I think it's a challenge that everyone should do, I'm in!
For those who haven't done push-ups for a long time, start with smaller numbers. For example, you can start with 48. Then it can be increased to 100 and 400. This is not really difficult, it can be done as 200 in the morning and 200 in the evening. When you feel the difference, you realize it's worth it.
I don't think this challenge will last long. We have to gain as soon as possible.
Thank you for that! I got to 60 and then every infraction was just 1 pushup. 67 so far, and the infractions have also reduced in intensity. Bonus.
Can anyone recommend a similar yet opposite muscle balancing exercise to maybe alternate these pushups with, or is that what the hours at the keyboard are possibly for?
usually if you are going to off-set you will pick a different muscle group, so you can imagine that pushups are working mostly chest, probably triceps second and may only a tiny bit of shoulders.. .. I think that the most off-setting or opposite would be legs, maybe body squats of some sort. Once I get up to an average of 100 push-ups a day then maybe i might be interested in adding something like body squats.. .. but I am thinking that priority for me is to get up to an average of 100 push ups per day, and I had not even considered that I would be able to get as high as I am right now in such a short-period of time.. and don't get me wrong.. I am mostly trying to space out my push-ups because it is a bit wearing on me and also I don't recover as well as I did in my youth.. and there is still some soreness, but the soreness is not feeling as bad as it felt the first several days... .. but still I do get some sense that I am getting stronger but also I get some sense that I have to be careful not to over do it. I do some other exercises too.... so right now I am mostly considering that push-ups to be mostly added, even though I did catch myself rationalizing doing less of some of the other things that I do (by telling myself that I got enough exercise for the day because of the pushups being added in.. which is not untrue.. and each of us has to make sure that we don't wear ourselves out).
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I added stairs.
It is 12 steps to my basement. So I went up and down 8 times.
that is 96 steps down and 96 steps up. 🆙
Just did it.
I am now on the stationary bike. goal is 33 min and 33 seconds and 100 rubber band pulls .
plus I am doing the planks .
When all this started I was doing 20 minute three times a day on the bike and around five minutes of band pulls.
So I added the planks and now the stairs.
May as well say all goal here.
drop chorlestoral to what doctor wants.
drop weight to 180 from 205
drop a1c from 6.8 to 6.0
You don't need to tell me, but I would imagine that someone who is right around 5' 10" (that is 70" or 178 cm) would be ideal weight of around 180 lbs... and that may or may not be accurate depending on your build and your muscle mass, but if we are just considering an average frame of a 67 year old male.. so that is not too bad to just have 25 lbs extra.. but yeah extra weight is not good, and it is not always easy to keep off.. and probably I would consider myself to be right around a similar level of extra weight (in terms of percentage).
I usually ignore doctors when it comes to cholesterol because the standards of care and the fat lipid hypothesis is a bunch of bullshit, so the important numbers are the HDL (which is the good cholesterol to get it above 40 for men - which surely I have never been good at that) and the triglycerides to keep that below 100... Ldl and total cholesterol are just wacky non-science based bullshit used to sell statins.
so yeah, dropping your A1C is a reflection that elderly become more and more insulin resistant.. so somehow you are getting too many carbs in your diet.. and I am not completely innocent in terms of some of the carb creep that I also get in my diet, even though I do try to make sure that I eat plenty of meat and fat in order to lessen the amounts of my cravings for carbs.
do the planks
do the bike
do the stairs
do the rubber bands.
This is all good, but just don't over do it, you old fart.
If something happens to you, then some of us (including yours truly) won't have any easy targets of guys to yell at.
tweak diet just a bit. I am a pretty good cook. So I will sub pork loin for pork ribs.
make a lot of different white chicken breast meals.
very few grains
I hope that you are not of the belief that red meat is bad for you or that you need to reduce fat in your diet by eating fat free and chicken breasts.. probably the chicken cuts with fat are better and if you can get non-industrial chickens that is probably better, even though almost no one seems to be caring about those kinds of things... some of the additional problems with chicken may well be the breading such as fried chicken that has breading and cooked with bad kinds of oils, even though maybe fried chicken would not be bad if it was cooked with better oils and without breading (of course with the skins.. better if the skins were of chickens that were grassfed (and bug fed - free range) .. but where you going to find chickens like that these days?).
You did not mention the kinds of oils you use to cook, but for sure reduce industrial oils in your diet, yet beef fat, pork fat,butter, ghi, coconut oil and maybe a few other mostly unprocessed oils/fats are actually good for you... and regarding the chicken, fuck chicken and chicken breasts.. there might not be very much fat in there.. . Probably there are more natural ways to raise chickens, so yeah those store-bought chicken breasts are likely not very nutritious.
Pork loin and pork ribs are good. and generally good fat. even though the fat from ruminants (such as cows, goats, lamb, and some others) are supposed to be better in terms of their meat, but then with any of the kinds of meat that we choose, any of us sometimes will make mistakes with seasoning and some of the BBQ sauces that we use might not be so great in terms of sugars and various other ingredients contained in them..
would love to get back into really good shape so I can enjoy my 100k btc.
That surely is a reasonable goal, and nice that we are kind of peer-pressuring each other (and some kind of accountability).. with some of this reporting...
In my own little update, I have decided to add an average to my Excel spreadsheet, so at this point, I am tentatively planning to get my average to be around a 100 per day average, and perhaps try to maintain that..
So from the below chart, you will see that my average is currently at 85 per day, and sure there might be some days that I will end up bringing the average up to be above 100 per day in order to have a cushion in terms of staying at least 100 pushups per day on average until we reach $100k or I die first.. or some other negative consequence might come about in which I might not be able to continue to do as many pushups per day.. .. even if there might be some days in which I might not be in good places to be able to do many push-ups.. yet I am thinking that if I might be able to get my amounts up to 50 push ups at a time on a fairly regular basis (so far the most that I have done at once has been 40 pushups, and sure they might not be completely good form), then getting it up to 50 pushups at a time would end up ONLY causing me to have to do two sets of push ups in a day in order to reach my 100 count for the day.
Date Total P_Ups P-Up/D RunTot BTC Price2/5/24 50 50.00 50 $42,939
2/6/24 70 60.00 120 $42,837
2/7/24 50 56.67 170 $43,078
2/8/24 90 65.00 260 $45,078
2/9/24 100 72.00 360 $47,646
2/10/24 120 80.00 480 $47,336
2/11/24 115 85.00 595 $48,150
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