Waits Family Annals

Right off the bat, I want to be clear about something: that picture is not me. However, something strange has happened between my 27th and 28th birthdays. The metabolism which kept me at an emaciated 140 lbs growing up has decided it’s worked hard enough in my life and is taking a vacation. It has allowed this alien lifeform to attach itself to my midsection. Evidently this new globulous mass dislikes waistlines and comfort. In order to maintain itself, it requires vast ammounts of Southwestern Egg Rolls and Ranch Dressing. It also does not like me walking up hills or stairs. It hates stairs. For the past year I have been meaning to do something about it. Today marked me actually starting something.

My brother recommended the P90X program last August. I was dead set on doing it. Then I did the pretest which required one to be able to preform five pull-ups. Oh. Right, not this guy. I can kind of almost not do one. I am coming clean here. It’s humiliating. I figured I would resign myself to Wii Fit and running in order to prepare for the P90X (Keep in mind, whenever I say P90X, I growl with an excess of testosterone from the depths of my washboard abs). So the next day I did nothing.

In high school, I ran Cross Country and Track. I constantly shirked the weight room. I went there once, and was ashamed of the fact I could not lift anything that had a weight attached. So I never went back. I am seeing a trend here. If I cannot instantly do something, I jet. I skidaddle. It is with that attitude I have approached fitness since graduating ten years ago. A somewhat unhealthy attitude.

I remembered reading about One Hundred Push-Ups on the Lifehacker blog awhile ago, and they mentioned it again recently. It brought me back to the site and I made a goal. I want to be able to do 100 push-ups in six weeks. I made a chart and put it on my wall. Then I did my initial test. I must say, I was quite proud of my ability.

I did 11 Push-Ups.

Go me! I did them, and instantly regretted it. In college, when they had a pre- and post-test in the wellness class, the idea was to do your absolute worst in the pre-test so your post-test looked that much more awesomer. My 11 push-ups puts me in colomn 3. I’m a little nervous about trying to complete the program in that column, but I am going to push it.

I decided to post it here because without some sort of community, I will fail. So, please keep me in your prayers and or animal sacrifices that I may complete my goal and graduate to Wii Fit. Then, maybe I will make it to the Power-90 EXTREME!

UPDATE: Thanks to Jody for informing me I had the wrong link. It has been fixed.