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Hell  ·  3795 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An App Turned My Life Around

This is cool but:

    Exercise — 100 push ups, 40 V-ups crunches, 20 jackknife crunches, 150 bicycle crunches a day — 251 day streak.

This is excessive. The body needs time to repair muscle tissue. It would be better to spread out the workouts, to alternate between them all every 2-3 days. Otherwise you can potentially damage/hurt yourself.





jonathanng  ·  3795 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I appreciate the concern! I genuinely feel perfectly fine though, and that's probably because I started really small and increased the number of reps only once every few months. I haven't even been feeling any muscle aches, and that's a signal that I should increase the number of reps I do.

Everything that I do is dedicated to sustaining my streak. Moving away from boredom and stagnation is a natural part of this to me.

What do you think?

Hell  ·  3795 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As long as it's not sore day after day I think you'll be alright, but damn, you should probably be able to run a marathon by now. :P