Last night I ended up filling in for Kate’s sandball (volleyball on a sand court, if anyone was wondering) team. When I actually walked onto the court I wondered if it was the brightest thing to be doing, with a sore knee. I’d taken my brace with me, so I put it on and seem to have gotten through the game without making it any worse. We got beaten by the way, and I played like a complete prat.
Tonight after work I decided to go for a ride as the evening was beautiful. I ended up riding just over 20.5km, with the last 6km or so in the dark. I can’t believe how quickly it gets dark now – bring on daylight savings I say!
I am going to join Andrew and Aaron on the 100 Push-ups program which is a guided program that claims it will be able to get you to the stage where you can do 100 consecutive push-ups in 6 weeks. Now, my upper body strength is pretty poor at the moment, and I have no confidence that I will be able to get to 100 ever, let alone in 6 weeks – but it can’t hurt to try can it (well maybe a little)!
The first thing to you have to do, is to do as many “proper form” push-ups as you can. This number determines your starting point in the program. I did that last night and only managed 13. The program involves doing a set of push-up repeats three days a week, with a day in between, so I’m aiming for Monday, Wednesday and Friday. With an initial “max” number of 13, the Day 1 program calls for 5 sets of push-ups 10/10/8/6/max, where the “max” set at the end must be at least 7, with 60 seconds rest between sets.
I managed tonight’s okay, with the last “max” number being 11. Jelly arms would be a good description afterwards.
Check out the program yourself by clicking on the image below!
June 16, 2008 at 8:57 pm |
Good luck with the push ups program!
Let me know if you’d like to be added to the “Challenge” page:
http://www.hundredpushups.com/challenge.html
–Steve
–www.hundredpushups.com
PS Jelly arms seems to be a popular term at the moment
June 17, 2008 at 5:18 am |
Heh…that’s because thousands of bloggers around the world have them now!
June 17, 2008 at 7:59 pm |
Looks interesting – when I was training with Anja, she used to make me do pushups, and I was pathetic, LOL. I might give it a shot too and see what happens. Anything that improves my upper body strength can only be useful.
June 17, 2008 at 8:24 pm |
Good stuff on the pushup challenge.
I agree with you about the daylight savings. Not much fun when its dark when you leave home for work and when you get back.
June 17, 2008 at 10:17 pm |
I’ve created a little spreadsheet and got it all set up so that I can record my progress on the 100 push up challenge.
I’m going to print the spreadsheet out and keep it with me at all times so that if I get 15 minutes I can do them anywhere (well anywhere within reason of course!!)
I just need to pull my finger out and get started
June 21, 2008 at 4:24 pm |
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June 23, 2008 at 10:51 pm |
Good luck on the push ups. Whilst I’m not interested in joining the the çhallenge’, I have done a very similar program and found it uite achieveable, whilst my day one was higher, I achieved 100 in the just before the 4th week.
Push ups are a great exercise, you use so many muscle groups and a few crunches or planks are a great way to discover that push ups DO use core muscles…
Ohhh, I haven’t been reading many blogs lately.
June 24, 2008 at 5:33 pm |
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April 22, 2009 at 5:45 pm |
Hey, cool tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a glass of beer to that man from that forum who told me to go to your site