Today, I start my first full week of TT Bodyweight 1000.  I was supposed to workout at 9:30, but didn’t feel strong enough, so I’m waiting till 3:00.  If you look at Friday’s workout, you’ll see what bodyweight exercises I’m doing.  

By the way, it might burst your idea of what a good solid workout looks like.  There’s no dumbbells, no fitness balls, medicine balls, kettlebells and no video.  There’s nothing to it, just my bodyweight and a chin-up bar that adjusts to two different height levels in my doorway.  

I guess we’ve gotten so brainwashed that you have to have lots of equipment, a gym, an instructor or a video in order to get a real workout, that we forget that gymnasts and the military develop strength using bodyweight exercises .

It has it’s pros and its cons.  The biggest pro is I can do this anywhere.  When I'm out hanging with the cats, I do squats, lunges, elevated push-ups, and several other exercises.  The cats find it annoying because they're not getting my full attention, but hey!  I get a side workout in.  : )

Then there’s the cons.  The biggest one - the cats love it when I do push-ups and bicycle crunches.  It’s like for some reason they think it’s fun to try and shove their butt in my face.

Anyway, I’m listing here my weaknesses so it will force me to work on them.  

1.  I do sissy push-ups.  Since my strokes (4 of them), and Dystonia (neuromuscular illness, that without my meds I look like a mini-Michael J. Fox), I stay pretty weak in the upper body, so my goal is to get back to being able to do “real” push-ups.

2.  I do assisted chin and pull-ups.  My goal by the end of the month is to do 1 real pull-up! or chin-up.  I’ll take either one.  It may not sound like much, but have you ever tried to do a pull-up?  : )

There’s a bunch of different bodyweight workouts, and eventually I'll get around to doing most of them.  So, how about this!  Rather than just stop by and read my challenge for myself every day, how about joining me?  Here’s a video, if you want to try the 100 version.