I am thinking something very similar in regards to the slowly increasing of pushups, even though there can be a general theory that if you have some kind of exercise that you are doing on a kind of maintenance level.. whether that is daily or 3 times per week, you should be able to double what you are doing on the maintenance level for a kind of one time ability to carry out.  I used to use that approach in my historical running.. and tend to train at half or maybe once in a while 3/4 of the marathon (or whatever race) distance, and then I would be able to finish the length... Of course, I am referring to a kind of amateur training approach rather than a professional training approach, yet with something like a marathon, there tends to be a desire to just finish it without having to stop.. and even better if you can run the whole time without having to walk (except maybe walking at the water breaks while you are drinking water or something like that).

So yeah with the pushups, there could be ways to add quantities of pushups each day or even once a week and also to add sets or think about how many pushups to do for each set.... or how much time to wait between each set or how to spread the sets out during the day. 

Many of us who are several months into daily pushups have already gotten over some of the worst of the initial soreness of muscles and joints, so we are likely more used to regularly doing pushups, so we do not have to be as careful in regards to major injuries or soreness that might come from just getting started with a new kind of exercise.. so then the questions come down to building up... which surely it might ONLY take a few weeks to go from 100 per day to 1000 per day on a one time splurge... there could even be a kind of increasing of the maintenance amount, and then once every several days or maybe once or twice a week do a splurge session (maybe once a week would be enough for something like that.. but if you believe waiting a whole week is too long then maybe something like every 5 days doing a splurge session)


Fair enough.  I might have read too much into the significance of your various proposals.. and I am glad that you have interests in experimenting with new things and/or mixing some of the matters up a bit.. .. .. yet I also think what is going on here is also fairly interesting in the ways that I had already stated including that we continue to have forum members newly coming to participate in reporting their pushups, which some of them may well end up on a long streak of pushups and even changing some of their own exercise habits for the better.. .. even in my own life I am describing my doing of pushups. .and some guys start consider that maybe they have to consider adding some kind of exercise to their own daily routine... so it can be interesting how these word-of-mouth matters can end up spreading.


You do have to pace yourself, and you could have lack of fluids or even lack of iron in your diet, so you can work up to certain levels of exertion, but you should also make sure your diet and sleep are reasonable... and you tend to get iron from various proteins and red meat.. and your body absorbs the iron from meat better than the iron from plants (or non-meat).