Life of the Lintee Bean

I’ve mentioned my past push-up duel with MidnightYell on Fitocracy, as well as my current pull-up/chin-up duel with ImpishFae.  Well, the situation has grown.  You see, FairLillith commented that she wished someone would challenge HER to a pull-up duel, so she’d be encouraged to do pull-ups.  So, both ImpishFae and I challenged her – and now we have a sort of three-way pull-up/chin-up duel going on through April 9.  Honestly, it’s not really fair since ImpishFae was only logging her unassisted pull-ups… and I couldn’t even DO unassisted pull-ups, so I was using about 50 pounds of assistance.

Though, with all the encouragement and motivation, not only did I land up acquiring my very own pull-up bar for home – but I worked up to doing unassisted ones!  Yay, me!

Then, both my pull-up opponents injured their shoulders.  I’m carrying on, but I feel a bit guilty kicking them while they’re down.

MidnightYell continued to taunt me, and I continued to remind him that my chiropractor has discouraged me from doing push-ups, so a push-up duel was out.

Then he called me “crochet for brains”.  “Crochet for brains???”  IT IS ON.  I challenged him to a “free for all” duel – who ever gets the most Fitocracy points from March 15 through April 14 wins. I don’t think he knew what he was in for. Sure, he can do a lot more push-ups than me.  Sure, he’s stronger than me.  Sure, he can run… in fact, he can run over 3 miles, whereas I ran a half mile once and nearly died.

Despite all these advantages, I think he failed to take something really important into account.  I have no spouse.  I have no children.  In fact, I have no family in the state where I live.  Not only do I lack any family obligations – but my gym is located about two blocks from my house, and it’s open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.  Also, since all activity counts, I don’t have to reply on my noodle-twig arms.  These short chubby little legs can carry most of the weight – they’re used to it.

I hit it hard the first night, Friday. I had to take Rumpelmintz to the veterinarian, but went to the gym afterward and lifted weights and did circuits/complexes and racked up 1,838 points – compared to MidnightYell’s 522 points.  BOOM! I am bringing it!

I went to the gym again on Saturday and logged a reasonable 1,148 points.  MidnightYell hit the gym harder and logged an impressive 2,383 points.  Impressive, but not quite enough to take the lead.

I was back at the gym again Sunday.  I kicked butt and took names.  I was there almost the entire afternoon and logged 2,979 points!  Booyah!  MidnightYell had family obligations and tracked 456 points. Fellow memebers of Fitocracy started giving MidnightYell props for being “lawful” and “good”, a great dad and a wonderful famil man…. which meatn I was given the reputation of being the dark/evil team on Fitocracy.  I can live with that.  It’s often more fun on the dark side.

On Monday, MidnightYell logged 749 points while I was a lazy bum and did only some push-ups and pull-ups at home for 100 points. My laziness continued on Tuesday (51 points) and Wednesday (175 points) and Thursday (168 points), while MidnightYell logged 435 points, 1,193 points, and 428 points.

Friday I was back at the gym.  I hit it hard and tracked 2,764 points, including a 20-rep barbell squat at one times my bodyweight.  Boom!  He got 428 points.

Saturday, I sat on my lazy butt watching hockey, movies, and making a mini-MidnightYell out of yarn. MidnightYell hit the gym and accumulated 1,577 points.

The score now stands at 9,223 points for team Lintee Bean, 7,743 points for team MidnightYell.

Today’s Sunday, and so far I’ve sat around watching movies and finishing the mini-MidnightYell.  I may hit the gym yet tonight.  There’s several weeks left in the challenge, and anything could happen!

MidnightYell versus LinteeBean – may the best yarn-and-stuffing person win!