Yes, it has been almost 4 weeks since I last did any push ups. I have not given up. I'm starting over on week 3 now and with the new effort I'm changing the Post Title format. They seemed pretty easy today considering I've been really slacking.
It's been four days since the last time I did my push ups and I could tell. I meant to get to them each of the last two days and just never made it. I was able to complete the whole set, just barely making the minimum of 25 for the last round. The last 5 were sloppy but I'm counting them anyway, because they hurt!
Wow...94, that's almost the goal, only with rests. I was supposed to do 25 on the last set, but before I got down to start I told my wife that I didn't think I was going to be able to get out 5 more, much less 25. So, I'm pretty happy with 20.
I completed the second exhaustion test and did 43 consecutive push ups. This is only 5 more than when I tried 2 weeks ago. I guess it is still an improvement, but I was hoping to see a bigger gain already. It still puts me in the highest category for the challenge so if I believe that the system works then I should have no problem reaching the goal of 100 push ups without stopping.
I did my push ups early today with the promise of an ice cold Guinness or two as a reward. I can feel a difference in my arms now while doing the push ups. I don't know if they feel easier, but they feel better. If that makes any sense.
My totals went up considerably since Monday and I'm pretty happy about that. The push ups felt easier today, but I still punked out at 20 on the final set.
Today was much harder than I expected. I did the next to lowest total number out of the 4 days today. I think that it should be getting easier.
Friday should have been Day Three, but I felt awful when I got home from work and had to take a nap. It was also my wife's birthday and I needed to spend time with her on her special day so the push ups got postponed. Naturally, Saturday would have been the next best time to do my exercise, but I spent about 8 hours moving furniture into our new building at church so I didn't feel up to the challenge. Today was a very long day but I needed to push through and get Day Three out of the way so at 10:30 pm I got down on the floor.
Today was easier than I expected and I haven't had any soreness or fatigue yet. So, by my reckoning this is pretty successful already
This is the first real day of the 100 Pushup Challenge. It went a easier than I thought it would.
We'll see how it goes from here. Looking ahead at the program I should be doing 99 with intermittent breaks just 2 short weeks from now.
So I have decided to start the one hundred push up challenge. I used to be able to set down my beer, crank out 100 and pick my beer right back up again, but apparently something I was doing there was acting against the goal of being healthy or fit.
I took the initial test and I did 38 push ups. This puts me at level 4 out of 7 and I'm ok with starting out that way. Hopefully, soon it won't be hard to hit 100 again. I'm going to track my progress here and hope that the four of you don't mind.
