The great ab challenge is definitely for beginners or the ab challenged.

Ab challenge day 3 consisted of:

• 25 sit-ups
• 10 crunches
• 10 leg lifts
• 15 seconds plank

I think after this 30 day ab challenge, if it doesn’t get more challenging, I’ll have to create a new ab challenge!

Physical fitness day 9 diet: 5 glasses of water, egg sandwich for lunch, and Indian lamb curry. Desert was an ice cream sundae.

Physical fitness day 9 exercise: I walked about 3 miles today, and did the ab challenge day 3 tasks as mentioned above.

Didn’t have time for a lot of handy activities or exercise today.  Last week we sold our couch with the intention of replacing it ASAP.  Well today was ASAP!  We drove about 2 hours north to pick up the couch that my wife found on craigslist.

Our new couch is a leather sectional.  It’s much larger, and smells slightly of dog, but it is nicer than our last couch by a wide margin.

Does anyone have any advice on the care of leather furniture?

So far, sitting on this couch, writing this post, I find the leather enjoyable and cool to the touch… a nice feature in the summer.

I still have about 25 minutes left in the day, and I’m going to go for 40 push-ups tonight.

One other thing I think is a good feature of this new couch is that I can use it to help with sit-ups when there aren’t any hands around to hold my feet.