One hundred push ups

[Pedal Wench]

You could try the first set with 2 regular and the rest of the sets with knee ones. Increase from there. Then at the end of the first 2 weeks, when you re-test, try the test with the regular ones. At that point you would probably be at a point where you could re-do the first 2 weeks with all regular.

I'll start tonight

[SouthernBelle]

Let us know how it works out!

[GLC1968]

How did I miss this thread? I've had the 100 pushups logo on my blog for awhile now, but I haven't even done the initial test yet!

I wanted to do it last Friday so that I could start this week, but I forgot and then spend the weekend doing a lot of HEAVY lifting. Today I could barely pull up my pants, never mind do a push up! I'll do my self test later this week and join you all on Sunday.

I used to be pretty good at pushups - it's been so long since I lifted a proper weight that I'm a little scared that I'll be embarassed by my starting numbers.

[Grog]

My chest muscles ARE sore this morning. Simple office tasks require a bit of uuumph to get them done. Wow.

How many am I supposed to do tomorrow??

[limewave]

I just did day 1. I'm level 1 too. I can feel the ache across my chest already. I find it really hard to believe I'm going to be doing 100 pushups in a few weeks.

[wackyjacky1]

Geez, I always thought I was fairly strong (fat, but strong) but I could only manage 2 push ups on my initial test.

Form question: How far down are you supposed to lower yourself? All the way to the floor? Or about halfway? If I go all the way to the floor, I can barely do two. If I only go about 3/4 of the way down, I am able to do 5.

What a cool idea. I avoided this thread when it first came up because I thought it was just bragging about how many push ups yellow could do!

[SadieKate]

Everything I've read says no lower than a 90 degree bend to the elbow to prevent improper stress to the shoulders.

http://www.changingshape.com/exercis...ng/pushups.asp

Anyone heard anything else?

[wackyjacky1]

Everything I've read says no lower than a 90 degree bend to the elbow to prevent improper stress to the shoulders.

Anyone heard anything else?

That would be great -- I can do a couple more that way than I can if I lower all the way down. The animation on the "What Is A Push Up" page shows the guy going pretty much all the way to the floor, though.

[Jones]

I started yesterday and drug my dh along for fun. My initial test was 3 p.u.'s So yesterday I did 2,2,2,2,4, today my entire upper body hurts. Thanks Yellow, this is just the push I needed. Jones.

[Aggie_Ama]

Well I sure don't feel like a level two but my initial test was 7 so here I am. I do have to do the knee ones but given my wrist injuries and history of tendonitis of the elbow I guess it is for the best.

I did Day One and I am already feeling I will be sore tomorrow. 7-7-5-4-10. Ooof (hit the floor).

[OakLeaf]

Question: I'm right-handed so my right arm is stronger than my left. I find my weight migrating over my right arm.

Do them on a wobble board. It's easy enough to make one at home from a piece of 3/4" plywood, about 3' x 1', with a 2x2 fastened along the center (going the short direction). When you do them, be sure your hands are centered around the fulcrum. That's almost surely going to reduce the number you can do, but you can be sure you're not getting a side-to-side imbalance. For extra credit, do them with your feet on another wobble board

For those of you using SportTracks, just thought I'd share.... By using "My Friends'" the numbers don't interfere with the cycling or running stats, and you can still run activity reports.

What happens if you make a category under your own activities? How does it mess up the cycling/running stats?

Everything I've read says no lower than a 90 degree bend to the elbow to prevent improper stress to the shoulders....
Anyone heard anything else?

I think as long as you don't bring your elbows behind your spine, you're okay (provided you aren't sinking into your shoulders, which should be avoided anyhow). That isn't always going to be 90°, depending on your hand position and radius/humerus ratio. When we do fitness testing in our gym, we have the participant touch their chin to our fist, held vertically so the little finger's on the floor and their chin touches our thumb - that's about 4" off the floor. But maybe one of the PTs will weigh in on this?

I got home real late last night so I will start tonight. Gives me a warm up before my planned run tonight.

That's funny, I used my run to warm up for the push-ups


Okay... I wasn't sure whether to start at Week 1 regardless of how many push-ups I could do to begin with? Since Yellow did, so am I I didn't bother with an initial test, even though I hadn't maxed out in years, simply because I have a general idea of how many I could do.

10-10-8-6-26

Do I get extra credit for the set of 10 I did right after my run, when I was planning to do the whole five sets, but then DH showed up to pick me up and I didn't want to keep him waiting?

[kenyonchris]

I'm in...
I did forty nine in a minute last year at the police academy...but after graduation I stayed as faaaarrrrrr away from a pushup as I could. I had to do 15 after shooting out of the target at a range test last week (it was from the 25 yard line and I barely missed it, but my sgt. is tough) and I struggled through them...granted, I was wearing lead vest and full belt (about 15 lbs of stuff!).

So I'll get on it! Hopefully I can still (unvested and unbelted) crank out about 25 to start with.

[yellow]

OK all, I think we need a way to keep track of all the goings on!

So.....my good friend and Push Up Statistician SadieKate has offered to create a spreadsheet to track everyone's progress (and, well, she's a lot smarter than me, so it makes sense that she's do this Very Hard Task). Her offer is to track those who start this week. If there is a group that wants to start NEXT week, and someone from that group wants to volunteer to be the Statistician, then SadieKate will gladly share her spreadsheet. PM her if you are plan to be in that group and are Excel savvy.

Anyhoo, to keep it all straight, we need confirmation of those who are in week 1 this week and what group you are in. To stay connected to the spreadsheet, you will need to PM SadieKate your weekly results by Sunday morning, or you can post them on the weekly thread if you aren't shy. If you don't want to be tracked but still want to play along, that's fine...just let us know your status so we know how to set up the spreadsheet.

The list I created last night was based on those who DEFINITELY said "I'm in" for this week. It appears that there are some folks that seem to be in but never really confirmed. So, it would help the 100PUS (100 Push Up Statistician) if you would provide to either her (SadieKate) or me (the 100PUO, 100 Push Up Organizer):

1. Confirmation that you are definitely in with this week (9/1) as week 1
2. Your starting group

Example: my name is yellow, I am definitely in for starting week 1 on 9/1, and I am in column 3.


The 100PUS will create the masterpiece spreadsheet and we will post an image of the week's summary on a weekly thread that will (1) summarize the previous week's activity and (2) be geared toward discussing the current week's activity. So, fer instance, on Monday 9/8 we will start a Week 1 summary/Week 2 Activity thread.

So, if you're definitely in this week, please respond accordingly (including if you are in but don't want to be part of the tracking option)!

SK, did I get all of that right??!!

100PUO

P.S. Oakleaf is the 100PUC (100 Push Up Coach)

[yellow]

Form question: How far down are you supposed to lower yourself? All the way to the floor? Or about halfway? If I go all the way to the floor, I can barely do two. If I only go about 3/4 of the way down, I am able to do 5.

My quads hit the floor at about the same time I'm at 90. But then I have pretty big quads.

[Pedal Wench]

Example: my name is yellow, I am definitely in for starting week 1 on 9/1, and I am in column 3.

My name is Pedal Wench, I am definitely in for starting week 1 on 9/1, and I am embarassed to be in column 1.