The Hundred Push Up Challenge Week 5 and Week 6: It Is Hard To Finish Well

I am through Week 5! I was surprised how much easier it is to do a set of 15 push ups than when I started out on The Hundred Push Up Challenge. (Yes I am still doing the weenie push ups)

Week 6: I did The Hundred!! The most push ups I did at one time was 33. That is a lot more than the 4 I did just 8 weeks ago!

Follow the saga:

Starting October 13^th:The Hundred Push Up Challenge:Join In

Week 1 Completed: It Was a Gloat Week

Week 2 I Don’t Think I’m Supposed To Click

Week 3 Mea Culpa

Week 4 Accent On Challenge

Week 4 Redo!

I Am To Old For This!

Anyone else want to share how they are doing?

To my resident tech princess I uploaded the image myself!!

The Hundred Push Up Challenge: I am Too Old For This!

 I am not too old for the push ups. Inspired by working my way through the The Hundred Push Up Challenge I ordered Hip Hop Abs. I did half of the intro secession the first time. I was sore for a few days but otherwise fine.

A week later, I got to the DVD again and did the whole 30 minutes at half speed. I was content with that pace. This body is never going to move like those dancers on the screen and I am so okay with that.

I pulled my back! It was twitchy, which is a warning that if I am not very careful, my back will proceed to go out. The last time that happened was about 5 years ago. A week on the couch, heat pads and muscle relaxers (which I happen to like) later I was up and moving very slowing.

No more push up for the rest of the week. I was supposed to help hang Christmas decorations at church this past weekend and canceled that commitment. Backs are tricky and demanding when they are being twitchy. Sigh.

Therefore, Week 5 next week and Lord willing, Week 6 after that and I will be done!

I am going to try to hippity hop my abs again once I have completed the Challenge and added my name to the finishers list.

At half speed, doing just half the tape at a time until this back of mine can catch up with the rest of me. Aging is not for the faint of heart.

Anyway, 86 push ups for today.

How are you doing this fine day?

The One Hundred Push Up Challenge Week 3: Mea Culpa

Confession time: I did not do three secessions last week. I have no excuse. I wasn’t diligent to do what I committed to do. I will do better this week.

(Please note if you are a teen, copy and save the above mea culpa. It will get you out of a lot of trouble. It will be better of you mean it. If you use the term, “mea culpa” you might so distract your parents with your brilliance they may forget what you are mea culpaing about to begin with.)

I did do 60 push up in one secession this past week! If you suggested I would be able to do 60 (weenie) pushups three weeks ago, I would have begged to differ. Around push up number 50, I had an amazing experience. My stomach muscles chime in to complain with my shoulder muscles that I was abusing them. Ah, lazy stomach muscles need all the challenge they can get! My elbow was clicking away. This challenge is becoming a total body experience.

I expect to hear from my toes some time this week.

This challenge is far more doable than I expected. If you are intrigued check out The Hundred Push Up Challenge web site. This would be a nice Christmas/New Years present to give yourself. To be able to truthfully say, “I did it!” (That was worth a split infinitive)

Think about it!

The Hundred Push Up Challenge Week 1 Completed. It Was a Gloat Week!

Thank you to every one who commented on The Hundred Push Up Challenge.

A at Changing Life

WHATEVEReBAY

Ang

Courtney at A Mom Speaks

All said they would give it a try!

If you post about your experience on your blog and would like some linky love, leave the link in a comment or on e-card and I will post the links next Monday when I do my weekly gloat or mea culpa about how I am doing. Please include a link to The Hundred Push Up Challenge web site. This idea is not original to me and link credit should be given where link credit is due.

Last week by the end of the week I did 22 push ups!! (And I learned how to spell push up, two words, not one.) I was a little sore. Day three of week one recommends 120 seconds rest between sets. I though ha! But by the end of the third set (out of 5 sets) 120 seconds of rest seemed very,very reasonable.

I think this is going to be doable in six weeks, probably, possibly, almost definitely….we will see.

The schedule calls for 30 push ups by the end of the week two. Stay tuned…

Better yet, there is still time to join it!