With the second week of the hundred push ups challenge firmly behind me I've just repeated the test I did at the start of all this madness. Previously I managed 26, and two weeks on I got through 33 before collapsing. On the bright side it is an improvement and I like the symmetry of being a third of the way through the programme and a third of ( Read more... )

Recently I have become fairly conscious of my level of fitness. Not just because my stomach sticks a little further out than it used to. A few months ago my dad was complaining of getting a pain in his chest during exercise. One thing led to another and he was diagnosed with angina and had an operation which involved staying fully conscious while a ( Read more... )