May 23rd, 2012
Restarting the Program!
I started the Hundred Pushup Challenge this winter and made it to week 4 but then slacked off. This time around I am going to stick with it until it is complete! I will post my initial test tomorrow.
This is a group for people doing the Hundred Push Up Program. ( http://hundredpushups.com/ ) If reporting your daily workout, list your initial test, then your current week and day, and your results at the bottom of your post. This will help newcomers see what kind of results they can expect. i.e.: Initial:10 Week2Day3:10/10/8/8/max10
I started the Hundred Pushup Challenge this winter and made it to week 4 but then slacked off. This time around I am going to stick with it until it is complete! I will post my initial test tomorrow.
Hello you who choose to read this. Nice to meet you. :)
As you might suspect from the title of my post, I am a member of the Armed Forces - even
though some would say the National Guard doesn't really count. We do have to do a APFT,
the Army Physical Fitness Test, semi-annually. This test is designed to overexercise your
muscle to see how your body deals with fatigue. It consists of push-ups, sit-ups, and
usually a 2 mile run. Some soldiers, due to injuries, are allowed to swim, bicycle, or
walk a certain distance instead of the run.
Well, it's time for me to pass the APFT, and being the stereotypical stressed out college
student who has eaten WAY too much over the winter and not nearly enought exercised - I am
definitely struggling.
Is there anybody out there, who would like to start this challenge with me and would be
interested in being a motivational battle buddy? If you aren't in the service, no problem.
I am honestly just grateful for some sort of support - positive motivation would be nice,
though.
Oh, and my initial test left me sobbing at whimpy 17 push-ups (no offense to the people
who struggle with less, but I am supposed to do them without any problem - and problems
were had!).
Wk3. 14/18/14/11/7. Initial test of 36. I think I will try first column tomorrow
Are you supposed to do as many as you can without stopping or just go until muscle failure or do sets? Can anyone explain the goal?
Is there a schedule that everyone follows depending on the week number you are on? How long should it take to get to 100?
I can't do good form push ups regular way. I am too weak. So I'm going to do quality push
ups on my knees and strengthen - once I can do 100 of these I will try regular way push
ups & start the program from scratch.
Week One/day One: 2/3/2/2/max5 (and it HURT!)
W1D1 10/12/7/7/23 total of 79 (including initial test of 20).
I am going to do Week 1 over again. I am so much weaker than I thought I was, I cannot progress the way the program calls for. I'm doing regular push-ups too, not on my knees, and I'm struggling to do the minimums and not at all satisfied with the quality of my push ups. So I'm going to do Week 1 again starting tonight, if I cannot progress to Week 2 at the end of this week I will do Week 1 for the THIRD time and just do this program on my knees after all.
I don't normally post on message boards, but your approach sounds really sensible. It's not a race after all, you want to maximize the benefit of doing the actual exercises. Keep it up!
Hi everyone, This is to let you all know I am going back to my 100 pushups
program!
Training is back on track and so is my cycling and athletics training also! Next
Masters going to improve all of my personal bests! Did a superb job with all my cycling
and athletics and gym program and am fitter and stronger and getting stronger and flexible
even more flexible!
Going to do a few surprise events from now and till the end of next year! You will all
have to wait and see which events I now will do!!
I quit the first time I tried this program in Week 2. That was earlier this year, since
then I've donated one of my kidneys and after 3-4 months of zero physical activity I'm
quite weak & out of shape. I need to establish an exercise routine again since my
doctors say my BMI is a couple points higher than they'd ideally like it to be. Besides
I feel like a blob of mush so I'm going to try this again as one aspect of my new
dedication to fitness...
Week1Day1: 2/3/2/2/3
I hope this group is a little more active than I'm seeing here! I am going to log my
push-ups here every day...
I can do 25 without stopping. I do them military standard since I'm heading that way in
78days
I'm trying to do the program along with an extra 200 a day. Just doing 25 here and there
randomly through out the day.
Anyone think this is a terrible idea?
I can do ten at the moment without stopping any help?
This looked like it would be a great challenge at my age. I'm 61, 6'1", 210# currently and can do 40 push ups now. So, is this challenge to be able to do 100 without stopping, are some breaks allowed?
100 pushups! A great accomplishment! Post a video of yourself completing this dare. It
will help those of us who think it impossible. It will be very inspiring.
