I've been using a reverse pomodoro to get myself to exercise this past week. I'm using pomodoro to time my work, then I exercise during the 5 min break.
I'm primarily doing pushups. I try to do the "max convenient amount", i.e. about 50th percentile in terms of how exhausting it is for me. A week ago I was doing 10, and squeezing out the last 1 or 2. Today I was able to do 20 in less than a minute at each rep. So I end up with around 100 pushups per day, with only the 3rd rep getting harder. I think I can bring this to 100 per rep by the end of next week.
The rate of strength increasing has been surprisingly amazing! I think it's the fact that I do it "all day", but I'm not sure.
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Date: 2010-09-02 07:14 am (UTC)I've been using a reverse pomodoro to get myself to exercise this past week. I'm using pomodoro to time my work, then I exercise during the 5 min break.
I'm primarily doing pushups. I try to do the "max convenient amount", i.e. about 50th percentile in terms of how exhausting it is for me. A week ago I was doing 10, and squeezing out the last 1 or 2. Today I was able to do 20 in less than a minute at each rep. So I end up with around 100 pushups per day, with only the 3rd rep getting harder. I think I can bring this to 100 per rep by the end of next week.
The rate of strength increasing has been surprisingly amazing! I think it's the fact that I do it "all day", but I'm not sure.