My Third Day of Exercise

I topped 72 hours of exercise for the year this week, meaning that I have spent a total of three days working out since the year began. Most of that time has been spent doing one of my two sledge hammer routines, but I have also been walking and have now added riding my bike to the list of activities.

Dedicating this much time for exercise hasn't been too big a challenge, but I'm getting to the point now where I have the endurance to do much longer workouts with the hammer, so I've started getting up early to work out. I might have to get me an alarm clock one of these days...

I think I mentioned a while back that the standard workout consisted of 100 moves of each of 6 exercises (several of which are repeated twice on the right side and the left.) I called completing 100 moves for each of the 6 exercises a Century. Usually I would do ten sets of ten moves each. Now I'm up to 2.5 centuries per day (ten sets of 25 moves for each exercise) and I plan to increase that weekly until -- sometime before the end of the year -- I'm doing five centuries a day.

If nothing else, that means I'll be doing 500 push-ups a day. So, you know, if the Marines decide they want to start taking guys in their mid forties, I'll be ready for boot camp.