Numbers Update

We are almost halfway through the I Ho Chuan year so I thought I'd look at my numbers and see where I'm at:

	Completed	Remaining
Push Ups	4345	45655
Sit Ups	4945	45055
KM	34	1575
Da Mu Hsing Reps	264	736
Kicks	7330	17670
Acts of Kindness	82	918

If you look at the numbers, it's obvious that I'm way behind and it doesn't look like I'm in a very good place. But if I analyze the numbers a little bit, it reveals a different story.

I'm splitting my numbers up into two phases: "Prior to June 23", and "June 23 and Onward". June 23 was the day that some of us started posting our numbers publicly on the UBBT Google Group.

This is the breakdown:

Prior to June 23	142 days	Avg/ Day
Push Ups	4240
Sit Ups	2470	17.4
KM	34
Da Mu Hsing Reps	183	1.3
Kicks	4700	33.1
Acts of Kindness	28	0.2

June 23 onward	36 days	Avg/ Day
Push Ups	105
Sit Ups	2475	68.8
KM	0
Da Mu Hsing Reps	81	2.3
Kicks	2630	73.1
Acts of Kindness	54	1.5

A couple of things to note - my shoulder injury has prevented me from doing pushups on a regular basis. Also, I clearly need to focus more on my KM.

My takeaway from this is that the benefit of training publicly can't be overstated. As soon as I started posting my numbers daily and creating that accountability, my numbers starting shooting up. I feel like things are starting to click for me. Two important concepts of the I Ho Chuan: Incremental Progress and Training Publicly now make sense to me and I am reaping the benefits of both. I obviously have a long way to go but I feel like I have a system that is working for me. All it's going to take is continued effort and some tweaking here and there. Thanks to everyone that continues to help me by posting their numbers daily.

Cory Smid

http://kungfucory.blogspot.ca/