PowerPups Week 2

[milkbone]

Hey everyone,

I've been keeping up with all the posts...great job!!!

I started week 2 day one today...and my arms are sore!!

Keep up the good work, ladies!!

[OakLeaf]

I tried to post the spreadsheet from week 1 and couldn't make it work. Will try and get it here later.

Anyway, everyone who reported made their goal! Great job! If you completed week 1 but haven't posted your day 3 total yet, go ahead and post in the week 1 thread and I'll update the spreadsheet.

Good luck on week 2 everyone!

[yellow]

(I have the sekret passwerd.)

[OakLeaf]

cool, thanks

I was about to PM and ask you how, then I thought I'd better check the thread first So how does that work?

[ibcycling]

Yikes! Late reporter here. Actually, late pupper here. LOL! I got Day 1 & 2 done on Tues & Fri but didn't get Day 3 done until today. Havin some trouble getting into a routine with them and I'm having an incredibly crappy day. Anyhow just did 10,8,8,5,12 so 43 total and now I'm back to drinking my bottle, ummm I mean glass, of wine. I'll try to get this week's done on Wed, Fri, and Sun.

Later,
Lora

[Velobambina]

As of yesterday, I'm up to 81 (big girl kind, no knee pushups). I'm not doing the program, as written. Instead, I'm doing 3 sets.

[kelownagirl]

Have you seen this? Steve has created an online "logger" now.

http://www.cymru66.com/fitness/hundred-push-ups-logger/

[OakLeaf]

Anyone who printed out or copied down the whole training plan (or even just this week), please take another look at the 100PU site.

The plan has been edited. (If you want to compare, there's a link to the old version at the bottom of the table for each week.)

[suzieqtwa]

I already completed day 2 ,so Ill start the new version Friday. Today was really hard for me ,but I did 6-5-3-3-7

[katluvr]

So why did they change it??? Hmmmmmmm
So are we moving forward w/ the new??? By my calculation it is significantly more.
I am set for Day 2 today--I'll attempt the "new" plan!

[OakLeaf]

So why did they change it??? Hmmmmmmm
So are we moving forward w/ the new???

My impressions comparing the two plans -

In the "old" plan, you started with a larger number of pups, then decreased the number each set until the final max-out. In the "new" one, the first set is essentially a warmup, the second set is the highest fixed number, then the third and fourth sets have a lower number (in weeks 5 and 6, the fourth set has more than the third, but still fewer than the second).

In the "old" plan, your minimum on the last set was generally slightly fewer than the first set. In the "new" one, your minimum on the last set is several more than the second set. As the plan goes on, the max-out becomes a greater and greater multiple of what you did in the fixed sets, whereas in the "old" plan, your minimum max-out is never greater than what you'd already done in a fixed set at least once that week.

Both plans seem to use the odd-numbered weeks to make big jumps, and the even-numbered ones to consolidate gains, but the increases are a bit more gradual in the "new" plan.

I'm far from an expert on this stuff, but it seems to me that under the old plan, there was a larger risk of "stalling out" in the later weeks, while the new one may force many (most?) people to repeat weeks earlier on, but continue to progress through the plan.

As I said in the other thread... repeating a week is NOT a failure! I really believe this plan should've been laid out for at least 10-12 weeks to begin with (rather than six weeks with most people needing to repeat several weeks), just to give people a better psychological sense of success and progress. If you're increasing the number of pups you can do, you ARE succeeding.

[IGGY]

I have never in my life managed to do "real" push ups. Ever. Even when I was TEACHING pilates classes, I still had to do knee push ups. So, I am giving this challenge a go. Even though, I'm starting with the knees. Maybe after I finish that, I"ll be able to do "real" push ups.
Yes, I am also the girl who in P.E. could never "hang" from the chin up bar, or even do one chin up. The rest of my body seems to be freakishly strong in comparison.
Hopefully, this will end the "i'm such a wuss" period of my life. Empowerment through push ups!
Peace-Nicole

[kjay]

Maybe we should have more columns: "Big-Girl Kind" and "Little-Girl Kind"
Velobambina made me say it. ;-)

[chicago]

week 2/day 2 = 5/6/4/4/8 = 27!! holy crap... most I've ever done

[katluvr]

Ok, I did week 2, day 2 "new" plan last night.
Holy cow...it was harder. And knowing the next "test" is soon...I am worried I will NOT be able to do enough to say in column 2 and have to move down a notch!

Then today my personal trainer had me doing all this upper body stuff....sure hope I can do pups tomorrow!!!