Finding my limit

    I've been trying to get back into consistently doing push-ups (and sit-ups but those are easy) consistently each day, since each time I've tried it's a lot harder of a habit than I mentally make it out to be. I've already tried "easing into it" as a method, but that just felt like it made it easier to leave behind when I'm only missing a small amount.

    This week I believe I have an opportunity to try to rectify this. My birthday is on the 20th, and I haven't booked any days off in quite some time from work, so I went ahead and booked off the whole week for myself. All this spare time on my hands, and frankly I wasn't planning to do anything particular with it in the moment but I had an idea. Thinking back to yesterday's bootcamp, and last thursday's meeting, Sifu Brinker talked about the idea of our own personal limits. As youth we have an extraordinarily high limit that we cant quite reach that easily, but as we age those limits come down and are more recognisable.

    I want to find my limit. This week I want to challenge myself to try and hit my physical limit. Everytime I feel like I've pushed myself to a so called "limit" in the past, I get up the next day (maybe a little sore) and I'm fine. That's lame, let's break something. I want to challenge myself to do so many pushups and situps that I can't pull myself out of the bed because I'm too sore to move. That'll be the day I can sleep in, and i'm sure that'll be great and all, but I gotta break my arms first. The idea is to do push-ups around every hour when possible. everyday, until the 25th when I go back to work. I already test-ran this on wednesday and I felt absolutely fine the next day, so I'm hoping that ramping it up everyday for the next week I might feel something more than mild back discomfort for a few hours. wish me luck I guess.


Also shoutout to Simon for poking me to write something down, appreciate it!

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