Congrats! A truely challenging feat! How long did it take you?
Congratulations! Hope to be there in a few months
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I'm back at the pushups after my marathon last week. Will try to pickup where I left off in W4 tomorrow.
Redid Wk6/D1/C3 today and made it through. It was definitely tough though.
I'm struggling a bit with Wk4/D1/Varsity of the 50 pull-up program. I might end up having
to redo this week. We'll see.
I did Wk6/D2/C3 today. It was much easier than D1 of this week. I'll rest up over the weekend and then do D1 again on Monday. I also made it through Wk3/D3/Varsity of the 50 pull-up program. It was quite a challenge after the push ups.
I failed at Wk6/D1/C3 today. I got through the first set of 55, struggled through the
next set of 35, then fell apart and only did 20 on the last 2 sets. I'm going to press on
with the week, then repeat the entire thing.
Pull-ups went better though. Wk3/D1/Varsity = no problem.
Wk5/D3/C3 just the minimum 50 on the last set
Wk2/D3/Varsity on the 50 pull-up program. These are starting to feel really solid.
I did Wk5/D2/C3 with a max of 50 in the last set. I really like the lower reps in the preceeding sets, although it makes the whole workout take longer. I also did Wk2/D2/Varsity of the 50 pull-up program. I can actually do 5 clean unassisted pull-ups now, so I must be getting stronger.
I restarted week 5, day 1, column 3 and did 36, 40, 30, 24, 40. Also, as it turns out I'd been doing the varsity level of the pull-up program. That means today was Wk2/D1/varsity level.
Still haven't done my second day of push ups this week. I did Wk1/D3/JV level of the 50 pull ups program.
Looks like I'm going to be on a Tues/Thurs/Sat schedule this week since I didn't get them in yesterday. I did W5/C3/D1 today 36/40/30/24/42. I did them this evening and my lower back actually hurt a bit. It might be from the squats I was doing earlier today though. I also did JV level: W1/D2 of 50 pull-ups. I'm starting to feel pretty good with the pull ups. Not much endurance yet, but it's nothing to do 1-3 pull-ups or chin-ups with good form when I'm fresh.
On Saturday I was feeling energetic so I did an unauthorized fatigue set for a max of 40,
so I'm making progress from my intitial test of 26. Today I tried to do W4C3D1 but
could not do the required 32 on set 5, I will redo. Did 21/25/21/21/19 total
107. I'm developing some respect for this program. Yesterday I did W3C3D2 of both
200 situps and 200 squats, alternating and continuously without problem.
Just finished W3D3C3 redo, was able to get it done. 22/30/20/20/29 (the 29th was pretty
shaky),total of 121. I missed the situps and squats yesterday so I will try to fit those
in later today.
Sweet! Way to keep after it.
I did the exhaustion test at the end of week 4 today. I got 70 push-ups and will be moving
on to week 5 next week.
I finished week 3 of the 50 pull-up program, graduating from the prep level. On to JV
level next week.
I did (push ups) W3D3C3 today and could not get past 20 on the second set, which was
supposed to be 30. Did 22/20/20/30/28 total 120, which is the required total but I had
to spread that over several hours so I'm not giving myself a pass. I will redo this day
on Friday. Funny how I can go great guns and then all of a sudden, boom the arms are
done.
I'll use this group to record the other 200 challanges I'm doing. Did W3D1C3 of 200 squats 19/24/19/19/40 total of 119, and W3D1C3 (repeat) of 200 situps 21/27/21/21/35 total of 115. Looking forward (?) to doing the pushups later today.
I also had a repeat of Wk4/D3: 29/33/29/29/40! I was just able to get the 40 there at
the end. I'll be doing a new test to failure on Thursday.
I also did Wk3/D1 of 50 pull-ups (according to program)
Took another shot at the W3D2 workout that I failed at, this time was able to do it, yeah! 20/25/15/15/27 total102. I made sure I took all the rest I was allowed.
Nice job! How much rest is actually allowed?
Seems to vary by program (situps or pushups or) and which week you are in but usually around a minute, which seems like a really long time just waiting. I think I may end up alternating situps/pushups to be more time effective and get a good sweat going.
