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I personally believe that we tend to be more viscerally motivated when we are able to internalize any goals on a personal level, so if the goal is abstract then we may well not want to continue to carry it out. I do have a motivation on a personal level just in terms of my sense of my own well-being, and I continue to believe that pushups are a good daily activity, and I believe that I will suffer more costs by stopping doing them than the benefits of continuing to do them on a daily basis.
Regarding your math. .it is not correct.
Sure my past pushups are in the can.. meaning that they already count and there is no taking them back, yet whatever I contribute the future is based on my current and/or future pushups, even though my average per day pushups is propped up by the quantity of pushups that I did in the past. i had right around 14 days that were more than 400 pushups and around 4 of those days were more than 700 pushups, with one of the days (my record day) having 1,330 pushups in one day.. so surely those BIG days really did bring up my average. but it took some time to build up to being able to do that quantity of pushups in any particular day.. and even for several days, like a kind of ongoing training for a specific goal.
Sometimes when I read through this article I tend to remember you and almost tend to feel like it's you. Hitting 1330 in a day just in a challenge of mere 100 pushups daily could be very interesting. Dedication and setting new goals daily is the real deal here. I also wondered the level of practice that Minoru Yoshida must have put in to be able to push such number of pushups in one streak. with such level of determination, the gap left by the reduction in your number of pushups can also be closed while we still aim at achieving the 2 million pushups by the end of next year.
I have only been able to hit 100 pushups in a set as my highest in one set. If every one adds more effort to improve their daily pushups, then there are chances of closing the gap too.
10[edit]0k,Tonimez,213,26680,2025-07-07
There is likely a pretty big difference between the level of abilities of a guy who can do non-stop push-ups as compared with what I did by breaking them into chunks. For that longest day of 1,330 pushups, I had 18 split sets that took place over a little less than 16 hours, so there tended to be right around 50 minutes between my sets and perhaps 1-2 minutes between the two subsets of the split sets, so there were 36 subsets that averaged about 36 pushups for each subset. It also took me quite a bit of time to work up to that level, including my trying to make sure that I did not get injured and I was allowing a sufficient amount of time to recover between sets, even while practicing to work up to be able to push for the record day. None of my prep days were more than 800 pushups, so many of the prep days were between 400 and 785 pushups.
I don't know how 10,507 non-stop pushups can happen so there may be some acceptable ways to rest while continuing to do pushups and still labelling the whole thing as non-stop...and acceptable ways to keep the pushup form, but even 1 pushups a second, that would be close to 3 hours of non-stop pushups..and many of us likely experienced breaking points where our muscles seem to fail at a certain point...
The most pushups that I did was nearly 80.. maybe it was 78 or something like that. Many times I would be getting to muscle failure in my 60s, but surely my abilities to do more pushups in a stretch did get better.. At the same time, I am no young pup, so I have quite a few ailments and pains in my body, including difficulties with my recovery time. Younger guys can likely work out some kind of a system to beat what I did, and if I were younger, I might try to beat what I did, but it does not seem to be good use of my time or even maybe counter-productive for me to be shooting for those kinds of quantities of pushups.
By the way, your picture is of Charles Linster (who did 6,006 pushups in a row) and not Minoru Yoshida who did 10,507 pushups in a row. From this video, right?
100k,JayJuanGee,519,117180,2025-07-07