I’m going to go for the 100 Push Ups Challenge I’ve read about. Push ups are an exercise I’ve always struggled with. In school I was one of the last ones done in gym class. I’ve also had a hard time with bench presses. My legs on the other hand are where all of my strength hides. I set the leg press record at my high school by maxing out the machine. I still hold that record today I’m assuming, unless the school upgraded their machine to allow for more weight. That also assumes someone didn’t rip down the note card on the records bulletin board in the weight room too…
Anyway, the first step to the challenge is to see how many push ups can be done in a row. I was able to do 13, which puts me on level two starting out. I was hoping I could do better, but I expected to do worse. I was going to be happy if I hit 10.
According to the first day of the program, since I did more than 10 on the initial test, I needed to do the 3rd column. This meant 2 sets of 10, a set of 8, and a set of 6, with a 60 second rest in between each set. Let me just say I was barely able to squeek those out. Honestly on day 2 I may move to column 2 until I get my strength up a little more. I’ll give it a shot on column 3 as it may be because I did the exhaustion test just a few minutes before I started the my first sets.
Even if I don’t wind up at 100 by the end of the 6 weeks, I’m still going to feel good about the improvements I will make.