Today I wrapped up the first week of the 6 week training program I found over at hundredpushups.com. It calls for the typical 5 sets like the other days but this time with a 2 minute rest between each set. Here are my results:

15-13-10-10-[40] for a total of 88 push ups.

I am glad that I’ve seen some improvement in the number of push ups I’ve been able to do, but honestly I was more excited that when I was done with that last exhaustion set, I was still able to move my arms. Eating meals today would have been much harder if I couldn’t.

Word on the street is that another person many of us know might be giving this challenge a go. We’ll release the name if and when it happens. It’s amazing how many people like having sore pecs. Weird.

So a study was released from the Center for Disease Control that lists the states from most obese to least obese and our great state of North Carolina came in as the tenth most obese state with 28% of adults responding to the survey having a BMI of 30 or higher. The South is the most obese region (can ya’ll fry me up some fatback?) and the top ten really does read like the standings in the Southeastern Conference.

1. Mississippi: 32%
2. Alabama: 30.3%
3. Tennessee: 30.1%
4. Louisiana: 29.8%
5. Arkansas: 28.7%
6. West Virginia: 29.5%
7. South Carolina: 28.4%
8. Georgia: 28.2%
9. Oklahoma and Texas: 28.1%
10. North Carolina: 28%

Of course, the BMI isn’t foolproof. Most athletes that weigh more than they “should” due to muscle mass would be considered obese. Hmmmm. Maybe they simply surveyed the players at the schools of each state.

Okay. Today was the second day of the first week of the hundredpushups.com program. On tap today? 5 sets of push-ups with 90 seconds rest between each set. My results were:

12-12-10-10-[31] for a total of 75 push ups.

Thankfully, when I finished the fifth set of “push ups until exhaustion torment” (that’s what those brackets represent), there was a lot less whimpering than the first day.

Kudos to Phil, the blogging King, for jumping on board and doing this program, too. He’s gonna be even more beastier than he is now.