With AmeriCorps starting in just over a month month I figured I better get cracking on this whole physical fitness thing. Enter the sit-up test. Just you, your abs, and a stopwatch. Dun dun dun!
My first attempt I got to 22 sit-ups in a minute, but I figured that since I hadn’t warmed up or done any activity that day I could probably do better. I bopped along to some One Direction songs (I know, I know…) for a few minutes and tried again. Second attempt resulted in in a gain of 3 whole sit-ups. Awesome! Twenty-five sit-ups in a minute is totally good right?! Right?!
Apparently not. I figured I better cross check my feelings of ecstatic accomplishment with whatever Google could turn up. Mainly, this:
Third time’s the charm, right? Sadly, no. I got to 28; just one sit-up shy of being average. (Also, is that the proper use of a semi-colon? I realized the other day that I never, ever, use semi-colons. A quick peek through my dissertation confirmed this.(See, there should be one between those sentences shouldn’t there?) Baffling, really. Sorry for the double parentheses.)
I’m now off to wallow in my below-average self. God help me when I get to the push-up test. I think it will go a little something like this: “No need to time me, good sir! I can already inform you that I will be performing one whole push-up and that is all for this morn.”
Amy x
