Chris Meistre

For some reason when 19:00 came tonight, I was getting ready to go on with our Ninjitsu training.  And why this is weird is that we don’t do Ninjitsu training on Monday evenings!

So already in the mood for some training, we decided to only do a 30 minute workout session.  I combined this with my initial max test for the Hundred Pushups challenge.  The initial max test is basically doing as many pushups as you can until you simply can’t anymore.  The last time I did this I did a lot more pushups than I thought I would.

Now, depending on how many you could do you will start on a certain level in the program.  Obviously the higher amount of pushups you could do, the more fit they assume you are, and the harder you have to push yourself in the exercises as you go from level to level.

I decided I would keep it to a max of 15 this time around, as last time was a bit hard on me.  I could easily have done more, but for the sake of having an easier workout I left it at 15.  Perhaps this sounds stupid, but I want to start on a lower level this time to have time to work up towards it.

What I didn’t mentioned previously, is that this program is supposed to train you up that you can do 100 consecutive pushups within 6 weeks!

We’ve just gotten back from our last day of first aid training. This involved our written exam as well. We studied hard, and we all did very well. My wife and business partner got 98%, my friend and business partner got 98% and I also got 98%! What a coincidence!

And before you start thinking, no we did not copy each other’s work, all the incorrect answers were completely different on all our answer sheets!

Great! Now we feel comfortable being able to help people when we go on with our day to day lives, as well as when we’re out on 4×4 trails and camp sites with our business EC Offroad Adventures.

Dr Chris Meistre is in the house…..

Today marked the second last day before we’re officially finished and qualified as first aiders. All that is in our way is 2 more lessons and a written exam.

Last night we sat and studied the lessons of last week. What a way to spend a Friday night! Anyways, it was nice having someone to study with, as I think it made it a lot easier to get all the termonolgy and procedures into our brains. Having studied last night means tonight we just need to quickly go over it again, and also study what we’ve done today – most of which is really common sense.

We’ve all been deemed competent in all the practicals that we did, that included, among others, applying first aid for:

• fractured femur
• fractured wrist
• sprained ankle
• choking adult/child/infant
• performing CPR on adult/child/infant

In October last year (2008) I came across this website, http://www.hundredpushups.com/. Nonsense I thought, utter nonsense.

For some reason it bothered me immensely, and I want to know if it really worked. So I downloaded the little manual, read a bit more about it, and understood what they were trying to achieve. To get anyone, no matter if you can do 1 or 50 pushups right now, to achieve a goal of doing 100 consecutive pushups.

So I did my max test (which is the initial one) and did 19 pushups. I never thought I would be able to do so many, and was quite happy with myself. Then I realised that because I did so many, you skipped a couple of weeks of training and headed straight towards the more advanced weekends. There reasoning obviously being that if I can already do 19, they don’t want me to train to reach 19, I must start off from there.

It was quite tough for me not doing any exercising or so at that time, not even to mention the fact that the only other exercise I was getting the previous year or so was Geocaching! So I was literally killing myself doing sets of 15, 20, 25, 30 and then 40 pushups for example a day, 3 times a week. Needless to say, sometime just before the December holidays I stopped, with the plan to just take a break for a week. I haven’t done it since.

And now the reason for the title of the post, Take 2. I will be starting it again from next week, Monday. This time I will only go 70% of what I believe my max is for this first max test, just to make the training a bit easier!

At this point you might be asking yourself, why train to be able to do 100 pushups? The only answer I can give, is that I want to see if I can do it.

Although the utmost in care has been taken to make sure I don’t make spelling and grammar mistakes on this website, I can assure you there will be.

If you however find these, please keep it to yourself. It will not make me feel or let me sleep better at night knowing a spelling or grammer error has been fixed on the website.

If you’re one of those people that just can’t stand spelling and grammar mistakes, rest assured that I’m probably making those errors on purpose just to piss you off.