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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He Made It
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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Can You Do One Push-Up?
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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Fully Equipped
Fully equipped with two blinding flashes of the obvious, I set out on a journey. You’ve probably been here once or twice in your life, right? Doctor’s orders.
The thing we all know in the back of our heads, but stealthily deny, this is a mandate for the rest of our lives, not just until next year’s annual physical.
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Diet & Exercise
The blood tests confirmed what most would say was inevitable, and only a matter of time – your cholesterol is in the danger zone. In going to our Family Physician, you can predict what he said I’d need to do moving forward.
Two things. Diet & exercise. Diet to lower LDL cholesterol and exercise to raise HDL cholesterol. Simple. But simple doesn’t equal easy.
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