Two Hundred Sit Up Challenge

johnblake

I'm sorry to report I only got a 100 today I guess I'm not in the shape I need to be. hope I didn't let you down. I'll get 200 tomorow :flowerforyou:

Let me down??? Heck, no. You are an inspiration:glasses: I can't wait till I can do 100. Are you doing the full sit ups?

I guess I should be clear about that. There is only one kind of sit up.(for me) knees bend about 45 degrees arms crossed over the chest. I curl my upper body up till my elbows touch my knees.
This clip is not so great but you can see whats going on.
http://www.topendsports.com/testing/video/sit-ups.htm

OK, I get it. I can't do those anymore but hope to be able to one day.

I have bad news. Why can't you do them, do you have back problems? or some other health reason?
If not a heath problem then get to it.

yeahbuddy

I'm sorry to report I only got a 100 today I guess I'm not in the shape I need to be. hope I didn't let you down. I'll get 200 tomorow :flowerforyou:

Let me down??? Heck, no. You are an inspiration:glasses: I can't wait till I can do 100. Are you doing the full sit ups?

I guess I should be clear about that. There is only one kind of sit up.(for me) knees bend about 45 degrees arms crossed over the chest. I curl my upper body up till my elbows touch my knees.
This clip is not so great but you can see whats going on.
http://www.topendsports.com/testing/video/sit-ups.htm

OK, I get it. I can't do those anymore but hope to be able to one day.

I have bad news. Why can't you do them, do you have back problems? or some other health reason?
If not a heath problem then get to it.

No, no health problem, I'm just not able to do them. Maybel I'll re-do my exhaustion test doing the full sit up and start over. After all, I've only done one day.

johnblake

ok then even if you can just do 1 or 2 then that's what you do. then do crunches

KylieE

I'm in! When I did ballet like 5 days a week throughout high school - I was the crunch queen! Not anymore. I like this challenge :happy:

Welcome, crunch queen:bigsmile: Glad you found us.

LOL! Thanks.

mechanicmom

Did 100, took a minute break and did the other 100. Next time I hope to go without the break. If I can do this (I'm one of the laziest people on earth) then all of you can do this!
MM

hopeitworks

This sounds like a great challenge. I'm going to check out the website after work and try it. I'll probably try doing them three days a week also. You said you can do a full sit-up or crunches? Is one harder than the other?

yeahbuddy

This sounds like a great challenge. I'm going to check out the website after work and try it. I'll probably try doing them three days a week also. You said you can do a full sit-up or crunches? Is one harder than the other?

Welcome, hopeitworks. I find the full sit up to be harder because you have further up to go. But, that's just my personal opinion. johnblake would tell you otherwise:bigsmile:

heather0mc

i am actually starting this tonight! i did my test last week and did 30 but i feel like i did them wrong. i am dragging out a mirror tonight to make sure i am doing them correctly...:glasses:

yeahbuddy

i am actually starting this tonight! i did my test last week and did 30 but i feel like i did them wrong. i am dragging out a mirror tonight to make sure i am doing them correctly...:glasses:

Great! Welcome to the team. Make up mirror or full lenght mirror:laugh: :laugh:

Manda86

The program put me at week three on my exhaustion test - today was officially day one.

I did 4 reps of 20+, and my max today was 50... on that last set I was really feeling the burn!
J helped by holding my feet and counting, as I was too busy puffing and panting to keep track :laugh:
It was really tough, but now that I'm finished I feel as though I accomplished something

Manda86

Did 100, took a minute break and did the other 100. Next time I hope to go without the break. If I can do this (I'm one of the laziest people on earth) then all of you can do this!
MM

btw, your arms look incredible!!

You go, hot mama!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

heather0mc

i am actually starting this tonight! i did my test last week and did 30 but i feel like i did them wrong. i am dragging out a mirror tonight to make sure i am doing them correctly...:glasses:

Great! Welcome to the team. Make up mirror or full lenght mirror:laugh: :laugh:

LOL - just a make up mirror taped to my knees! :smokin:

Brandiann

I've been reading about this and decided to do it, so I took my intial test today and was able to pull off 54!! :bigsmile: I was very happy I did that much consecutively. I start on Wednesday giving myself a rest day after today's test.

yeahbuddy

The program put me at week three on my exhaustion test - today was officially day one.

