One Hundred Pushups programme

[delanvital]

That was day 2 complete. I went all out with push-ups, sit-ups, squats and chin-ups. Feeling fine so far

[smilodon]

I manged six push ups before I fainted. maybe I should just go for a gentle walk to the park ? 100 push ups :blink: it aint going to happen

[delanvital]

I manged six push ups before I fainted. maybe I should just go for a gentle walk to the park ? 100 push ups :blink: it aint going to happen

The thing is - you could do that! 6 weeks makes a hell of a change

[Luminance]

Started off yesterday, got to 8 slow ones in a row.
(if you do it very fast, its way to easy, then 20-30 should be doable for anyone)

gave myself couple min rest, and started on the first 6.

But I was unable to complete the 2nd set of 6

So I'll consider yesterday as the trial day, and start today for real.

Was wondering though, they tell you what to do on the 1st 2nd and 3rd day of the 6 weeks, but how about the other 4??

[T-Bag]

Was wondering though, they tell you what to do on the 1st 2nd and 3rd day of the 6 weeks, but how about the other 4??

Rest days

[smilodon]

Rest days? Great I'll start with a few of those. I'll take the first half dozen now eh.

Seriously I'll have a crack starting today. My goal is to get into double figures before Xmas. Wish me luck.

[Luminance]

4! rest days???

pfft

why wouldn't they do it like this then?
week 1:

day 1 workout
day 2 rest
day 3 workout
day 4 rest
day 5 workout
day 6 rest
day 7 rest

Seems more logic to me.

ah well, maybe it works better this way.

[T-Bag]

Yup, on week one it gives a description and says Mon, Wed, Fri seems to work best for him.

[b00n]

4! rest days???

pfft

why wouldn't they do it like this then?
week 1:

day 1 workout
day 2 rest
day 3 workout
day 4 rest
day 5 workout
day 6 rest
day 7 rest

Seems more logic to me.

ah well, maybe it works better this way.

You got it bang on - that's exactly what they suggest.

I'm doing the pushups and squats on those days and the situps in between, so they aren't really 'rest' days entirely.  But yeah, the idea is to take it easy and build up slowly - rest days are just as important as workout days if you want to see the maximum benefit.

[Luminance]

oh oops, hadn't read all the way through the whole story, ok then I'll take a rest day today, as my muscles near my arm pits hurt a bit when tensioned anyways

[delanvital]

So.. how are ppl coming along? I am keeping with it. I struggle the most with the sit ups, the push ups are doing fine. I ditched doing squats as I found I could the 200 already. The chin-ups are a PITA and struggling with 4 round of 5 repetitions.

[Luminance]

my wrist, knee and "arm pit-muscles", kept hurting more and more over after it, finally stopped today. So haven't advanced yet, gonna go see if I can find a rope to do some jumps over it (don't know how to call it in english) so that I'll warm up better first, and then start as if it where day one with column 2.


EDIT:  Almost completed the first day exercise. My arms refused to complete all of the last (minimum) 5 pushups.
Almost is not good enough, but atleast its a good improvement over friday

[b00n]

my wrist, knee and "arm pit-muscles", kept hurting more and more over after it, finally stopped today. So haven't advanced yet, gonna go see if I can find a rope to do some jumps over it (don't know how to call it in english) so that I'll warm up better first, and then start as if it where day one with column 2.

EDIT:  Almost completed the first day exercise. My arms refused to complete all of the last (minimum) 5 pushups.
Almost is not good enough, but atleast its a good improvement over friday

My advice would be - take more rest days.  When you're just starting out and your body isn't used to recovering, it can take until the second day after exercising before you really feel the burn. If you find this is the case don't go ahead with the routine anyway, take an extra rest day even if it means a 'week' of exercises actually takes longer than a week. The pain in your muscles is a good thing because it's a sign of your body healing the damage to your muscles, but you need to give it time to do the healing.  As you get used to it the recovery time should get shorter.

Google for some stretching exercises for triceps, shoulders and back and do them before and after the routine.  If you're getting pain in your joints (particularly wrists when doing pushups) you need to make sure you're warming those up too by rotating wrists, elbow and shoulder joints.  Muscle pain = good (as long as you don't overdo it), joint pain = bad.  Doing a couple of minutes jumping rope ('skipping' in english btw ) is a good idea.

I've nearly finished week 1 of pushups, they are probably the toughest for me.  I started squats and did the initial test and day 1.  I got 50 in the initial test and managed to equal that for the max reps at the end of day 1, which I consider an improvement having done the day 1 routine as well.  Sit-ups, I started last night and 25 in the initial test, which puts me in category 3.  I wondered if I should try to push for 30 to start in week 3, but overall I think I will benefit more from starting where I'm at.

Keeping a close eye on body measurements to make sure I'm getting the right kind of results (ie not getting fat) as I've gained just over a stone since I started back in the gym mid-July. :blink:

[Penfold]

I'm building myself up to starting. I meant to start yesterday.

I'll start today.

[R@ng3R]

I started the pushup programme lastnight  after doing the initial test on sunday evening where i managed 10 pushups :sad:,feeling the burn in my chest muscles today,although i did manage 12 at the end of lastnights programme :yahoo:so improvement there.
Will also do the situp programme tonight,i can already do 50 situps but am going to start in column 3 on week 1 as i want to do both as a 6week programme as well as some mountain biking at the weekends.