New Years I made a resolution to be able to do 100 push-ups. I’ve never been able to do that many. One time about 25 years ago I did 97. Never 100. Well I set the goal I made a tracking form. I had a plan and on May 15th when I was sure I could do 100 straight I did. I felt I could’ve done it early but didn’t want to try and fail. I also was enjoying the journey and was afraid I’d stop working out.
Since I didn’t stop working on my push-ups, I decided to over 1000 in a workout and do all my katas at the same time. My other karate resolution was to learn all of the Shotokan katas. I usually worked on 15 and there were 12 more that I had briefly known or never learned. I require 10 for Black Belt and we use several others for Karate competition. So I learned all 27 even before I did broke the 100 push-up barrier. I figured out how many push-ups I’d need to do in between katas to accomplish my goal of 100 plus 27 katas. Before long I broke that barrier too. Now I’ve done that quite a few times.
What to do next? Can’t stop yet. Stupid me, why not some ridiculous amount of push-ups for the month of October. Tenth month, why not 10,000. Ok. Well the first day I did 1000 and was on my way. As I got near the end of October I decided that I could crash through that barrier too.
Why not 110%. Anything worth doing is worth doing 110%. I’ve always heard, “Give 110%”. Sooooo! We’ll I ended the month doing 11,000 push-ups for the month. Cool. During the month I went from being able to do 112 push-ups straight through to 131. Nice.
One reason I started to do push-ups was that I wasn’t satisfied with my physical condition. I could probably do 50 or 60 push-ups straight through but I also was not satisfied with the fact that I could never do 100 push-ups. These goals started with wanting to do 100.
Guys set one goal and decide on the next, then the next and so forth. Some time you have a long term goal in mind at the out set and sometimes the long term goal keeps getting reset because you can now see further.
Not bad for a 60 year old huh?
I don’t’ know what my next goal is but I have a couple bouncing around in the graying head.
Don’t let your dreams stay dreams!
