Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s the second day of the Get Fit Slowly one hundred pushup challenge. I suspect that today’s session will be even more challenging for me than Monday’s. For one thing, I’m sore, not just from the first day of [...]

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Today I finally went to see the doctor. It’s been three weeks since I injured myself during my first-ever 10k run. Last Monday, after waiting in vain for the pain to go away completely, I gave up my Roth stubbornness and made an appointment with a sports doctor at a nearby clinic. Over the past [...]

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I was shocked by how many of you were interested in joining me for the one hundred pushup challenge. Because so many of us have the same goal, I’m going to post a a short reminder every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I know that some of you have already started the program, and that others [...]

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It seems that all the time spent running in May had some deleterious effects on my muscle strength. Early in May, I set a mileage goal and a weight training goal; I was only able to complete the mileage however. In fact, I think I only lifted 3 or 4 times in [...]

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I’ve always had a strange body. When I was in high school, I could lift tremendous weights with my lower body, but could barely bench press the bar. As I’ve grown older, my lower body strength has declined somewhat, but it’s always remained greater than it ought to be. Meanwhile, I was still barely able [...]

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During my junior year of college, I did yoga three times a week, between four and five o’clock in the afternoon. It was awesome — one of the best classes I ever took. I loved it. I’ve always wanted to get back into, but never made the time.
Believe it or not, our recent purchase [...]

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I’ve been working out consistently for almost 6 months now and I’m happy to report that I’ve been injury free for that time–knock on wood. I’ve been sore a lot, but so far I’ve avoided actual injuries. Back when I worked outside the home, I got most of my exercise on the basketball [...]

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May was a great month for those of us at Get Fit Slowly. I guess I shouldn’t speak for JD, but from our recent conversations, we’re both very happy with how are fitness levels are progressing.
In a few short months I’ve gone from absolutely hating running to feeling like I’m missing something when I [...]

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Sunday night, I didn’t sleep well at all. I had pre-race nervous dreams and I was asking myself if I knew what I was getting in to. I woke earlier than my alarm clock, around 4:30, but was able to fall soundly back to sleep by the time the alarm went of at [...]

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“One of the things you’ll love about running,” Pam told me when I started in April, “are the statistics you generate. You can track as many numbers as you want.” She knows from years of friendship that I’m, well, obsessive about this sort of thing.
In 1997 and 1998, when I was biking most of the [...]

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