Today I completed a total of 100 push-ups in 3 sets. I did 30 push-ups in the first set, 30 push-ups in the second set, and 40 push-ups in the third set to complete today's 100 push-ups. Doing 40 push-ups at once in the last set was difficult for me. But with a little effort I was able to do it. I am trying to increase the number of push-ups in each set of my push-ups. In this way, I will give a total of 100 push-ups in 1 set a day.
100 pushups in one set is a very BIG aspiration.
I think that even very athletic folks have difficulties increasing their pushup sets passed the 50-100 arena, and many times get caught somewhere in the 60-80 per set range, yet sure it might be more possible for some of us to increase to something close to or exceeding 100 pushups in a set as compared with others.
I had already mentioned that I had quite a few difficulties increasing past 55, and so even though after around 63 days of doing pushups, I have had many pushup sets in the 55-65 range, I am not even considering very likely that I would be able to get very close to being able to do 100 pushups in any set in the near future, or perhaps even within my lifetime.. but hey never say never.
Don't get me wrong.. I don't consider it very practical or reasonable for me to even want to be able to do 100 pushups in a set.. especially at this point in my life... so doing 100 pushups in a set does not really even seem to be something that I want to work towards achieving, even though I have in my plan to try to do as many pushups that I can in 20 sets around the time when the BTC price reaches $100k.
But, yeah, everyone can consider what is within some kind of a target that they believe to be reasonable and potentially achievable for them.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Doing 100 push-ups in one set is a really big aspiration. As you said you had a hard time doing 55 push-ups in 1 set, just like you, yesterday after doing 40 push-ups in a row last time last time, my body is very sore right now, I feel a lot of pain in my arms and muscles. I do one set of push-ups every morning, but this morning I couldn't do my first set of push-ups because of the pain. Slowly I am feeling this pain more and more, if the pain is more then it seems that I will not be able to do any push-ups even this afternoon. I think it is better not to do any push-ups in this situation, I should stop today.
Personally, I am not sure if completely stopping pushups would be a proper solution, even though maybe reducing the number of pushups might be a reasonable solution - yet of course, you are the one who needs to decide if you believe that stopping is good for you.
If there is merely muscle pain from over use or your not being conditioned for whatever you did, you can usually continue to use the muscle and to work through it with some longer rest periods and fewer pushups per set in order to work back up to some previous levels, and yeah, it could have had been that 40 pushups was too much for you in one set and maybe you should have gotten used to doing a smaller quantity of pushups per set, like several sets of 25 to 30 pushups prior to attempting 40 pushups per set.
One of the things that I find strange is that I have my doubts that the mere working of your pushup quantities to failure causes you to not be able to continue to do pushup sets, even though you may well NOT be used to working your pushups to failure.
I consider that almost every set of pushups that I do, I am working myself to failure, and currently my number of pushups per set usually range between 40 and 60 pushups per set, and sometimes I hit failure sooner based on how fast or slow I do my pushups (or maybe how extended I do them in terms of their range), and other times I might reach failure sooner if I had not rested well or if I had been doing a bunch of other activities or maybe if I have a very full stomach, I might feel that I am failing in my pushup set sooner if my stomach is full and I am feeling nauseous from exerting myself so strenuously.
Part of my point is that working your pushup sets to failure should not cause you to not be able to do pushups the next day or even several hours after the earlier sets, and surely sometimes we can do several pushup sets in a row and work to failure in each set (so maybe having a minute or so rest between each set), and other times we can have several of hours of rest between sets and other times we might have overnight for our period of rest, and personally, I get the sense that we can create our own level of routine times between sets and we might even be constantly sore in our muscles, and perhaps even our joints might be a bit sore too and our overall body might feel some tiredness, yet so long as we are not in a state of injury or near injury, then we should be able to figure out some kinds of ways to continue to push ourselves to continue to do the pushups at least daily.. and figuring out within such daily routines how many pushups we are going to do each day, how many pushups per set, how much time we are going to have between pushup sets, how many pushup sets per day and perhaps some other factors around our work, our location for pushups and the kind of food, rest and other activities that we might have.
Personally, I don't consider stopping to rest for extended periods is a good solution absent some actual injury or some other conflicts that you might have in your schedule.. especially if you are telling us that you have a goal to work yourself up to reaching a goal of 100 pushups in a set... and surely as I already mentioned, I am not even considering such a thing to be very likely for myself, even though as I also mentioned I have some other building (rather than maintenance) goals that I am keeping in mind for myself.
Of course, you can do as you like, and perhaps even reconsider if you would like to create some more realistic intermediary goals that might allow you to work towards being able to reach 100 pushups in a set, so then your 100 pushups in a set might start to appear whether it might be realistic for you or not. .given your readiness, willingness and/or your ability to work towards reaching such goal if you want to continue to keep it in mind. Frequently, it is better to have some intermediate goals to work up to the higher aspiration goal, and even our own progress in terms of the intermediate goals might help to inform us the extent to which the higher aspirational goal is realistic for our own circumstances.