100 Pushups
- Thread starter Kevin B.
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sixstringsteve
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Week 3 Day 1: 10-12-7-7-10
Week 3 Day 2: 10-12-8-8-12
Week 3 Day 3: 11-13-9-9-21
Week 4 Day 1: 12-14-11-10-16
Week 4 Day 2: 14-16-12-12-18
Week 4 Day 3: 16-18-13-13-23
Week 5 day 1: 28-35-25-22-36
Week 5 day 2: 18-18-20-20-14-14-16-40
Week 5 day 3: 18-18-20-20-20-17-20-45
Week 6 day 1: 40-50-25-25-50
Week 6 day 2: 20-20-23-23-20-20-18-18-54
I learned a new trick today that did wonders. I know you're supposed to breathe when you work out, and I try to, but today I made an exaggerated effort to breathe heavily while I did my pushups. I can't believe the difference it made. I got to my numbers quicker, and I felt a lot better in between sets. Day 2 of week six is way easier than day 1.
Week 3 Day 2: 10-12-8-8-12
Week 3 Day 3: 11-13-9-9-21
Week 4 Day 1: 12-14-11-10-16
Week 4 Day 2: 14-16-12-12-18
Week 4 Day 3: 16-18-13-13-23
Week 5 day 1: 28-35-25-22-36
Week 5 day 2: 18-18-20-20-14-14-16-40
Week 5 day 3: 18-18-20-20-20-17-20-45
Week 6 day 1: 40-50-25-25-50
Week 6 day 2: 20-20-23-23-20-20-18-18-54
I learned a new trick today that did wonders. I know you're supposed to breathe when you work out, and I try to, but today I made an exaggerated effort to breathe heavily while I did my pushups. I can't believe the difference it made. I got to my numbers quicker, and I felt a lot better in between sets. Day 2 of week six is way easier than day 1.
DAA
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88.
Was kind of thinking I might be closer to 100. But, 88 is fine, definitely a big improvement over where I started.
Leaving town day after tomorrow, so I won't get back to it until next week. Thinking I'll repeat weeks 5 and 6 before trying again. So another 3 more weeks before my next attempt at 100. I still think I'll get there eventually.
- DAA
Was kind of thinking I might be closer to 100. But, 88 is fine, definitely a big improvement over where I started.
Leaving town day after tomorrow, so I won't get back to it until next week. Thinking I'll repeat weeks 5 and 6 before trying again. So another 3 more weeks before my next attempt at 100. I still think I'll get there eventually.
- DAA
sixstringsteve
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Rock on Dave. Nice job.
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Back at it, I still can't complete Week Two Day One in good form. Tomorrow I'll see where my max is, and then maybe I'll go back to Week One again.
Not giving up though.
Not giving up though.
sixstringsteve
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my back has been hurting a lot lately. It could be the flu, but I'm starting to wonder if it's because I've only been working on pushups. I should probably be doing some crunches at the same time to offset my stronger back muscles. I think I'm unbalanced.
ricsrx
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being true to yourself, the first step in the healing process.
Sorry Steve I couldn’t pass that up.
sixstringsteve
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oh, I'm definitely unbalanced...
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18 pushups is my new max - maybe 19 if you count that last super-sloppy one. That's twice what I started with, so that's encouraging.
sixstringsteve
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Nice Kev. Despite being one day away from doing my max, I'm going to take it easy and do some crunches for a couple weeks before going for it.
Brian P
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I'm going to get back to this on Monday.
Great job keeping up on the work all!
Great job keeping up on the work all!
Wo wo, go easy on yourself rick.
DAA
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So, after completing Week 6 but failing to do 100, I decided to take a week off (to go backpacking...) and then repeat weeks 5 & 6.
I just finished Day 3 of Week 5 (re-do). Week 5 was DEFINITELY easier this second time around. Very noticeably easier. First time around, I played it kind of loose on the rest between sets. This time, I was much more strict about that.
Today, I did 20-20-24-24-20-20-22-51.
That was with only 45 seconds rest between sets, except for the last set but even that one I only rested 90 seconds (exactly). The first time I did Week 5, I rested several minutes before the last set and only just barely-barely squeeked out 50. So to take a much shorter rest and still do one more rep this time, I'm feeling some real progress here!
Start Week 6 re-do on Monday.
- DAA
I just finished Day 3 of Week 5 (re-do). Week 5 was DEFINITELY easier this second time around. Very noticeably easier. First time around, I played it kind of loose on the rest between sets. This time, I was much more strict about that.
Today, I did 20-20-24-24-20-20-22-51.
That was with only 45 seconds rest between sets, except for the last set but even that one I only rested 90 seconds (exactly). The first time I did Week 5, I rested several minutes before the last set and only just barely-barely squeeked out 50. So to take a much shorter rest and still do one more rep this time, I'm feeling some real progress here!
Start Week 6 re-do on Monday.
- DAA
sixstringsteve
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After two and a half weeks off, I decided to just go for it and see how many I could do at once. I got to 60. I probably could have squeezed another 10 out, but I wasn't very mentally committed or confident. I felt great at 40, good at 50, and pretty shaky at 60. Either way, there's no way I was getting to 100. Still, from 20 to 60 in 6 weeks is great. I'm not as interested in being able to do 100 at a time now, but I am interested in being able to do the difficult columns of weeks 5 and 6, so I plan to keep on that. Maybe in a month or two I'll get the 100, but that's not really the motivating factor to me.