100 Push-ups = check; Picture = check; Challenge = check.

As you know from a previous post about my April goals, I am attempting to do 1,010 push-ups in the month of April. I am currently at 270 so far. Last night I changed my workout up some so that I am effectively using my time instead of needlessly doing nothing. I've had to do this ever since my ankle injury. It's worked. I tweeted (MistrTyler) about something last night that I want to tell you about today.

I DID ONE HUNDRED PUSH-UPS DURING ONE WORKOUT!

Granted, they were not all at once - which would be awesome - but in five sets of 20. Here is what my workout looked like yesterday.

WORKOUT - a circuit of sorts

• 10 minute warm up walk at comfortable speed.
• 1 set of 20 pushups
• 1 set of 20 rope climber crunches
  
  
• 5 min. walk w/increased speed
• 1 set of 20 pushups
• 1 set of 20 rope climber crunches
  
  
• 5 min walk w/increased speed
• 1 set of 20 pushups
• 1 set of 20 rope climber crunches
  
  
• 5 min walk w/increased speed
  1 set of 20 pushups
• 1 set of 20 rope climber crunches
  
  
• 5 min walk w/increased speed
• 1 set of 20 pushups
• 1 set of 20 rope climber crunches
  
  
• 2 min cool down walk
• stretch

100 pushups last night!

In other news, I am leading up a six week weight loss challenge through my friends on facebook. If you want to join check me out on facebook (Seth Tyler) and/or the Challenge group page. There is a ten dollar entry fee and the one that loses the most percentage gets ALL of the entry fee. I think I might cap it at 20 people...we'll see. Go check out the challenge.

What has been the weirdest experience that you have had since starting your Weight Loss/Fitness Journey?

No Brace Today & I NEED Recipes fast!

No Brace...unless it hurts!

I am a fairly coordinated person until I took the big brace off and have been wearing the smaller one. When I walked with the larger brace (toe to knee) I was a slow mover. I would compensate w/my right leg speeding it up so that I could move faster, but they were still small steps. That was okay then. Since I have been walking with the smaller brace I find myself still walking in the same fashion, but don't realize it until I stub my toe on something. I'm taking bigger steps with my right leg but they are at the same fast speed as I still am trying to (compensate) protect my left ankle; I'm going to break a toe if I don't realize I'm walking funny before I hit the dresser w/my foot again. My theory is only speculation.

(The picture to the left has no importance - I just thought it was time for a picture.)

Today, however, I am walking without a brace. To be honest, I wasn't planning on going without but I simply forgot to put it on. I remembered and quickly got it as I was out the door my way to school. At least it was the brace and not my pants or something.

Recipes NEEDED!

My wife and I try to make our dinner plans weekly so we have only one planned trip to the grocery store. Of course there are those times that we have to go fifty times a week for things we forgot. Here lately though -- we have been stumped on what to make.

So I'm coming to you all for help.

We want good healthy food. What do you have to offer?


Please give me recipes! Give me your best, simplest, and healthiest recipes...please. I will try mostly anything.

I can not have chocolate, but my wife can. If it has chocolate - I'm sorry I won't be able to try.

For each recipe, you get a shout-out on Twitter and this blog!

A Busy Life with Mr. Tyler. & a Simple question

I live a busy life. Sometimes I'm not sure how I even get most of what I do done. Between my wife (you are awesome), the two jobs, the workouts, the blogging, the reading blogs, and the master's degree work --- I am busy. These last couple of days have been even busier with Easter holiday. It was so nice though - my favorite holiday. Going back to work was actually a break from life today. I liked it.

House Hunt Update

We did look at a house on Saturday and then again on Monday. It is a nice little house and we like it, but there are a couple different things that need to be discussed before we go further on it. It would be nice to be owners of a place. The idea is rapidly growing on me.

Random Info.

I am heading up a weight loss challenge through a lot of my friends on facebook. I think it would be good for everyone involved. It will help me with providing quality information for everyone. I really like to give out what I know. I guess that is why I am in the professions that I am.

Too much.

I ate normal today but still feel a little full. I also have been taking Jess' weekly challenge in loading up with water -but it isn't really any different from what I normally do. I'm sure I'll get back to normal. I am really missing the running aspect of my workouts. My wife said she thought that my left leg felt a little weaker than the right. No good. I am out of the big brace though and walking pretty normal. It's only a matter of time. It can't come too fast either, especially with the 5k only a month away.

That's all today. If you want to check out the weight loss challenge - click here.

Do You find yourself talking to anyone that will listen about weight loss/fitness related stuff?

Workout Nicknames! What's Yours? & other info.

Easter!

It was a great day today. Church went really well and following that, my wife and I played host to Easter Dinner with my family. My wife worked really hard, along with my mother, to make lots of good food! I probably ate too much but will accept that and move on. I'm sorry that I have not been on in a couple days but I have just been super busy over this break. Isn't that the way that it happens - you get a break only to be the busiest.

