Chris Morrell » Fitness

30 Days with Occam’s Protocol

Chris M. — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:30:06 +0000

Over the last couple of years I’ve experimented with a number of different forms of exercise (mostly running and weight training). For the month of April, I will be testing Occam’s Protocol, a high intensity, low volume weight training approach outlined in Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Body. I really enjoyed Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek, but have thus far been pretty disappointed by his newest book. I was about to give up on it entirely, but a little research has suggested that there may be something to Occam’s Protocol, so I’ve decided to give it a shot for 30 days and document my progress. I’ve set up a separate blog for this so that my daily updates don’t overflow this blog. If you’re interested, check it out.

Update: I tried Occam’s Protocol for 10 days with no/negative results (mild fat gain/muscle loss, which could be attributed to measurement variability). I’ve decided to remove the blog.

100 Push-Ups Update

Chris M. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:53:55 +0000

OK, so our 100 Push-Ups group challenge started on Monday. Now we have 6 people going for it. Thanks to Roz, we got set up on dailymile.com and I threw together a group for us (there’s also a global hundred pushups group). If you want to join us, join the group on dailymile.com. If you don’t have an account, get in touch and I’ll send you an invite.

100 Push-Ups in 6 Weeks

Chris M. — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:07:42 +0000

A little while ago I came across onehundrespushups, which is a site that’s supposed to train you to do 100 push-ups in a row after 6 weeks. I decided to give it a try, and proposed a group effort on twitter. So far a few people have joined in:

Want to join us? We start August 11th, and see where we all are after 6 weeks.

Update: Check out my latest fitness experiment: 30 Days with Occam’s Protocol