Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 02:47:35 AM

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I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average drop down to around 150 per day, and so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself, because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

My plan is to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, and so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. and maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

One important concept is time under tension when we discuss resistance training. The 100 push-ups challenge here is a great idea, but participants should not to it with speed to get over with it. There should still be body control or otherwise joints and tendons and cartilage have to bear more workload than they should. That's why reducing the number of push-ups when that leads to a better feeling and better body control is never wrong. Everyone of us knows this one guy from the gym hammering out the exercises as if it was about speed and not about strength, body control and body tension. This is problematic even more push-ups with one's own bodyweight as everything that creates force from exaggerated acceleration will make the body sore. So there is an important line between pumping out a high number of push-ups while neglecting form and doing it mindfully with the goal to make it for health reasons while not losing sight of the goal of this challenge.

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 03:01:24 AM

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For me the 3 x 23 = 69 minutes was eating too much time. It was mild cycling or spinning along with do resistance bands on the handlebars. for maybe 3 minutes or 5 minutes of each 23 minute session. I was doing this for a few years. The had the hernia which put the exercise for a long time.

I did go back to the 3 x 23 with bands in Feb of this year until I did the deviated septum surgery this April.

I was inspired by this thread and got back into regular exercise because of this thread. (likely may have got back eventually but this thread helps).

The steps are way way way harder to do then the cycling so I have to find the right amount of steps and the right amount of speed/time.

My breath control is improving a lot doing this.(fixing the septum also helps). Maybe I will end up at 40 flights and 20 minutes maybe I cut it at 30-35 flights and 15 minutes.

Knees feel a bit sore in the 25+ flights range. So I know I can't push past that as it is not muscle involved.

Shutting AC off and getting house to 85f helps the steps/flights as no muscles are stiff from cold.

This has been a nice journey for me. Looking forward to 15.15 minutes of stair tomorrow and 30-35 flights of stairs.

@philippma1957 thanks for this piece of info. I haven't read the entire thread, which means I only know so much about your health conditions and don't know whether you have been posting about it before. But this gives me a better idea what certain workloads possibly mean for your body. As far as I can tell, you are approaching this challenge and your overall fitness level with reasonable caution, especially since you got surgeries. I am not a surgeon, but I am sure that the hernia surgery inevitably required you to avoid high pressure resistance training for quite a while as that takes time to fully heal I would guess. So the options you chose for you, emphasizing cardio training while keeping pressure on the body at a relatively low level seem to make a lot of sense to me. Including climbing stairs/flights, which still is involving your body weight only.

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Knees feel a bit sore in the 25+ flights range. So I know I can't push past that as it is not muscle involved.

Once you get older, joints will have some wear and tear. But there are a few things you can do to keep inflammation at a lower level, which can help quite a big deal. Micro inflammations are pretty normal when the body gets trained, but young bodies handle that more efficiently. You can (and should) add some Omega 3 supplement on a daily basis. It is not expensive and you should have access to decent quality with a little bit of google research or Amazon. This turns into so called Eicosanoids and Docosanoids, which are some of the key anti-inflammatory molecules. It's proven research and it is one of the few supplements I would recommend taking regularly. Of course it doesn't repair a knee, but inflammation is an ongoing cell-demaging process that's not good for cartilage and entheses.

Great to see though that some here take it very seriously and share their experience. That's what makes Bitcointalk.org an enjoyable place besides all the tech (and the trash) that is being talked about here Wink

And I mentioned this elsewhere I think, but I once saw someone bringing up this analogy that the body is the result of all the exercise added up over time. It sounds so simple, but compare the fitness of two people of the exact same metrics except for one guy doing 55,000 push-ups a year while the other guy doesn't do any. These little things add up over time and only makes sense because with every push-up you are sending your body a clear signal that degeneration is no option. This is so utterly important for overall health! Just think about how much less of a signal (or how much more for that matter) a body gets that does not do the 55,000 push-ups a year? So the good news is that a healthy body is not always about hard work, but about consistency and consistency can be more easily achieved than hard work. Not everybody has the physical condition (health) or the time or the motivation to go all out five times a week. But these routines still do wonders!