I imagined the possibility of meeting another member in real life, and then there might be a question regarding whether such member is able to do as many push ups as he is claiming to be able to do.

Another thing... Does it matter?

I will admit that I have had several sessions that I have had to spend about 2-3 minutes just procrastinating getting started.. It is almost like a need to internally psych myself up for it, and even to really tell myself:  "you gotta do this."

So sometimes I have to consider if I will change my clothes first or some other kind of thing.. .. I never really want to do them after eating.. so for sure, I can tell myself, "you don't get to eat until you do your pushup set"  so that can be an inspiration.

I have also had a few days in which I was scheduling to see someone but I was not sure about how long the meeting was going to last, so I tend to get extra sessions in during those kinds of days... and so far it has been working out pretty well...

Also I try to avoid having anyone see me.. .. but maybe when I start to feel more confident (about the pushups specifically), I might not mind doing them in more public ways.


If true, that would put a lot of us to shame... so it seems like it is not likely to be true, unless are almost an olympic level athlete for that level of pushups...

So far the most that I have done in one day is 245 - and I am not even sure if I would want to do more until I really am able to do them easily and without getting so sore (but if I was 1/2 my age, I probably could double the amount of pushups and be less sore.. but even then it would have had taken a toll on me.. to do 500 pushups in a day, let alone in some shorter period of time, even in a few hours would be a challenge to do that many pushups).. .. so part of the reason to have 5 sessions and to spread the pushups out throughout the day is so that some of us would be able to continue to do the pushups for day after day after day.. so that we do not blow our whole wadd by over doing it.. so maybe there could end up being some days in which some of us might do fewer pushups, but hopefully, we are not going to wear ourselves out by doing too many in one day or too many in any short period of time or even back to back sessions.

Let's imagine... some guys might be able to do 50-80 pushups at a time... So far the most I have done is 55, but still I have ONLY done that twice in 50 days... I have done 50 pushups 16 times..

So let's say a guy is in pretty good shape, so he can do between 50 and 80 pushpups (so maybe his average is 65 pushups per session)... and then maybe he has about 5 minutes rest between each session. but it takes him almost 2 minutes to do the pushups.

so for such a guy who is in good shape, it might look something like this:

1a) 65 PUs - 2 minutes - 5 minutes rest  - totals 65 PUs..  7 minutes

2a) 65 PUs - 2 minutes - 5 minutes rest  - totals 130 PUs..  14 minutes

3a) 65 PUs - 2 minutes - 5 minutes rest  - totals 185 PUs..  21 minutes

4a) 65 PUs - 2 minutes - 5 minutes rest  - totals 250 PUs..  28 minutes  

Half way there and 28  minutes have gone by, so a fairly athletic guy might have to take at least an hour to get through 500 pushups.    I have a hard time imagining 500 pushups in 30 minutes...

Maybe we have to change the numbers to try to imagine better?

Let's try again:

1b) 125 PUs - 3 minutes - 5 minutes rest  - totals 125 PUs..  8 minutes

2b) 125 PUs - 3 minutes - 5 minutes rest  - totals 250 PUs..  16 minutes

3b) 125 PUs - 3 minutes - 5 minutes rest  - totals 375 PUs..  24 minutes

4b) 125 PUs - 3 minutes - 5 minutes rest  - totals 500 PUs..  32 minutes  

Are you doing something like the second example?  I usually like to give guys the benefit of the doubt, but it has to have some level of believability in order to go along with such supposed scenarios.  


I had to look up. Deficit pushups.. and yeah looks like more range of motion and purposefully slow on the way down, so it would be more difficult than a regular standard pushup.

So you are doing a combination of regular and deficit pushups that add up to "almost 100"?  I suppose if you mix them then it is not as hard than if you were ONLY going to do the deficit pushups... so then the question might be whether you are going to do pushups daily or just on the days of your crossfit?


You might be making it worse for yourself if you are still trying to do two sets of 50...

Maybe 3 sets of 33.3 or 4 sets of 25 or 5 sets of 20?  Just saying.. if you are having a certain kind of repetitive stress type injury, it might be better to spread out your sets a bit more .. so then it may end up having a similar effect as taking a break, without taking a break.. of course, you could reduce the total quantity for the day too.. and that would not be a complete break, either..   I know there is a certain psychological problem that comes for any of us if we take a break, since it might cause us to get too loosey goosey with our maintaining a "streak."

My main pain continues to be in my shoulders (both of them, not just one and it is kind of equal pain)... .. but the pain does not seem to be getting worse.. since some days it seems to be less.. and yeah I try some stretches and pacing out my sets..