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One Hundred Pushups (1 Viewer)

Vrana

Vrana

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One Hundred Pushups

I've never been one that works out a lot. I do light cardio a few times a week, and I've done the whole gym thing in the past, but it's not for me. I'd say I'm in decent shape, but I don't have a lot of strength training to go with my cardio.

Push ups used to be a favorite of mine just because how convenient they were to always do, but I haven't been serious about them in years. I found this workout plan on another forum I visit, and I thought it might be fun to get a couple FBGs together to see if we could complete this challenge.

I'm not a fitness guy, but I'm sure just focusing on this one activity for 6 weeks wouldn't be the best thing you can do for your body. Make sure you change it up and add cardio and other exercise to this.

If enough people are interested in trying out this plan I think I could set up a google spreadsheet that would allow us all to keep track of how everyone else is doing. Having other people see your progress would encourage everyone to keep up with it, and I think this would be a good thing for some of the less fitness-savvy amongst us.

So, anyone feel like going through with this?

I did the initial test and was able to push out 20, which was actually more than I expected. I'll probably start the training next monday, and will chronicle the journey here if anyone seems interested.

EDIT: Google Doc

Alright, I think it would be nice to see how other people are progressing in this, so I went ahead and opened up a Google Spreadsheet of it. Anyone should be able to edit in their information. This should help keep people motivated to continue on with the program. Remember though, this isn't a competition, so I'd appreciate if we could keep e-peen waving to a minimum.

I've never opened up a google doc myself, and I blatantly stole this layout from another forum. If you see anything wrong with it, or for some reason can't edit it let me know. I'm not certain I set everything up correctly.

 
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I'm as skinny as an Ethiopian orphan but I do 50 pushups each morning. I don't think 100 would be overly difficult.

 
i just started doing pushups a week and a half ago. first time did 20, then another 20, then 15. I do sets of 20-25 4 times per day with the goal to do 100 in a day and I'm doing that all summer. We'll see. I know that in just 10 days or so I am already a lot stronger in my upper body, plus it makes you feel good to stay in some shape.

also, there's a huge difference in pushup styles, but I do them the way they taught us in boot camp which is full extended arms, straight back and go all the way down to touch your chest to the floor (or very close to it). I see guys basically move their arms 3 inches and call that a pushup...its not

 
tommyboy said:
i just started doing pushups a week and a half ago. first time did 20, then another 20, then 15. I do sets of 20-25 4 times per day with the goal to do 100 in a day and I'm doing that all summer. We'll see. I know that in just 10 days or so I am already a lot stronger in my upper body, plus it makes you feel good to stay in some shape.also, there's a huge difference in pushup styles, but I do them the way they taught us in boot camp which is full extended arms, straight back and go all the way down to touch your chest to the floor (or very close to it). I see guys basically move their arms 3 inches and call that a pushup...its not
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I received a pair of the perfect pushups as a gift. Love those things. The motion relieves the pain I used to get from doing normal pushups on my bum shoulder.
 
I went ahead and added a google spreadsheet to the opening post. If anyone wants to go ahead and throw their information up there, I wholly support it. It'll be encouraging to see other people going through this as well.

 
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John Stamos said:
Cacksman, you should be able to hit 100 by next week.
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I highly doubt it. The past few weeks Ive started to do pushups again, usually 50 every night or every other night before I go to bed. I was tired today and could probably do 70 on a normal day but since I already do pushups, it will be harder for me to improve.
 
Will this help me get bigger boobs pecs? If so, I'm in. I usually do 3 sets of 20, when I exercise.

But I can't seem to get any size in my chest, kinda like Bruce Lee but less violent and better English.

 
EYLive said:
Will this help me get bigger boobs pecs?
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Push ups are a basic exercise used in civilian athletic training or physical education and, especially, in military physical training and will develop the pectoral muscles and triceps, with ancillary benefits to the deltoids, serratus anterior, coracobrachialis and the midsection as a whole.link

 
I was going to wait until Monday to start my training, but seeing this bumped got me excited and I went and ahead and got day one out of the way.

10/10/8/6/9

That was a lot harder than I thought it would be. The last two sets in particular were really difficult, and I had trouble keeping my form correct. In day 2, I'll be focusing a lot more on my form, trying to get it right so I can get all the way through this.

Right now, my chest is hurting more than the rest of me, and I'm sure I'll be feeling this tomorrow.

 
offdee in.

One question I have is you have columns for Initial Max. / Current Max. I can see Initial Max being relevant, but after skimming thru the program you never really do a max out test until the completion of the program corrrect?

Unless we all do our own separate "max." test outside of the program guidelines on an off day or something this number won't get updated for many and hard to track progress as we go. Not a huge deal, but just an observation.

 
offdee said:
Unless we all do our own separate "max." test outside of the program guidelines on an off day or something this number won't get updated for many and hard to track progress as we go. Not a huge deal, but just an observation.
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First off, welcome to the 100 push-up club. :excited: First rule of 100 push-up club...I'm not 100 percent sure if I follow. I do know that after 6 weeks you're supposed to max out and make an attempt for 100. It's suggested that you go back to Week 5 or 6 if you don't make it. I personally see myself taking 10 weeks to reach 100. I might do week 4-6 twice.
 
offdee said:
offdee in.One question I have is you have columns for Initial Max. / Current Max. I can see Initial Max being relevant, but after skimming thru the program you never really do a max out test until the completion of the program corrrect?Unless we all do our own separate "max." test outside of the program guidelines on an off day or something this number won't get updated for many and hard to track progress as we go. Not a huge deal, but just an observation.
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You do another test after weeks 2, 4, and 5.It doesn't have a separate tab for them, but if you read at the bottom of those weeks it will say to do a test. I just had the current max column so everyone could see how you were doing after those tests without having to scroll all the way over.
 
