PUSH UP DAY 92

25 Push ups

• Streak extender in 5 sets, performed in the following locations:   Airport parking lot, Mobile Airport, Houston Rental car center, Wildcat Golf Club locker room, Holiday Inn Express in downtown Houston.

Cumulative total:   7825

PUSH UP DAY 91

331 Push ups

17 Sets

• 20 forty five seconds
• 20 forty five seconds
• 23 forty five seconds
• 23 forty five seconds
• 20 forty five seconds
• 20 forty five seconds 
• 18 forty five seconds
• 18 forty five seconds
• 41 thirty seconds
• 20

Remainder within p90x3 "Incinerator DVD"

• 2 
• 25
• 15 mil
• 21
• 10  last 8 on fists split up
• 10 diamond
• 25

Today was a new high for total in a day...probably not a high in my life as I believe I recall doing an absurd amount one day after a poor round of golf back when that mattered a bit more to me than it reasonably should have.   Speaking of punishment, I ran for 53 minutes after the above, a new 2015 longest run for me.

Cumulative total:   7800 push ups

PUSH UP DAY 90

25 Push ups

• Streak extender

Also ran for 27 minutes making this, I believe the 5th or 6th week in a row having run at least 3 times a week...if I run tomorrow it'll be 3 weeks in a row running 4 times each week. 

Cumulative total:   7469

PUSH UP DAY 89

25 Push ups

• Streak extender

Cumulative total:   7444       The number 4 when said in Mandarin Chinese rhymes with the word death when that word is said in Mandarin Chinese.   As a result the #4 is considered unlucky and or taboo in that culture.  

PUSH UP DAY 88

245 Push ups

• 8 Sets
• 40 standard then sixty seconds rest
• 50 then sixty seconds rest
• 25 sixty seconds rest
• 25 three hundred thirty seconds rest
• 55 as fast as possible...probably to the detriment of form, sixty seconds rest
• 15 on fists as punishment for poor form -- then perhaps 20 minutes rest
• 10 dynamic (meaning a standard push up into a stand up jump), then a few minutes rest
• 25 standard

Cumulative total:    7419 -- this seems like a tremendous volume of push ups to me.   I feel I should be better than I am after that many, though I am pleased enough with progress for now.   10,000 seems like a point at which I should maybe be a master of them, based on the 10,000 hour theory populated by Malcolm Gladwell...or maybe I need to do 10,000 HOURS of push ups, which will take a long long time.

PUSH UP DAYS 86 and 87

May 25, 2015

87 Push ups

• 9 Sets
• 2 standard
• 10 standard slow
• 10 military slow
• 10 wide slow
• 10 staggered slow
• 10 plyo
• 10 military
• 10 fists
• 15 hands on free weights

May 26, 2015

25 Push ups

• Streak extender

Cumulative total:    7174  

PUSH UP DAY 85

25 Push ups

• Streak extender, 5 sets, standard form

Cumulative total:    7062

PUSH UP DAY 84

110 Push ups

• 11 sets
• 10 military
• 10 diamond
• 10 staggered hands
• 10 on fingers
• 10 decline
• 10 clapping
• 10 reverse hands (fingers point towards feet -- note: think these might be bad for wrists)
• 10 side to side (weight over one hand then over the other through motion)
• 10 slow
• 10 wall push ups

Strayed from the hundredpushup.com regimen that I have been loosely following because, well mostly just because.   Also wanted to try some new forms and give my shoulders a bit of a break from the standard form I had been doing probably too frequently. Additionally ran for 47 minutes today, marking the 2nd week in a row having logged 4 runs during a 7 day period.

Cumulative total:   7037

PUSH UP DAY 83

52 Push ups

• 5 Sets
• 2 standard
• 25 fists
• 10 military
• 10 standard
• 5 standard

Also ran 24 minutes this morning.   Continue to be surprised at how slowly running is coming back to me, if at all.  On a positive note, at one point within the p90x3 dvd I followed along with this morning I managed a max set of 15 dead hang pull ups.   Considering limited rest and not having focused on them that is a very good number for me, well, it's a good number for me even if I had been focusing on them and been well rested.  I credit the push ups. 

Off subject, today is Case's last day of 1st grade...his summer will consist of flag football practices and games, swim team, other swimming, vacations, travel and lots of other fun stuff.  I can already hear him whining.   Finn has been out of school since Wednesday, he'll be following his brother around for the next few months, which means nothing really changes for him except his hair will be blonder with each passing day.  

Cumulative push up total:   6927

 

PUSH UP DAY 82

247 Push ups

• 10 sets all standard:
• 22 then 45 seconds rest
• 22 then 45 seconds rest
• 30 then 45 seconds rest
• 30 then 45 seconds rest
• 25 then 75 seconds rest
• 25 then 75 seconds rest
• 18 then 75 seconds rest
• 18 then 120 seconds rest
• 40* then 30 seconds rest
• 17*

* Final 2 sets = max efforts

Cumulative total:    6875

PUSH UP DAY 81

25 Push ups

• Streak extender in 5 sets of standard form push ups.

Also ran 34 minutes this morning, a 2015 long for a school morning I believe.

Cumulative push up total:   6628

PUSH UP DAY 80

217 Push ups

• 10 Sets all standard with 45 seconds rest between, except the intended final set having to be split into two resulted in 30 seconds before the final set.
• 20, 20, 23, 23, 20, 20, 18, 18, 35, 20

Cumulative total:   6603

PUSH UP DAY 79

70 Push ups (too many for a down day...schedule is a bit off)

• 7 Sets within P90X3 "Eccentric Upper" DVD
• 2 standard within warm up
• 10 standard slow
• 10 military slow
• 10 staggered hands
• 10 plyo
• 10 standard
• 18 various

Also ran for 29 minutes today, intended to do 30, but was at home and needing to get inside at 29 minutes so justified shortening.  

