Quote from: bitzizzix on February 17, 2024, 10:23:31 PM

Quote from: OgNasty on February 17, 2024, 05:53:48 PM

Quote from: goldkingcoiner on February 17, 2024, 10:33:49 AM

100 is not that much. Just divide it up and do 20 five times a day. Although at this rate, I think Bitcoin will reach 100k before we see any muscle gain results. At the end of this challenge, (if enough time has passed), we are going to have chad bods.

Either way, I am in and still going!

100 is quite a bit to do on a daily basis. I’m on day 16 and just now feeling like I could be doing more than 100 per day without hurting myself and I’ve been regularly lifting weights for years. A lot could depend on your body weight too I guess. I’m over 200lbs so it’s definitely not light work doing things like push-ups and pull-ups.

200 pounds is the same as 90.7185 kilograms and in my opinion it is quite heavy to do 100 push ups, but if you are used to lifting weights or fitness then it will feel light to do a lot of push ups. It looks like your arm muscles are very strong and big, because doing push ups requires strong arms, especially if you have a big body, and that's cool because the result is that your body will be strong and your weight will be reduced.

Even though the heaviness of the push up will be proportionate to your weight, we should not be assuming that a 200 lb guy is pushing up 200 lbs of weight.. instead it appears that regular push ups are about 64% of the weight, elevating the feet causes a higher percentage and lowering the feet causes a lower percentage.

https://medium.com/house-of-hypertrophy/push-ups-how-much-weight-are-you-pushing-e41b4662d8e3#:~:text=The%20table%20below%20summarizes%20the,feet%20are%20elevated%2060%20centimeters).

Quote from: bitzizzix on February 17, 2024, 10:23:31 PM

And I worked hard to be able to do 100 push ups a day. And now I have only been able to do it 37 times in 13 days and there are already results, my body is a little lighter, because before I did this my weight was 233 pounds and now it is 229 pounds.

Building or toning muscle likely makes our bodies more metabolically efficient.

Quote from: bitzizzix on February 17, 2024, 10:23:31 PM

And I will continue to do it until I reach 100 a day because I am also fed up with my fat body and want to get my body back to how it used to be when I still liked exercising and also liked lifting weights.

Yep there are questions regarding whether we exercise because we have excessive energy or whether we have excessive energy because we exercise, and I am not going to claim to know the answers exactly, because some of these matters can take a while to build up, such as endurance an strength, and the same with recovery time comes more to the youth and the people who are already in good shape.. so maybe it can take a while to get some of these things back, and we should also be careful not to injure ourselves in the process, while at the same time, there will likely be positive benefits by adding some of these kinds of exercises to our routine.

I am currently on day 16 and as of yesterday, I had an average of nearly 106 pushups per day with 1,585 by the end of the day. And, some parts feel better, but still I feel sore on some days more than other days, while at the same time, I had even been feeling some soreness in my core (like around my mid-section), which maybe has to do with some of the efforts that are required to do regular push-ups and to maintain our bodies flat or like a plank while doing the pushups.

Quote from: JimboToronto on February 17, 2024, 11:23:33 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on February 17, 2024, 07:09:09 PM

... you must admit that you failed/refused to mention anything in regards to your preparedness (or lack thereof) to be able to get away from a bear...

Most bush bears are deadly afraid of humans and will usually run away if they can unless they are sick or are mothers with cubs.

That is pretty cool and/or coincidental that you were speaking about beers and then about bears.. so then I started to think about bribing the bears, since you might not be able to get away from one since you are potentially too out of shape. hahahahha

Quote from: JimboToronto on February 17, 2024, 11:23:33 PM

It's bears that have learned to trust humans that are the problem, such as in parks or around campgrounds where people feed them, leave food lying around or throw scraps into the bush to "feed the animals" instead of burning them or otherwise safely disposing of them.

I have heard of this issue, and I think that it was even a worse problem in the 70s (or was it the 80s?).. I heard a podcast on the topic, and there had been a need to change some of the policies and practices in parks after several bear attacks that likely had to do with bears having had gotten too accustomed to humans feeding them.

Quote from: JimboToronto on February 17, 2024, 11:23:33 PM

If you do have to deal with a bear, the best thing is to make a loud noise. I carry a compressed air horn for this purpose. Warning: loud noises do not work with moose. The noise will aggravate a moose. It's best to walk away from the moose quietly. Luckily moose are herbivorous.

Fair enough. Good to have a plan, especially one that does not require you to do resistance training in preparation - and maybe that takes me back to some other scenarios in which strength and endurance might be needed.... .. yet do I need to go through each possible scenario in which strength and/or endurance might either save your life or increase your chances for survival?

Quote from: DirtyKeyboard on February 17, 2024, 11:43:44 PM

I'm up to around 70 pushups a day, sets of 10 is all I can do with good form, for now. I am 480 behind, but feeling good. I'm going to try to set some phone alarms to remind me to get my sets in.

I have been gravitating towards 4 sets, even though I have had some days in which I only did 3 sets. I am currently more focused on quantity over quality, even though I am imagining that I will be able to increase my quality and difficulty level with the passage of time.. and currently I am still trying to just get through the portion of how much soreness I am ongoingly having.. and don't get me wrong.. it does seem to be a good kind of soreness that I expect to lessen a wee bit more as long as I keep up my persistency, consistency and ongoingness.

I think that it was on day 12 that I took a few mostly clothes-less photos in order to have another reference point... so if we don't make it to $100k in the coming months, maybe I could consider new photos around every 30 days or so. Perhaps? perhaps? It would be nice to see improvements in both performance and also physical appearance.

One problem is having to fight off the chicks.. so probably going to need performance for that.. to off-set the potential costs of improvements in physical appearance.

Quote from: DirtyKeyboard on February 19, 2024, 10:05:22 PM

Pushups Printed: 1000
Proof of Pushups: 520
Net Pushups: -480

Wow!!!!!

I like that you at least got your average above 50% that is going to likely be helpful in terms of making progress on closing the debt, even if it may well take you a bit of time to get it down to zero.. and perhaps even to get to a point where you might build some surplus.

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Quote from: JayJuanGee on February 17, 2024, 07:09:09 PM

Actually, these are a couple that kind of bother me too.. .. meaning the tendency for people to avoid any kind of exertion..

Smiling,I have a friend that uses any possible means available for him to avoid any work at all
Some persons ate like that, nothing if this kind motivates them to get involved in any rigorous exercise,they just want easy going life.I believe different kind of people have the lifestyle they wanna live which influences there actions.

Quote from: JayJuanGee on February 17, 2024, 07:09:09 PM

I am not coming to regret my attempts to continue to keep up with the 100 per day average.. (currently plus a little more than 100 on average).

No need for regret for what is beneficial to our body,the fact is us not exhausting ourselves but rather build a healthy lifestyle,mind,body and soul.

You had misquoted me.. You probably should make sure that you quote people correctly....

Anyhow, in my above re-quoting, I fixed how it should have had been quoted in order that it can better show what you said versus what I had said.