Eric Walkers Push - Every Person's Fitness Blog 2009 - The story of Eric achieving fantastic fitness with only daily walks and push-ups

The Plan, Boss, The Plan!

As Tattoo said on Fantasy Island it's all about "The plan, boss, the plan!" Maybe he said "the plane", but it's no matter.

Here is my premise:

An average middle age or older adult can get quite fit without a gym, pool, fitness toy, or anything fancy. What is required? Nothing more than walking daily, and doing some push-ups about every other day.

Since my health is so terrible and I'm edging up on 50 years old, I seem the perfect crash test dummy.

The great thing about this premise is that, if true, we are all empowered to achieve great fitness and enjoy life more. You can save the money you were going to spend on that Bownauti-pushup-master fitness device, and maybe buy a bottle of wine or put it into savings for your kids' education.

Here is the plan:

Walk daily, as brisk as comfortable, for every increasing distances
Do push-ups 3 or more times a week, in increasing amounts

That's it. This is something we can all do. It is the Every Person's Workout Program. And I am really confident after some study that this can work.

Where's the intrigue? It will get interesting

Problems - some days there seems no time even for a walk, or the environment is not friendly for walking
Excuses - there will always be the temptation to find reasons why it cannot be done
World around us - I may see things on my walks, if they're interesting you can expect video
Results - it is unproven if this will really work, until someone documents it. Will I succeed? Stay tuned!

I'll be walking and posting daily, and reporting my results in terms of time and distance walked, push-ups completed, and weight, and blood pressure achieved.

It is simply a matter of life or death, will you come along for the ride? I hope you will - book mark this site and come back tomorrow when it all begins!

Happy New Year,

Eric Pederson

@dealexpert

Every Person's Workout Program blog: Eric Walkers Push

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Eric's Confession & Why I'm Here

I have a confession to make. I like gyms, I like working out, cycling, running, swimming, and team sports.

But that's not the confession. The confession is that I've been a poor owner of my body and over the years it has come into a state of terrible decline. After my 48th birthday I had a physical and I expected some scolding. I did not expect the change in my doctor's disposition after he saw my EKG. Have you had a heart attack before, he asked, as it appears you have heart damage. He quickly outlined a long series of tests I needed to have, tests where everyone in the waiting room looks really old and ill.

My old plan had been to "hammer" my heart and body back into shape with some light running, cycling, and soccer. That's been ruled out. My heart is not responding. Instead of getting stronger it has gotten inflamed and less efficient. It is scary to hear you are out of breath because your heart has enlarged and is pressing on your lungs.

What to do? Grabbing some Jack Daniels and Haagen-Daaz is one answer, while ignoring the doctor and hammering my body is another. Both might be suicidal, something my kids would not appreciate.

Instead I am endeavoring to get myself back to good health and high fitness by engaging in low stress exercise on a regular basis. This means simply getting out every day to walk and do push-ups.

This blog is my daily story of that journey back to health in 2009, and I invite you along for the ride. Your encouragement could make all the difference in my success.

My personal stats starting out

Weight: 248 (42% high)

Blood pressure: 140/90

Triglycerides (TG): 333

HDL: 33

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