November 13, 2025

This morning was a slight rain, but cleared off to a cloudy day.

Temperature was about about 38 degrees with 42 degrees expected for a high.

Yesterdays workout: 3 miles on the treadmill walking with interment pushups

 

The end of last year I turned 67. I decided I needed to up the exercise beyond that 10,000 step routine, which rumor has it it was just a marketing plow in the first place. I wasn't very happy to learn I had let myself lapse to the point I struggled to do a single pushup. Pretty pathetic for an old farm boy, turned construction worker, turned computer nerd.

So I started a workout regiment. It doesn't have a strict workout routine. The routine is to do what I feel like doing that day. It might be walking 3 miles, it might be a walk/jog, it can be outside or treadmill, it might be lifting dumbbells in my basement. I do quit a few bodyweight exercises as well. The e-bike doesn't thrill me but I work it in from time to time. I've tried yoga, palates, tai-chi. Somethings I track and some things I do not. I am consistently inconsistent.

The "No routine" routine has works for me. I've lost 65+ pound, and for an example of strength, yesterday I decided to do a 100 pushup challenge I had read about. The last time I did it successfully was before a bout with Lyme disease. It's taken months to come back from that.

Another aspect that has helped beyond my excel spreadsheet where I track my weight every morning is my Amazfit Active 2 Smart Watch with its free Zepp app. I track my workouts and calories, trying for a deficit in calories in to calories out. At first i was shooting for a 500 calorie deficit. Today I am good with breakeven of a few down.

Yesterday the challenge was to do the pushups it as I did my 3 mile treadmill walk. I took a break when the mood struck to do a set. It was a bit more of a challenge than the last successful attempt that took all day with more time between sets.

I started the sets with my personal best set number (not counting my much younger self) of 20 pushups on the first set. The rest of the sets within the 60 minute walk:

20 16 15 12 13 10 9 9 = 104

Today I just got back from a colonoscopy, so there will be no workout. But as usual, my rest days come more out of necessity due to like's happenings rather than some predefined planning. Still I am I am consistently inconsistent.

The CJ5 project will wait as well.

I don't know what tomorrow's challenge will be. Even if I knew I'd likely change my mind.