Stoppers.

On Friday night my stomach wasn't feeling the best and it required me to take one of those little pills that stop the...never-mind. I'll just stick with my stomach was not feeling well and after one of those pills is taken - I automatically feel uncomfortable that I'm bloated. Even if I didn't eat too much today, I still feel like I did.

Houses.

As previously mentioned in a different post - my wife and I are moving from where we are currently at come early Summer. We are getting pretty excited about this move and have begun looking at some houses. Tomorrow we will be looking at a fixer-upper for a second time; this time with a closer eye to all dislikes, likes, defects, and possibilities. It would be nice to have something prepared and ready before it comes time to move. Wish us luck.

Push-UPS and Ankles

I have been doing push-ups as another form of working out this month. I have a goal of hitting 1010 push-ups during the month of APRIL. My ankle is feeling much better and will begin soon a treadmill workout to my new regime but will continue to do these exhausting simple exercises.
I am at 120 for the month and have 40 more to do tonight. As you can tell by the mile tracker on the right side of the site - I have been able to produce some better mile numbers through walking. It is great to be getting back to normal.

That's my weekend in a nutshell. I have missed all of you and I can only imagine that my google reader is in the hundreds now. I am back. I am ready. I am a machine.

If you could give yourself one Workout Nickname -- what would it be?

I have been called:


Animal (by you all)
Beast (by you all)

Shout-outs. Workout. Bargains. Relaxation. Questions.

The picture has nothing to do with anything. I was on skype with my friends in Germany and took it. It's is probably about a month or two old.

If any of you are on Twitter - hit me up. "@MistrTyler"

I also wanted to give a few shout-outs to some of those bloggers that I have been reading a lot of lately. Mac @ getfitslowly, Jess @ halfofjess, Mary @ amerrylife, Nicole @ letthemeatlettuce, Jeremy @ thestellarpath, Craig @ mylifetake8, Chris @ adeliberatelife, Andrew @ andrewisgettingfit, and my wife Carol @ thatischarming.

Relaxation

I woke up today at 7:00am, which is sleeping in by 30 minutes for me, and went through my normal daily routine. That is, all except for the going to work part. I love holiday breaks. I also love my body being on a schedule b/c I feel that it is honest with me when I have a schedule to follow. I really enjoyed getting up and not having to go do anything specific. I got a bowl of Raisin Bran (every morning) and did a little reading while eating. I was able to check my Google reader and drink a cup of coffee all in the comfortable environment of my living room. Fantastic.

Bargains

My wife woke up and we decided to go to some garage sales. Let me tell you, I am a bargain man. I don't like spending full price on anything and will try to lower any price if you'd let me. When you don't have a lot - you don't want to spend a lot. Anyhow, the prices at the sales today were really good. We also stopped by the local thrift store which is my favorite thrift store b/c they are super cheap...except for exercise equipment or any sporting goods. They had an exercise bike/machine (definitely older) but they wanted $40 for it. That may seem reasonable for some, but in Mid-MO -- that is not that good. I also bought a jump-rope at Walmart today.

Workouts

My Ankle has been feeling really good lately - I still can not fully extend it but it is healing really well. My opinion of course.

I bought a new brace today for it so that I could have some more mobility and it felt great to not be constricted to the toe to knee brace. I used it for my workout which consisted of the following:

• Shoot 100+ plus shots (basketball)
• Vertical Chest press (3 sets of 10 w/10lb weight increments each set)
• Lat Pull Downs front (2 sets of 8)
• Push-ups (40 so far) [all one legged]
  
• Bicycle machine (10 minutes - 1.23 miles)
• walk laps around the track (3.17 miles so far walking today)

Everything seems to be going smooth right now and with the great weather outside my body has been itching to go for a run. In good time, I'll be able to. I love fitness.

What is your favorite type of workout and exercise to perform?

March Recap & April Goals

March was a month of determination and pushing myself further than I've been. To be honest, I was very happy with what I saw and did despite the circumstances. I was on pace to take off a lot of the off pace miles but about a week and a half ago, the ankle thing happened and that has me gimping around still. Obviously I have not been able to run and get the miles so I wore my pedometer throughout the day. That has helped my sanity knowing that I am not getting too far behind pace.

To any of you that have given me an award - I will try to make some time this week to post those and I also want to give a few shout-outs to my readers throughout this next month. We'll see how time goes.

March Recap

Starting Mile Balance: 873.04
Ending Mile Balance: 804.67

Starting Month Goal: 111.75
Ending Month Mile Achieved: 68.37

Miles off pace to reach year pace goal: 43.07 (up 17.19 miles from March 1st.)

