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.
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.
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.