Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 04:54:34 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 04, 2024, 03:10:59 AM

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Quote from: JayJuanGee on June 04, 2024, 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 to drop down to around 150 per day, 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.

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

I once felt this way when I was doing an average of 200 push-ups a day for some weeks. It got to a point when my body was so stressed that I couldn't keep up with the average of 200 push-ups a day. I had to reduce my daily push-up number to ease the pain in my body and keep on doing my push-ups. For now, my push-up average is around 150 push-ups per day, and I have adopted a strategy of 5 sets of 30 reps to maintain the 150 push-ups a day.

yep as too much pain means setback and possible injury.

There can be some psychology to the whole matter too... it is just a lot of pushups.. and maybe it was worse on the days that my average got below 200 and then I felt that I had to do extra for several days in order to get my average back up to 200 pushups per day.. .. I will see how the next month or two goes.. and hopefully I can stick with some kind of an average of 100-150 pushups per day without feeling so much pressure...and hopeully still somewhat stay "in shape."

Quote from: sotelorene on June 04, 2024, 04:04:31 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on June 04, 2024, 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.

Though I may not know your age but I believe age and stamina are among the two things that determined how many push-up one will go a day without been affected and
i think your idea is nice cause it will help you round up fast without much stress and pains.

Sure I still have physical pain, but my physical pain is quite a bit less than it was in the first 2-3 months, and so the last couple of months have not been as bad for physical pain, even though surely there is still some ongoing lingering pain.. just not as intense as in the first 2-3 months.

Quote from: sotelorene on June 04, 2024, 04:04:31 AM

In as much as we have a target and also trying to keep our body fit that doesn't mean one should over do it cause there are effects when someone overstressed his/her muscles and sometimes the pains are usually not funny and too much of everything is not good.

It seems to be less enjoyable when the quantity has to be sustained, and maybe I might be able to tolerate the ongoing quantity better if I were in my 20s.. I feel good to adjust downward, since I believe I kind of already had gotten myself up to a certain amount of pushups that made me feel good about the progress that I had made, and even my doing 100-150 per day is still likely going to have its challenges, since I am more likely going to give a bit more emphasis to form.. and sure maybe every once in a while I might try to do some sets with quantity in mind, but having a lower overall daily target gives me more space to be less concerned about quantity.

Quote from: Jewan420 on June 04, 2024, 04:12:53 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on June 04, 2024, 02:47:35 AM

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An average of 200 pushups per day is too much. 200 pushups a day can harm the body instead of keeping it physically healthy. Because, when you do 200 pushups, your body feels the stress. Doing too many pushups can cause damage to the body by stressing the body.
https://youtu.be/JRej2i8zZD8?si=wFC9KzWN_9XB8Dzt
From this video you will know how many pushups you should do in a day for your body. From what I can understand from the video, not everyone's physical ability is the same, so how many pushups you should do in a day depends on your physical ability. That is, you should stop pushups when your body feels stressed. Instead of doing your 200 pushups, it is better to reduce the number if your physical capacity is low and your body feels stressed.
You can test how many pushups your body can do without stress. You should prepare your pushup list accordingly.

That is a decently informative video, and some of the ideas underlying it may relate to why I ended up considering that I needed to reduce my quantity of pushups. I plan to still going continue to spread my pushups through the day, and I plan to do them every day, since I believe that in the whole scheme of things I am getting enough recovery time, which allowance for additional recovery time will also end up getting improved with my reducing my average number of pushups per day.

I did disagree with their carbo-load suggestion that was at the end of the video, even though for more than 20 years, I have known about various "carbo-load" ideas that exist in exercise circles, I don't agree with needs to carbo load, though surely there are going to be some trainers and even some exercise practitioners who are going to swear to the supposed benefits of such carbo-loading..

Quote from: Dump3er on June 04, 2024, 04:58:45 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on June 04, 2024, 02:47:35 AM

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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.

I purposefully focused on quantity over quality since it had been a decently long time that I had been neglecting strength and/or resistance training, and so in that regard, felt a bit of a purpose to pump out various quantities of pushups while my body was getting used to it, so I probably did not begin to adjust my approach until after I had reached 200 pushups per day.. so that was on my day 95.. and then after that I tried to stick with 200 per day, and now I am graduating to the next level of doing even fewer pushups and perhaps still getting a decent amount of exhaustion from the pushups while not giving up on the idea of doing pushups every day, too.

Quote from: Justinapeter on June 04, 2024, 11:44:03 AM

No body welcomed me here when I posted my first report that's not how treat a lady 😊. I joined this challenge 3 weeks ago and to be honest it was so difficult you men are really trying, when I started I was doing only 30 pushups a day and I did 10 in the morning 10 in the afternoon and 10 in the evening, but now I'm doing 100 pushups a day and I separate it so it won't be difficult for me to achieve. So far so good I have already posted my report, thanks dirtykeyboard for including me in the list and thanks to everyone for making this challenge move forward.

