CyclePups Week 5

[Grog]

OOPS! THIS IS ACTUALLY WEEK 6.

Let me get this started.

This week I'm doing a mix of weeks 3, 4 and 5. I was going to wait until tonight but after my intervals session on the bike this morning I felt pumped up, so I went ahead:

10 + 12 + 8 + 8 + 12 = 50.

As I was doing the sets, I started thinking about how silly this is, and decided that I would most likely be doing 100 consecutive push ups on New Year's day. I will drop the "official" plan entirely and write a new plan for myself which will include rest weeks and a more reasonable progression, with the Final Test on 31st of December or something like it.

Season's Greetings! (A bit early.)

[OakLeaf]

I started on column 2, week 5 (in my 6th week), completed the fixed sets but could only manage 28 in the last set (35 minimum). I'm still sore from Friday's pups.

So, I'm not sure yet whether I'll go down to column 1 and call this a "rest" week - or what. Because as we've noticed, there's a BIG difference between column 1 and column 2.

But generally, since we've started to talk about it (and ignoring whether the progression is too steep in this program), are rest weeks/periodization necessary in a program of less than 10-12 weeks? I always thought of those things as relating more to a long-term training plan.

[yellow]

Oak, If you plan on making it a long term program, building in periodization can't be a bad thing. My plan is to do week 5 again, week 6, then go back down to week 4, then week 5 or 6 depending upon where I am...you get the picture.

By the way, this is week 6 of the program, not week 5. So not to confuse with last week's CyclePups week 5 thread, this would be week 5+1!

So here are the results from last week (which show through week 5). Seems I'm missing quite a few reports...

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1/tasdan/Just%20for%20Fun/CyclePups_Week5.jpg

[SadieKate]

Yeah, tell me about it. After you left, the week went to heck in a handbasket and I haven't got my act back together.

Dear Body,
Get the hell over this age stuff, m'kay? Just make up your mind and do it.
~SK

[Grog]

Sorry for the thread title! I tried to edit it but it's too late now, the board won't allow it. :(

Shall we start another thread with the proper title?

[jesvetmed]

Sounds like we are all on the same page.
I just today did my week 5 end "test".
I can do 53 consecutive today.

I think I'm going to redo week 5 column 2 and see how I feel at the end of NEXT week (ie, not do every 2 days or try to squeeze it all in before this weekend). So by the end of NEXT week, I'll retest and see how I do, and whether I'm read to move to "week 6" stuff. It scared me to look at it!

Jes

[Pedal Wench]

I'm totally off-schedule, due to the Washington DC 3-Day and a fasting holiday -- woohoo!

BUT, I did get to do some! On the DC walk, a motorcycle guy and I were stopping traffic about a block apart. He was bored, so he would do something wacky, and I would imitate, and the walkers just loved it. When he dropped to do pushups, I was so psyched! I could do that too!!! The walkers LOVED it! I kept up with him too! I think we did about 20 in a row!

[yellow]

Well, what a difference repeating week 5 made!

I did my day 3 (column 2) set today and felt way, way stronger. Managed to go higher than the minimum maximum, which shocked the hey out of me. So I got 182 today, all on my toes. I'm moving to week 6, column 2 next week!

I propose that, since everyone except for Superpushup Woman Grits is doing some sort of repeat week, that we go for at least 4 more weeks and then do a final test at that point. That would make it a 10 week program...what does everyone think of that? Or should we go 12 weeks?

[SadieKate]

12 weeks is good! I've been awfully lax due to 1 bad week and now doctor's stuff galore. Finally getting set up with a neuro and eye doc and all the annual stuff that goes with having this crap.

Have I ever told you how I feel about filling out medical forms with the same damn info over and over and over and . . .

[Grog]

I did a few this morning.

2 sets of 10.

My right arm is hurting in the bicep area, which makes me think that I haven't been working quite right on the last few ones.

I still need to redesign my program. I'll work on that this weekend.

[OakLeaf]

I decided to stick with Week 5, Column 2, and just do whatever I could in the last sets, and repeat the same thing next week.

18+18+20+20+17+17+33 = 163

I don't know that I'll get to 100 in 4 more weeks. Six more might be more realistic. (Not that I've done an exhaustion test... at all... so I really have no idea how far away I am :rolleyes:) I'm planning on sticking with it for a while - but the holidays are coming... it's whatever you want to do Yellow.


ETA... man, not much progress from last week - I guess those short rest periods really make a difference. Or something. I've been sore all week. I want some of what Grits is eating. Don't tell me it's grits :p

[aka_kim]

After all my angst last week about which week and column to follow for the coming week, I finally decided to repeat Week 4, but Column 3 this time. So, miraculously, on my knees on the last set (instead of the fitness ball), shaking and panting, I managed to eke out 160 pups for the Day 3 total.

Next week, I may follow Grog's lead and make up my own program. It will probably be something close to Week 5 Column 1-ish.

Ten weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, whatever, I'll just try to stick with it until that wonderful day arrives and I can do 100 pups at one time. Then, I will repeat the program doing full pups...

[yellow]

Well, I guess we'll see where everyone is at the end of this week. If only a few of us plan to continue on in the group effort, then maybe we should just end it now?? I am signed up in the logger and we could share that way, if anyone is still interested. Or we could just let it all fade into oblivion...

Don't mind me...just feeling bad because I am totally without any sort of fitness focus, feeling grumpy after doing N-O-T-H-I-N-G today (except switching out summer clothes with winter clothes from storage--I have a very small house and no closet), wanting to eat everything in sight, wishing I had a consistent running buddy, feeling guilty for not walking the dogs today, wishing I had a better way to store all these blasted bicycles, blah blah blah... :rolleyes:

[jesvetmed]

Yellow: I could definitely hang in for the 10-week. Hopefully I'll keep up. So far in "week 6" I did my exhaustion test and that was it. I hope to do the Day 1 of Week 5, Column 2 tomorrow and get going again.

I hear ya on the feeling bad... it's probably the weather change. Getting motivated has been hard for me too! I'm feeling lazier by the day -- must be time to fatten up and get a place to hibernate! My body's telling me so!

[Grog]

I am also a bit desperate for running focus (the daily 30 km bike commuting is dampening my "running libido" a bit) and a running partner in my new neighbourhood. :(

This being said I've written a new plan for push ups and running for myself until the end of 2008 last night. We could carry on the push ups as an accountability thread perhaps and stop bothering about week #? I don't know how the PowerPups are doing tho'.

Do we need a PUA (PushUpAmbassador) to go ask them?

[Grits]

Grits has fallen behind! I've only done my exhaustion test for week 6, and was happy to fall down into the second column! I did the Tour de Femme yesterday and didn't want my arms to be sore! (good excuse, huh?)

Back on track tomorrow!

[OakLeaf]

I don't know how the PowerPups are doing tho'.

... they seem to be fizzling out...

[Grits]

Grits has fallen behind! I've only done my exhaustion test for week 6, and was happy to fall down into the second column! I did the Tour de Femme yesterday and didn't want my arms to be sore! (good excuse, huh?)

Back on track tomorrow!

Sorry for the exclamation mark overload. It really isn't that exciting.

[spindizzy]

I am finding this daunting! I've been doing these CrossFit classes (I am so much NOT a class person!) We have to do narrow-width push-ups there..of which I can maybe do 8. I feel like such an imposter doing wider push-ups for "The Hundred" - I feel like an imposter!! I shall persevere, but it will not be this week, nor next week...spring? :D