New 30 Challenges 3 of them!

Congratulations if you have made it to the end of any of your 30 day challenges!

I had 2 running side by side.

They were to read one proverb a day for 30 days. This was very helpful from a spiritual point of view and kicking start my Bible reading and time with God.

The other one was the 120 Challenge. This proved to be tough but I managed to keep it up even when I just did not want to do it. Feel stronger though.

New Challenges set.

1.POWER CLEAN, this is not the normal everyday jobs such as doing the dishes, but finding an area that has been left for a while and needs a good sort. Minimum time 20 minutes everyday. Keep a record and you will be pleasantly surprised how much you get through. Sally my wife is joining me on this challenge.

2.Prayer with my wife and committing the day to the Lord


3. Spend at least 10 minutes a day on my registration folder for Teacher Registration.


Go well and achieve all you want to achieve. Have a Terrific Wow Wednesday!

Blessings
Grant
Max International Fitness Professional 

120 Challenge Day 28 Double Diploma Fitness & Business

Happy Super Saturday to you all.

I hope your dreams of becoming fit and well are coming true. Keep at it. Keep forming those habits over 30 days and see your life change before your eyes!

Well I am nearing the end of this challenge and it has been a goodie!

I have found the Push ups the hardest exercise out of the 4 (Squats, Lunges, Pups, Supermans Down hold up hold timing)

However after nearly 30 days of this challenge I have noticed that my strength has improved and that it is isn't a struggle to do the 30 with a hold towards the bottom of the Push up!

I have begun a journey into a third career that being Fitness and Business, a Double Diploma! I am looking forward to the challenge and relishing the opportunity to learn how to be a Personal Trainer. In turn I am aiming to open a location under Fitness Evolved in a few months time here in Pukekohe.

I hope all of you have an awesome day and thanks for reading the is blog it shows that you are interested in bettering yourself in your own well being but also willing to learn. Well done!!

Blessings
Grant

Day 21 120 Challenge (New 30 day Praying)

Hardest 120 Challenge so far on Day 21! Samuel was underneath me on top of me mostly when I was doing my 30 Push ups with a 2 second hold, got to 15 out of 30 and felt like I had done 50 with the resistance! You'll make a great Personal Trainer Son!

I also managed to split 3 big logs tonight in 20 minutes. I have been doing one a night for the past 3 nights and tonight I got an awesome sweat up with cardio and strength together.

Did the 120 Challenge after dinner. Feel quite comfortable and relaxed now. Starting the 30 day praying for Muslims tonight.

Blessings
Grant

Broke 2.2km Course Record Boot Camp

On Friday the 13th July I ran my quickest time to date, 7 mins 34 sec eclipsing the previous record set by One of the guys who beat me 8 weeks ago the first time I ran this distance quick. This opened up my competitiveness and made me want to train harder. Funnily enough over time and with Boot Camp training I went from 8.10mins, down to 7.55 mins, down to 7.40mins and then surpassing the 7.38 min record running 7.34 mins

My goal is to eventually break 7minutes and run within the 6 minute area. To do that I will need to put in some serious training which my next 30 day challenge will involve cardio sprints to up my speed and ability to last longer at top speed!

Go well everyone!

Grant

Getting stronger 120 Challenge

Well it is 13th July and I am nearly half way with this challenge and it is going well. The whole pause and hold thing is really building strength. This morning we had to do 60 Push ups for an instructor being late, (it goes up 20 each time an instructor comes late even by 30 secs! I managed to pump out 60 quick push ups and still had something left in the tank which was a good thing.

Snap shot coming up this Friday, I will be running with the front guys again and it should be quite a quick time. Its all about mentality and getting the mind prepared to go into action with a fast run. I am looking forward to it. I will be running most of the session on Friday.

My spiritual challenge is going well to. I have been reading proverbs out of the Bible and being enjoying getting back into committing my day to the Lord and also praying with my wife each day which has created more intimacy (Intimacy can be seen as In to me see)

Have a great week.

Blessings
Grant

Unexpected 300 Push ups: Expert Kicker!!!

