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only the more sedentary would resort to modern technology. not our cy.

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Good luck with your running clinic. I’m not sure what that is, but it sounds hard core.

It’s funny, at the gym I’ve noticed that my lats (main muscle helping with chin ups, I think) are over-developed (in strength, not size) compared to the rest of me. Sneaking peeks at other weight lifters I’ve noticed that fairly puny people often bench press and otherwise lift more than me. But as soon as I sit down at the lat pull down machine I regularly seem to shoot past people who are significantly larger than me. Not sure why.

DA, a cautionary tale: my dad always had trouble with running, like they almost kept him out of the Navy because he couldn’t pass the running part of basic training. They kept him back for a month, during which all he did was train for running, never significantly improving his time. In the end they passed him… but wouldn’t let him see the stopwatch. “Oh, lookit that, you did it!” Years later it turned out he had muscular dystrophy of the legs. So — if you have overall problems with your legs beyond the low-normal range, it’s conceivable it’s a sign of a real physical problem. (But I assume we’re talking about normal gawky elementary school kid-ism, not something more. Mainly I wanted to tell that Navy story, because I’d never heard it until recently.)

How many chin-ups can you do, CY? Had a friend who was big into trying to get to [some absurdly high number of] chin-ups last year…

Hey I’m just the peanut gallery, I can’t come close to 100. I think I could pull off 25, but Hannah just made me brace my arms so she could do push ups off my hands and now I can barely carry Dhara’s infant seat without wincing.

That’s what people told me about running, too, but despite running thrice weekly at gymnastics class, and practicing for the Canada Fitness Test, it *never* got easier. I have no idea why I have trouble with these things — this problem doesn’t seem to afflict anyone else I know.

In the Canada Fitness Test I got “Excellence” on every activity but the endurance run, which I couldn’t even finish.

DA, if it makes you feel better, I started pretty wimpy, but sticking with it this long really has led to noticeable improvements.

Yoon, who sometimes likes to refer to herself as “She-Ra,” can do about 15 proper push ups.

I recently figured I’d try the 100 pushup things, and I stuck with it for two days. I didn’t quit because of high expectations that couldn’t be met. The “six weeks” thing seemed utterly bogus to me, particularly because righ tnow I can do only 11 push-ups (the modified kind using knees instead of feet).

You couldn’t triple your strength in 12 months. But, given you could do the flexed arm hang for about half an hour 100 pushups should be easy-peasy. I bet your brother could do it. Heck your Dad could probably do it! Maybe even your other brother!

100 crunches is really easy. I do 100 crunches in a row all the time.