100 Pushup Challenge

[davidschroth]

Week 3, Day 1 (Take 7)

15, 12, 10, 9, (7)

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I'm telling you, do Week 2 over again!

K.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I continue to think that I'll make better progress by exercising to muscle failure (i.e., week 3 day 1) than by redoing a week that I already know I can do.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

How's that goin' for ya, then?

K.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I continue to make progress. Slow progress, but progress.

I predict that my results on Thursday will likely be something like 15, 12, 11, 9, (7).

As long as I make progress, I'll continue to plug away at it. I'm not surprised that my progress is slow - pushups have always been a weak area for me. And I'm at an age where I'm supposedly losing muscle mass, so adding muscle mass/strength seems like it would be a slower process than envisioned by the creator of the challenge. Although I have to say I don't really think the jump between weeks two and three is realistic - a 40% increase between the total pushups called for between week 2 day 3 and week 3 day 1 seems overly optimistic.