http://thinking.today.com ...to reason about or reflect on; ponder Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:38:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By: L Jones  The two essential ingredients to increasing your push ups and situps are time and intensity. Many push up/sit up improvement physical training (PT) programs are flawed in that they do not incorporate these two ingredients properly. Typical Push ups/Sit ups Improvement PT Plan: Warm-Up Stretch 3 sets of 25 push ups 3 sets of ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/10/01/two-essential-ingredients-to-improving-your-push-ups-and-sit-ups/ By: L Jones Hello all. I apologize for being away for so long, but I have been working on other projects and it has taken away from the time needed to maintaining an effective blog. I'm here to tell you that I'm back. Though I am still working on these other ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/09/27/im-back/ By: L Jones  Words to live by in the Army are "train as you would fight". This saying is a powerful lesson in life when in pursuit of achieving your goals. You wouldn't train for a marathon by swimming three times a week. It might help with your endurance, but it's not ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/05/20/how-to-pump-out-more-push-ups/ By: L Jones I thought I was in better shape than I was. This became apparent when I took my semi-annual Army physical fitness test (APFT) on 18 March 2009. On the push-up portion of the test, I performed 55 push-ups in two minutes. This may sound good to some, but ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/05/08/4-tips-to-help-improve-your-apft-performance/ By: L Jones  Being in the Army, I have to maintain a certain level of physical fitness. My level on March 25 2009 was pretty average. I know this, because I took the Army physical fitness test on March 18. For those of you that don't know, the Army physical fitness ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/04/28/how-to-increase-your-fitness-and-do-well-on-the-apft/ By: L Jones WTF AIG? The country’s financial foundation is crumbling. US citizens are losing jobs, money, homes and patience.  Who’s to blame? So many things are the blame, but AIG has the misfortune of being one of the faces associated with the country’s current financial woes. AIG’s ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/03/18/wtf-aig/ By: L Jones  The other day I signed up f or a free one month subscription for the navigation feature on my cell phone. My GPS in the car was acting up, so I decided what the heck; let’s see how this little feature handles. Five days later, I hadn’t used ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/03/16/im-watching-television-on-my-phone-im-so-old/ So what do women want? What do men want? We all think that we have the answers and something in life always catches us off guard. I watched My Best Friend's Girl, and I must say I really enjoyed it. If you can get past the vulgarity and intense sexual scenes ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/03/15/my-best-friends-girl-what-do-women-want/ By: L Jones How do you make the right choice, when all the choices are correct and all the choices are incorrect? That's the dilemma, paradox or whatever you want to call it when dealing with religions. So, before I attempt to define who God is, I may first want to ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/03/13/who-is-god-and-why-so-many-religions-part-2/ By: L Jones You ever wonder why there are so many religions? I do. I also think about how none of us know for certain which religion is the correct religion. We don't know if any of the religions got it right. Throughout history, as man continued to think about ... http://thinking.today.com/2009/03/12/who-is-god-and-why-are-there-so-many-religions/