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Simultaneously, and in concert with the push-up challenge for strength, the doctor recommended cardio-training: running, walking, swimming, biking, etc.
I chose running, having competed in Track & Field in Junior & Senior High School, and a couple years of college – it seemed logical.
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The same week I started doing one push-up a day, I began running one mailbox a day for the first week. Then two mailboxes a day the second week and so on. Mailboxes are about 100 meters apart here.
The running goal was first, and very simply to “wake everything up” – tendons, ligaments, muscles, cartilage. The pace was slower than a slow walk. Seriously.
After one month, I was very slowly jogging the equivalent of one lap around a school track – 400 meters.
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Somewhere about 25-30 weeks into it, the epiphany.
We never said the push-ups had to be in a row. This allowed jeff noel to keep going at a make it or break it point.
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Bob made it three weeks before he quit.
jeff noel (classic over-achiever) went two years, before scaling back – and has never quit, even after 12 years.
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So the next day at work, sharing the story with a colleague, who was also miserably out of shape, I said, “Look at us, we need to start working out. Can you do a push-up? I mean, right now. Let’s start right here, right now – here in the hallway. One push-up”.
He said, “Sure, I can do one push-up. Are you kiddin’ me? But I ain’t doing it here.”
Come on, I said, we’ll do one push-up a day for a week. The second week, we’ll do two push-ups a day. Third week, three a day, etc.
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