Out of breath.

That dessert. Genius. I wish I hadn’t finished the rest of the brownies my friend gave me yesterday because otherwise I would have replicated your concoction. I don’t think I can even do 5 pushups. I usually drop to my knees and do “girl ones” even in yoga when they make us go from high to low plank a million times and my arms feel like they’re going to fall off.

Oh my- that brownie marshmallow sundae is making me crave sweets at 6am!
I would definitely rather strength train on my own… I actually prefer doing 99% of activities on my own!
I’ll be the big 3-0 in January!

I don’t have kids so no stroller for me, but I did get speed-passed by a guy pushing one as if it was a cloud of nothingness during my last race. It felt great.

I’d rather strength train on my own, because then I’m more likely to do it! Going to a class involves travel time…even if it’s only 5 minutes lol

When I run I try to go before joe leaves for work for the very reason that I hate pushing the stroller! Agreed, it’s a whole added workout and I don’t even have hills. On the last day of November I will have 26 candles :-) Enjoy your day!

Happy Bday Curly!!!! I am so in love with that dessert…

I can actually do about 10-15 real pushups…well I’m not on my knees but who knows how far I’m actually going down.

I really like pump classes because you hit all of the muscle groups and you are done in an hour.

I run with my BOB and my pace slows a lot….it is hard work!

My last birthday was 31!

I had a birthday beer instead of desert for my last birthday. (the big 3-0)

I love strength training on my own!! And a year ago when I decided to do push-ups (I just don’t care for them ahaha) I was able to do 20 in a row. I would make brownie cupcakes, and 21 candles was on mine :).

I still have to switch back and forth between push ups on my toes and knees. That dessert looks delicious!

I prefer strength training in a class because I am forced to do it for a hour. HOWEVER, I am looking forward to starting to weight lift with my husband soon and I cannot wait to learn more about the weight lifting floor!

I can do 1 semi push-up before I just give up and I prefer to embarrass myself in my home.
Next week there will be 28 candles on a carvel ice cream cake shaped like a turkey just for me.

Push ups are HARD. Depends how I’m feeling… Typically I’ll start on my toes, but then if our instructor makes us do a bazillion push ups, I will eventually go down to my knees.

Running with a jogging stroller is NO JOKE. Especially here in Utah where it’s crazy hilly! I feel like I run ten miles when I only run two with that thing!

I love strength training in a CLASS! I feel more motivated and challenged.

I played lacrosse in high school and our coach was super into fitness. Before every practice, we did sit-ups, push-ups, and dips. So every day since then I have done a set in the morning and a set in the evening. For 19 years! (that would make my # of candles = 35!).

Not sure how many push-ups I could do before complete exhaustion but my sets are 16 push-ups (on toes), 26 dips, and 4 sets of 12 sit-ups (all different positions).’

I hope I’m still allowed to read your posts even though I am the eldest so far of the commenters. You all make me feel younger :)

I could probably do about 25 in a row on my toes, probably more on my knees. I used to run with a double jogging stroller, actually that’s when I first started to run so I didn’t know any better. Whew, I don’t miss that at all. I would much rather do strength in a class or with other people. 31 candles on my last cake. Eek, 31 days until 32 candles!

I’m trying really hard to work strength training into my routine. I pretty much just made up my own circuits based off what I knew how to do, but I think I’ll try a class soon to see how that is. I’ll have to get down on the ground and see how many I can do and report back later – can’t do it now at work!

I’m not very good at push ups, but I do run with a BOB! lol
I was at a 9k stroller running race (9k, because it was for a charity for battered pregnant women) and this beast runner pushed her BOB so fast, it was incredible!!

I really hate push ups and so I do my planks and count them as push ups. It counts, it really does.
No jogging stroller, my baby is all grown up.
And, no candles on my cake or brownies, my husband puts reeses on there and I like him to use the entire bag of reeses minis because I love my chocolate that much.

I think I can do about 20-25 pushups in a row. I do them the standard way, no knees! I also have to go all the way down, otherwise I get yelled at, haha! The other day I did an arm workout with my friend – and it involved 3 rounds of various types of arm drills including walking push-ups and incline pushups, along with various other forms of arm torture. I think the final count of push-ups I did in a 30 minute period was over 125 – my arms were burning for the rest of the weekend! But, gotta work on those guns ;-)

I do all my strength training with my boy track coach friend on Thursdays before we coach. We push each other and honestly it is more fun to work out with a friend than alone.

I own a jogging stroller, but I rarely run with Max anymore. He is just too heavy!

I’ve never done a pump class-I keep saying I’ll go but now that I ventured into CrossFit and will be getting rid of my regular gym membership I no longer have the opportunity.

