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I will get to this eventually, but I’d like to keep this 43 Things focused on my goals for the next year and I think it will be longer than that before I can focus on this.

Don’t need the job. This is still be something that I’d be interested in if the conditions were right.

I got this one from Ross Enamait’s guide to bodyweight conditioning exercises. It’s a good way to boost the number of reps you can do of a given exercise. You pick three exercises and then do them one after the other, increasing and then decreasing the number of reps of each in a 1,2,3 “pyramid”.

For example, step one of the pyramid could be to perform 1 Burpee, 2 Hindu Squats and then 3 Pushups, without stopping.

Then you go to step 2 of the pyramid and you add 1,2,3. So you would do 2 Burpees, 4 Hindu Squats and then 6 Pushups.

Step 3 would be 3 Burpees, 6 Hindu Squats and 9 Pushups.

You can keep going up steps, increasing the number of reps of each exercise in the same pattern. When you get to your limit, start making your way back down the pyramid. This is all in one session.

I’ve done three sessions of this pyramid and made it up to step 3 and back down. That means I did step 1, step 2, step 3 then step 2 and step 1. After a session going up to step 3 and back down I will have done 9 Burpees, 18 Hindu Squats and 27 Pushups in total.

Next time, I will try going up to step 4 and back down. That will bring me up to 16 Burpees, 32 Hindu Squats and 48 Pushups in total. Every so often when training with pyramids, take a fresh day and test your total number of consecutive pushups to see how much it has increased.

Jeremy Crow