Yesterday I hit my 3,000 since starting the challenge and I did it with sets of 33/33/34. I started today off with a set of 34 but have fallen behind due to some unforeseen plumbing emergency work which is now behind me. We’ll see if I’ll be able to keep this up or not, but so far so good. If so, I think two sets of 50 by the halving is a possibility. Who knows, maybe I’ll be able to get a single set in of 100 the day we hit $100K.
Stay with it!
A single set of 100 that will be massive!! I know it's still possible, I have been able to be doing 3 sets of 40/30/30. Consistency got me this far. I saw an improvement when I first started 5 sets of 20/20/20/20/20. At some point I noticed that my first trial in the morning I was getting up to 30 and above. So I reduced it to 4 sets and from there to my present 3 sets. Hopefully I will reduce to 2 sets. I just hope I can achieve it. It's really good to exercise the body I must confess.
It does of course depend on your overall health level in the very beginning, but the adaptation is fast as mobilizing muscle fibers as a beginner is mostly about activating the central nervous system. That's why the performance curve often looks like a log curve. But most people have far more potential available than they think. For someone to do 50/60/70 push ups, it's as you said: consistency! The muscle volume comes into player later down the road when the sets get really nasty, like closer to 100. That's my experience. Now I have to admit I haven't been doing push ups in quite a while, but there are some of these amazing videos. I don't know if you guys shared this here, but there are some guys who do more than 2,000 push ups in 60 minutes, which is absolutely insane.
But I like the challenge here: better get started somewhere than never get started anywhere!