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Quote from: JayJuanGee on January 02, 2025, 12:15:00 AM

None of that really sounds bad, even though there might be a bit more cardio than necessary in the mix, but surely the combination of stretching and various kinds of resistance exercises does not sound bad at all. I just wonder why you are such a pushup hater, and even proclaiming that the only (or the preferred way) is to do them slow... yeah, sure there is more resistance and less cardio when done slow, yet at the same time, there are a lot of guys who are not even able to do 10-20 pushups in a stretch whether fast or slow, and to do 3 sets of 10-20 pushups in a day, may well end up causing them considerable pain and suffering (and they likely would be benefitted by getting their body up to being able to do something like 3 sets of 10-20 pushups without feelings of major strain upon them). ~

It's working for me, and imo those guys you mention in extreme pain should be doing them on their knees and progress up. I don't think I'm a pushup hater.. if that's what gets you off your couch, good for you. For me, they are boring and not a good use of my time given the other things I'm doing. If I were doing them, I would be doing them slow & controlled. Hey maybe if you start doing that, we'll get over 100K again and the jinx will be over! Cheesy

Back to reality.. you do what makes you happy.

I am thinking that you are contributing to me (and perhaps many other bitcoiners) being less happy than we otherwise could be, since the BTC price is currently less than $100k..and on the margins, your lack of pushups may well be less than helpful to world happiness.

For some reason, this morning when I was doing my pushups, I thought about the somewhat sparseness of my above earlier response to you in regards to pushup speed.

As I type, I am on day 334 of my streak of doing pushups, and nearly the first two months of my doing pushups, I was just doing however many pushups I could. For the first week or so, I started out with mostly in the range of 15-40 pushups per set and right around 3 sets per day, and then for the next couple of weeks, I moved up to 4 sets per day and thereafter I have largely been doing 5 sets per day.. so largely within about a month I got up to 5 sets per day, and my quantity of pushups gravitated up to right around 30 to 40 pushups per set for the first couple of months.. and then maybe towards the end of that period I was starting to break into 50 pushups per set.

By the way, I will note that much of my 4-6 first months of doing pushups, I frequently had to spread all five of my pushup sets throughout the whole day in order to feel sufficiently comfortable in dealing with recovery between pushup sets, and overall ongoing, consistent and persistent pains in varying places of my body and even overall tiredness from the seemingly extra exertions and demands on me from adding the pushups into my daily practices. Another thing is that by the end of May, since I had reached a goal of overall averaging 200 pushups per day, I purposefully decided to go light on myself for June and July and bring my average number of pushups per day down, in order to purposefully relax my daily pushup schedule and routine.. which I believe did not really help me overall since pushups seemed to have had gotten more difficult when reducing the quantity and frequency like i had done, even though surely I had more free time for doing other things... so in any event towards the middl of July I got back to doing 5 pushup sets per day, and also had some longer days (with more sets) in the daily routine... yet 5 sets per day is a kind of current default, even though since about August or so, I have not had to spread my pushup sets throughout the day, I can opt to do all 5 sets within a shorter period, such as within about 5 hours rather than spreading through out the day (which is another indication of greater pushup power, recovery time improvements and progress).

Within the pushup thread there was ongoing discussion of quantity of pushups over quality, and I ongoingly iterated my preference for quantity over quality, especially since I surely was ongoingly experiencing incremental improvement in my pushup abilities and my fitness based on quantity measurements, overall daily soreness and even feelings of what were my pushup until failure pain points seeming to increase with the passage of time.

We were getting close into two months of the thread, and I decided to add timing my pushup sets into each of the times that I did pushups, so that I could have some better gauge over some of the quality versus quantity type talking points, including that even though I had speculated that I was doing my pushups at about an average of 1 second per pushup, after I began to measure the timing of my pushups, I began to realize that I had been doing pushups at quite a bit faster than 1 second per pushup, and perhaps even right around 0.85-0.9 seconds per pushup, so I found it good to monitor and also to attempt to slowly bring down my speed per pushup to get closer to 1 second per pushup on average, and so sometimes even randomly I would slow down my pushups to such an extent that I would have some sets that had pushups averaging close to 2 seconds per pushup.

Of course, slow pushups were more difficult, and no matter the quantity of pushups, I was tending to have difficulties getting my whole pushup sets to be greater than 55-65 seconds in total.. most of my pushup sets tended to be faster than 55 seconds, whether I was able to get 30-ish pushups in a set or even up to 75 pushups in a set.

Nearly two months ago, OgNasty said something about having pushup sets that were 5 seconds per pushup, and at first, I asserted that he was probably full of shit, especially if we might be getting into higher quantities of pushups, such as more than 30 pushups in a set. Of course, I figured that there could be some variance for age, yet at that point, I had not had very much success in having any my own pushup sets that lasted more than 65 seconds in total.

At that point (in about mid October), I decided that one of my pushup sets each day would be a purposefully slow set, which ended up gravitating towards my first set for each day being my purposefully slow set, and so I have kept up the purposefully slow set since mid October, and probably my purposefully slow set has also contributed to improvement in my form overall, and surely the purposefully slow sets are tending to be between 70 and 100 seconds and also tending to be 20-25 pushups.. so in the very beginning I was having trouble getting my slow sets to last more than 70 seconds, which is no longer a problem, and up until now, I have had right around 6 of my pushup sets that took 100 or more seconds to perform, with 20 pushups in 105 seconds being my current record of length of time for pushups (which maybe end up playing out as variations of planks, even though I am not trying to ever be completely stagnant when doing slow pushups).