Week 5 looks tough!
Well last night was day one of week 5 in my 100 pushup challenge. How did it go?
FAIL!
Ok, it wasn’t all that bad. It was a pretty tough week and I wasn’t sure I’d even be able to make it through the first 2 or 3 sets. After day one it gets even worse where instead of having just 5 levels, it has 8!
Week 5 day 1
So last night I started doing my pushups with the set of 30. I made it through that without too much difficulty (which even a couple of weeks ago would have been a huge struggle). The second set of 24, was quite a bit harder. They were asking me to do a lot more reps than I’ve been doing this whole time, and it is H-A-R-D, hard!
The third set of 22 was a struggle. Around 16 or so I was straining mightily to push myself up. I made it through.
The fourth set of 20 was tough going. I pushed as hard as I could, really struggling after 14 or so. But once again I made it. But at this point, I knew I was not going to be able to finish that last set. I thought maybe I could make 20 – but 30? No chance.
The last set I started pumping out pushups, and around ten I started to hit the wall. At 13 I could barely get up. And by 15 I knew I was done.
At that point I got on my knees and finished the pushups from my knees, but still I had stopped 15 short of my goal of 30. Bummer.
While it’s disappointing to have had a fail on the first day of week 5, I knew this may happen and it wasn’t a total surprise. I had looked at week 5 and realized that like week 3 they had really bumped up the level of pushups a notch.
Even though I failed, I did over 100 pushups today before I failed. Not too shabby for someone who struggled to push out 10 on the initial test!
So where to go from here?
So from here I think I’m going to take the weekend off, and then restart on monday on week 3, day 1, column 2. I’ll re-do weeks 3 and 4 using column two, and hopefully next time I reach week 5 I’ll be ready!
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I’ve just finished week 04 (literally 5 minutes ago) and I just need to do my exhaustion test. I suspect that I’ll be failing week 05 a few times as well. Most people seem to be struggling.
You could try what I do and just keep repeating the day you are on until you can do it.
Andrew is getting fits last blog post..Run, run, run. Where is the sun?
waves hand.
struggling physically AND emotionally with this.
not sure WHY but Im burnt out.
MizFits last blog post..Monday Facetime: we’re getting all kinds of consistent up in herre.
@andrewisgettingfit – that’s an interesting idea – repeating the same day until you finish.. if i can’t get through it next time i might do that.
@ mizfit – yeah, i’m starting to struggle a bit with this as well – i think i’m going to continue doing them this week -but i’m also restarting my other weights program..
Quicktofits last blog post..100 Pushup Challenge: Week 5, Day 1
I think the 100 pushup plan makes too big a jump in some weeks. I started off on the final workout of week 6 and did it with moderate difficulty. Then tried my hundred pushups 2 days later and only got 65! So then I went back to the first workout of week 6 and failed that. lol. That was about 4 weeks ago so I’ll try it again right now.. Ok, I managed to get 45, then 55, then 17 🙁 That’s worse than what I got last time!!! I’m too busy to eat properly lately 🙁