do 100 sit ups a day

I guess I don’t want a flat stomach as much as I thought I did!

The 100 part
or
the every day part.

Perhaps I should shoot for 10 sit-ups per day and see what results.

I haven’t done anything on this goal for some time.
Nothing.
Zilch.
Ugh.
But yesterday I went out for a bike ride and came home energized. Without even thinking about it, really, I started doing sit-ups when I sat down.
Felt great!

It’s been weeks since I’ve done my 100 sit-ups, but on Saturday I came home from a day of bike riding and started doing them without even thinking about it. It was as if my body was craving them. What a great feeling!

I’ve lived without television for several years now, but my new living situaiton has provided me with cable. My BOYfriend is home all day working on art, so he usually has the TV on in the background. It’s often on when I come home, and the nature programs are so amazing – especially PLANET EARTH on Discovery: WOW! – that I find myself plunking down and watching for a while. I can’t read or be on the computer or crochet while I watch these programs; they are intensely visual and demand my eye’s attention. But I can still be productive if I do my sit ups and stretches and maybe even pick up the weights once in a while. How often can someone say they got fit because of watching so much television?!

I admit: I’ve been skipping my sit-ups an evening here and there. I suppose it’s close to accurate to say I’m doing them 50% of the time. Yesterday, though: yesterday my gut got worked! I had already put in 50 situps in the fitness room, and then my fitness teacher called us all together to work on abs. We did about 150 more crunches, in different directions and with legs in different positions, so that all the parts of my stomach were burning. It felt wonderful and terrible at the same time.

For three days i’ve missed them. The first two were honest forgets, but last night I knew I wasn’t doing them and I didn’t care. I would like to care tonight.

I’m in a new house now; last night was my first sleep there. But the new location busted my routine. I plum forgot to do my sit-ups.

Ok, ok, I admit it. There was one day when I didn’t do my sit-ups. I wasn’t feeling well. There, I told you.

I should have been forthright about this earlier, but I actually felt quite ashamed at not doing my sit-ups and the thought of admiting it here, on this page where people come together to support each other in doing 100 sit-ups per day, was humiliating. So I kept it a dark secret.

Last night my BOYfriend watched me doing my sit-ups and offered some corrections and suggestions. When I started doing them the way he said to, they BURNED SO MUCH MORE but they made less of an impact on my back. So suddenly this goal is more of a challenge.

I feel like I’ve been working mostly the upper abs so far; I’d like to find a method of doing sit-ups that tightens up the lower abs and sides as well. Plus I need to shed a layer of concealing fat if I want my soon-to-be lovely stomach muscles to be admired.

I was super tired last night, but I forced out 100 sit-ups before I crawled into my bag. Soar abs today, but the good kind of soar.

I’ve enrolled in a weight training class at the local junior college. Yesterday I put together my schedule of which muscles to work and how much and when and how. I told the teacher about the parts I wanted to focus upon, and included in these parts is my stomach, but I also told him that I don’t want to waste my wight-room-time on sit-ups when that’s something I can do at home. “Really?” he asked me, “Are you really going to do them at home?”

It was then that I knew I had to include this activity on my 43T. I do feel more motivated and obligated to make progress on my goals when they are staring me in the face on this site.

So the goal is to do 100 sit-ups per day, all of them before bed in three sets: 30, 30, 40; and to do this every day through the end of my weight training class (which ends in early June). Hopefully by then I’ll have developed a habit that won’t require a 43-guilt-trips in order to be maintained.