Welcome to my fitness log

I've created this to keep everything to do with my fitness journey in one place for easy reference.
I've listed links to places I visit regularly or places I think are interesting or valuable resources.

I started doing Crossfit September 22nd 2009 and I loved it - it's totally awesome and it made me a better person in so many different ways!

After nearly 4 years of Crossfit and wrist injury I tried a home fitness DVD for a change and something new - Rip 60 was really great and then I found Beachbody / Tony Horton's P90X!
It's THE best home fitness program ever!!!
It changed my body in so many amazing ways and got my cardio fitness, my core and overall strength including push up strength better than ever before!!

I now do many Beachbody programs as they are all so great.
I 'm a big Tony Horton fan because he makes me work hard but makes me laugh at the same time.
After I completed P90X, I did P90X3, P90X2 and some P90X+. I''ve tried other Beachbody programs including the P90, Piyo, Focus T25,
21 Day Fix Extreme, Country Heat, BodyBeast and Insanity, The Aslyum 1 and 2. Completed 21 Day Fix and 22 Min hard Core.

Did some Insanity Max 30 and Core de Force but my knees can't handle jumping every day so I have to mix them in.
Shift shop is great and looking forward to the new 80 Day obsession.

I'm the fittest I've ever been in my life and still getting stronger every day!

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Light bulb moment about assistance bands for push ups!

Well this morning after contemplating push ups and the fact that I seem to be pushing my limit each time, following the 100 push up programe (and the fact that I feel it build endurance and not so much strength) - I was researching on the net about push ups and reading the crossfit journal archives. I found an article on bodyweight excercies and their assistance with bands - even for push ups.
So I stood looking at my power rack a little later and a light bulb moment!!

I took my mini / red band and put it across pin 2 of my rack and tried a push up (on the floor) and hey presto I could do it - wahoo I could do 2!! Exaclty the same principal as I do my assisted chin ups.

So I can now work at the proper horizontal - that has to be better than working down the rungs using a bar???

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