Starting off

So 2010 is here and its time for a new challenge. One of the challenges I've set for myself this year is getting fit. I'm now 29 years old now and well I've never been very sporty. I've done some skateboarding in my teens and twenties which helped a little but even in those days I wasn't really strong / fast / athletic. Lately I've been doing some running, but nothing really progressive. Just trying to maintain. I've always been as fit as I comfortably had to be to get through my day-to-day work. The physique of your average European geek.

But not anymore. This is the year I get ripped. Or rather, I'm going to try to get as strong / fit as I can get over the course of a year. While doing that I'll be trying to keep some sort of progress report thing going here. The name of the blog is therefore appropriately named "the year of pain".

To do this challenge, I will of course need some rules.

My goal is not to get "big" and as I don't like going to the gym, the first rule will be that every exercise I'm going to do will be either within the comfort of my own home or outside. So rule #1 is "no gym".

Another thing I want to do is not use weights. I'm going to do everything based on my own body weight. So rule #2 is "no weights"

Those rules will be enough for now. Maybe I'll discover some new constraints along the road. But I will cross that bridge when I get there.

The first weeks of the year I'm going to try to do the "famous" 100 push-ups, 200 squats and 200 sit-ups all at the same time. These all take about 6 to 7 weeks to complete. If I make it trough that, I hope to have some new exercises / training schedules lined up.

So .. lets get to it.