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Day 13 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023 to raise money for St. Jude research hospital. I chose this charity because they provide free medical procedures to children. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I reached a new record of 45 pushups in a single set and got up to 70 pushups total.

I reached this goal in spite of drinking multiple beers, vodka, and Sake the night before …

…AND doing a 5.21-mile offroad biking trip that morning.

On a side note, I am toying around with doing a mountain biking challenge in September! I am reaching out to friends as accountability partners. (And safety partners to be honest.) We are also looking at getting my son a nice bike for his birthday at the end of August so it could be some nice family bonding time also!

Have to get my wife and daughter good bikes around the holidays in December. We celebrate all the things then!

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Day 12 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I reached a new record of 42 pushups in a single set and got up to 67 pushups total.

Check out the video of pain!

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Day 11 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I reached a new record of 41 pushups in a single set and got up to 61 pushups total.


Unfortunately, my camera was not recording for the second set so you will have to take my word for it on the total, but I got the 41 in one set recorded!

At 12:04 I feel the LOVE!

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Day 10 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. I reached a new record of 36 pushups in a single set.

In this video, I also delve into more of the preparation I am doing to be able to continuously do 50 pushups a day without taking a day off for repair.

Please Donate if You Can

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Day 9 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. I reached a new record of 32 pushups in a single set.

In this video, I also delve into more of the preparation I am doing to be able to continuously do 50 pushups a day without taking a day off for repair.

Ice Baths

I have been taking ice baths every day after my pushups. Today I added all of the ice I had prepared. I hope it got down close to 10 degrees Celsius but I didn’t take a temperature. Previously I have only stayed in the ice bath for 4 minutes, but today I did the full 15 minutes of the cold plunge

Breathwork

In the video, I share that in between sets I have been doing some simple breathwork.

Breathe in for 4 counts. Hold for 4 counts and exhale for 4 counts. Normally you would hold for 4 after you exhale but I am finding that skipping that is beneficial to load more oxygen into my system. In the video I call this a “very calm hyperventilating,” and it has helped me do more pushups in my second set.

Please Donate to the Children

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50 Push-Ups in 2 Sets!

I have a goal to do 50 pushups in one set by the end of August. Today is the first day I have done 50 pushups in only 2 sets. You can see in the video that I am pretty excited about this.

Picture of David Kolmer with his hands on the ground and his feet in the air getting ready to do 50 pushups.

How Am I Preparing?

I have had trouble doing the 50 pushups a day in less than 3 sets this first week. Before today, I had been eating a ketogenic diet focused on cutting out carbohydrates. I have been focused on using ketones (energy from fats) as my fuel source, or in other words burning fat instead of carbs. That has helped me shed extra weight and I can feel that I have a more consistent energy source.

I have noticed that now that I am working out more I am having trouble performing. I ate a small bowl of oatmeal this morning with ground flax seed in it and then I was able to do 30 pushups in my first set and also 50 pushups in 2 sets. Moving forward I plan to eat carbohydrates 1 or 2 hours before a workout.

I have also had benefits from intermittent fasting, or not eating for 16 to 20 hours a day. I will have to find a way to maybe eat dinner earlier because I like working out first thing in the morning. Previously I was skipping breakfast but that was also not supporting this additional exercise.

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Day 6 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I did these pushups yesterday but am not printing the video until today. It is day 6 of my challenge where I do 50 pushups a day for 30 days. My goal is to get down to a single set of 50 pushups, but I am stuck at 3 sets right now with the first at 23 reps being the largest set.

At the end of this session, I did some yoga. I mostly did a backward handstand to stretch out my back. I also did some downward dog and child pose and then rolled up to the mountain pose.

The night before I stayed out late to see WEEN while they were in St. Louis. The show was amazing and I am glad I stayed out late to see it. I am putting together some video I captured on my phone and can post that next. I decided to spend time with my family yesterday, Sunday. I worked a lot in the yard and placed some large sandstone rocks in the garden. I couldn’t pick two of them up and had to roll them around. They were very heavy so I ate some extra protein yesterday. I can post some pictures of the final project.

Then the family watched the new Super Mario Brothers movie with Jack Black as Bowser. We all really enjoyed it and it was a perfect family movie night with slow-fried salmon and fresh veggies.

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Day 02 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am attempting to do 50 push-ups a day for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. I ramped up my repetitions while we were traveling through Thailand but I am still struggling. I am currently doing 4 sets in 30 minutes to get to 50 pushups a day. My goal by the end of August is to be able to do 50 pushups in a single set.

Day 2 was not pretty. I was not feeling it.

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Day 01 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

Consistently Changing and Improving

My yearlong quest to be consistently something is continuing. Having a word for the year is really working out for me. I have resolved to be consistently growing or improving at something. It has also worked to do one thing consistently for a month. So, 30 days with no alcohol basically led to me not drinking anymore. A month of sugar-free led to not eating sugar, but now I just focus on eating more fiber than sugar and only eat processed sugar on cheat days (Saturday).

Last month I was consistently in Thailand for July. That experience could fill 100 blog posts, but here I will just share that the mindset of Thailand is that of accepting things as they are, not always improving. Even though that does not directly align with my word of the year, I found this mindset to still be beneficial to me; even when you want to improve you still need to be happy and accept where you are today. (*I moved to Thailand right after my bachelor’s degree and lived there for 7 lucky years.) But by Thai methods, it would have been 9 years to be lucky…

This month I am doing 50 push-ups a day. It was a total struggle but I made it through day 1.

Look at my face, I am terrified!

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30-Day 3D Model Challenge 17/30

Day 17 – Creating a Wheel

Learning From Failed Goals

In this video, I discuss how I am refining my approach to being consistent. I am no longer focused on consistently posting on my blog daily but instead consistently minding my priorities and waiting until I have time to create a higher-quality post.

Back to the Basics

I am glad I decided to backpedal from trying to export Adobe Substance Modler files into Adobe Substance Painter and just focus on getting better at Modeler. I like how this more advanced tutorial made use of the boolean functionality, symmetry, and repetition. This video also showed some simple yet creative ways to quickly create dynamic shapes only using the clay and erase tool.

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