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...

[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!