Thanks to the Army I’m a pushup queen. I can do at least 50 on my toes in two minutes. Hoping to get into the 60s by springtime :)

I watched Revenge last night too after I put my kids to bed. I friggin wish I was eating that bowl of delicousness with it like you! Yum!

Depends on my mood. Some days I need other people with me to make me do strength. Other days I love being able to choose what I am doing and really push myself. Pushups on the toes…well, until about 15 and then I have to drop to the knees. lol.

And pushing a stroller up that mountain to your parents house. Ya. I wouldn’t be able to do that either!

The pic of your niece thinking up all her wishes is adorable. Oh to be a kid again. Hope you have a great day girl!

Hmmm…maybe 20. Push-ups are ok, but now my coach has us doing body curls. We have a few original members of Mammoth Track Club with us right now, who are both Olympians (Anna Willard and Morgan Uceny). I watched them do body curls last night and said…”welll….I can do 1/4th of that”

And, I didn’t have candles since I made homemade vegan vanilla ice cream with kahlua on top :)

I run with my 2 yr old in the jogger stroller about 2-3 times per week. I definitely think it makes me a stronger runner. I can totally tell when I’ve taken a break from it for any length of time, it is like 1000x harder when I go back to it!!

I really prefer strength training in a class cause I feel like the instructor pushes me to do more than I would on my own. Unfortunately I don’t belong to a gym right now so I’m left to do it on my own at home.

I try to do all my push-ups on my toes….,and I could never do 100!!!

That dessert looks so yummy! I can’t do many push-ups right now. I had surgery on my wrist earlier this year and I’m trying to learn to do push ups on my knuckles to keep my wrists straight.
It’s been a while since I took my kiddos with me running. They’re 5 & 3 so the combined weight of the two is a bit much. Nothing like pushing 70+ lbs while running! But man you feel so light and speedy the next time you run without a stroller!
I would rather do a class than on my own. I mostly do on my own, but I love the atmosphere of a class as well as not having to be the one to come up with the plan of what I am doing.
I had 31 candles on top of my oreo cookie ice cream cake.

I need to step up my strength training. I was up to 17 push ups in a row! But now… I don’t even want to know what I fell back to. :\

That chili is making me hungry at 9 a.m. I may need to make that soon!

And I had 27 candles on my last cake. I was kinda worried I was going to catch the cake on fire with all those candles. Eeek!

I top out around 14 pushups before I need a break – and I’m a knee pushup girl all the way!

I LOVE BodyPump classes but right now I don’t have a gym membeship so I’m doing the Greatist.com tabata workouts of the day to get my strength training in.

I had 30 (!!!!) candles this year :D

The pay per pound bars always get me, usually because I pick heavy vegetables!

Mmm… brownies.

I am very proud to say I can do 30 “boy” pushups in a row. I strength train in a bootcamp style class and love it. However, I would probably prefer to train alone if I knew enough of what I was doing to motivate and instruct myself (which I don’t).

Last birthday cake (a sugar pizookie with sugar/cream cheese frosting and fresh cut fruit on top which my mom makes me EVERY year… it is ok to be jealous) had 26 candles on it. :)

I can do about 20 push ups maybe more on my toes, I haven’t counted lately. I think I would enjoy a strength training class, but I don’t belong to a gym :(. There would have been 34 candles on my last birthday cake if I had had one, but I settled for a slice of cheese cake from the Cheese Cake Factory instead!!!

i do i do! run with a double jogger, that is. I probably do 15 miles a week with it. I try to avoid the long run with it if possible… especially because I live in colorado- high up and hilly. however I have taken 2 minutes off per mile when I run without it, so 3 cheers for the stroller! hip hip hooray! I am still not even kinda as fast as you, but I’ll take any improvement. have a great week!

Oh my gosh, that sunday looks to DIE for! And it was probably so hard because Brooke is so much bigger! I can’t believe it, seeing her sitting at the “kids” table! She looks like a toddler instead of a baby!

It’s probably harder because Brooke has gotten bigger! That extra weight has to add something.
I’ve been taking some lifting classes and I can’t decide whether or not I prefer lifting on my own or in them – I like the extra motivation, but at the same time I like the sets/rep approach with heavy lifting. Pushups? I do them on my toes, and I think I can pound out about 30 these days. Yes, I am proud of that ;-)

24 on my last (ice cream) cake!

I’m looking forward to getting back into strength training after Richmond! I could probably do 5 or 6 push-ups before falling on my face. And I couldn’t do a pull-up to save my life right now. There was a time when I could crank out those bad boys. That marshmallow & brownie sundae looks AWESOME!

