CyclePUPs Week 2

[Pedal Wench]

Week 2, Day 3, Column 1. 5+5+4+4+6=24

I can still barely do a really good "good-form" one, so I'm sticking with Column 1.

[Jones]

Week 2, Day 3, column 1. 5+5+4+4+6=24. I can barely do 6 pus, I may have to change styles for the next 4 weeks and then try again. Jones

[bluebug32]

Checking in for week 2, group 2 with 10,10,8,8, 15

[Aggie_Ama]

My dog fan club likes to get in the middle of my pushups, they don't help!

Week 2, Group 2= 10/10/8/8/11=47

[OakLeaf]

Flyebye, how's your arm? Did you try the pups or are you still trying to work the spasm out?

[ridebikeme]

Completed week two here are my stats
Day 1 9-8-6-4-10
Day 2 11-9-7-7-10
Day 3 10-10-8-8-14On to Week 3

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Completed week two here are my stats
Day 1 9-8-6-4-10
Day 2 11-9-7-7-10
Day 3 10-10-8-8-14On to Week 3

I don't have your week 1 (last week), day 3 total...can you let me know what that was, please? Day 3 only.

PUO, filling in for the PUS

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Attention Cyclepups! I don't have day 3 totals from the following:

• jesvetmed
• firenze11
• jobob
• limewave (might be injured?)
• Sadiekate (I know, traveling...)
• Southernbelle

(And I need a confirmation of a confirmation from Grog...check your PMs!)

I won't start the week 3 thread and post the updated spreadsheet until tonight (Monday).

[Flybye]

Flyebye, how's your arm? Did you try the pups or are you still trying to work the spasm out?

Thanks for asking - my bicep it is STILL twitching, but not like it was. It pretty much only does it first thing in the morning and right before bed. I hurt my wrist on the same arm when we went hiking a week ago. I fell in the river on slick, flat rock and caught myself with the same arm. I *almost* went in for an xray Friday, thinking that I had broken or cracked a bone. It is feeling much better, too, thanks to an ACE bandage.

With both of those things happening on the same arm, pups don't seem to bother my arm. I do think that the pups are the reason for the muscle spasms, though. Sheesh, arm, get over it already!!

I did my day three on Saturday and so I have a break until tomorrow.

Thanks for asking.

[NoNo]

My dog fan club likes to get in the middle of my pushups, they don't help!

So does Ruthie! If she's not right under my face (so I can't lower), she's laying on the papers or the stopwatch

Count me amongst those who will repeat week 2. I did not make 16, and even if I did, I doubt I'd be able to do the 15-12-12-10-10 required of day one. The good news is that on day one of my week 2 repeat, my max was higher than last week. I'm not giving up!

[Becky]

So does Ruthie! If she's not right under my face (so I can't lower), she's laying on the papers or the stopwatch

Count me amongst those who will repeat week 2. I did not make 16, and even if I did, I doubt I'd be able to do the 15-12-12-10-10 required of day one. The good news is that on day one of my week 2 repeat, my max was higher than last week. I'm not giving up!

I only did 13 in my exertion test I think I'll either repeat week 2 (which didn't seem hard enough to me) or do knee-style pups for week 3 and then repeat week 3 with full pups.

[SouthernBelle]

I'm out for a week. I strained my right shoulder rather badly drilling 4 holes for new chains on the tongue of my trailer. Over an hour of leaning into a drill going into 3/4 inch of steel will do that.

[Grits]

Week 3, day 1. Today was tough! I could barely do the final set, which I know is the way it is supposed to be, but, still. Hope I can progress on schedule, but might end up repeating this week. We're up to almost 100 now. No wonder it is getting hard.

[OakLeaf]

I only did 13 in my exertion test I think I'll either repeat week 2 (which didn't seem hard enough to me) or do knee-style pups for week 3 and then repeat week 3 with full pups.

I think if your ultimate goal is to do as many full-length pups as you can, you're better off not switching to nothing but knee pups for a whole week. But if your goal is to get to 100 of whatever type of pups you can do, then knee pups are fine. Whichever you choose, you're getting stronger.

Two things to think about:

(1) make sure you're really maxing out in your last set every workout (I only mention this because you said week 2 seemed too easy), and

(2) for everyone in group 1, and probably some in group 2, if you want to do a combination of knee pups and full-length ones to continue adding reps, then try step-down sets. Each workout, do the first two or three sets full-length, and the rest on your knees. Or, each set, do the first 75% of the reps full-length, and the rest on your knees. Then you can either move on to the next week the same way, or repeat the week doing all the reps, or more of them, full-length.

It is difficult to add on when you're starting from sets of fewer than 8-10, just because each rep takes such a high percentage of your strength. You're strong enough to do something else to bring you along, but not another full rep. That's where step-down sets can help.

Week 2 to week 3 is a big jump, and it's going to be tough. That's a lot of the way the plan works - consolidate your gains in week 2, to get your body ready to go to the next level in week 3. Now's probably a good time for all of us to start thinking about exactly what our ultimate goal is in this plan (if we haven't already) and what type of pups will be the best way to get there.

[ridebikeme]

Week 1 Day 1 7-7-5-4-5
Day 2 9-8-6-5-7
Day 3 10-8-8-5-10