Upping the Reps
Jun. 1st, 2013 04:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayJust upped the reps, on the strength part of my conditioning routine, to 20. Wasn't sure that I'd actually be doing that in this latest iteration of my lifelong fitness quest.
And it's not like that number is huge. I remember hitting 30, then 50, then 60 of the straight-backed, all the way up, all the way down, chin and toes, only, touching the floor, military-style push ups.
It just seemed like something appropriately relegated to a life lived long ago, the life of a much younger man. Because, as I debated whether to do this, it came back so clearly, that feeling of being ready to challenge myself and, most importantly, of being able.
Maybe it's something that comes with age, this awareness of how easily these gains can be taken away, how quickly in the face of this sort of loss that resolve can wither, which fuels the doubt, the internal debate.
But I guess, for this day at least, I'll give the memory, and whatever is left of youthful resolve, its due. And so, 20 it is. And I'm not so sure that 30 is out of reach either...
LPK
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6.1.2013 (b)
And it's not like that number is huge. I remember hitting 30, then 50, then 60 of the straight-backed, all the way up, all the way down, chin and toes, only, touching the floor, military-style push ups.
It just seemed like something appropriately relegated to a life lived long ago, the life of a much younger man. Because, as I debated whether to do this, it came back so clearly, that feeling of being ready to challenge myself and, most importantly, of being able.
Maybe it's something that comes with age, this awareness of how easily these gains can be taken away, how quickly in the face of this sort of loss that resolve can wither, which fuels the doubt, the internal debate.
But I guess, for this day at least, I'll give the memory, and whatever is left of youthful resolve, its due. And so, 20 it is. And I'm not so sure that 30 is out of reach either...
LPK
LiveJournal
6.1.2013 (b)
