pushups!

the lifehacker blog put up a link today to a hundred pushup training program, designed to help even wimps like me work up to 100 consecutive pushups in six weeks. being mostly nocturnal for the moment is wreaking havoc on my running ambitions (going and running laps around the interior of wal-mart's gotten a little tempting...), but i can work on this, even in the middle of the night.

initial test, i can do 17 pushups with sorta ok form -- i stay flat, but i'm aware that the pushups aren't as deep as they ought to be to qualify for actual good form. six weeks, here we go.

abs

one more super-quick item! it turns out that scientific study says that bicycles, one of the company trainer's favorite forms of torture, are indeed one of the more effective ab exercises out there. good thing, because they freakin' hurt.

mardi gras

because neither my calendar nor the blogosphere informed me (yay for friends who know to inquire about the state of my coffee consumption): tomorrow, besides being super tuesday, is also fat tuesday.

do i want to go for my fifth annual lenten caffeine purge? suppose i might as well... i've been drinking mostly green tea lately instead of coffee, so the physical withdrawal symptoms ought to be mild compared to most years. and having a solid excuse to keep away from the valentine's day chocolate certainly wouldn't hurt the quest for a less fluffy physique... besides, five years kinda feels like a tradition.