Week 1: Benchmarks
Weight: 182 lbs / 82.5 kg
Resting Heart Rate: 83
Pushups / 1 min: 30
Burpees / 1 min: N/A
Situps / 1 min: 22
Wall Squat Duration: 52 sec
1.5 mile Run: N/A
Didn’t do the Burpee test this week due to sore legs. Didn’t do my run as it’s still too cold outside. Should be warming up here real soon!
Week 0: Benchmarks
Weight: 180 lbs / 81.6 kg
Resting Heart Rate: 84
Pushups / 1 min: 21
Burpees / 1 min: 14
Situps / 1 min: 15
Wall Squat Duration: 36 sec
1.5 mile Run: N/A
No run this week as it was cold and rainy.
Routine
Here’s the plan I’ve come up with.
Monday: Upper body
Tuesday: Cardio
Wednesday: Mid body
Thursday: Cardio
Friday: Lower body
Saturday: Cardio
Sunday: Endurance
And here’s the details of each routine
Upper body:
- Bicep Curls x10 (per arm)
- Tricep Extension x10 (per arm)
- Shoulder Press x10 (per shoulder)
- Shoulder Shrug x10 (per shoulder)
- Pushups x10
- Repeat x3
- 1 minute pushup test
Mid section:
- Situps x10
- Crunches x20
- BIcycle Crunches x20
- Oblique Crunches x20
- Front Plank for 30 seconds
- Side plank for 30 seconds (per side)
- 1 minute sit up test
Lower body:
- Lunges x10 (per leg)
- Calf Raises x30
- Squats x10
- Wall Squat for 30 seconds
- Repeat x3
- Wall Squat duration test
Cardio:
- Jumping Jacks for 2 minutes
- Line Hops (side-to-side) for 2 minutes
- Line Hops (front-to-back) for 2 minutes
- Steps for 2 minutes
- Rest for 2 minutes
- Repeat x3
- 1 minute Burpee test
Endurance:
Goals
As I am not really aiming for a target weight, just a certain level of fitness, I am setting performance goals rather than weight goals. The following goals all come from the Washington State Patrol’s physical fitness test requirements for male candidates aged 20-29.
1.5 mile run: 12:29
Pushups in 1 minute: 29
Situps in 1 minute: 38
Once I satisfy the WSP requirements I’ll try for the U.S. Army Physical Fitness Test possibly followed by the U.S. Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test.
And just for posterity:
Current weight: 180 lbs
Resting heart rate: 84