Welcome to the Sunday roundup. I hope everybody has had a good weekend so far and that you are all staying healthy and fit.

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I will now redirect you to several great posts written by the Fitness Health Network from this week:

• For an interesting read on food budgeting check out NCN's Creating A Food Budget - And It Has Nothing To Do With Money.
• FatManUnleashed releases Diet Delusions by Chato.
• Do you know what the Best Fruit Drinks for You are? Journal of Healthy Living says its not orange juice or apple juice.
• Fruits and Vegetables: Fresh, Frozen, or Canned? Get Fit Slowly explains a bit about their pros and cons in this post.
• Over at Lazy Man and Health this week there's, 6 Cancer-Fighting Super Foods in 1 Meal. Funny thing is, most of us like this stuff or know it's good for us and just don't eat enough of it.

If you're still here after reading those posts it's time to present something new to read. The following posts were selected from the blogs of WL's readers.   How do you make this list?  Leave comments or link to my site in a relevant way.

You find several more health and a few in a variety of other topics in this list:

• Over at Feel Fresh learn what your teenage son or daughter needs in Is your teen eating right?
• Quick to Fit writes on Roadblocks to fitness where he details his number one roadblock as emotional eating.
• Did you know that cacao is one of the most magnesium-rich foods? Chocolate Facts and History of Cacao by HealthyNewAge puts chocolate in a whole new light.
• At Weight Down... Money Up BK poses a question, What Should I do? This is in response to her kids using electricity all the time.
• I have two from Deflabbify this week the first is My biggest health or fitness vice which goes along with my comrade in arms post under the same heading: My Biggest Health or Fitness Vice.
• The second post from Deflabbify is Hundred Pushups, Week 3 wrap-up--half-way through the 6 week challenge. Good luck!
• Looking for a good book to read? Savvy Thinker reviews Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong.
• The Remarkable Approach To Your Finances at Cash Money Life is not one to miss. How do you invest in yourself?
• Cookbook Review: "The Healthy Carbs Diabetes Cookbook" at Living Healthy in the Real World is good for diabetics and non-diabetics because the food is overall very healthy.
• Nutrition Fitness Life posts Want to be Skinny?
• Along with NFL, the Diet Book blogs on a similar vein with Wednesday Wisdom: Forgiveness.
• How do you motivate yourself? THE PINCH PROMPT over at To Be a Strong One is an interesting idea. What are your motivations?
• Take Fit writes Is It Possible To Consume Too Much Protein? Find out.
• Have you ever had to deal with monetary issues with your loved one? Free From Broke presents Dealing With Financial Problems With A Loved One.
• Rocco and Mizfit are at it again with food glorious food: the back by popular demand version.
• Andrew is Getting Fit writes Exercise feels so good this week.
• Day 41 at iRun365 brings 5-Mile Recovery Run (With My Son).

Many thanks to the following carnivals for hosting us this week:

• Carnival of Healing #146 @ Lessons from a Recovering Doormat.
• Weight Management and Fitness Forum 21st Edition @ Weight Master.

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Well if you haven't heard by now then you aren't paying attention to the Health and Fitness blogosphere... Everyone is doing the 100 push up challenge at 100 push ups.   It is a 6 week training program geared toward a final test where 100 consecutive pushups are completed.  (My first thought was, "yeah right," but that was immediately followed by "That would be awesome!" I started last week and have been planning on writing a post that summarizes my experience with the challenge.  No time like the present... This post will be updated over time to reflect the results of my challenge...

First of all I should mention that I have a torn peroneus longus tendon...  As such I am not able to take the pressure on my ankle that even a single full pushup would apply (not to mention that I am not sure how many full push ups I could have done in the first place). So I devised a plan and this post is where you can follow my progress...

I will be taking the 100 pushup challenge 3 times (4 if you are a literalist). 

1. 1st pass through the challenge: Knee Pushups
2. 2nd pass through the challenge: 1 Armed Knee Pushups (left and right at the same time)
3. 3rd pass through the challenge (after my ankle is healed): Full pushups.

Step 1: Initial Test For One Hundred Pushup Program

You do as many push ups as you can do consequtively.  Depending on how you do you fit into one of 3 levels (up to 5, 6-10, 10+) of the program for the 1st and 2nd week.  (Later week's are determined by progressive testing.)

