Steak with creamy mushroom sauce

I don’t know what it is, but push ups just don’t like me… There are SO many push ups needing to be done on each of the toning days and I have yet to complete them all.  I added it up one day last week and there were 180 push ups in some form or another needing to be done!  I think I got to 75.

I’m really not sure when I lost my arm strength, push ups used to be something I could comfortably just “do” - although possibly not as many as I’m trying to do now.  But, they certainly were not a problem exercise.  And I’m getting tired of not being able to do them.  Every other exercise I can push myself through one way or another.  My legs are getting stronger with the ridiculous number of squats and lunges being done as well as the jogging.  My abs are improving rapidly as well, much more than I had hoped for less than 6 months post-baby.  My flexibility is getting better, I have less back pain, yet feel like I’m getting nowhere with push ups.

So here’s my plan – to try to get these damn push ups under control, I am going to do 50 push ups every day.  Yep, 50!  I’m splitting them up into five sets of 10 to be done any time throughout the day that it think of it.  When I can do ten comfortably, then I’ll increase the sets to 15 (with an “extra” set of five) and so on until I can do the 50 in one go.  So far today – two sets of 10 complete and another about to be done as soon as I finish writing this up.

Surely this will have to help and get my arms back to where they can do what I ask of them!