How many pushups can you do? Steve Speirs suggests that no matter how many you can do (or not do) now, you could be doing 100 consecutive pushups in 6 weeks. That's pretty impressive. Will it work? I don't know but I'm going to try. I started with the initial test last night and managed to do 15. Week 1 begins on Wednesday -- the program is about 10 minutes, 3 times per week for 6 weeks. We'll see. I must admit, I'm skeptical.
Yesterday's tempo run left me tired today. Following my Runner's World plan, I only ran 4.6 miles at 8:03 mpm but, wow, they were 4.6 tough miles.
Run well, y'all,
Bob
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I'm pretty skeptical as well but I'm giving it a go.
I was talking to my brother who used to be able to do a lot and he says what he found was that the first 30 are hard but once you can do 30 increasing the number gets easier and easier.
So maybe there is hope for us.
So this may sound weird, but I can do 25-30 pushups, and I don't particularly care to go beyond that.
I figure after about 15 it's about endurance, not strength. Will I ever, for any practical reason, need to be able to push a heavy object away from my chest 100 times? I sure as heck hope not! So I'll stick with the 25ish that I seem to get from doing the bench press machine at the gym and let you more ambitious folks go for broke.
Good luck!
Hi Bob
I'm too chicken to see how FEW push ups I could actually do.
Glad the running is going well as it always about quality and not quantity.
I'm skeptical, too, but I'm with you, Andrew. I don't know that I have ever, ever been able to do more than 25 or 30 push ups and I don't suppose there's anything I'll ever do that mimics that movement. But, I've neglected all upper body work since I started putting in higher miles running and need to do something. Hopefully, the push ups will work several muscle groups and give me some core conditioning as well as shoulders and upper arms. Funny, Bill, I was nervous about doing the test. Nobody else, including my wife, was around; I didn't have to report my results to anyone; it was just me and nobody else would have to know. But, I wasn't sure I wanted to know the truth about my upper body strength. I was satisfied with, even a little surprised at being able to do 15. The challenge is just a bit of external motivation that I think will spur me to do what I need to do anyway.
Sounds like the challenge I will be on the sidelines for. LOL!
I would like to see if could up to the 100. I have a feeling that you will. Keep pushing, easy to say from the sidelines.
great job on the tough run!
Viv -- if you're the cheerleader on the sidelines, ya' gotta' yell a little louder. (Well, OK, you didn't say you were a cheerleader.) I didn't do too well on the first day of the actual challenge.
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