Mastering My Goals – March Posttest

See what I did there with these last two titles? Enough with the puns, on to the results!

The entire class absolutely rocked our post-test this morning. Ryan asked who improved their mile time and it seemed like almost the entire group raised their hand. Most of us were able to keep our hands up when he asked, "By 30 seconds? By a minute? By two minutes?" We had similar results for the planks and pushups. Great work gang!

Exercise	March 14	Goal	April 8
Mile Run	14:00	12:00	12:15
Regular Pushups	30	40	47
Assisted Pushups	20	10	0
Regular Dips	--	30	--
Assisted Dips	--	10	--
Sit Ups (in 1 minute)	22	30	21
Planks to failure	1:20	2:00	2:01

• My mile improved and I barely missed out on my goal. I ran most of it, but still walked about half of a lap. Hopefully next month I won't have to walk any part of it.
  
• My upper body strength had a breakthrough this month after the last few months being more or less stagnant. I told myself that I wasn't going to do a single assisted pushup. I cranked out my first 35 or so pushups really quickly, then spent the last few seconds working to failure instead of taking the easy road and doing the assisted.
  
• Sit-ups stayed about the same but I hit my goal for planks!
  

This month, especially the last two weeks, felt like we focused more on strength and sprints at the expense of "ab days" and some more intense core workouts. My results definitely suggest this was the case. We don't want the body to get too familiar with the workouts, because that's when plateaus occur. Thanks Ryan!