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 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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
I just started and I'm staying extremely positive, yet realistic. I don't expect to
be able to do 100 consecutive push ups after week 6, but I'm confidant that I will get
there eventually!!
Excited and looking forward to have jelly feeling arms for the next couple of weeks!
Week1/Day1/ 6/6/4/4/max8
Hey everyone, i'm new to this group, but not new to one hundred pushups.. have been trying
to finish week 3 for a long time hahaha ... keep stopping out of laziness or whatever.
Anyway i just did day 2 of week 3 (second column). but i didnt read that it says to rest
90 secs between reps, so i rested 60 secs... wheeeewww.
Anyway hopefully i will be able to stay on track this time!
I am finishing up my 3rd day of week 1 today. I am trying to do the standard
push-ups, and I started with the easy column and my max has only been 5 push-ups...
I don't have a definite deadline for this. I figure I might need to repeat a week or two
of it. I might even get to the end of the six weeks and have only been able to do 25
consecutive push-ups. But I figure that in that case I could always repeat it, using 25 as
my base instead of the 1-5 I am comfortable with now...and just build up like that.
I am also doing the squat version of the program too. I am using the harder (3rd column)
for that since squats aren't as hard as push-ups for me...
So, I hope you don't mind me joining, and it will be fun to talk to people on the same
program and who might be able to answer questions if I get stuck somewhere!!
Thanks, Tedddy.
I was able to do 6 push-ups with good form. I did 7 but decided it didn't count because it wasn't with "good form"
But even 6 was tough...I think I might take a 2 day break from strength and then either repeat the last day in week 1 or go to week 2...
What do you think? Do you ever tend to struggle and then go into the next session and not be stuck??
Did week 2 day 2 today. I struggled to get in the 7 push-ups, but I managed it after pausing a while at the top.
I am afraid sometime I won't be able to hit the number for the max...
I guess the worst thing thing is, if I drop to my knees I will just have to rest again and try to finish that number of push-ups again? Or pausing at the top, like I did today?
by bobilly on May 16, 2011 at 7:19 am
Congrats! A truely challenging feat! How long did it take you?