100 pushups

[Sparrisen]

OK, I will start at week 4 on sunday. I really dislike the maxxxing things, because, well I'm stubborn. I dislike exercises which has a "max" or "as long as possible" in them. But I think it does me good.

[Nightmare]

Well day 2 felt a bit easier overall... got 15 on my last set.

[mayhem]

I did the day 2 exercise today, because I was busy yesterday and it was a lot easier than the day 1 exercise. I dont really know why.

I start to keep result table of the results on the last sets of each day in my posts:

Week 1
day1: 10
day2: 15
day3: 17

[johan]

Just did day 3. I started the test on week 3 four or five days ago.
Did 25 on the last set.

[Sparrisen]

Ugh! I just did the first day on week 4! DAMN! 60 seconds rest is a killer! I did 1000 pushups in one day, twice, and while tearing it's generally quite fine, since you can piece it up rather well during the day. But 60 seconds rest! O_o

[Waihirere]

It does say "longer if required", you know.

During the last few weeks my 60 seconds sometimes tended to be more like 90 or even 120, and I still managed to do the hundred after the program. So don't wear yourself out (unless you find it fun, of course).

[Nightmare]

Aight, started week 2 and although at first I noticed some progress, the last few sets were really hard. Just barely managed to finish set 5. It could be just the crappy weather (=hot as hell) which has eaten me out, but if things don't improve I might have to consider repeating this week, or drop a few colums back for week 3. Don't know which one would be better...

Btw, for those who have completed this in the past or are just wondering the same thing as I am, what would be the best way to move from week 2 to week 3? It says I should do a stress test after completing week 2, but doesn't that kind of mess my monday-wednesday-friday schedule for the next week? (complete week 2 on friday - few days rest - stress test on sunday - few days rest - start week 3 on tuesday?)

[Sparrisen]

If you do this three days a week, I would do it like this: 1x 2  3x  4  5x  6 STRESS 7, so you get one days worth of rest before starting afresh.

[Waihirere]

It says I should do a stress test after completing week 2, but doesn't that kind of mess my monday-wednesday-friday schedule for the next week?

It does. There's two ways to solve this. Either you take the test on Sunday and still start a new week on Monday, since the test doesn't typically drain you as much as a normal training session would.

Or you take the test on Monday, and continue with day 1 of the next week on Wednesday. This way your training days stay the same, and you get enough rest between each excercise. The downside is that your training weeks do not always end on Friday, but since you really don't need any more rest between weeks than between days of the week, it shoulnd't matter. If I remember correctly, I used this method.

[Sparrisen]

I tried with some warmup on day 2, week 4. Until now, I've only been doing these, cold. My warmup included, running, sparring, kicking, and a few pushups.

The result I got with this was, it was friggin harder to do the pushups, ESPECIALLY the maxxing, could be because sparring is taxing for the arms as well.
I got next to no training pain afterwards though, which was lovely.

[Nightmare]

I do a little warm-up too before starting the push-ups, but mostly it's just throwing and stretching my arms, so nothing fancy to exhaust me before the actual exercise. Afterwards I do the same movements again and drink a glass or two of milk which helps the recovery nicely.

Haven't bothered to update after every day, but since I'm writing here now might as well do that. So on W2D2 got 20 on my last set.

[Demolishor]

i just finished w4d3. I dunno what's wrong with me, w3 felt way too easy, but w4 was impossible. I did all 5 sets on each day, but I never managed to get enough push-ups on those last sets. Meh, I guess I'll just try my best on sunday and laugh at my silly ambitions. There's just no way I could do 31 consecutive push-ups.

[mayhem]

I lack motivation to do this atm, so I decided that I will start it again after couple of weeks :/.

[Nightmare]

Completed week 2 now and as I checked the schedule of week 3 I only need to do 25 push ups in order to stay on column 3, which shouldn't be too hard... So might do the exhaustion test tomorrow already and then continue the next week normally.

[Sparrisen]

"I dunno what's wrong with me"

NOthing is wrong with you, W4 is TOUGH. But the tougher it is, the better results it'll give. And ambition is in no way silly^^ I almost went to pieces to achieve the goals for week 4's exersise. Just keep at it.

Starting on week 5 on sunday, Stresstested at 60, but I don't know if I did these pushups in good form. But, I'm getting closer to the end goal!