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Does anybody want to join me? I am doing this beginning today, regardless of the rest of my exercise routine.
The idea is to do 100 daily, whether it's 1 or 5 or 10 or 20+ at a time. Just do 100 total with proper form (down low, back and legs like a plank and no dropping your butt). Obviously this is not for those fitter folks who can just get down and do 100 in a row without breaking a sweat. I'll begin with ten sets of ten and try to up the reps in each set each day with a goal of two sets of 50. Women can either do Pushups for women, or the basic version. Supposedly it can tighten gals' boobs, but don't ask me. I just do not want to develop Man-Boobs.
Men can not do Pushups for Women, of course. That would be shameful (although I confess I was forced to, recently. I can't do 50 man pushups in a row - yet).
100 is not a lot for 24 hours, and over time it gets more efficient, more at a time. Probably not a bad idea for those who never do pushups to begin with 30 for the first day, then 50 the next day, then 70, then 100.
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Coincidence; I just started out on a similar challenge and am slowly upping the daily total. Increasing the number of pushups in a single set is the hardest part (I stop when I loose form).
Saturday I did one set of 25 with my right hand on the medicine ball we'd been throwing around.
Then I did another set of 25 on my knuckles. This time it was on the mat we were going to use for grappling.
The last set was only 20 on my knuckles though. I was worn out from the squats, the abdominal exercises, and chucking the (10 pound) medicine ball around.
But yeah, I need to get back to 100 pushups a day. I just hate doing them.
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William O. B'Livion
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2017-09-25 15:59
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I'd say, week one, 25 a day. Week two, 50.. week three 75, and week 4 100. Probably better to stretch this out over 8 weeks instead of one month.
so end up with say, 3 weeks at 100/day. Pushups are not easy on shoulders or rotator cuffs ... esp if you don't have a spotter for proper form.
ok, I'll do them in sets of fibonacci sequences: 2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89, and then 100. I'll move up when I no longer break form. I.e., if I can do 8 perfect ones in a row, then I'll try doing the next ones in sets of 13.
In my youth, I used to do 20 pushups every morning to start my day. I stopped that practice after a career-ending trapezius injury. A few years after the injury I started doing push-ups again. Currently, I do a couple sets of 28 twice a week. I am up for the challenge. I did sets of 10 over the course of the evening yesterday to complete the 100. It was pretty painless.
60 year old guy here. I lift weights, including doing push-ups, three days a week. Do some sort of endurance exercise (bicycling, running) three other days per week. Am generally active and fit.
Did 100 push ups yesterday, as noted above. Did another 100 today, I'm sore! Wow, this is good!
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