So my brother had this great idea: Let’s run from his condo to the badminton club.

GULP.

It’s a 3.5 km run from Win’s condo to the club. It was pretty intimidating. I normally don’t run more than 4 km, and now I have to carry all my stuff with me (work clothes, racquets, etc.)—that is a lot of work.

We took it slow. About 25 minutes. Win wants to train for an ultra-marathon, so the pace that we set is slow. However, I doubt I could have ran any faster, especially knowing that I had to play badminton when I got to the club.

Worked up a good sweat running. When I played badminton, I felt very warmed-up—very limber. It was awesome. We’re going to do it until the club closes for summer months.

I’m suffering right now though. Tight calves, sore back. Love it!

I’ve been thinking a lot about fitness recently. It all kind of started about a week and a half ago when I wondered, “How much do I lift when I do a push-up?” I had started doing push-ups again, and I was finding it super difficult.

Back in the day, I could do 100 push-ups in a row. I was struggling with 3 sets of 5 repetitions.

Well, literature says that you lift 60% of your weight when you do a proper push-up. Do the math: 185 lbs * 60% = 111lbs.

Oh my gosh, I’m roughly benching ~110 lbs each time I do a push-up!

That’s a huge difference from when I weighed 135 lbs (~81 lbs)

No wonder it is so hard when I’m doing a push-up.

It’s no wonder why any exercise I do is hard.

Now I know how these people who weigh 300+ lbs become the way they do. The amount of work they do when exercising is enormous! It must be so hard for them. That’s scary if not depressing.

I did 4 sets of 12 push-ups Monday night. I’m sore as heck. I felt so “pumped-up” afterwards. I mean, I could barely take off my t-shirt. LOL.

On the way to better fitness and a longer life…

-T