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  • 100 push up challenge
  • Really don? I wish it were true, then my life would almost be complete.

    donsimon
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    Really.

    No.

    juan
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    When do you stop pushing up when you try it for the first time and how do you do the push ups?
    Is it suppose to hurt? Do you go until you can’t any more, do you stop when it start to ache? Do you have to have both feet on the ground? Only one? Do you keep your elbows close against your chest? Do you open your amrs wide?

    donsimon
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    Lack of question mark denotes a statement and not a question, therefore no answer required. Perhaps you’re not quite as AWESOME as I thought. 😥

    I’m a failure don – I almost berated what I perceived to be your poor punctuation too. 🙁

    emsz
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    erm 4…

    macho bullshit LOL

    yunki
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    week 1 column two.. I’m taking it very steady after last years disaster.. 8)

    ian martin
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    Just started using the android app, managed 20.
    Not bad but no where near a hundred.

    marvincooper
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    Just done the test… 23 for me, 8 for Mrs C. Phew, still out of breath now! Only 100 days to go bring it on!

    willard
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    Tried it last year, but had to stop when I got a bursitis on my right elbow and was advised to rest.

    I think the last lot I did was 60 in two minutes, but it was a pass, so I didn’t care. It gets easier to get in the 300 club as you get older, so as long as my body holds together and I keep some fitness, I should be there by the time I am 80 or so.

    organic355
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    I did 25 which puts me straight onto week 3, not sure if that’s good or bad?

    samuri
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    Pushups really make my wrists hurt.

    So I’m doing the 200 situps challenge instead. I was doing over 300 at a time before I broke a rib last year but it’s amazing how quickly it gets hard again.

    What about a plank for 2 minutes challenge?

    timidwheeler
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    Can girls play? Just had a go.
    Managed one then had a glass of sparkling wine. Then managed another.

    samuri
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    try another. Three glasses of wine will make you not care any more. 😉

    midlifecrashes
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    Oh dear, had a quick go and managed 27. Week three looks like a hard place to be.

    justatheory
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    Just did 99 one armed finger and thumb push ups…must try harder.

    donsimon
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    I think I’ve found a new hero. Can you drink copious amounts of alcohol too?

    justatheory
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    No, LSD

    CaptJon
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    Real men do pull ups. I can four, that’s right, four whole pull ups.

    donsimon
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    No, LSD

    Hmmm!
    Not sure about that. Are you considerably richer than us?

    timidwheeler
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    Thank you for all your encouragement. You guys are so right, it’s just a case of discipline and application. Managed three and now to bed.
    I will finish the rest of the bottle tomorrow.

    ivantate
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    Juat downloaded the free android app so I will play too.

    organic355
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    Keen to get started, did my test last night, says I should wait a few days to start, maybe start on wednesday but is everyone starting next week?

    purser_mark
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    There’s a lot of people moaning about wrist injuries on this thread, buy a set of push up bars,(wrists now straight), and crack on I reckon :mrgreen:

    yunki
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    week one column two completed successfully last night.. I even did some sit-ups whilst I was caught up in the glory.. bring on wednesday

    grrrr..!!

    joao3v16
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    Do these “100 push-up” doo-dah’s actually work?

    I tried an Android app version a couple of months ago. Followed the schedule religiously. Got to the end of the programme and could only manage 50 at the most.

    I guess there are good and bad programmes … ?

    A few years ago I managed to get up to 70 using my own made-up non-scientifically based exercise ‘programme’ … although I was a lot fitter overall at that time

    BadlyWiredDog
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    At the moment I can only do around 25 press-ups before I have to switch to the other arm. I can’t believe some of you guys are up above 50, that’s impressive.

    On the other side of it, I struggle to do a single one armed push up

    BadlyWiredDog
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    Some of it is just simple motor learning, I think – your body gets used to and more efficient at the motion and better at recruiting muscles fibres efficiently. Or that’s my understanding of it. So when you do something like a million press-up challenge, a proportion of it is about becoming more efficient at the movement as well as improving muscular strength and endurance. Though gawd knows I’m not a sports physiologist, so I may have just invented all that…

    I_did_dab
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    I used to do ~100 in around a minute back when I was a teenager, one-armed I could manage about ten, ~20 vertical legs up against a wall or tree (cf original Mean Machine) before I went a bit red in the face. For some reason, I thought it would impress girls 😆
    Nowadays, it’s ~25 a set, feet on a gym ball.

    themountaingoat
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    Managed 25 . I do have long arms though so further to go than some!
    I clearly need to drink more beer .

    organdonor
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    Managed 20 on the test, week 1 on Wednesday I think.

    jwt
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    40 on the test, arms are a bit sore now…………….

    sting
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    I’ve just this minute knocked 1 out, in the bathroom. 😉

    rossi46
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    I did 15 this afternoon- with my 4 year old son sitting on me!
    Although my arms dont half ache now….

    langylad
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    Think i’ll give this a go.
    Did 105 when a police recruit 18 years ago. My belly is much nearer the floor these days so should be even easier 🙁

    radtothepowerofsik
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    Week 1, day 1 completed 🙂

    Junkyard
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    Day 1 week 3 completed shoulders feel erm weak and wobbly suspect they will hurt tomorrow.

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