So I sit here awake at almost 1 am. I need to be up at 6:30 for a doctors appointment and then to get to work. Why are you still up, you ask? Because I am silly and competitive. I didn't have much time for a workout today so after dinner and homework and such I decided to get some planks and pushups in. I went to my favorite fitness social media site, Fitocracy.com, to enter my workout for the day and found I had been bumped down a couple spaces in the push-up challenge. Well we can't have that now can we? I should have let it go. So I figure out how many more I need to do and go on my way. I enter in my new points and see that I'm still not back where I should be. Undaunted I keep going. Still not there. Now I know something is wrong. I realize that this must mean the the person I can not pass is also logging pushups as he goes. The nerve of some peoples kids. I "followed" (similar to twitter) the gentlemen and kindly asked that he stop doing push up so that I could go to bed. To my surprise he obliged although it was not nearly as late for him in some other timezone.
(Takes a sip of Sleepy Time tea)
So now I sit here having done two hundred some pushups and four minutes of planks. My triceps are unhappy with me. However the other thing I now remember is that when you push yourself you open up adrenal glands and get extra energy. It is commonly recommended that you do not work less than 4 hours before you plan to go to sleep. I have now taken a long hot shower and am sipping some tea trying to relax enough to go back to bed and try to find elusive sleep once more.
Goodnight humanity. Please remember sleep is just as important if not more important than any exercise you do. It is when your body does it's best recovery and repair and it doesn't matter how many pushups you do if your not sleeping you won't get any better at it. (-sigh- sips tea again)
/Actuator/
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