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100 Push-Ups: Week #3

eric — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:49:56 +0000

It was self-test time this week. I was able to crank out 29 pushups this go-around. I started the challenge being able to do 21….a 38% increase from day one.

29 pushups puts me in the 3rd column workouts for week 3…and that’s going to make it pretty rough. I did my first workout of the week last night (25-17-17-15-25). The first 4 sets went well, but the last set of 25 got the better of me. While I was able to do 18 normally, I had to finish the last 7 on my knees.

If I do the same tomorrow night (workout #2 for week 3), I feel that I’ll probably need a do-over for week 3.

100 Push-Ups: Week #2

eric — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:20:09 +0000

Week one was a success! I was pretty sore after the first 2 workouts, but that seems to have passed now. The first workout of week 2 has gone well. I think I should should be able to make it through this week fairly easily, but looking ahead to week 3 (if I stay in the 3rd column after my week 2 test) scares me a bit. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

100 Push-Ups

eric — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:01:29 +0000

A link to the 100 Push-Up challenge came across my Twitter feed tonite. I need to get back into strength training, so I decided to give it a go.

On the initial test, I could 21 well-formed push-ups without stopping. For my age, that put me at a “Level 3“.

I decided to blog about it to make it part of the public record. Being shamed by my co-workers is a pretty compelling motivational tool. I’ll try my best to subsequently blog about it each week of the program.