When I first decided to get back into running after having my second child, I pushed a double jogging stroller and it was like two workouts in one! I do pushups every day and most of the time they are on my knees and I can do almost 50 but I can only do about 10 on my toes. I need to work on my upper body strength.

There were 39 candles on my last birthday cake.
I am such a weakling when it comes to upper body strength. I can probably do about 10 push-ups and that’s on my knees. I feel like I keep my back straighter/flatter when I do the cheater’s version.
Unfortunately, I don’t do much strength training but when I do I prefer to do it at home alone.

I live right smack dab in the middle of the hill country in Austin, tx. These hills alone are a killer than add my DOUBLE BOB with a 40 pound 2 1/2 year old and my 5 month old and I’m pushing over 100lbs. On the occasion when I get to run without them, I feel like I’m flying!

I really hate push-ups….on my toes, I can do around 40 in a row. Don’t ask me about pull-ups though – those things, even with the assistance machine, are insane.

I ran 99% of my runs with a jogging stroller and a toddler in it over the past years! We don’t use day care on the days I’m not at work so I had no choice but to run WITH him. (well, I guess I could have gotten up at 5am but that’s just not going to happen!). Funny thing is I became dependent on how much stuff I could stash on the stroller and then when I did run alone I was annoyed at having to carry my own water and key, etc.

Happy birthday to Curly! My youngest daughter has asked for brownies the past two years, too :) We make this recipe, which is even more amazing than normal brownies because it has a layer of peanut butter frosting…I have no words to describe how delicious these are!

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/fudgy-brownies-8?keycode=ZFB0113

Also, I just have to thank you for posting that chicken cream cheese chili! I’ve made it almost weekly since the first time you shared it. It’s a huge hit in our family and is in the crock pot as I type :)

strength train on my own. (although considering I haven’t done that since June I better rethink my preference. lol)

40 candles on my last cake! Actually 41 if you count my good luck candle.

I don’t have kids but wouldn’t mind a jogging stroller for my long runs. I hate spibelts, water belts etc. And in the winter i could take layers off and just drop em in the stroller!

42 pushups on my toes. No go on the jogging stroller. I did try it once the last time I was babysitting my nephew. Lets just say the front end starting vibrating something awful—so, I stopped. :) As for strength training, I think it depends on my mood. I thoroughly enjoy both. I can be creative when I am on my own, and when I am in a class I can get that additional motivation from others and do the same for them—plus, learn new variations. On my last cake, I had two candles on there—a 2 and an 8 :)

I love strength training on my own but a class is much more motivational and makes the time fly! And I love push-ups! Always and forever on the toes ;)

Well, as of this morning I can do 18 in a row, but I do them on my knees. Working my way up! ;) I’d rather strength train on my own, which I do, but with a friend’s plan to help me out. I’m the geek walking around Planet Fitness with a spreadsheet because, let’s face it, I love Excel.

The runners with strollers are amazing. I’ve been passed in many a race by people with even a DOUBLE stroller. Badass!

On my last birthday there were 33 candles – but there will be 34 in one month from tomorrow. And I’m all about the cake. Or let’s face it, the frosting.

I alternate with push ups—I get about 10-15 on my toes then switch to knees and switch again
In December my birthday carrot cake will have 38 candles—little forest fire!

I just did 20 girlie style to see how many I can do…I normally do yoga down dog and up dog not so much push ups. 37 last bday ice cream…I push a 30 plus pound 2 year old daughter in a cheap jogger I got off Craigslist. I feel like I’m flying when I don’t run with her:) I usually only run 4 to 6 miles with her and she usually falls asleep all about the timing

I can do 30 without stopping, but I do drop to my knees at some point. I always start on my toes, but as soon as form starts suffering I drop to my knees to maintain good form. I’m actually doing a push up challenge this month and am up to 25.

I do run with a jogger, my 2 1/2 year old does most of my training runs with me, even the longer ones when I’m training for 1/2’s. It’s hard, really hard, but makes running races feel so easy!

I like strength training at home alone, so much better than at the gym or in a class. My Dad is a personal trainer and is really good about giving me stuff I can do at home to help with running and trouble spots.

38 candles on the last b-day cake. Bring on 39 I say!

4 mile run this morning plus 2 mile walk!

as they get heavier, it gets harder.

Curly is so cute, she honestly looks a lot like you

Thank you for making this pregnant lady NEED a brownie with ice cream and marshmallows on top ASAP ;)

xo

Just commenting to say: I love Revenge! Can’t wait for the next series in the UK :)