Days in March: 31
Days worked out: 28
Days no workout: 3

Avg workout per day by 28 days: 2.00 miles
Avg workout per day by Workout: 2.44 miles

Starting Month Weight: 211.0
Ending Month Weight: 205.0
Month Weight Loss: 6 lbs.

Total weight Loss in 2010: 30.81 pounds
Total Miles traveled in 2010: 205.33

Miles Until Year Goal Achieved: 804.67

I'm really happy with how things turned out. I had hoped that they would be better in terms of miles but you really just got to work with what you've been given - so here I am.

April Goals

• Get to OneDerland! 6 more pounds and I'm in the one hundreds for the first time since high school.
• Go one week without any soda. I drink one sprite a day and I enjoy that but I want to see how I do without that daily sugar.
• Perform 1,010 push-ups. Yeah. I said 1,010. That's roughly 33-34 a day.
• Continue to prepare for the 5k that takes place in early May. I'll walk it if I have too - I was training for it and was doing well...20+ minutes running at a comfortable pace with easy breathing. I just want to complete it now.
• Reach 110 readers on the blog.
• Learn how to do pull-ups. I seriously stink at these.
• April Mile Goal [incl. Apr (82.8) & off pace(43.07)]: 125.87

These are my goals. These can happen.

Do not forget to join my GIVEAWAY! Your choice out of the prizes.

Good News + Bad News + Bad News = Good day?

Good News # 1. Okay, today I woke up with the energy that I have been wanting. I haven't been lacking energy really but I just felt good waking up. Every day at school I go through with the kids what will be taking place for the day and try to start the school day out on a positive note. I've hit some obstacles today though. The good news was that I was ready to face the day with loads of energy.

Bad news # 1. We play basketball at a local church. For myself, and a few other guys, this has turned into an awesome opportunity to mentor a couple teenagers. Even if it is just showing them some respect, having a positive relationship, and/or listening to their stories - it pays huge dividends in their lives. On the front page of the newspaper last night were two of the guys that come play basketball regularly with us. They had been arrested for being a part of a theft ring (some 14 diff. reports of stealing). Talk about a downer. These things happen and you move forward from them, but it is never fun going through them. So, that was a bit disheartening.

Bad news # 2. It is now known at the school that I work at that I will not be teaching there next year. I will be going full time at the church that I also work at. That is good news but since I told the school the news - sometimes I feel out of the loop now. It is a wonderful school and I have been very blessed by this school - so if any of you from the school are reading this...you are a blessing to me and my wife. I just feel out of the loop sometimes and that can be frustrating.

Good Day? With all of that being said, how can this still be a good day? I've had ups and downs and it's not even 9:00am. Well, I'm not one to stay in a down mood. To be honest, being upset is boring and takes too much energy. Why wouldn't I rather go work out and use my energy instead of moping around. My ankle is feeling good, I'm going to get a gym workout in today, and will shoot some hoops at the gym too. That is always a mood lifter. Despite the amount of downers and obstacles that jump up and show their ugly face -- I can always think of something that is better. Today will be a good day.

Don't forget that I have a GIVEAWAY going on. I hit 200 miles and now I am giving away something for all of my hard work! Check out the Post here and join the giveaway for Free!

I HIT 200 MILES - Let's Do a GIVEAWAY!!

Today I hit the 200 Mile Marker!!!! It has been a tough last 10 miles but I made it today. With 200 miles behind me -- It's time for the 200 MILE GIVEAWAY! If you look on the right side of my blog you will see the remaining miles left on the 1,010 goal along with the current month's goals and successes.

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For the giveaway: Here are the options for the prize that you can choose! They are not large items -- the last one might be bigger though! Prizes will most likely come from WalMart.

The Giveaway will end on Friday April 2nd, 2010.

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GIVEAWAY PRIZE OPTIONS: (Choice of ONE)

1. Talking Pedometer (brand new).

2. $15.00 gift card from Walmart.

Each gift is around 15 - 20 bucks. If you win then you get to choose one from the list. There are multiple ways to enter into the giveaway.

Here's how to enter:

You must leave your Name and Email Address in a Comment to enter drawing. (ex: thetrickshot at hotmail dot com)

Post a new comment with each entry that you do.

1. Tweet this post with link. (I will need your Twitter name) - mine is MistrTyler

2. Mention this giveaway with link in blog posting ---- BE SURE TO COMMENT with A LINK TO YOUR BLOG POSTING

3. Become a follower of this blog if you are not already - if you are, just let me know that you are.

4. Comment on this Post telling me which post has been your favorite so far this year.

5. Refer a friend to this giveaway and have them tell me -- you will get another entry.

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Each thing that you do will equal one entry. You can have a total of five entries into the giveaway easily.

This is an awesome way for you to receive something for free and have me do all of the hard work! :) I don't mind shipping internationally.

Thanks and I hope you win!

~Seth