100 Pushups: Week 5 (take 3), Day 1

Last week was a bust. I just had too much going on, and either forgot about doing pushups or didn't have time. So I'm repeating week 5 again this week. And it's not looking too good so far:

Column 3

Level 1: 40/40
Level 2: 32/32
Level 3: 30/30
Level 4: 15/25
Level 5: 28/min 40

Not a very good performance. Hopefully Wednesday will be better.

100 Pushups: Week 5 (again), Day 1

Column 3

Level 1: 40/40
Level 2: 32/32
Level 3: 30/30
Level 4: 25/25
Level 5: 40/min 40

I did wait longer than 60 seconds before level 5.

100 Pushups: Week 5, Day 3

Column 2

Level 1: 16/16
Level 2: 16/16
Level 3: 14/14
Level 4: 14/14
Level 5: 12/12
Level 6: 12/12
Level 7: 10/10
Level 8: 40/min 35

100 Pushups: Week 5, Day 2

Column 2

Level 1: 17/17
Level 2: 17/17
Level 3: 16/16
Level 4: 16/16
Level 5: 14/14
Level 6: 14/14
Level 7: 12/12
Level 8: 40/min 35

I did wait longer than 45 seconds before level 8, but not for the others.

100 Pushups: Week 5, Day 1

Column 2

Level 1: 35/35
Level 2: 28/28
Level 3: 25/25
Level 4: 22/22
Level 5: 35/min 35

Steve Spiers, the creator of the hundredpushups site has been sending periodic updates to the people who have signed up to take the challenge. In his last update, he mentioned that week 5 is a tough one, which I find to be a bit of an understatement.

I was able to do 50 pushups during my last test (yesterday morning), so technically I should be in column 3 this week. But I was barely able to eke out the numbers in column 2, and only by resting a little longer than the 60 seconds in the plan. These numbers just seem a little ambitious to me.

Then again, I am pushing 40. Maybe a younger person wouldn't find it so challenging.

At any rate, I'm not giving up. I will probably repeat week 5 next week though. I don't think I'm going to be able to do week 6 if I'm struggling with week 5.

100 Pushups: Week 4, Day 3

Column 2.

Level 1: 25/25
Level 2: 19/19
Level 3: 19/19
Level 4: 17/17
Level 5: 40/min 24

Hoo-ah.

100 Pushups: Week 4, Day 2

Forgot to post this last night.

Column 2

Level 1: 22/22
Level 2: 17/17
Level 3: 17/17
Level 4: 15/15
Level 5: 25/min 20

100 Pushups: Week 4, Day 1

Column 2

Level 1: 22/22
Level 2: 16/16
Level 3: 16/16
Level 4: 14/14
Level 5: 35/min 22

100 Pushups: Week 3, Day 3

Column 2

Level 1: 25/25
Level 2: 19/19
Level 3: 19/19
Level 4: 17/17
Level 5: 26/min 22

100 Pushups: Week 3, Day 2

Column 2

Level 1: 22/22
Level 2: 17/17
Level 3: 17/17
Level 4: 15/15
Level 5: 21/min 20

100 Pushups: Week 3, Day 1

Column 3

Level 1: 25/25
Level 2: 17/17
Level 3: 17/17
Level 4: 15/15
Level 5: 18/min 25 <-- ouch

That really sucked. I think I need to move down to column 2 next time.

100 Pushups, Test 2

I took my second pushups test earlier today, and I did... 39 pushups. That's one less than I did on my initial test. That's disappointing, but I'm not going to get discouraged. Since I started the 100 pushups challenge I've really been concentrating on my form, trying to do pushups correctly. When I took my initial test, I was just trying to do as many as I could as fast as possible.

100 Pushups: Week 2, Day 3

Level 1: 15/15
Level 2: 15/15
Level 3: 12/12
Level 4: 12/12
Level 5: 19/min 15

100 Pushups: Week 2, Day 2

Level 1: 16/16
Level 2: 13/13
Level 3: 11/11
Level 4: 11/11
Level 5: 20/min 15

100 Pushups: Week 2, Day 1

Level 1: 12/12
Level 2: 12/12
Level 3: 9/9
Level 4: 7/7
Level 5: 15/min 10

100 Pushups: Week 1, Day 3

Level 1: 15/15
Level 2: 13/13
Level 3: 10/10
Level 4: 10/10
Level 5: 15/min 15

Happy Independence Day!

100 Pushups: Week 1, Day 2

Level 1: 12/12
Level 2: 12/12
Level 3: 10/10
Level 4: 10/10
Level 5: 16/min 10

100 Pushups

I stumbled across the hundredpushups site the other day while browsing through del.icio.us. I'm no stranger to pushups, having done martial arts and ROTC in college. But that was a long time ago, and I've been mostly sedentary for the past two years. And even at my fittest, I was never able to crank out more than about 65 pushups at once.

So I'm going to give this a try. At least this blog will get regular updates for a while. I figure blogging the challenge will encourage me to keep up with it.

My initial test was 40 pushups, which puts me in column 3. Here's how I did on day 1, week 1:

Level 1: 10/10
Level 2: 10/10
Level 3: 8/8
Level 4: 6/6
Level 5: 13/min 7

Check back on Wednesday for day 2.