Workout! Can Zak be consistent? For Hive and for fitness!

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I did not have a photo of myself doing pushups so I got a picture of another fat man to fill the role! Credits Here

Becoming Disciplined and forming a new habit

So they say that it takes 21 days to form a new habit and then a further 90 days to fully ingrain that into your daily life.

To be honest, that just sounds like a total of 111 days to really get stuck into a new habit, skill, or behavior you wished you were doing.

One of the habits that I wish I had the fortune to have is to work out more and get into shape.

I am sure that a lot of people have similar goals. It is extremely common that we would like to improve our fitness and health. For some people, this means looking good to others. Others wish to be fit so they can compete in some sort of sport.

I just want to be able to eat what I want without having to fear extra inches or heart failure!

I thought to myself that if I could at least start a little exercise routine and really stick with this as a new and positive habit, I would be able to get myself into all sorts of productive habits - including posting more often on Hive!

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Results of Training

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Since the 17th of December, I have adopted a little routine. Every single day, I have done 25x pushups and 25x situps.
That is...44 days now. Not bad!

This makes a total of 1100 Pushups and 1100 Situps!

Some days I really was pressed for time or lacked the motivation to get the exercise done. In the end, I managed to pull it off.

Some mornings I manage to get them done as the very first thing that I do for the day and other days I would procrastinate doing my exercises for as long as possible. I still managed to do my exercises even if I did not want to do them.

So here I am 44 days down towards my 111 days and at least I have not quit!

I did a situps relay challenge with my kids and one of their friends meaning I would do situps with one of them until they are finished and then relay battle all 4 kids in a row and I managed a total 129 situps to defeat all 4 of them!

Now I have sparked a bit of competition at home and I will have to do more of these challenges!

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Transferrable Discipline

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Even though I am extremely excited about Hive and Ecency. It is sometimes such a daunting thing about posting since getting some negative feedback stops my enthusiasm dead in its tracks!

And the silliest part of that whole feeling is that these people are from the old Steemit days and have nothing to do with the wonderful community on Hive!

However, I need to get over this procrastination as well and just get on with it. I need to start posting daily if I want to be constructive about it.

Yes, I know all about Hive fever and burnout, and I am not suggesting that I get ridiculous. I do however think that I should start out by trying to complete another weekly badge on Hivebuzz.

At least for 7 days, post some good content for 7 days in a row... that is the challenge that I am setting myself.

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Daily posts 2 in a row!

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Above photographs taken by and owned by me.

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That's a good plan buddy, hoping you complete your 111 days of pushups and situps,it would really help you to stay fit.

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Yeah. At some point, I will get bored and it will be easy and then I will push up the number.

111 days x 25 is 2775 of each already. No matter what, this seems like a number to be proud of.

I am careful about scaling it up though because once I start doing 30 a day, I don't want to go backwards. If I scale up too fast I will end up breaking the consecutive training.

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Hey! I love your pics! They fits perfect to the text :)

I really recommend you publish your workout reports through @exhaust platform. /xhaust.me/
So, you will get nice support from that community :)

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I will check it out.

Is it different to Actifit?

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Yep. Unlike actifit, you don't need to install any apps on your phone. You can just write down your activity report and publish it.

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Hi! I don't know if this will be of help, but you might want to try instead of aiming for a number to reach every day, try and do 3 sets of 2 before failure. This means throughout the day, you will do pushups 3 different times that will be your set. The number of pushups you can do until you can't do anymore (failure) will slowly increase over time. You would probably know if you can squeeze in one more pushup. Instead of pushing yourself to the brink, you should stop. That's one set. This is what I did when I first started my fitness journey and it has made a bigger difference than setting a set number goal. You'd be surprise how much faster you'll get to becoming stronger. In any case, congratulations on the 44 days! I'm sure 25 is so easy for you, so you might want to consider changing it up!

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Oh its definitely doable.

I used to be super fit. Now I am the fatness. Lol

I used to do pushups into the hundreds and situps till I could do over 1000 in a single sitting.

But this was some time ago... like 16-18yo. I am 35 now.

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Under the layer of fat is the power of your past self! I'm sure you'll be able to get back there in no time!

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Its not fat, its power! 💪💪💪

🤣🤣🤣

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Soon as all these lockdowns are over. Ill be sure to get back into shape.

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hey :-) but would have been nice to see a photo you making push ups on the beach ;-) !LOL

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Haha! I am sure I can arrange for some in-action photos to be taken. In the meantime, I used this proxy to help me out. I'm even bigger than that guy... but I can do those pushups!

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this to be proved in a video ;-) !LOL

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Wait... My fatness is easily provable. I am sure I do not need a video for that!

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Its about the FITness status ;-) ah dont worry just joking :-)

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