Jay, you might have got me wrong on this.
What i was trying to say was like it's not a good idea to bet on downity in an upity movement (from a moderately zoomed out point of view).
I think you agree with me on that.
Well. Perhaps, egg on my face, again?
I may have read too much into your statement of "You can call me stupid" since I was understanding some variation of that statement to have had been some kind of a subtle hint that you might have had done some kind of a similar attempt to trade.. so yeah, from your response it seems that
I was wwwwwwrrrroonggYeah, i was self-ironic, which is not easily identified sometimes.
We're all wrong sometimes, that makes us human (AI's, can you hear me?)
EDIT: just wanted to add that i can still feel the results of my planking adventure, but it's not that unpleasant anymore. I should up my training units a little more, and i doubt i will try this kind of intensity increase again...
In about the past 10 months, I have been doing three pushup sets per day, and one of the three pushup sets is purposefully slow, which I consider to be a kind of plank substitute, since I don't want to do planks.
The slow pushup sets tend to be between 20 and 25 pushups and usually between about 60 seconds and 105 seconds.
So far, I have not had any of my pushup sets that I could make last longer than 105 seconds.
After right around a year and a half of daily pushups, my normal pushup sets tend to usually be between 40 and 60 pushups and usually slightly less than 1 second per pushup, even though there is some variance in regards to the speed of my regular pushup sets.
That's really good, imo.
I do sets of 15-20 with handlebars, these are better for my wrists (as a drummer that actually plays the drums sometimes) and let me go deeper. This keeps the back muscles working more, so the risk of a hunchback is smaller. Over 50 you should always workout slower, it builds (or maintains) more muscle mass and is easier on the joints, also less danger for muscle and tendon pains.
Sometimes i do superslow pushups, which take half a minute or more. Try it, it's fun and three of those get you sweating.
Also, i always start from the ground position, in my experience it helps keeping the back straight.