Build to 200 situps challenge

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  • obeserat
    obeserat Posts: 218 Member
    I think I might give this a go ,would these work lower abs to ? want to try and get rid of the belly below my belly :)
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Yeah, it's one big muscle, and crunches or bicycle crunches are both good. Building core strength is always a good idea.... It won't 'get rid' of the belly fat, but it will provide you with a lovely solid wall of muscle underneath it that will gradually be revealed as the belly fat goes... ! :-) But core strength will help you with all your other activity, and I find when I have a good strong core, I get less back ache etc.

    You could try planks too. They're much harder than they look! There's a plank-a-day group out there somewhere, which is actually pretty motivating!
  • mom2tek
    mom2tek Posts: 75 Member
    Completed W1 D1 column 3 with my 5 year old son. He's my little motivator. He's looking to get me into the pushup challenge now also :)
  • TisMee76
    TisMee76 Posts: 67 Member
    Okay, initial test. 31.

    Am not too sore, so tomorrow is the day!!!!!
  • obeserat
    obeserat Posts: 218 Member
    I did W1D1 column 1 today after yesterdays fail doing column 2, I did find it easy though
    pity there isn't a column 1.5 :)
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Don't worry. The first week is deceptively easy. Hang in there cause weeks 3 and 4 cometh!
  • lisavino
    lisavino Posts: 7
    I've been doing 200 crunches per day and feeling sore. Are sit UPS much better?
  • Roly59
    Roly59 Posts: 21
    Better late than never but I'm in just done assessment and managed 25 sits and 10 push. Watch this space......
  • EoinMag
    EoinMag Posts: 25 Member
    I got the android Application for this, it's a big help.

    I have been doing it a few weeks now. I was starting from a pretty unfit place and was fairly overweight at the start.
    I got up to about week 4 day 3 until I realised that my form was not good for about the last half of the crunches, so at that point I made the decision to start again and go for perfect form, so I reset to week 1 day 1 and then kept repeating that program until I was doing the whole day perfectly, obviously I started on the hardest column. I think I repeated that 6 days in a row before deciding to move on to day 2, I'm on my second iteration of day 2 now and am doing the whole lot pretty much perfectly.
    I decided I was not in competition with anyone and that I'd get more from it if I was doing them perfectly.

    I am also alternating the 100 press ups program, I am finding that one easier to maintain form and am on week 3 day 2 of that, although there is a good possibility I will slow down on this one as I am finding it harder as time goes on. I find it especially hard if I did a heavy weights session the night before and am tired.
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    welcome to the thread, roly and ema - there's one for pushups too (I think I called that 'pushups challenge', or something similarly innovative.... )

    Lisa - while they call it a 'situps' challenge, the site information focuses on crunches, so I'm guessing your're way past needing the programme, if you're already doing 200 on an abs day. That's pretty amazing by the way! Very well done!

    Ema, I have the app too - it does make it easier, you don't have to think about it too much. Good for you for focusing on form, not just on number. That's really great!
  • TisMee76
    TisMee76 Posts: 67 Member
    Just downloaded the apps on my iPad, so am all set for day one tomorrow!

    This week, my days will be Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Just downloaded the apps on my iPad, so am all set for day one tomorrow!

    This week, my days will be Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

    good luck. it's great to have a clear plan.
  • EoinMag
    EoinMag Posts: 25 Member
    week 1 Day 3 done, 87 situps, all good form going back and starting again and hammering the first sets has really paid off, that said I'm also doing some ab work with the curling bar, so that might be helping too.
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Amazing work! Well done.
  • TisMee76
    TisMee76 Posts: 67 Member
    Day one done!

    First two sets felt really easy. But the remaining 3 sets were burning!!!

    Awesome!!!
  • cds2001
    cds2001 Posts: 732 Member
    On Week 2 Day 1 Column 1 : 6, 9, 6, 6, 55

    Didn't do the initial test so probably could have started on column 2.
  • androde
    androde Posts: 96 Member
    I'm in day 1 yesterday
  • penny_eclipse
    penny_eclipse Posts: 524 Member
    Argh sorry...went awol...uni went mental

    gone back to w2 today, and i completed 21, 21, 15, 15, 30

    good to be back to it
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    ok, if you're back, I'll drag myself back ontrack too. :-)

    I'll do mine in the morning.
  • penny_eclipse
    penny_eclipse Posts: 524 Member
    W2 D2, 21, 24, 19, 18, 30 done owwwies
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