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    Build to 200 situps challenge

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    • 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 :)
    • 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!
    • 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 :)
    • Posts: 67 Member
      Okay, initial test. 31.

      Am not too sore, so tomorrow is the day!!!!!
    • 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 :)
    • Posts: 4,605 Member
      Don't worry. The first week is deceptively easy. Hang in there cause weeks 3 and 4 cometh!
    • Posts: 7
      I've been doing 200 crunches per day and feeling sore. Are sit UPS much better?
    • Posts: 21
      Better late than never but I'm in just done assessment and managed 25 sits and 10 push. Watch this space......
    • 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.
    • 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!
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 4,605 Member
      Amazing work! Well done.
    • Posts: 67 Member
      Day one done!

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

      Awesome!!!
    • 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.
    • Posts: 96 Member
      I'm in day 1 yesterday
    • 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
    • Posts: 4,605 Member
      ok, if you're back, I'll drag myself back ontrack too. :-)

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