Byung Kyu Park's Personal Website » exercise http://bkpark.com Everything about Byung Kyu Park Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:59:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Strive for adequacy http://bkpark.com/2009/10/25/strive-for-adequacy/ http://bkpark.com/2009/10/25/strive-for-adequacy/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:26:24 +0000 bkpark http://byungkyupark.com/?p=274 I have a new resolution for this year: meet the minimum standard for Marine Corps. The criterion listed at about.com seems a bit more lenient than others I have seen before, but, well, it would be a good start to be able to run 3 miles in 28 minutes, do 50 crunches in 2 minutes, and do 3 pull-ups. At the moment, I am at the bottom rung of mediocrity: less than 3 miles in 30 minutes, too tired after 20-some crunches, and I don’t ever remember being able to do a pull-up in my life.

As far as personal development goes, if I could accomplish adequacy here and do my other resolution (um, learn how to use and obtain a gun, probably a handgun), I would have had the best year so far in my life.

Professionally speaking, of course, that’s a different matter, but I’m working on that. :(

Update: Um, I forgot to mention: I am mainly motivated by this book. I know, it has nothing to do with exercise (and given that it’s published under a pseudonym, I am not sure if I … trust everything in the book), but it was … very inspiring.

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