Deciding to embark on this journey
The decision for me to devote the next year and a half to the Ultimate Black Belt Test was not a hard one. Clay has been debating over this for several years and finally decided that he was ready to make that commitment. He started doing push-ups two months ago. During the month of September, he asked me to join him on this journey. I thought it over for a few seconds and said absolutely yes. It never crossed my mind to say no. On the nights that we have classes, it is easy to get our push-ups in. We have told the students that they are helping us reach our goal of 150 push-ups a day. September's lesson was on goals and goal setting, so it was easy to work this into our mat-chats. When we shared our goal with the teen/adult class, they got nervous. After we had to pull their jaws up off the mat and explain that they were not the ones that had to do 50,000 push-ups and 50,000 sit-ups, they felt better about helping us. Just for fun, we added 50,000 squats and I added 50,000 calf muscle exercises. Walking the 1000 miles won't be too hard, since we both walk a lot on our jobs… over 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day. Clay has been known to walk 13,000 steps in a day.
The decision for me to devote the next year and a half to the Ultimate Black Belt Test was not a hard one. Clay has been debating over this for several years and finally decided that he was ready to make that commitment. He started doing push-ups two months ago. During the month of September, he asked me to join him on this journey. I thought it over for a few seconds and said absolutely yes. It never crossed my mind to say no. On the nights that we have classes, it is easy to get our push-ups in. We have told the students that they are helping us reach our goal of 150 push-ups a day. September's lesson was on goals and goal setting, so it was easy to work this into our mat-chats. When we shared our goal with the teen/adult class, they got nervous. After we had to pull their jaws up off the mat and explain that they were not the ones that had to do 50,000 push-ups and 50,000 sit-ups, they felt better about helping us. Just for fun, we added 50,000 squats and I added 50,000 calf muscle exercises. Walking the 1000 miles won't be too hard, since we both walk a lot on our jobs… over 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day. Clay has been known to walk 13,000 steps in a day.
Over the past 6 months, we have completely changed our eating habits, so eating healthy won't be an issue either. Both of us have been on a quest to be at our healthiest weight. Although, I must say, that Clay is winning... probably because men generally lose weight easier than women and he is younger. I would say that is cheating but I guess he can't do anything about his gender or his age.
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