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challenge complete!

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:33:22 +0000

this morning, the 100 pushup challenge was completed! i’m pretty dang pleased too. i’ve gotten quite a bit of response from the facebook crowd as i’ve been posting the “100 pushup challenge – day ##: complete” message in my status the last couple few days.

“what’s the 100 pushup challenge all about?” or “what’s the 100 pushup thing?”… once i explain it to them, they exclaim that they’re going to try it too. well, so far i haven’t heard from anyone who’s claimed to go for it – how they’re doing on it. it’s tough to stick with it, specially some days…

and since i’ve come this far, my next challenge is to keep going… i don’t think i’m going to keep adding one, but i am going to start the 10,000 pushup challenge, 10kpc, 100 for 100… now that ive gotten the 100 pushups done, i’ll try to do 100 pushups for 100 days – for a total of 10,000 pushups.

Edit 4/25/09:
I’ve renamed the challenge a couple times, i think we’ll stick with 100 for 100… it’s day 15, so far so good! the 100 is getting easier, too!

halfway

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:49:36 +0000

100 pushup challenge… yesterday i did 50 pushups. today, i just did my 51 pushups. outside of a sporadic p90x workout, that’s all i’ve been able to find time to do in terms of working out. it blows like the wind on a blustery day, but as of late, i just do not have the time to workout.

funny side note:
wednesday night, i was wrasslin’ with cocoa and as i bent over to steal away her rawhide bone, she decided to jump up onto the bed. my head went down, her’s went up at an incredible rate of speed. heads met and short story nearing completion, she gave me a small cut right above my eye and it’s starting to turn colors… if i would’ve had the time, i could’ve come up with a couple good stories as to how i got the black eye, but if you read the previous paragraph, the same concept applies. in fact, i’m surprised i found the time to type a blog post today!

on sunday, i’ll be leaving for orlando, fl for a week long conference for work. it should be interesting, first time i’ve gone to one of these things. i’m expecting to learn a lot about iMIS (that’s our membership program at PF). and it will be integral to my position, which could possibly be changing at PF in the not-so-distant future… dun, dun, dunnnnnnn

100 pushups

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:44:23 +0000

i have a new quest even though it’s more of a challenge. i started it January 1st, 2009. the quest is (as the title of this post states) 100 push-ups. it’s an idea i got from the CrossFit website – the 100 push-up challenge. that is on the first day, you do one push-up. on the second day, you do two push-ups… you do that for 100 days, each day adding one more push-up. i figured this would be a good reintroduction for me into the world of ‘lifting’ with my shoulder being still not at 100%. today, i did my 12 push-ups. and i’ve noticed me leaning more on my left arm the last couple days of my push-ups. with me being cognizant of it, i’m trying to stay balanced on both of my arms.

initially, i thought it would be cool to post this as 100! pushups… which, of course, would be wrong because i had to google 100!. and google’s fun calculator returned the value 9.33262154 × 10¹⁵⁷, which is big much bigger than i had thought… and that’s when i realized 100! is not 1+2+3+4…+99+100… it’s 1x2x3x4…x99x100. alas, the kewlness of the post’s title dropped 100! fold (ha).

all was not lost, however, as i clicked on the link in my search to find the pages of the google search term “100!” or google search “+100!”. and came across the wikipedia page for 100. and i got lost in how cool numbers are. for example:

One hundred is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standard SI prefix for a hundred is “hecto-”.

One hundred is the basis of percentages (literally “per hundred”), with 100% being a full amount.

It is the sum of the first nine prime numbers, as well as the sum of two prime numbers (47 + 53, 17 +83, 3 + 97, 41 + 59), and the sum of the cubes of the first four integers (100 = 13 + 23 + 33 + 43). Also, 26 + 62 = 100, thus 100 is a Leyland number.

One hundred is also an 18-gonal number. It is divisible by the number of primes below it, 25 in this case. But it can not be expressed as the difference between any integer and the total of coprimes below it, making it a noncototient. However, it can be expressed as a sum of some of its divisors, making it a semiperfect number.

100 is a Harshad number in base 10, and also in base 4, and in that base it is a self-descriptive number.

this may sound pretty geeky… but dude, numbers are awesomes