Who's up for some push ups?💪

[Beatlesforever]

It sounds like a few of us would be keen to work on upper body strength. After chatting to Curlygurly2, I've decided to stop procrastinating 🤩

I'll start my plan this Monday, 17th July. It's a very gradual plan so the first few sessions are very, very brief. I think I'll incorporate them into the Tibetan rites to begin with and see how it goes.

If anyone fancies joining in, here's the link to my plan: docs.google.com/spreadsheet...

I don't know if I'll be able to tag people here, but I'll try anyway! ToothPickJafah, dijep, Curlygurly2, Kevin41, CBDB. I'll post regularly so we can discuss our progress and I very much welcome any suggestions / comments you may have to improve the plan.

And I'm stealing ToothPickJafah's call to arms. Let's get strong together! 💪🏽😃

[CBDB Administrator Graduate Gold]

Exciting! Just in case the tagging didn’t work above, here another tag! ToothPickJafah dijep Curlygurly2 Kevin41

I’ll be joining late as I’m still in Covid bed mode but will have to find a gentle way to build up strength again. Tibetan rights and some quick push up workouts might just be it.

Fabulous! Monday it is!

[Beatlesforever in reply to CBDB]

Thanks CBDB, for some reason I can't seem to tag people anymore (is it the comma, should I leave it out?) Hope you feel much better soon 🤗🤗🤗

[CBDB Administrator Graduate Gold in reply to Beatlesforever]

yeah, it works for me if I leave only a space between tags, no comma. And it should pop up with the tagged name.

I’m feeling a bit better, first day up and sitting with a coffee in the garden now. Just walking around the garden is exhausting, but it’s nice to be vertical again!

[Beatlesforever in reply to CBDB]

It's good that you're feeling a bit better. Hopefully you'll notice an improvement every day 🤞 My husband's just come down with covid so I'm guessing it's a matter of days before I get it too... First time for both of us, I guess we've been very lucky not to get it until now. It was bound to happen sometime 🤷‍♀️

[CBDB Administrator Graduate Gold in reply to Beatlesforever]

yeah, I think the worst phase lasted not as long as last time I had it. (This is the 3rd time). So I’m hoping the virus strains are by now weaker and our jabs are also doing their thing!

[Curlygurly2 in reply to CBDB]

3 times? Gahh, that's pants, I'm sorry xx

[AlMorr]

Hello Beatlesforever, 3 years ago I was challenged to do 100 pushups a day in May by a person no longer on this forum, namely UnfitNoMore, not heard from him for a long time, I completed the challenge on 31st May 2020, it took me 18 minutes with around a 95 second break between each session of 10 pushups, good luck for your pushups.

[Beatlesforever in reply to AlMorr]

Blimey that's amazing! At the moment I'd be happy to be able to do two 😂😂😂 thanks Al, hopefully I'll get there 🤞

[AlMorr in reply to Beatlesforever]

You will get there Beatlesforever, while training listen to non stop Beatles music, that will help you. 😊

[Beatlesforever in reply to AlMorr]

Ah yes, I'll listen to Getting Better so it inspires me to keep going 🎶 it's getting better all the tiiime. Better, better, beeetter 🎶

[AlMorr in reply to Beatlesforever]

👍

[ToothPickJafah 30D Graduate]

Whoop! 🙌 yaaasss! Let’s do this!! 💪💪💪

Looking forward to starting! 🤗💜🙏🥰

[Beatlesforever in reply to ToothPickJafah]

Me too! I'm keeping my fingers crossed - hubby has covid so I may come down with it soon... Ah well

[ToothPickJafah 30D Graduate in reply to Beatlesforever]

Oh no!! 🙈 well, I’m happy to wait and start with you…like I said, let’s do this together!

[Beatlesforever in reply to ToothPickJafah]

That's lovely, thank you! I'll keep you posted! 🤗

[Niteflite]

That looks an excellent plan. I know my arms are getting weak and I find using weights really painful! I’ll certainly give this a try and start on Monday too. Thanks for posting it.

[Beatlesforever in reply to Niteflite]

Great! The more the merrier 😃👏👏👏

[Oldfloss Administrator]

Oh gosh...not for me... Ju-Ju's Plank challenge was enough for me a while back... the snail shell seems heavier as I get older..

Looking forward to following folk's experiences though !

[Curlygurly2]

I'm going to do my best, see how far I get... one of the crap effects of low Thyroid is no muscle strength, hope fully this will help

[hoyden]

All I saw in your last sentence there was "toothpick ... arms" and knew it was talking about me. I'm in! Tibetan rites too!