My very first set of pushups today were so difficult and my chest hurt so much, and while I was doing them, I was thinking that something is wrong and my strength is waning.  I did notice that my pushups were about 1.2 seconds per pushup, which sure is a bit slower than my usual which is right around 1 second per pushup or even slightly faster than 1 second per pushup.

In my second set of the day, I purposefully sped up the pushups to make sure that I was doing them at a decent pace, which ended up being right around 0.9 seconds per pushup, and I ended up feeling much better about the whole set.

Even after all of this time doing pushups, I can inadvertently change some little thing and then not really realize what had changed and why my performance and/or psychology is being affected by such seemingly minor change that I had not even realized what I had done.

Guys might recall that since about late October, I have been purposefully mixing in slow and fast pushup sets, so I don't necessarily have problems with varying the timing of my pushups and even reflecting upon the extent of how my quality of pushup (or the overall sets themselves) might be affected by changing pushup speeds, so even if any of us might be attempting to purposefully measure pushup quality and/or speed, we might still end up losing track of what we might have had done to change how we feel and results that we might end up experiencing at any particular time.

By the way, even though I believe that I recognized my main issue, my chest still hurts, yet I already know from going through so many days of pushups, there are going to be times in which certain body parts start to hurt for no real identifiable reason, and even some stretches or purposeful psyching out of oneself can sometimes help to push through the various seemingly random periods of pain.


I had been thinking that it could be helpful if DirtyKeyboard were to add some kind of a field on the daily pushup table that might want to show the difference between the daily trade weighted BTC price and $100k.  Of course, it is pretty easy to calculate since $100,000 is such a round number, but it still might be interesting to see that number juxtaposed on a daily basis in the pushup report.. and as I mentioned previously (I am not sure if it was in this thread?) that I am likely not really going to start to feel comfortable that sub $100k  is no longer in jeopardy until we are experiencing daily-trade-weighed averages in the ballpark of supra $333,333 - which largely means that if the BTC price gets above $333,333, then it would take greater than a 70% correction to get the BTC price below $100k.. and for sure, I may well concede that my own outlining of dippening standards is too conservative, yet I just cannot have a lot of confidence that our lil friend is going to graduate out of having 70% plus corrections any time soon... and maybe I am too much of a skeptic about extreme BTC volatility going away any time soon.


It seems to me that there can be certain psychological barriers that can be difficult to overcome if we might consider that we have reached "the goal," and so I am not even sure if it is a problem for myself when I continue to post about my not liking to do pushups... yet at the same time, I am trying to describe an actual phenomena going on in both my head and my body... and the not wanting to do daily pushups seems to be ongoingly present, even though there also seem to be periods of inspiration, such as getting to some kind of a personal goal, whether that is tied with BTC price or tied with some kinds of a pushup number (daily, per set, speed or something else). 

It also can be difficult to moderate the goal, such as if I say to myself that I am going to do some lesser goal, then my creation of that lesser goal likely contributes to my losing the plot and considering that I don't really need to do the daily pushups anymore since the higher goals have been achieved and the lower goals are not really sufficiently important in order to keep going with the daily pushups.

I suppose for any of us to want to continue with the daily pushups we likely have to figure out something that we tell ourselves, whether fictional or real, and there probably are not too many of us in this thread who would have come even close to doing as many days of pushups if we had not known that there are other guys suffering in similar kinds of ways, and surely some guys seem to be suffering more and other guys seem to not be suffering as much (yeah, they are probably suffering also, but just not admitting that they are suffering... hahahahahaha).

I am getting ready to do my daily slow set - which currently is my mid-set of the day (or hump set).. so currently, I am feeling a bit psyched up about my next set, and I think that part of the reason is that I already did a couple of sets in which I worked out some of my up and down feelings for the day (which is kind of like a warm up to help to psych me up for my next set, aka my daily hump set).