PUSH UP DAYS 693-695

390 Push ups

• Streak extender
• Streak extender + 25
• 345 in sets of 30 reps, with last 3 sets being 15 reps each

Cumulative total:   70,154


I heard this morning that Warren Buffet suggests reading 500 pages a day.  He says that's what he averages.  Yeah, 500.   This made me realize that I never commented on one of my favorite yearly blog posts -- the Craig Brandenburg books read list, revealed in January of every year (or thereabouts).   I plan to go do that now...and I plan to get back into reading, which I listed as a new years resolution anyway. 

PUSH UP DAY 692

315 Push ups

• 30, 10, 10, 10, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 35, 30

Cumulative total:   69,734

PUSH UP DAYS 689-691

508 Push ups

• 85 in following sets:   25, 30, 30
• 398 in following sets:   30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 15, 20, 2, 1, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 30, 10
• Streak extender

Cumulative total:    69,419

Random picture of the day:

The Wein's house = Class

PUSH UP DAYS 684-688

575 Push ups

• Streak extender
• 300 in following sets: 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25
• Streak extender
• 175 in following sets:  25, 25, 25, 15, 10, 10, 15, 25, 25
• Streak extender x 2 + 15, 25, 10

Cumulative total:   68,911

PUSH UP DAYS 682-683

373 Push ups

• 150 in sets of 10, 30, 30, 30, 15, 25, 10
• 223 in sets of 25, 3, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 10, 10, 5, 10

Cumulative total:    68,286

I started doing P90X again, technically P90X3, which is noteworthy to people who are into it as it means I'm doing the shorter version workouts.  As a result I'm back to doing pull ups...I did 3,538 pull ups in 2016, technically I did all of those prior to August when I started babying my shoulder, so we'll see if I manage more this year or not.   As for push ups, I did 43,351 in 2016.  There were some pretty high volume stretches mixed in throughout the year, so not sure I'll do that many again this year, but we'll see, if I don't have any more skin cancer spots on my arms it will help.

PUSH UP DAYS 678-681

390 Push ups

• Streak extender
• Streak extender +5
• 300 via 8 sets of 25, plus 2 sets of 10 and 1 set of 30
• Streak extender +10

Cumulative total:   67,913

PUSH UP DAYS 655-677

875 Push ups

• Streak extenders from day 655-676 and then 325 today.

Comment:   Stitches are out, one are push up days are over and I even got great news from a doctor friend who did some informal tests and gave his opinion that I have not torn anything in my right shoulder and can therefore resume any/all exercise I had been avoiding.   (He says I probably strained it and it may take as long as 9 months to fully recover, but I can't make it worse using it, so therefore I will.   As for how it happened, you're thinking too many push ups, but I truly believe it is a result of being ill-prepared to play disc golf as aggressively as I was about 3 months ago, anyway, back to pursuit of high volume push ups).

Cumulative total: 
67,523   (less than 100 per day, which I intend to remedy  -- truth be known, I'm certain I did a number of uncounted sets of 25 during my overlong streak extender streak, so I probably never dropped below 100 per day, but this motivates me so I won't go back and try to put together the notes from the past 3 weeks to prove anything to myself.)