs this year to help educate and motivate myself. A bunch of the bloggers have taken up the One Hundred Pushups program. It is a six week program designed to take you from very few to 100 pushups in a row. I was tempted to take on the program. But I was already pretty good at pushups and was focusing on increasing my upper body strength with bench press and incline press among other exercises. I found out last week that I have torn some cartilage in my shoulder and need to stop these exercises for a while.

I’ve decided to use the pushup program for sit ups. It looks like a nice progression; not too fast, not too slow. I am going to take a bit of a short cut with the program by skipping ahead to week 4. You see, I can already do 50 situps in a row. It seems silly to start at the beginning where it would have me doing sets of 10.

Today was my second day of week four at the highest level. I did sets of 27, 21, 21, 18, and 30. That’s a total of 117! Not bad but it was a struggle. My stomach is still sore from my first day two days ago.

I have found it helps me stay with it when I have a fitness goal. I currently have a weight, % body fat, and now one hundred sit ups goal.