so, i have been doing pull-ups as my first foray into getting into doing a regular #workout, and i think i can do maybe 3 pull-ups now after a week doing this
my escalation in this domain to further success is going to be squats... pushups are also upper body, so i want to go easy on adding more to that area without some balance
of course, because of my regular exercise based on needing to climb some 20m of altitude on my ~1km walk to the shop on a daily basis, i'm starting at a pretty high baseline... i can do 30 squats, it seems, i stopped at the point where i started to pant a lot and feel noticable beginnings of pain in my legs
i think this is gonna be easier for me to push forwards because i have already had the need to develop fairly strong legs from my physical location and lack of vehicle, but i am going to continue the pull-ups as i go
the thing i'm looking forward to in doing the exercise is that this will have a result, pretty quickly, of making my daily chores easy, and that means that i will probably start to think about making a routine of visiting Arco de Sao Jorge, the nearby settlement over the other side of that giant ridge you have seen in my photos of my surrounds here, the other side of the gully where the water flows out to the ocean nearby
of course, when i finally get to going out on that track, over the edge of the mountain, i will take photos at least once maybe twice of what i see along the way
i'm also getting low-key excited about the thought of taking the foot-trek path out to Santana, the nearest big town to me, and seeing it finally - it is the point at which all the main americas optic fibre cable bundles land and provide us connectivity to that part of the world
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i used to be able to do like 15 pull-ups when i was 27 trying to join the army, i wanted to get into recon or special forces
i know that pushups have a substantial effect on core strength but nothing like leg lifts and situps, my point was to try and balance my upper body work with pullups with a new exercise that would touch my lower body, and squats are the easiest and have the most direct benefits to my current lifestyle
most likely pushups are what i will add next week, i'm just doing that thing of "1% change every day is better than 10% change in one day"... so, i have started to do something, and i want to add an easy, useful second something that will reward me before i decide to add more work to my schedule
burpees are great, i'm just in that stage where i've fallen into really bad condition due to dietary health influences and toxic food additives and such... i am only just starting to get free of the worst of those symptoms (muscle weakness especially) that building condition is now finally viable
when the fitness things say "consult a doctor" yada yada yada, that can be replaced with a simple rule, small steps, baby steps, and for me, first step was pull-ups, because it is relatively trivial but also very interesting for my current mountainous terrain... and so, in that same vein, the next logical step is to try and accelerate my leg strength so i have two of the ingredients required to do a lot of trekking around this beautiful mountainous place
also, thanks for responding, i'm way way in worse condition than realistically can do much in the way of burpees or pushups at this point
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