Cumulative total:    6386

PUSH UP DAY 78

191 Push ups

• 5 Sets all standard
• 40 -- sixty seconds rest
• 50 -- sixty seconds rest
• 25 -- one hundred twenty seconds rest
• 25 -- three hundred second rest
• 51 -- five hours and counting rest

Cumulative total:     6316

PUSH UP DAY 77

25 Push ups

• Streak extender on fists

Also ran for 42 minutes, a new modern day record for me.

Cumulative total:   6125

PUSH UP DAYS 75 & 76

May 14, 2015

 

25 Push ups

 

• 4 Sets
• 10, 5, 5, 5 all standard

May 15, 2015

177 Push ups

• 8 Sets all standard and all 45 seconds apart:  18, 18, 20, 20, 17, 17, 20, 47

Also ran today 25 minutes...if I run tomorrow it will be 4 times in the same week, something I haven't done in over a year, probably over 2 years.

Cumulative total:        6100

PUSH UP DAYS 70-74

May 9, 2015

25 Push ups

• Streak extender on fists

May 10, 2015

25 Push ups

• Streak extender on fists for first 20, then Case sat on my back which made me switch to standard to finish

May 11, 2015

171 Push ups

• 7 Sets
• 32, 35, 25, 22, 20, 20, 17   Forty five seconds between first five sets, 20 seconds before final 2

I also ran this day, for 23 minutes.

May 12, 2015

25 Push ups

• 3 sets
• 10 pre-run twenty three minute run, 3 standard push ups mid-run (biting bugs made me resume running almost immediately), 12 on fists post-run

May 13, 2015

170 Push ups

• 8 Sets
• 18, 18, 20, 20, 14, 14, 16, 50  all forty five seconds apart.

Then volume of push ups  is improving endurance as I'm now able to push out as many as 5-10 more push ups when I feel as though I'm done whereas when this streak started I could only grind out perhaps 1 or 2 more once I was truly hurting.  

PUSH UP DAY 69

277 Push ups

• 13 sets
• 18, 18, 20, 20 17 17 20, 40 with 45 seconds rest between, then 20 seconds rest before 15 -- all standard
• 2 during p90x warm up
• 15 standard
• 15 military
• 20 standard

Very proud of this effort, though goal was to reach minimum of 45 during set 8, there was just no way, so I took 20 seconds and then did another max set, which turned out to be 15.   Anyway, felt motivated this morning, which made it easier...and harder.

Cumulative total:       5482

PUSH UP DAY 68

25 Push ups

• 3 sets, standard:   5, 10, 10

Ran short today, did last 10 push ups at 11 minute turn around point.

Cumulative total:   5205

PUSH UP DAY 67

176 Push ups

• 9 sets
• 18, 18, 20, 20, 14, 14, 16 standard with 45 seconds between.   Then 5 minutes before max set of 45
• 11 standard within p90x yoga video...have I mentioned how much I dislike yoga?   I feel certain I will again.

Ran this morning as well, 30 minutes, a new high for the year.

Cumulative total:      5180

PUSH UP DAY 66

25 Push ups

Streak extender

Cumulative total:   5004

PUSH UP DAY 65

227 Push ups

• 14 sets
• 28, 35, 25, 22 standard with 1 minute between followed by 5 mins and then a max set of 50
• 2 during warm up for DVD
• 10 standard
• 10 military
• 10 wide
• 10 staggered
• 10 clap push ups
• 3 sets of 5 military reps

I think I need to do my push ups before running because push ups, while tiring, act as a warm up and result in improved running speed, if not endurance.   Whereas, when running first push ups seem exceptionally difficult.   Ran for 29 minutes preceding the above, longest run of the year thus far.

Cumulative total:   4979

PUSH UP DAY 64

25 Push ups

• Streak extender, fists due to palms or rather what I call thumb pad abrasions.  

Cumulative total:   4752

PUSH UP DAY 63

25 Push ups

• 3 sets on fists randomly throughout the day in the house

Streak extender, overall body aches from yesterdays tumble.

Cumulative total:   4727

PUSH UP DAY 62

50 Push ups

• 4 sets
• 25 on flattened fingers and upright thumbs
• 8 side arm balance
• 15 plyo
• 2 standard

OK, so, maybe I shouldn't run after all.  This morning I woke up earlier than usual in an effort to complete my run before Becca started her 1:45 minute ride.   She was meeting people at 5:15 a few miles away, which meant I had to be back before 5am.  Well, the timing proved to be no issue, but as a partial result of the darkness, I stepped in an unseen hole (see below) and went down hard skinning my left knee, left shoulder and gashing the palms of my hands as all who have tripped on a sidewalk are familiar with.   That's when I remembered why I should run in the road and not on the sidewalk.

 

Photo is not the actual hole I stepped in, but an example of the one I stepped in.  I should probably feel more fortunate that I didn't break anything than I do -- I mostly just feel old right now.   Oh and how this all relates to push ups, not that it has to, I had to find a place that was very flat so that I could do them without my palms touching the ground, ya know, since they were covered with open wounds.   I did the 25 on the railroad crossing, which was nice enough.

 

Anyway, that's the idiot Bob story of the day, keep tuning in as I'm bound to follow up my getting pooped on, nearly losing a leg in a hole antics with something else bizarre.

 

Cumulative total:      4702