Week 3 Day 1 - Mindful Pushups

On Monday, an Exhaustion Test was on the schedule. I completed 35 which was pretty good but I felt like I could have completed more. So, I waited an hour and 20 minutes and tried again. Alas, I could only do 36. It sure doesn't seem like I can make it to 100 in one try because 36 was pretty tough to crank out.

Tuesday morning, I ran 5 miles. It was 5 miles of mindful Pose Running. It's the longest distance I've been able to maintain the Pose form and it was because I concentrated and kept my mind on my form for the entire run. I bring this up because on Monday, after the Exhaustion Test, I told Martin that I was only able to improve my total number of pushups by one. Martin wisely reminded me that I should use my pectoral muscles when peforming pushups instead of just my arms.

So, I completed my pushups using my chest: 14, 18, 14, 14, and a maximum of 30.

 
MY OBSERVATIONS:

• Three weeks into this challenge and the warm up is par for the course and is no longer neglected.
• The 60 second rest between sets goes by really fast.
• Did the mindful pushups enable me to max out at 30? 
• I know being mindful of using my chest while I perform the pushups certainly made the shaking arms syndrome disappear.