My 30 Day Project for February is to be able to do 100 push-ups in a single set. The most common reaction when I talk about it? “You’re nuts!”
Is it ambitious to the point of being aggressive? You bet. 30 Day Projects aren’t supposed to be easy. This is going to be a difficult painful month.
On the other hand, I have five fingers. How many people do you know able to do 100 pushups? I don’t know any. In 4 weeks, I will know one.
What have I done to prepare? Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. I am starting this from scratch.
Here’s my plan:
At this moment, I can d0 20 pushups. I am going to start with 5 sets of 2/3 of my max(14) with a one minute break in between sets . That will happen in the morning and before bed. Each session will involve more pushups. I need to add about 3 to a set each day to get to 100 by the end of the month.
Now, it’s entirely possible that I won’t be able to manage 5 sets of 14, or that my progression is unmanageable. That’s ok. I refuse to test my endurance on this, and I’ve done no research. I’m flexible and willing to adjust my plan to match reality.
Aggressive and painful. Wish me luck.
Wow. I’m going to move my goal to do 50 push-ups up by a month to match your 30 Day Project. 🙂
I can do 10 right now – that’s how many I’ve been doing a day for the last week. I’ll start this project off by doing four sets of 10 today – two sets at around 5pm (after work during the week and before going out on the weekends) and 2 sets before bed. I’ll add 1 to each set from 2/2-2/13, taking me up to 22 per set by 2/13. I’ll then add 2 to each set from 2/14-2/27. That should take me to 50 per set by the end of the month without killing myself.
Good luck to us both!
I’m 3 weeks into my 6 week goal of doing 36 push ups in 30 seconds…I just completed a very lazy weekend…did 0 on Sat and 0 on Sunday..go get it man!
That’s more than I can do, faster than I can do it. 🙂
Thanks for the support, both of you!
Wow…30 seconds…I think I could do 5 in thirty seconds if I really hurt myself. Good luck Ken!
I’m hurting in places I haven’t strained in a while. Muscles I forget about are getting used more than they have been in years.
I completely flaked out but started again yesterday. I’m not sore today but I might be tomorrow.