I doubt that there is any need to treat you special, and surely the longer that you participate in various forum threads, the more that other members get to know you, but if you are whining about needing more attention and/or praise and/or appreciation for your contributions, then you are more likely going to get the opposite effect... and perhaps even hostility.. and many times, through the years, I have tried to let other members know (and even lead through example) in terms of not getting overly emotional, even though sometimes any of us might purposefully throw in some seemingly emotional zingers to make our points, and it surely can take a long time for members to get to know you or even like you and some members may well hate you with a certain amount of passion, so I would suggest NOT to take these matters too personally.. but hey whatever, do what you like... and if you want to be an emotional little whiner who is begging for positive feedback, then so be it.. .. Find out how far it gets you.

Quote from: Jewan420 on June 04, 2024, 11:59:55 AM

Quote from: Zackz5000 on June 04, 2024, 08:58:19 AM

Doing 200 push-up a day is very possible,

Yes, doing 200 pushups is easy if your body can handle it. Maybe your body can easily do 200 pushups a day. But, there are very few people who are good at pushups and can easily do 200 pushups. 200 pushups are easy to say but not easy to master. Even if mastered after much trouble, it is very hard to bear. Because it is not possible to do more than 4-5 sets of pushups in a day and 40-50 pushups per set is not easy to do.

Quote from: Zackz5000 on June 04, 2024, 08:58:19 AM

it is also not too much and can't never harm the body if you have been consistent in this push-up challenge,

200 pushups can cause damage to you if you do more pushups than your body can handle. Suppose your body is capable of doing 100 pushups in a day, if you do 110 pushups then maybe nothing will happen to your body. But if you do 200 pushups instead of 100 pushups, your body is more likely to be damaged. It is very important to be aware of your physical capacity in doing any exercise.

There is no strict number Jewan420, even if you might be reading too much into that video that you provided, and you likely do not even know enough about guys in order to proclaim that you know, even if some of us might say that we are sore and various kinds of claim, you still might not have enough information to know what might be the cause of the problem, beyond just claiming that the number of pushups is too high. I can show you my whole history, and my first 5 days were less than 100 pushups per day, and it took me until day 43 to get up to 200 pushups in a day, and the most pushups I did in any one day was on day 93 with 300 in that day...

Surely i could have kept going for quantity and even started working up to 400 pushups in a day, but I personally (and optionally) decided to change my priorities and to reduce my pushups down to averaging 200 per day until just a day (which I did for about 25 days between day 95 and day 120), and so so two ago I decided to continue to average my number of pushups per day even further downward, and that was also optional, and I did not need to do it, except just overall package of things that I was doing, I was rather more interested in prioritizing other things. So there are options and not necessarily absolutes when it comes to these kinds of decisions that guys (and perhaps a gal or two) choose to make.

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 04, 2024, 03:54:02 PM

and I may just may try a handful of wait for it. pushups.

Don't over do it, you old fart. Tongue

you can also build up to them by doing them against the wall and/or doing them from your knees and then maybe once you get to full pushups do only 5-8 at a time...

Quote from: Zackz5000 on June 04, 2024, 05:33:24 PM

Quote from: Uhwuchukwu53 on June 04, 2024, 04:15:12 PM

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Uhwuchukwu53 how are you doing your push-up that your total numbers of push-up is not increasing even when your days of push-up is increasing, your previous push-up number and your current push-up number is just the same 75 or is it that you are not adding up your push-up number?

Surely Uhwuchukwu53 is challenged in terms of following instructions. Total number of days. Total number of pushups. We don't need to know how many pushups he did that day (at least in terms of the pushups report). So yeah for me it has become tempting to not say something mean...

Quote from: OgNasty on Today at 03:51:39 AM

Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

I might be willing to do 500 pushups on the day that bitcoin reaches $100k (or the next day).. but of course, I might have to do 10 or more sets of pushups rather than my usual maximum of 5 sets in any day... but truly $100k would be a day to celebrate.. that is if we happen to be able to actually do the extra pushups on that particular day or maybe on the following day or some other day that is sufficiently proximate to the day that bitcoin reaches $100k, which you never know.. could be within a week or two, or maybe it will take another 18 months to two years. I am thinking that there are decently good odds that $100k will be reached between 1-3 months... but yeah, you never really know.

I know for sure that the day Bitcoin will hit $100k will be a very great day and it is going to be the talk of the Town but I will suggest you don't let your happiness make you do something that will stress you perhaps happiness doesn't bring stress rather it brings rest of mind, less thinking, less stress. However, everyone is so positive and seriously anticipating for the day Bitcoin will hit $100k and surely the day or time is near but we can't tell and while anticipating we should be accumulating more Bitcoin by using the best strategy (DCA method).