I've moved my home gym to the farm It turns out that farm labouring laying trenches, shovelling, carrying, digging in, digging out, pushing, pulling, climbing, handling (sometimes wrestling) livestock, walking can benefit from structured exercise routines. I enjoyed doing 100 reps of set exercises a day over the best part of a year. But then when I had a go at set exercise programs I found that it improved my overall farm fitness functionality. I have a fitbit so I did their routines on my lovely gym mat for a couple of months Then I did strength training with Stronglifts 5 x 5 Now I'm mixing it up a bit with some isometric glute activation exercises, deadlifts, suspension pull-ups, push ups, crunches and short runs. I am of course getting ready for the June Push for better push-up challenge - you can click on my push-up challenge page for more on that.
December exercise challenge is 100 reps a day. It is going to be fun! It's a mixed bag of push-ups crunches squats mountain climbers burpees pull-ups. The challenge is to not only do 100 reps a day of any of these 6 exercises but to complete at least 100 of each exercise each week! Progressions and variations are allowed. This follows: 100 pullups a day in November 100 burpees a day in October 100 mountainclimbers a day in September 100 squats a day in August 100 crunches a day in July The pushupschallenge (push for better mental health) in June! The idea is to make the challenge achievable and injury free. This is my plan for the first 7 days: 100 REPS A DAY 100 REPS A WEEK EXERCISES: day 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 day 5 day 6 day 7 TOTAL Burpees 0 25 0 25 25 0 25 100 pull ups 20 10 20 10 10 20 10 100 squats 0 25 0 25 25 0 25 100 push ups 20 10 20 10 10 20 10 100 mountain climbers 40 0 40 0 0 40 0 120 crunches 20 30 20 30 30 20 30 180 TOTAL 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 700