Do 60 pushups

I’ve started cycling this summer and co-workers and family members have been telling me about the need to compliment my cycling with strength exercises. I’ve started doing push-ups-mostly-everyday again and I add one push-up each day.

I still need to check out hundredpushups.com

Two girls have recently told me that I was really strong, so I must be doing something right here.

Like my 60 Situps Thing, this is tied into getting my Black Belt. One of my requirements is the ability to do 50 military-style pushups. Unlike the situp requirement, there is no time limit; however, once a knee hits the ground, that’s it.

The last time I really checked, I was only able to do 25. I obviously need help. I discovered a site called Hundredpushups.com, which purports to help you (or me, as the case may be) work towards doing 100 pushups in 6 weeks. I’m terribly procrastinative about it, though; I’ve already started it twice and ready to start from the beginning again. I can’t seem to keep on schedule. Maybe this Thing thing will help keep me motivated.

i’ve been doing this for every second day through a week and i’ve gone from eleven to 23 pushups.

http://www.100pushups.info/test.html
is kind of great.

I’ve pretty much bailed on this. Don’t really know why. Laziness I guess.

I can do about 20 something pushups and I want to do more.

I’ve missed the last two days (one was a planned rest, one was just forgetfulness.) but I’m still working on this. I got up to 48 and then inexplicably dropped down to 32. Odd.

I missed yesterday; I fell asleep and forgot to do my push-ups! Oh well, I’m back on the wagon today. :)

Since I started at about 30 push-ups I’m about 1/3 of the way to my 60 push-up goal. I’ve done 40 push-ups two days in a row. More importantly, I’ve done my push-ups every night for 19 days. If 21 days makes a habit then I’m almost there.

After doing push-ups every day for 14 days I managed to do 37 push-ups.

Keeping a spreadsheet with a chart of my progress has been a huge motivator! I highly recommend it for geeks like myself.