Update on Hundred Pushup Challenge

Firstly, it's a minor miracle that I haven't torn a rotator cuff. If you're planning on doing this, you really, really need to listen to your body while you're doing it, and if your rotator cuff hurts, stop, and give your body a rest.

I had to take a week off because of a bad strep case, and I basically lost two weeks and one column off of my performance. I couldn't make it through today's set list in one go - and split it up by about an hour. Still, I made it through all 9 sets, and got the last set out with hardly any problem at all.

Set 1 AND 2: 20
Set 3 AND 4: 23
Set 5 AND 6: 20
Set 7 AND 8: 18
Set 9: 53

Total: 215

Holy crapwits, Batman!

Hundred Pushup Challenge Update

2nd day, week 5.

Set 1&2: 19

Set 3&4: 22

Set 5&6: 18

Set 4: 22

Set 5: 45

The last set was hard, and pushed me to the edge of exhaustion.  I collapsed on the floor and lay panting for a good minute.  It hurts to type.

Edit:

I screwed this up.  I was supposed to do two sets each in what was previously set 1, 2, and 3.  I went back and re-did them, for a total of 185.  There was NO WAY that I was going to be able to do the last set, if I had done this correctly.  NO.  WAY.  Even with the Rocky theme song playing in the background.  (Which it does, every day we do this.)

Hundred Pushup Challenge

Shortly after I started my new job, my boss accepted the hundred pushup challenge against another department.  We are currently on Week 3, but my initial test pushed me (for week 1) to the Week 3.  So although we are only in our third participating week, I'm on the proscriped Week 5 regimen.  Today, the workout consisted of:

Set 1: 36 

Set 2: 40

Set 3: 30

Set 4: 24

Set 5: 40

I took another status test on Saturday.  The initial test (before Week 1), I maxed out at 21.  On Saturday, I maxed at 50.  Looks like I'll be on track to 100 consecutive pushups by our sixth participating week, no problem.  I need to be on track to increase by 25 pushups by the end of the week, even though there are no status tests until two weeks hence.

My shirts are starting not to fit.  It's insane.