Chris Meistre

As part of our Ninjitsu lesson tonight, I thought I’ll incorporate my initial test as well to see how many situps I could do.  Not having really read anything about the two hundred situp challenge yet, I just assumed that I needed to do the initial test to see how many I could do.  I was right with that, but I was completely wrong in the type of situps I did.

I managed 25, and when I started feeling that it’s getting a bit heavy I stopped.  I thought this would put me in the average to good category.  I opened up the link now to actually read up on the program and see that it actually puts me in the poor category.  Sheesh.  0-39 is the poor category.  So I read up a bit more and see that they actually do the situps differently.  Now, I don’t know for sure, but I’m willing to bet something on it that I can do a lot more using their technique.

So now I wonder, should I retry the initial test using the correct technique, or just start off in the poor category and work my way up.  Let’s see how I feel in the morning!

Again, like with the hundred pushups challenge, this is a program worked out in such a way that within 6 weeks you will be able to do 200 consecutive situps.

While having a look at Hundred Pushups tonight, I noticed a new link called Two Hundred Situps.  And if the success of the pushup program is anything to go by, this situp program is going to be a great thing.

So I’m adding that to my list of things that I want to achieve.  Doing so many situps will help strengthen your core, and help with a lot of other things.  I will be doing my max test (similar to the max test of the pushup program) this week and start from there.