Vrana said:
offdee said:
offdee in.One question I have is you have columns for Initial Max. / Current Max. I can see Initial Max being relevant, but after skimming thru the program you never really do a max out test until the completion of the program corrrect?Unless we all do our own separate "max." test outside of the program guidelines on an off day or something this number won't get updated for many and hard to track progress as we go. Not a huge deal, but just an observation.
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You do another test after weeks 2, 4, and 5.It doesn't have a separate tab for them, but if you read at the bottom of those weeks it will say to do a test. I just had the current max column so everyone could see how you were doing after those tests without having to scroll all the way over.
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Ah, gotcha. Makes sense. Should be fun.:chestflex:
 
Signed up. I actually tried this on Thursday starting on the week 3, day 3 schedule just to see where I'm at. I've been doing pushups everynight working up to 4 x 30 before this. Never really had a goal was just doing them as a supplement to my workouts.

A co-workers mother just shipped off to Iraq and mentioned that aside from work, about all there is to do is workout so she set a goal for herself of being able to do 100 pushups by the time she comes back. She said she can do 50 straight right now. I can't so she kinda shamed me into setting that as my goal. This post came up about 3 days after that email so it worked out perfectly.

 
beer 30 said:
Signed up. I actually tried this on Thursday starting on the week 3, day 3 schedule just to see where I'm at.
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Welcome beer 30!Just a suggestion, you should record your results in the appropriate week 3, day 3 section of the spreadsheet then as to not confuse anybody.On week 1, day 1 (which is where most will be starting at) we should all be recording..10/10/8/6/whatever # max we can doSeeing your numbers may confuse some and skew our tracking.
 
offdee said:
beer 30 said:
Signed up. I actually tried this on Thursday starting on the week 3, day 3 schedule just to see where I'm at.
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Welcome beer 30!Just a suggestion, you should record your results in the appropriate week 3, day 3 section of the spreadsheet then as to not confuse anybody.On week 1, day 1 (which is where most will be starting at) we should all be recording..10/10/8/6/whatever # max we can doSeeing your numbers may confuse some and skew our tracking.
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Duly noted and fixed, thanks.
 
What is the proper form for a pushup?

I place my hands about shoulder width apart, but when I lower myself to the ground, my elbows point out and are perpendicular to my body. I've seen some people keep their elbows near their body, but I've always thought that was to focus more on the triceps.

 
jevy said:
What is the proper form for a pushup?

I place my hands about shoulder width apart, but when I lower myself to the ground, my elbows point out and are perpendicular to my body. I've seen some people keep their elbows near their body, but I've always thought that was to focus more on the triceps.
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Here's helpful link
 
billymays here-

I work out at the gym pretty regularly doing both cardio and weights and managed 46 reps....with my knees off the ground. lol.

this is a good idea and i already feel like i got my ### kicked. when i got to around 42 i was gonna go for fifty but it just wasnt going to happen. i feel a good pump and am ready to puke on myself. GTG. honey, where did we put the oxiclean.

 
IN

Question on the initial test.... Are you supposed to see how many you can do consecutively or are you supposed to see how many you can pull off with a little rest in between?

 
Frank Fontaine said:
IN

Question on the initial test.... Are you supposed to see how many you can do consecutively or are you supposed to see how many you can pull off with a little rest in between?
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Consecutively. Do it the right way too. It's important to be honest with yourself, so that you may reach the goal in 6-10 weeks.
 
jevy said:
What is the proper form for a pushup?I place my hands about shoulder width apart, but when I lower myself to the ground, my elbows point out and are perpendicular to my body. I've seen some people keep their elbows near their body, but I've always thought that was to focus more on the triceps.
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in boot camp it was to be able to touch your chest to the floor while keeping a straight back, that simple. The other thing, if you want to do them right do them slowly.
 
First of all ... :yawn:

I do pushups everyday. I haven't had much time for the gym so I've been running a few times a week and just a little workout at home to take the edge off. That includes at least 50 pushups, sometimes 100, sometimes 150, but not all at once. I usually spread it out in sets of 25 or 50 depending on how hard I feel like pushing.

Dr. Watson said:
S,?
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What does this mean? I see it all the time and always wanted to ask. TIA.
 
Frank Fontaine said:
IN

Question on the initial test.... Are you supposed to see how many you can do consecutively or are you supposed to see how many you can pull off with a little rest in between?
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Frank, looks like you're getting confused by the program as your Day 1, week 1 recording is 25/15/14.

Then realized your 25/15/14 = 54 which is what you put at your initial max. Doesn't work like that.

Initial max is a one time, how many can you do all at once (not adding up 3 reps). Do your initial max today and start the Day 1, week 1 program accordingly on Monday with sets of...

10/10/8/6/# of max.

And then follow the program as it's outlined thereafter.

 
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