 

               

Liam teaching me how to place and kick the ball, pointed toes a must and left foot has to plant well for direction and consistency of kick.

2 Diamond Push ups for every missed kick over the posts! (The post were a trampoline frame tipped on its side!)

Liam didn't have to do many Push ups!!

This afternoon Liam and I played some footy and I got Liam to teach me how to kick! I wanted to make the stakes higher by betting in Push ups to catch the ball if it went wide of the posts and landed in the drop zone we had marked out. I excepted a bet of 150 and DROPPED the ball, doh! then another 50 for Liam catching it off my kick! I managed to pump out the Push ups in sets of 50, 25's and 10's nailing all of them after one hour! Then we played one on one Touch Rugby and the old fulla had to pull out the tricks to try and beat a fast paced side stepping young dude. I scraped in with a 5-4 win! Just!

Results of Snap Shot today

I felt quite lethargic this morning leading up to the run. I jogged for 1.5km approx to warm up. Then I ran the 2.2 km going through very quick times for 1/4 and halfway point, I was on target for a 7.30 minute 2.2km run but the 2nd part was much harder. I think it was up hill slightly on the way back.

I finished with a reasonable time of 7.50 minutes. My personal best over this distance is 7.40 mins

Then I jogged for 3 minutes and found a patch on the side of the road for pushups and sit ups and Bridge hold.

I decided to have a  crack at 100 Push ups starting from my knees. I pumped out 95 and decided to do the last 5 on my toes!

I then started the push ups which were hard and I was feeling it by 40 but still managed to kick on and do 100!

Then a Bridge Hold for 3 minutes. It was great having Liam there to encourage me and also do the PUPS SITUPS and Bridge Hold.

3 Minutes B hold was hard yakka!

Ran another 4.5 km back up the hill to the house we are staying at. 

Feeling good and time to refuel the body with good food.

120 Challenge still to go this afternoon with some stone moving to.

Have a great day!
Go well

Lower, Hold, Raise! 120 Challenge hard!

After doing the 120 challenge for 3 days I have found the Push ups to be quite hard. Even though it is only 30, the hold makes it 3 times harder to do a set!

Today's Menu is a goodie:

Snap Shot test:

I am taking a young 16 year old reasonably fit Rugby player to do.

We will use Mapmyrun.com to make up a course.

2.2km
100 Push up to cadence
100 Sit up to cadence
3 minute bridge hold.

After this I plan to show him the 11 exercise regime I use to do earlier on this year

Lunge Kick
Cross over push up
Mountain Climb
Sumo Twist
Sumo Kick
Leg Raise
Sit up legs wide
Tricep extension
Plank hold
Sideways Lunge
Wall sit leg raise

Then we will do the 120 Challenge later to finish off
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Physical and Spiritual 30 day Challenges

I have decided to run 2 concurrent challenges side by side to make sure I am getting a wholistic approach to life.

So here it is. I am doing 4 exercises for 30 days at 30 reps each making 120. However this is continous exercise and has a hold of one sec as you go down and up. See link for technique
 http://youtu.be/pW8nQ9PKgi0

My spiritual challenge is to read one proverb a day for 30 days reflecting on the passage and what stands out for me. Feeding this back to the others who are doing the challenge as well.
Started on July 1st for these challenges.

Who's in?

Blessings
Grant

Developing Strong Muscles

Last month I took up the challenge of 100 Push ups a day. Even though this wasn't a difficult challenge physically, I found the consistency every day difficult. There were 1 or 2 times I wasn't well or absolutely knackered and it was late at night but I pushed through not missing one night in the 30 days.

I am feeling much stronger now and noticing that I can do hard labour like digging trenches all day and not feel to wasted or sore.

I have been challenged with 3 colds in 5 weeks but it hasn't stopped me but I have had to take the odd day out to recover which I am doing today.

I am leading the Charli group tomorrow for Boot Camp's session as the  lead instructor which I am looking forward to.
The other instructor will play a 2 IC role and support me running the session.

Go well and keep a great balanced life style that makes you feel great and postively affects those around you.

I will leave you with this quote:

"Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny."

  --  George Dana Boardman