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| Pierini Fitness doing a Sprint 8 burpees workout on a recent Fall 2019 day. |
Good
day Pierini Fitness
sports fans. Have you been wondering
where I’ve been? It’s been a while and I’ve
been known to go AWOL every now and then for various reasons. This time, I was gone for slightly over one
month. What was going on? I hit a creative dry spot, something I’ve
done before. But I also got busy helping
Mrs. Pierini Fitness help
her 91-year old father who has become increasingly frail and needing more
assistance. It’s a reminder that we’re
all going to, sooner or later, get our turn.
Despite
my absence, I’ve managed to continue with my fitness training which, as of
today, is for the most part significantly done for 2019. Mrs.
Pierini Fitness and I are leaving for a two-week
vacation in Arizona to visit our four little grandsons. It’ll be a breath of fresh air that I’m
looking forward to beginning, and it will on Saturday.
I’ve
made and uploaded several YouTube videos sharing snapshots of my fitness
training. Most of them showcase my pursuits of pull-ups, bar dips and burpees performance
goals. As a soon-to-be Medicare Man, I’m
proud of my current conditioning yet grateful and humble, realizing that it
could all be taken away from me in heartbeat.
The
remainder of this post will give an accountability report of how I did in achieving,
or not, various Fall 2019 fitness goals that I previously shared.
Fall 2019 Fitness Goals
1 - complete 100 reps of alternating
pull-ups and chin-ups in 20:00 or less. Accomplished on 11/29/2019
- 100 reps in 19:38.
2 - complete single set max reps of 18
pull-ups. Did not achieve, best this Fall 2019 is 16 pull-ups on 12/14/2019.
3 - complete single set max reps of 25 bar dips. Accomplished
on 12/3/2019 with 30 bar dips.
4 - run mile in 7:00. Did not achieve, basically abandoned training effort due to demands
of chasing burpees goal. Will achieve by Summer 2020.
5 - complete 100 burpees in 12 minutes. Accomplished on 12/14/2019
completing 100 burpees in 11:54.
6 - morning weigh-in of 170-175 lbs. 100 percent. Accomplished,
did not weigh more than 175 lbs. at any time but did dip below 170 lbs. for a
streak.
7 - pull-up hang hold of 1:50. Accomplished with 2:02 on
10/19/2019.
8 - handstand hold against wall of 1:15. Did not achieve but did do
1:14 on 12/10/2019.
9 - body fat of 16 percent (currently 18.6 percent.) Did
not achieve but measured 17.4 percent on 12/18/2019.
To
all my Pierini Fitness
sports fan, Merry Christmas 2019 and Happy New Year 2020, and may all your
dreams and desires for 2020 be realized in the new year. I’ll be away until the first week of January
2020 and it may take another week before I return to Pierini
Fitness with fresh new content of my middle-aged
man reflections about living and dying, gracefully aging and trying to live a
good and honest life.
There
you have it, my Fall 2019 fitness goals results.
Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum