Quote from: Ricardo11 on April 17, 2024, 04:15:42 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on April 15, 2024, 11:46:36 PM

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In fact, according to the current situation of Bitcoin, it seems a bit impossible for me to get the price of Bitcoin to 100k in the next 38 days, in fact, according to the current situation of Bitcoin, it seems that Bitcoin will be pumping not very soon.

There is an expression in bitcoin (and surely taken from the mere idea of what markets do), which is "The trend is your friend." So even if we might not like what is going on, it can frequently be difficult to fight the trend, and sure at some point it is going to reverse, which is part of the reason that I personally do not even try to play around with figuring out which way the BTC price is going to go.. and so if the price goes down I buy and if it goes up I sell, and I have been doing this since late 2015 - yet at the same time, the amount of bitcoin that I sell on the way up tends to be such a small amount that it does not add up to be a large portion of my BTC holdings.. so I never run out of bitcoin to sell, and pretty much through the years, there has been a kind of maintenance of the stash going on.. .and an attempt to stay emotionally neutral to the BTC price direction, even though for sure I am better off if the BTC price goes up, while at the same time, since 2015, the BTC price has gone up and continued to go up so evrerything is good.. even when we might have relatively long dipping periods, the overall tendency is for the BTC price to go up, so in that sense verything has been good and continues to be good for anyone who makes his preparations in such a way that he is biased towards preferring UP.

Quote from: Ricardo11 on April 17, 2024, 04:15:42 PM

I am so optimistic about Bitcoin, I have decided that I will continue this challenge until the price of Bitcoin crosses 100K, even if I have to wait until the day I do 100 push-ups or 150 push-ups in one day.

I will agree with you that both in starting the pushups, when you were ONLY starting out by doing 20 pushups per day, there were probably the first few days that it made sense to NOT increase your pushups by too much while your body was getting used to doing pushups every single day. But then after a while, your body starts to get used to it, and probably is able to do more and more pushups each day without suffering any kind of meaningful shock.

Also once you start getting above 100 pushups per day and you continue to add 1 pushup per day, the amounts do start to add up, and you might even have troubles doing it when you start getting into the mid-200s per day, even though surely your body would continue to build all along as long as you con't end up injuring yourself.

Quote from: Ricardo11 on April 17, 2024, 04:15:42 PM

I agreed to wait and I will continue the challenge by increasing the push-ups by one each day. My body has become accustomed to giving push-ups like this every day.

Today is day 43 of my push-ups challenge, and I've done 62 push-ups today, and my total push-ups since the challenge started is 1,763push-ups.

You should be creating official reports.. so that in a proper format, your current report should look something like this:

100k,Ricardo11,43,1763,2024-04-17 (looks like Tmoonz already mentioned this - I changed the date in mine to match Tmoonz, and of course, if there is any need for a correction, then Ricardo11 should update it to make it correct).

Quote from: Ricardo11 on April 17, 2024, 04:15:42 PM

Please pray for me, that I can continue the challenge well till the end, and that the value of Bitcoin will cross 100K very soon.

I am not sure how much of an effect the praying route will have, and even the specifics of $100k "very soon" seems kind of vague. (looks like Tmoonz already mentioned this, too).

Quote from: Tungbulu on April 17, 2024, 05:57:32 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on April 17, 2024, 01:53:21 PM

If our bodies are not necessarily young, and so if we do pushups throughout the day, there may be 3-6 hours between sets.. and depending on if there are 3 or 5 sets in a day, or maybe even more, but I have personally found 5 sets in a day scattered through the whole day to be helpful to be able to carry out the task, including that there continues to be a lot of soreness when adding this kind of activity to a routine and maybe either we had not been doing this kind of activity or that some of us are not very young, so there can be issues with recuperation time.. some older folks might have to start with just a couple sets per day, but then it probably still could be good to try to do something like 5 sets throughout the day, and just trying to figure out how many pushups per set are manageable to balance the soreness, the recuperation time and strength to do more pushups without injuring oneself or overly exhausting ones whole system (including psychology).

I started off the challenge spreading 5 sets of 20s throughout the day, but I've come to realize that by going 5 sets, I get exhausted and drained pretty fast and I'm unable to manage the soreness by trying to maintain 5 sets. I may not be that old but definitely not in my prime, so I'm assuming this is because ive not been doing this kind of activity in a long while, Hence the reason why I find it pretty challenging keeping up with 5 sets. so right now, I'm left with 2 options, reduce the number of push ups I go per set or increase the number of sets i go in order for me to keep up and also be able to balance the soreness.

You probably have more than 2 options in order to figure out a way to attempt to stay consistent with doing your pushups, yet continuing to attempt to build.

You can also reduce the number of pushups per set..

There seems that there would need to be a kind of minimum number to keep doing in order to keep building, so you shouldn't want to go too light on yourself, and you want to do enough to feel that you are making progress...

And, yeah, if you started out by doing too many, it can take your body one or two days just to recover from the first day of overdoing it, so it can hurt a lot to continue or maybe you have to reduce more drastically than you thought, but there still might be somewhere along the line that you start to feel more ready, willing and able to increase the number of pushups that you are doing per set or the number of sets that you are doing.

But, yeah, making some adjustments seems like a good idea, especially if you think that you are not able to just maintain the same that you did.. and you might not even need to adjust as much as you might be thinking that you need to adjust, because sometimes a little bit of a tweak will be enough and your body will get used to it after a few days.. maybe even after a week or so.

I have already mentioned several times that I have a lot of pains, and there are times that I either completely don't want to do it, or even when I am doing it, I want to stop. but frequently I will just make myself do it.. and I think that the main thing is that I am not at injury kind of levels.. it is just various pains and sometimes just feeling that I don't have enough energy..

Quote from: Tungbulu on April 17, 2024, 05:57:32 PM

I would've considered reducing the number of push ups per set (5) but that'll mean that I'll not be able to actualize the goal of hitting at least a 100 push ups per day.

You don't need to do 100 pushups per day. Sure it would be nice, but it is not necessary.

My first 10 days of pushups looked like this:

2/5/24   50
2/6/24   70
2/7/24   50
2/8/24   90
2/9/24   100
2/10/24   120
2/11/24   115
2/12/24   120
2/13/24   130
2/14/24   135

So I did not get up to 100 pushups until 5 days, but then I kept increasing the number of pushups and later expanded to 5 sets rather than 4 sets.

And you don't even need to look like me.. you can do even fewer and just see how you are feeling as you go.

Quote from: Tungbulu on April 17, 2024, 05:57:32 PM

So since I'm very enthusiastic about accomplishing the task and hitting the daily target, I've decided to increase the number of sets to 6 and reducing the number of push ups to 17 which should give me a total of 102 push ups per day.
I already concluded 4 sets and I've observed that spreading 6 sets of 17 push ups has helped me manage to balance the soreness.
And I've also chosen the the recuperation time between each sets to be at least 2 hours and it fits perfectly on my schedule so I shouldn't be having problems performing the task now.

That all sounds good... to find a balance in your quantities and spreading them out.. and yeah, maybe after a week or so you can reconsider if you need to adjust it again.. but there surely is nothing wrong with that, even if each set seems kind of small, your body is likely to get used to it.

Quote from: Tungbulu on April 17, 2024, 05:57:32 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on April 17, 2024, 01:53:21 PM

Another thing is doing pushups every single day for 100 days or more. The strategy needs to be more careful in order to not wear ourselves out and to be able to keep doing them day after day after day, and if we overdo how many pushups at a time or put them all together in quick sessions, we may well cause ourselves to become too sore, even though sure maybe some younger members are going to be able to accomplish those quick short sessions without having problems in being able to continue to do them day after day after day.

You're right
Pacing oneself should be one of the most important things to be considered essential when performing a fitness challenge such as this one.
If one fails to maintain a good pace and get too carried away and push too hard and too quickly, they may end up getting sore and burned out very quickly before even lasting up to a week.

While it's important to have the objective of this challenge in mind, it's also very crucial to maintain a good pace, consistency and gradual progression should be our number one guide through the challenge. If you observe that your current technique isn't favourable for you, then there is no shame in making some adjustments, everyone must not use the same technique to achieve the same result.

If your body isn't able to manage going a 100 per day, then you can possibly reduce the number of push ups per day or you sort of a more easier technique to help you achieve your daily goals without wearing yourself out.

For sure, in a thread like this, we are trying to talk about a kind of concrete action that any of us should be able to do, as long as we modify whatever quantity and frequency to our own circumstances... so yeah, there can be some similarities to bitcoin in that we can buy into bitcoin in accordance with our circumstances and perhaps build up a quantity of bitcoin..

Quote from: Troytech on Today at 12:08:21 AM

I can see regrets for those that thought of quiting before and now that they are used to it, its all fun for them.

Today I would have exceed all my pushups from when I started till date but I still found myself stopping at 100 pushups, I did have enough energy to exceed but I felt if I do too much the old pain would return and I seriously don't want that for myself now, but nonetheless I'm not gonna stop pushing further now, I'll try adding an extra 5 to each of my sets, making it 25 each, that way I won't feel much pain than trying to add an extra 20 at once to reduce the effect so my body would adjust slowly to the increase in number of pushups.

My report for yesterday sorry its coming late here.

100k,Troytech,29,1620,18/04/2024.

Your date formate is wrong.. .. it should look like this:

100k,Troytech,29,1620,2024-04-18

Quote from: Troytech on Today at 12:08:21 AM

The halving is really getting everyone fired up, I'm seriously buying into the idea of doing some extra pushups for that day to give it the honour it deserves, but right now I don't think I can go 200 all out at once, maybe a 150 would be okay for me at this point.

Of course, you would not have to do 200 at once, but yeah 200 in a day, and I am already tending to do more than 200 each day.. so I am not sure if I can do more (or if I want to do more, so I am not sure if I have any more physical or psychological will power in reserves to maybe throw in an additional set or two as compared to what I am currently doing.. it might not be worth it to push myself too much and then end up overdoing it).

Quote from: Troytech on Today at 12:08:21 AM

I can do other things to make it grand myself, maybe adding making it an all fruits day and vegetables, one day to be a vegetarian to promote my health, that's something I can do for sure Roll Eyes

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Personally, I doubt that you are more healthy from cutting out meat. You probably are having the opposite effect, depending on the quality of meat that you eat. Yeah, if you are eating a bunch of junkie processed foods, then that might not be as healthy as if you were eating various quality meat products.

Quote from: Troytech on Today at 12:08:21 AM

We talked about getting everyone to participate in the challenge on the halving day, how about that, how do we get it done?

Of course, guys will just volunteer and report what they did and if they did anything extra.

Another thing is that the exact time of the halvening may well overlap the 19th and the 20th...and it is already appearing to be pretty damned close to midnight UTC.. so at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th.. but yeah, that is UTC time.. so maybe it depends on your time zone in regards to what date you count.. or maybe would you change your pushups on the 19th in anticipation of the halvening or on the 20th after you know that the halvening had already successfully taken place (presuming that the halvening will be successful, as it has been so far in the previous 3 halvenings).

Quote from: Tungbulu on Today at 12:32:05 AM

100k, Tungbulu,3,302,18,04,2024

Your report format is wrong.

It should look like this:

100k,Tungbulu,3,302,2024-04-18

By the way, your earlier assertion that you are already having difficulties with 100 pushups per day does not make it seem to be a good idea to agree to do 200 pushups on halvening day... but whatever.. you can do what you like.