Quote from: JayJuanGee on June 16, 2025, 11:54:40 PM

Quote from: Ryu_Ar1 on June 16, 2025, 09:25:53 PM

The past 2 weeks have been a bit tiring for me because I have a job and it requires me to travel, so the challenge was put on hold because it was really hard to avoid.
But today I restarted after 2 weeks of busyness and tried to do some warm up with jogging as usual followed by sit ups and of course the challenge that I left temporarily.

After 2 weeks of not doing it there were some parts of my body especially in my biceps that felt quite sore for a while after I did push ups for 5 sets x 20 reps. Although it didn't really interfere with my activities, there was a slight difference I felt in terms of body condition because it seemed like I had to start a new training again after I had previously stopped.

Yep. Exactamente!!!

Amazing how that works!!!!!

And, surely one of the reasons that I am trying to avoid, as much as I can to completely take a break, even though from time to time, I end up having some low number of pushup repetitions and also low number of pushup sets days.

By the way, I also have some tricks that I do in terms of making up for my missed pushups when it happens and even to punish myself and in essence it results in my doing way more pushups than I count.. and not getting credit for many of the punishment pushups that I end up having to do and not wanting to do that, but the punishment ends up being something to help to inspire me to try to stick with the "easy route" of doing my required daily pushups of at least three sets... Even though it sometimes can be difficult, it is not as difficult as the punishment that I sometimes end up having to dish out to myself for not doing the regular pushups within my schedule.

That's right and it seems that there really needs to be a re-acclimatization because previously I was quite able to do around 150 push ups in 5 sets but after a few weeks of not doing it there seems to be a slight problem if it is too forced and it happened where when yesterday I tried to force 100 push ups in 4 sets x 20 reps in the end until now I still feel some sore parts including the biceps.

I tried to minimize it by compressing and giving pain relievers but the discomfort is still there even today.
I think it's my fault for trying to push myself after my muscles started to stiffen but it's already happened and today I even reduced my challenge again.

This kind of punishment might be a good alternative but of course it's possible if we feel better and I might do the same when some parts of my body start to return to normal.

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