I don’t know if I’m the guy doing the official rulings or not, but hey, I’ll take up the responsibility. My official ruling is that you can and should do whatever makes you a better person. In this case it’s strengthening. Any activity or commitment you want to make towards that is better than allowed, it is praised.

We could all have opinions on this, and we don't necessarily need to agree, even though I do agree with your (@OgNasty) ways of expressing these kinds of personalized physical fitness goals.

One thing that we should attempt to do would be as much as we can within the reasonable parameters of the exercise and surely within our own time and space constraints.. .. but just like bitcoin, we should also be attempting to make sure that we stay in the game, which might mean that we need to modify the exercise in various ways, and so if we might emphasize making sure that we get in the repetitions of the count or if we might emphasize that we have quality push-ups (or whatever substitution that we might be doing), we shouldn't want to injure ourselves or to push ourselves so hard that we end up giving up because it hurts too much. 

In the last 12 days, I am still hurting every day, but I am still trying to make sure to pace myself, including for my own schedule of fitting things in and spreading it through the day, and to work on improving my form now that it is seeming pretty clear that I am meeting and/or exceeding the average in terms of the quantity of 100 per day on average. 

I am finding it somewhat comforting to allow 3-4 hours to pass between my push up sets, and so far I have been doing 3-4 sets per day, and sure there could be a time in the future in which I am going to be able to do two sets per day rather than 3 or 4 sets in a day ... but I might be a ways off from that kind of an accomplishment, and even if I don't get to that point of being able to do to sets of 50 relatively decent push-ups at one go, I am o.k. continuing to do 3-4 sets which largely are now falling between 25-35 pushups for each of the sets, with outlier quantities once in a while, and maybe even some desires that I might have to add some other kinds of exercises into the mix.

Another thing is that guys should not be ashamed to do some or all of their pushups in a modified way (such as from the knees) in order to lessen the likelihood of overly straining parts of their body (joints such as shoulders, wrists or elbows can start to feel the daily tension), and so to me, it seems better to either do some kind of modified easier form with more reps and to work up to more reps and to better form, but your body, joints have to get used to it.. including even sternum pain.. which I have a little bit of that too.. and so far I have been doing the full pushups.. but I can feel that there are ways that I could end up over doing it, even though it helps to have more time to have had been doing it and making sure that my body is more or less improving in its recovery time and even its muscle definition, which creates some sense of better overall health.

Maybe one other BIG thing that I have found to be helpful is to engage in pretty heavy breathing while doing the push-ups.   It can give a sense of energy and purpose, whether you breath deeply on every single rep or if you have some other way of doing it, it is likely going to invigorate you and empower you if you make sure that you are getting a lot of oxygen in your system during this whole process.. and while you are potentially getting used to routinely doing an exercise that had not previously been in your daily routine.