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Morning sunshine or monster triceps?

After several weeks of completely-failed attempts to move my bedtime from 4am to midnight, I’ve decided to go radical on the whole issue. I’m trying the Pavlov approach.

I made a pact with myself: for each minute past midnight that the clock reports when I go to bed, I pledge to do two push-ups in the morning.

Right now, I’m headed for just over a hundred tomorrow morning.

Yesterday morning it was 114. That took a bit of time. I’m no ironman, I need breaks inbetween.

The first time was the morning before that, but I decided to postpone the initiation of this pact by one day, rather than do … 430 … push-ups that morning. Some glorious start that was.

The way I see it, I’m headed for either a disciplined sleep schedule, or formidable pecs and triceps. Or perpetrating pact breakage against myself, but that would be too lame. We shall see.

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2 Responses to “Morning sunshine or monster triceps?”

  1. Gunnlaugur Þór Briem Says:
    July 14th, 2004 at 8:17 am

    136. Rats. Muscle stiffness from yesterday is not helping. Pavlov, why hast thou forsaken me?

  2. KC Says:
    October 6th, 2006 at 2:10 am

    I’m not sure how this helps in the longrun? Or even short-term? Won’t you just get incredibly sore from all the push-ups, have muscle cramps and be unable to sleep the next night due to being uncomfortable? I suggest a rufie.