To me I am already becoming tired of the push up. I don't know what is wrong with me, I am just being lazy this days to meet up to my daily target per day, but each time I come to this thread I see that people are very much active on the push up challenge, it gives me the impression to still further more because it is good for the health. If it where not for the motivation of people a lazy fellow like me could have quited lolz.100 push up all the way!
Maybe you are trying to do too much?
In the last few days, my number of pushups per day have been coming down and also the number that I do per set is coming down, and I still feel very sore, so I am just trying to adjust to a period in which my total number of push ups is going to be lower until I might start to feel more energy to do more pushups... I still have a daily average of 135 push-ups per day, so I do not feel that I am short-changing myself, even if my average also ends up coming down.
So other guys who might be doing 40 or 50 pushups per day, it would be difficult to consider that number to be too small, even though sometimes guys might have to split their pushups into more sets per day.. and I am not sure if it would be a good idea to have more than 5 sets in a day.. even though guys could differ in that kind of a judgment, so we can consider 3-5 sets per day as a reasonable goal... with my own continuing to be 5 sets per day, but I could see that if I might feel busy on some days I might want to do fewer sets and so even 3 sets in a day seems acceptable.. especially for any of us who are continuing to do the pushups daily even if our quantity might not be at exactly 100, we are doing an amount that feels reasonable and/or meaningful to our own situation.
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You are right! because when you start something painful like push-ups you will feel a lot of pain in your body which is excruciating. In this case you can take some break, 1 or 2 days it can be very good for you, the next days start push-up. as me.
You can continue doing morning and evening push-ups in 2 steps, I pumped in the morning and evening and was able to complete 26 push-ups today. It's great improvement for me. And physical improvement will take 2 or 3 months, first it will have negative effect on your body and when you continue daily then you will see your improvement. Even the people around you will see your physical improvement. But in this case you have to stay on push-ups for 2 or 3 months every day.
If there is a goal to try to stay on track and to try to stick with the challenge, then I don't see any reason to completely skip push-up days, unless maybe you are injured.. but maybe just do 1 or 2 sets of push ups in the lower days.. just to push yourself in terms of continuing to make progress and building and to stay on schedule and in the spirit of the push-up challenge.
For example, there have been several mornings that I had tried to do my first set of pushups somewhere between 8am and 10am.... and so I was considering doing my first set today at 9am.. but I felt sore and I did not really feel like doing them, so I waited until 11am and then I did my second set at 12 am.. .. so I am feeling a bit better now, but I am still keeping a little bit lower quantity of push ups.. and I will see how this goes over the next few days and to see maybe if I might start to feel that I can start to increase again, or maybe I will just stay at a lower quantity of pushups per day.