Came close to completing Wk4/D3 (3rd column) but I failed to get the required minimum for the max in the last set. I ended up doing 29/33/29/29/29... so I'll be redoing that one tomorrow. Wk2/D3 of the 50-pull ups program went off just fine.
Yesterday I tried to do my 2nd workout, W3,D2...(I'm working in the 3rd Column), Set 1 - 20 (no problem), Set 2 - 25(that was hard), Set 3 - 10 of 15(spagetti arms), Set 4 - 8 of 15 (I'm a puddle on the gym floor). Sooo, I guess I will keep repeating this day's workout until I can get past it. I didn't think it was going to be easy and it's not. I'm also doing the 200 situp and 200 squat programs.
Keep at it. I think that the progarm is paced a bit optimistically anyway. You'll get it eventually!
Did W3D1 14/18/14/14/22 total of 82. Initial test was 26.
Wk4/D3 of 100 push-up program 25, 29, 25, 25, 40
I stumbled across this group a couple of days ago and my interested was piqued. Did the test yesterday was able to do 26, so today will be W3,D1... more to follow.
Welcome! Good luck with week 3!
W2D1 4,6,4,4,7 = 25
Yay, someone else posted here! Keep up the good work... we'll cheer each other on.
Wk3/D3 of Push-up program: 22/30/20/20/30
Wk1/D3 of 50 Pull-up program. (according to program)
Push-ups: Wk3/D2 (20/25/15/15/30)
Pull-ups: Wk1/D2 (according to program)
I did super-sets of assisted pull-ups (5 reps) and dips (10 reps). I started at 52lb
assist and worked down (up?) one 6lb plate at a time to a 100 lb assist, which is half my
body weight. I did 2 or 3 supersets at each weight with only 20 or 30 seconds rest in
between. I was at it for about 15 or 20 minutes and I did around 125 assisted pull-ups and
250 assisted dips.
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I started the program today with the 2 members of the strength training club at the middle school where I work. We did our baseline tests and both the boys knocked out 40 push-ups before hitting failure. I knocked out 45 without even before slowing down then stopped. We're all going to start the program at week 3 day 1 on Monday. We also started the 50 pull-up program with week 1 day 1.
good luck with it! I'd love to do the pull-up one, but I don't have a good place to practice them. I have a pull-up bar, but the only door frame it can hang from....the ceiling is too low and I had to bend my neck just to come close to 1.
This looks like a cool group. I'm a soldier so I have to do push-ups pretty regularly, but I've never been able to top about 80 in 2 minutes. Hopefully this program will give me that extra 20.
03/08/2011
5 normal push-ups
could've done more but my wrist was hurting. Officially starting this journey tomorrow
after my run
I started this about a year ago and it was going really well but I stopped after a few weeks. Hopefully this time I can get my lazy to finish the whole program so I can do 100 pushups in a row and impress some ladies. Starting Monday. Wish me luck!
This time I am not so much doing this to try to do 100 pushups in a row. Now it is more about consistency. I am up to 4 sets of 12 each. When I first started doing these a month ago, I could do about 8-5-3-1. Now I am trying to add 1 to each set, each day. As I have been losing weight, these are getting much easier!
Just started today with my intitial test. Plan on waiting about an hour and starting Day 1 later. We did pushups and nothing else back when we were in Desert Storm and we got up to doing betwee 500 and 1000 per day and everyone saw dramatic results in strength as well as chest size. This works but pushups are so tough when you havent done them in a long time. Look forward to this challenge.
i will up date my progress
haven't done any push ups so far but i can probably do about 65
okay, so i've been doing really well with the program. I've moved through the first week and just started the second. However, I had to stop when I had this really sharp pain in my lower right ab. I couldn't even complete one push up today. I noticed it yesterday when I was doing situps, but it didn't really bother me. today tho, there seems to be a very slight dull ache and it's very painful to do a crunch or push up. I'm concerned it might be a hernia...does this sound like it is a hernia or just a little muscle tear or strain?
Hello, I"m new and I discovered just how bad I am at push ups. Upper body strength was never my forte...and I really hated push ups in high school. I managed a measely 3 (I had 5 but I think my form was pretty bad) on my initial test. However, I did get 15 girly push ups...so that's kinda better. :)
Initial test; 16 pushups
I just started Day1 of Week 1 today! &set 1 was hard. lol
by AngelMeag on Feb 27, 2012 at 8:39 am
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