On friday I finished week 2 of the 100 pushup challenge. As they suggested on the 100 pushups website, I waited a couple of days, and then did the exhaustion test to find out what column I should be starting in tomorrow for week 3 of the challenege.
I got up this morning, got hydrated by drinking a couple of 12 ounce glasses of water, and then proceeded to pump out as many pushups as I could without stopping.
I quickly made it to 10 pushups, the point at which I stopped on my initial exhaustion test. So already I’m ahead of the game! I then made it to 16, my previous high number of pushups that I performed this past week. I finally topped out at 20 pushups – my new high.
Now if you had asked me if I could do another pushup after that 20th one, I may have been able to squeak out 1, or possibly 2 more. But after seeing week three’s workout, I knew there was no way I could finish it if I had to do column 2. Even column 1 looks hard to near impossible.
So next week, I start with sets of 15, 12, 12, 10, 15. Could it be my first fail? I hope not!
Age: 33
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Way to go.
I don’t quite get the three column aspect of it myself. So far I’ve been in column 3 but I suspect I’ll be downgrading to column 2 after my exhaustion test.
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Im a smidge muddled as well but figure as long as Im still pushing Im still in the game
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I did the same thing but with the second column. I had been in the third for the other weeks but with the second exhaustion test I stopped at 25 even. I probably could have squeeked a few more out, but I didn’t think I could do week 3 column 3. So far column 2 has been bad enough.
I like this site, it’s nice to see others doing the challenge – keeps me motivated.
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. It is very cool that so many others are doing it – it’s keeping me motivated!