I did 4 reps of 20+, and my max today was 50... on that last set I was really feeling the burn!
J helped by holding my feet and counting, as I was too busy puffing and panting to keep track :laugh:
It was really tough, but now that I'm finished I feel as though I accomplished something

Great job:flowerforyou:

yeahbuddy

i am actually starting this tonight! i did my test last week and did 30 but i feel like i did them wrong. i am dragging out a mirror tonight to make sure i am doing them correctly...:glasses:

Great! Welcome to the team. Make up mirror or full lenght mirror:laugh: :laugh:

LOL - just a make up mirror taped to my knees! :smokin:

:blushing:

yeahbuddy

I've been reading about this and decided to do it, so I took my intial test today and was able to pull off 54!! :bigsmile: I was very happy I did that much consecutively. I start on Wednesday giving myself a rest day after today's test.

Excellent job and welcome to the team.

johnblake

I only had 40 min in the gym today and it was chest day, so I only got in 50 sit ups but they where roman chair sit ups.
http://www.weighttrainersunited.com/romanchair.html

lulubar

I started column 3 of week one today, got a total of 70 "crunch" style. I don't have even a little of johnblake's "umph" to do the roman chair situps yet. But, I'm going to complete this challenge with crunch style - and then, after building up some core strength, maybe I'll go for the others:bigsmile:

Day one down though.... here we go:drinker:

yeahbuddy

I only had 40 min in the gym today and it was chest day, so I only got in 50 sit ups but they where roman chair sit ups.
http://www.weighttrainersunited.com/romanchair.html

Holy cannoli, that looks hard! Don't think I'll ever be able to do them that way:noway:

yeahbuddy

I had to take today off from working out as I had an appointment after work and now I need to get to bed:yawn:

So, I'm going to do my situps Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for this week then back to Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week.

nytoaz

Checking in.. Last night I began on wk 3, day 1

set 1: 21
set 2: 27
set 3: 21
set 4: 21
set 5: 32

(I'm doing crunches)

Looking forward to day 2 on Wednesday

dewdrop

I'd like to join. Will get myself informed and make a schedule, hopefully pretty soon.
Been wondering why sit-ups and not crunches. I'm in with crunches, though maybe the 200 is then a too low number?!
So, hope to drop in soon

yeahbuddy

I'd like to join. Will get myself informed and make a schedule, hopefully pretty soon.
Been wondering why sit-ups and not crunches. I'm in with crunches, though maybe the 200 is then a too low number?!
So, hope to drop in soon

Yes, please "do drop" in :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

johnblake

no workout today sorry

I got hit by a truck..................................no not really I have a cold and it just hit me last night.

tomorrow 200 sit up sick or not. I'm here for you guy or really it seams mostly women here.

johnblake

I'd like to join. Will get myself informed and make a schedule, hopefully pretty soon.
Been wondering why sit-ups and not crunches. I'm in with crunches, though maybe the 200 is then a too low number?!
So, hope to drop in soon

a full sit up works more muscle groups, upper and lower abs plus hip flex and you lower back.
be careful first check with a DR do you have any lower back pain? or if it does start hurting stop and go back to crunchs.
I posted some ideas of how to do a sit up.
Wash board abs by April

healthymom2009

Count me in too. I started with 30. I'm already into week 2 and seeing improvement (except it keeps getting harder :sad: ). Good luck everyone :flowerforyou:

lulubar

I keep seeing (in relation to different exercises including crunches/sit-ups) the instruction to "isolate the abs" during the exercise:indifferent: What does that mean exactly? Johnblake? Anybody? Does that mean to tense those specific muscles - like "suck them in"?

sweetapplepi

I'm in =] This sounds like a cool challenge. I have no idea how many I can do so this will be a great test!

Stacey82

I'm gonna give this a shot! I did the initial test and for a brief moment was pleased to discover that I could do a whopping 32! Then I read on to find that my measly 32 left me in the poor category Oh well, that's why I'm here...to get healthy and better at the fitness stuff, right!?!

Good luck everyone...I'm feeling it after 32, I can't imagine what it'll feel like to do 200!

yeahbuddy

Count me in too. I started with 30. I'm already into week 2 and seeing improvement (except it keeps getting harder :sad: ). Good luck everyone :flowerforyou:

Welcome. I re-did day one today and it was just as hard. I'm hoping by Friday this week's routine will be a little easier.