The Hundred Pushup Challenge is utterly destroying me mentally right now. I couldn’t get back into it on Tuesday (schedualed day 1 of week 5) because I got sick. Yesterday I ate shitty and had a terrible day, so by the time I got to the gym to do my pushups, I had a pounding headache, which just pulsated until I wanted to vomit while trying to do my pushups, and my body just wasn’t having it, so I did what I could and figured I’d rev it up today. Since my ‘max’ was 45 after week 4, I was trying to follow colloum 3 of the program for week 5. I got in there today and my arms gave out after pushup 32 of 40 on the first set and I couldn’t recover enough to do the rest after that. So, I finished my sets, with breaks in the middle of them.. and didn’t do the max rep set.
Week 5 has not gotten off to a good start. SO. My plan is to rest tomorrow, and try again on Saturday morning. I should be able to knock out 40. I don’t know what’s going on. I can’t even do a full cardio workout without being completely worn out. I think a solid day off should do me good. Also, work stress which has been immense this week could be a factor. Tomorrow should clear my head.
No, I haven’t given up on the 100 Pushups Challenge. In fact, I’ve stuck to it religiously so far, and in fact, we just completed week four (right before my pushup buddy leaves for Europe for a month, sonofabitch). 4 weeks, one month! Week 2 was pretty simple, but Week 3 day 1 I just didn’t have the energy to complete. I don’t remember why, but we had to do that day twice. Week 3 was a fucking badass. I was sure we’d have to repeat it. I don’t remember quite what we polled for our second exaustion test, but I think I was at 26 and she was around 22. We had split colums and were now doing different numbers. No biggie. So anyway we moved on to week 4 after consideration and completed it Wednesday. It was pretty rough to say the least, but it always feels good. After a 2 day rest, we did our exaustion test. Before we started, I had it in my mind that I was going to do 45 pushups. If you read a bit back, you’d see I could barely do 12 before I started this, now I was gunning for 45!
Well, turns out, I was able to do it. Just. Willpower and determination. I can’t believe I’ve improved this much in just a month! This is crazy. I really think that at the end of the program, be it in another 2 weeks or another 4, I will be able to truely do 100 pushups. Yes, there are physical changes that come along with this as well, but just knowing how much stronger I am makes it all worth it. So anyone who is thinking about doing this, get on it.
