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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 5, Day 1

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Week 5 looks tough!

Well last night was day one of week 5 in my 100 pushup challenge.   How did it go?

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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.

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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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Last Edited: 1st August 2008


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Peter is a 38 year old blogger, sports enthusiast, and twitter addict. When not blogging on this site he also blogs about personal finance at BibleMoneyMatters.com

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  1. Andrew is getting fit says

    August 1, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    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?

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  2. MizFit says

    August 4, 2008 at 6:24 am

    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.

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  3. Quicktofit says

    August 4, 2008 at 6:40 am

    @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

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  4. James says

    February 15, 2009 at 4:52 am

    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 🙁

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