Pushing through

Rather than sharing scriptural insights, this morning I wanted to speak to making progress with the fitness goals. It can certainly seem like I'm not making much progress as the numbers are staying pretty stable. I'm using a model of reducing rest time and keeping reps relatively stable. I don't want to reduce the rest time prematurely and not be able to complete the repetitions anymore, but I don't want to stay stagnant at the same place either. Now, I have made reasonable progress getting the push-ups up to three sets of twenty and reducing the rest time from forty-five to thirty-five seconds. And the squats are moving right along. The pull-ups have been another matter, feeling stuck almost entirely. I could try reducing the rest intervals and end up with less reps in the final set, but it would perhaps be easier to see progress with the repetitions creeping back up with the smaller rest periods. My thought process has been that I should complete at least one session where the full sets and reps is completed without too much difficulty before moving on. If I continue to find that the final pull-up or two is a challenge, or the push-ups start to stall with thirty-five second rest intervals, it may well be that I should reduce the rest anyway and see how it goes. Even if I need to return to longer rest intervals after a few sessions and sort of cycle the rest up and down to change up the stimulus.