Step 2: Week One One Hundred Pushup Program

Based on the number of pushups completed in the initial test you are to complete the one of the following on 3 different days...  If at any point you cannot complete your level on any day you must repeat the week.

Step 3: Week Two 100 Push up Program

At the end of the week perform another test and see which group you fit into for Week 3.  If you cannot complete at least 16 you must repeat week 2 with your new max number determining your level.

Step 4: Week 3 Hundred Pushup Program

Depending on your exhaustion test you will fit into one of 3 groups (16-20,21-25, or 26+).

Step 5: Week Four 100 Push up Program

At the end of the week perform another test and see which group you fit into for Week 5.  If you cannot complete 31 push ups repeat week 4 with your new max number determining your level.

Step 6: Week 5 Hundred Pushup Program

Depending on your exhaustion test you will fit into one of 3 groups (31-35,36-40, or 41+).  Day 2 and 3 now have 8 levels and minimal rest instead of 5 and more rest.

Step 7: Week Six 100 Pushup Program

Day 2 and 3 now have 9 levels and minimal rest. 

Step 8: Final Test 100 Push up Program

Take another exhaustion test. Congratulations are in order or repeat week 6 with you new level determined by the test.

Got it?  If not check out the website...

Knee Push ups

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• Weight Lost: 48 pounds in 8 weeks... 1.8 Pounds This Week So I am very pleased with my weight loss this week...  With my ruptured tendon I was unable to exercise much, but I still managed 1.8 pounds of weight loss...  In addition to my ankle, I was finding myself stress eating (the injury and the prospect of surgery was stressing me out),......
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• Link Roundup Pre July 4th Still got the bum foot, and so you get a plethora of links...  Check out the FREE eBook: How to Loss Weight and Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle  Check out my guest post @ StrongLifts:  7 Steps to Stop Making Excuses and Start Making Progress So for this week from the Fitness Health......

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Still got the bum foot, and so you get a plethora of links... 

Check out the FREE eBook: How to Loss Weight and Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle 

Check out my guest post @ StrongLifts:  7 Steps to Stop Making Excuses and Start Making Progress

So for this week from the Fitness Health Network I present to you:

• How I Feel After 21 Days Of Healthier Eating is written by No Carlories Needed. Soda- gone. Candy- gone. Cravings- gone. All in all it sounds like a good deal.
• Baked Goods Can Be Part of Your Diet by Lazy Man and Health shows you how. All it takes is a bit of creative footwork.
• Fat Man Unleashed says, Cut the B.S. and Get Fit! If your goal is to lose weight and get healthy this is a good post to get you in the right mind frame.
• What's It Like to Get a Colonoscopy is a guest post written by Jericho Hill at Get Fit Slowly about the whole process.
• Since injuring myself I find posts about prevention to be a great read and this one, How to Prevent Common Golfing Injuries, by Journal of Healthy Living has the extra bonus about sport play. Golfing may not seem like exercise but it is!

Now for the rest of the blogosphere and to provide you with more weekend reading I present the following for mental digestion:

• Doesn't Tropical Granola just sound good? A healthy trail mix for those out golfing or hiking or just plain out and about. This delicious recipe is written by Nutrition Fitness Life.
• Tues Tips (sweaty edition) by Mizfitonline is all about laundry and detergent. What detergent do you use?
• Doing Pushups and Running Hills by Fit36 is a check in on the 100 pushups routine and on cardio. Take the challenge and follow your happy bloggers in the 100 Pushups Challenge.
• Rain or shine he's out there running. I mean just look at his post Running in the rain! He's better than the mailman.
• Posted over at Deflabbify My Fit Bank on Wii Fit got an upgrade tonight. Wii Fit is a game that will get you in shape. Poor Deflabbify has a younger daughter that's putting him through the paces. If I was better I bet my daughter would do that same to me.
• Cardio. Ugh... I have sweat? How many of you feel the same way Weight for Deb does? No excuses! Read FMU's post from this week.

Now belive it or not I actually found something very cool from an ad...  I was browsing 100 pushups website and noticed an ad for Stack Magazine...  Even better than what the ad promised (I don't even remember) was what I found on there site...  Embedable and very cool workout videos of athletes... Check out my favorite so far... Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic doing the bench press...  To my eye that is 315 pounds he is throwing around like it is nothing.  (6 45 pound plates and the 45 pound bar).

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