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Who's up for some push ups?๐Ÿ’ช

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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 ๐Ÿคฉ

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! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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Exciting! Just in case the tagging didnโ€™t work above, here another tag! ToothPickJafah dijep Curlygurly2 Kevin41

Iโ€™ll be joining late as Iโ€™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!

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Beatlesforeverโ€ข in reply toCBDB

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 ๐Ÿค—๐Ÿค—๐Ÿค—

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CBDBAdministratorGraduate Goldโ€ข in reply toBeatlesforever

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

Iโ€™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 itโ€™s nice to be vertical again!

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Beatlesforeverโ€ข in reply toCBDB

It's good that you're feeling a bit better. Hopefully you'll notice an improvement every day ๐Ÿคž 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 ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

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CBDBAdministratorGraduate Goldโ€ข in reply toBeatlesforever

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

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Curlygurly2โ€ข in reply toCBDB

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

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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.

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Beatlesforeverโ€ข in reply toAlMorr

Blimey that's amazing! At the moment I'd be happy to be able to do two ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ thanks Al, hopefully I'll get there ๐Ÿคž

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AlMorrโ€ข in reply toBeatlesforever

You will get there Beatlesforever, while training listen to non stop Beatles music, that will help you. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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Beatlesforeverโ€ข in reply toAlMorr

Ah yes, I'll listen to Getting Better so it inspires me to keep going ๐ŸŽถ it's getting better all the tiiime. Better, better, beeetter ๐ŸŽถ

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AlMorrโ€ข in reply toBeatlesforever

๐Ÿ‘

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Whoop! ๐Ÿ™Œ yaaasss! Letโ€™s do this!! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช

Looking forward to starting! ๐Ÿค—๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฅฐ

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Beatlesforeverโ€ข in reply toToothPickJafah

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

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ToothPickJafah30D Graduateโ€ข in reply toBeatlesforever

Oh no!! ๐Ÿ™ˆ well, Iโ€™m happy to wait and start with youโ€ฆlike I said, letโ€™s do this together!

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Beatlesforeverโ€ข in reply toToothPickJafah

That's lovely, thank you! I'll keep you posted! ๐Ÿค—

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Niteflite

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

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Beatlesforeverโ€ข in reply toNiteflite

Great! The more the merrier ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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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 !

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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

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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!

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