Hold The Pass Challenge - Day 6

John here.

Yesterday was Day 6 of the Hold The Pass Challenge. The challenge was to burn 600 calories during cardio. When I got home from work, I got changed and got to walking. I decided to try it without putting my knee brace on. It was a mistake. I’m feeling it today for sure.

I won’t be doing the next cardio challenge without wrapping my knee. The next challenge, and my most challenging one I have so far, is 600 pushups. I have to touch my chest to the tennis ball or the rep does not count. I’m currently fighting arthritis in my left shoulder so I’m not sure how many I will be able to do before my shoulder decides to give out.

I’m outta here.

John

Day 29 of my 365 Project

John here.

Here is Day 29 of my 365 Project.

Hold The Pass Challenge - Day 5

John here.

Yesterday was Day 5 of the Hold The Pass Challenge. The challenge was to do 600 crunches while squeezing the tennis ball between your knees. A couple of things I figured out while doing this challenge.

First off, my core is extremely weak, almost non-existant. I had gall bladder surgery earlier this year and I haven’t done any exercises to strengthen my core. I realized that after my first crunch attempt. I went as high as I could go to get the challenge done.

Second thing, I should have spread the attempts throughout the day instead of waiting until I got home to do the 600 reps. As I’m typing this, I’m a bit sore but after each 100 or so reps, I would stop to stretch so I believe the stretching has helped with me not being as sore as I thought.

I don’t have any pictures for this one. I forgot to take some. I will have some for the Day 6 challenge, which is burn 600 calories during cardio.

I’m outta here.

John

Day 28 of my 365 Project

John here.

Here is Day 28 of my 365 Project.

Hold The Pass Challenge - Day 4

John here.

Yesterday was Day 4 of the Hold The Pass Challenge. The challenge was to burn 600 calories during cardio. I had to some serious improvising to meet this challenge. I started out on a treadmill because we got back from shopping too late. Here is what I was able to do on the treadmill before I had to stop from hurting too much.

I got back home and set my Samsung Health on phone for aerobics to burn the final 500 calories as a suggestion from my wife.

**Screenshot of the Samsung Health app**

I was able to finish but was definitely feeling it when I was done. Another day, another challenge. Day 5 is 600 crunches while squeezing the ball in between your knees. This is going to be an all day challenge for me because of work.

I’m outta here.

John

Day 27 of my 365 Project

John here.

Here is Day 27 of my 365 Project.