About my Challenge

 My challenge is to do a 35km Bike ride and 15 push ups in under an hour. I plan to do my challenge on the 24th of October at World Gym during our Wednesday session. For this challenge i will be using my aerobic energy systens and will be training this throughout. The reasons for doing this goal is that I had started the semester with a knee injury from May, I had just started to go to physio and was told that I was not allowed to do any rowing, running, squats or lunges. This left me few options that  was willing to do. I knew that cycling was good for your knee as my dad had recently had a knee replacment and was told to go out cycling to help with the recovery process. The only problem with just doing a bike ride was that I wasn't going to be working on my whole body and that each session I was going to be putting pressure on my legs. Therefore I then added another component, Push ups, which would mean that I would have to build up the strength in my arms and core. Another reason for doing this challenge was that i wanted to get back out on the bike with my dad who is a great inspiration for me. About 2 years ago my dad had a serious heart attack while I was with him at home. He was rushed into Timaru hospital and then flown to Christchurch where he had 4 stents put into his heart. One of his arteries was 97% block and it was amazing that he hadn't gone into cardiac arrest earlier. That same day my dad was meant to me going into the hospital for an ECG but didnt make it there because he had serious chest pains. The most shocking thing about this whole story was that I would have classified my dad as the fittest person in my family. I just shows you that these things can happen to anyone. I cherish my time with my dad so much more and really wanted to do this challenge so that we could enjoy doing something physical togetgher. Below is some pictures of my dad cycling and being such an inspiration :D