do 100 pushups in one day in 2007

going to go for 60 tomorrow

Decided to build up some strength today and do 50 pushups in one day. I did it! Mostly 5 at a time over the course of the day.

1. My chest got more weak over the course of the day where I couldn’t even string two pushups together
2. I had several stretches of busy-ness (watching my daughter, coding, and lunch)

It’s 12:45am now and my chest is already feeling a little sore. I’m sure it will be worse tomorrow. :)

Just jumping in like this was worth a try, but clearly I need to do many attempts building up to 100 before the 100 is going to happen for me. Just like anything else you want to accomplish…do a little every day and you’ll make great strides.

This is so hard for me. :)

I can barely lift myself any more. I’m going to be doing this until midnight… :-/

Ok, it’s 7 and I’ve done 10 so far. My diabolical little plan is to do at least 5 per half hour. If I can do more, well then great.

I can’t do this tomorrow. I will do it Thursday.

I’ve decided that this is one of those goals that can be done and it needs to be done this year.

Keep in mind that I weigh too much and my upper body strength is not all that. Nevertheless, I think spreading it out over the day, I can accomplish this. I’ve been rising at 6am each day this week. So I have a date with the floor tomorrow morning at 6.

Let the psyching up begin…

Using an idea from rayfd, I did 10 sets of 5 today (with plenty of rest in between). 5 is about half my current max in one setting. Doing 50 pushups will no doubt help me improve my consecutive goal forward.

A small tweak is sometimes all we need.

Onward!

I’ve tried this a couple of times and the most I squeezed in for one day was 25. So, I obviously have a long way to go before I can do 100 consecutive. If I apply myself, I can probably do 100 in a day. But that would mean dropping to the ground to “gimme 10” once per hour or so. :-) A less than fun prospect indeed!

This goal is inspired by tonytam who suggested doing 100 in a day, 100 in an hour, and then 100 consecutive as the culmination of the goals. In my attempt to accomplish the do one hundred consecutive push-ups goal, I am going to try this as a way of getting me there.