100 Push-Ups A Day Until Bitcoin Is $100K Challenge

[AHOYBRAUSE]

I assume we are allowed to change pushup style between finger tip, fist, diamond, wide hands, wide feet, but may I request an official ruling on these please?

I don’t know if I’m the guy doing the official rulings or not, but hey, I’ll take up the responsibility. My official ruling is that you can and should do whatever makes you a better person. In this case it’s strengthening. Any activity or commitment you want to make towards that is better than allowed, it is praised.

Exactly, everybody should do whatever he/she feels the most comfortable with.

For me, I really have to get this one going and I will up soon, 100 is not enough. Today I got the results of my health check and I must admit, it could be better.
Already changed some eating habits and going to gym since last month. But seeing these results now, I guess this challenge comes at the right time.
Let's all get healthy guys and grow our strength and energy just as btc will grow in value (hopefully).

[JimboToronto]

Here's my exercise equipment:

[OgNasty]

Today I got the results of my health check and I must admit, it could be better.

My last checkup the doctor told me my blood pressure is pretty low for a guy my age and I should consider adding some stress into my life.    I figured posting here more should do the trick. 

Today I will hit 1,500 push-ups since I started this challenge (I started on February 2nd, before I started this thread).  I feel like I've made a pretty good effort sticking with it so far and hope others are as well.  I'd like to urge others to update occasionally with their progress as well.  Would love it if at the very least this thread managed to do 100,000 push-ups together.

[JayJuanGee]

I assume we are allowed to change pushup style between finger tip, fist, diamond, wide hands, wide feet, but may I request an official ruling on these please?

I don’t know if I’m the guy doing the official rulings or not, but hey, I’ll take up the responsibility. My official ruling is that you can and should do whatever makes you a better person. In this case it’s strengthening. Any activity or commitment you want to make towards that is better than allowed, it is praised.

We could all have opinions on this, and we don't necessarily need to agree, even though I do agree with your (@OgNasty) ways of expressing these kinds of personalized physical fitness goals.

One thing that we should attempt to do would be as much as we can within the reasonable parameters of the exercise and surely within our own time and space constraints.. .. but just like bitcoin, we should also be attempting to make sure that we stay in the game, which might mean that we need to modify the exercise in various ways, and so if we might emphasize making sure that we get in the repetitions of the count or if we might emphasize that we have quality push-ups (or whatever substitution that we might be doing), we shouldn't want to injure ourselves or to push ourselves so hard that we end up giving up because it hurts too much.  

In the last 12 days, I am still hurting every day, but I am still trying to make sure to pace myself, including for my own schedule of fitting things in and spreading it through the day, and to work on improving my form now that it is seeming pretty clear that I am meeting and/or exceeding the average in terms of the quantity of 100 per day on average.  

I am finding it somewhat comforting to allow 3-4 hours to pass between my push up sets, and so far I have been doing 3-4 sets per day, and sure there could be a time in the future in which I am going to be able to do two sets per day rather than 3 or 4 sets in a day ... but I might be a ways off from that kind of an accomplishment, and even if I don't get to that point of being able to do to sets of 50 relatively decent push-ups at one go, I am o.k. continuing to do 3-4 sets which largely are now falling between 25-35 pushups for each of the sets, with outlier quantities once in a while, and maybe even some desires that I might have to add some other kinds of exercises into the mix.

Another thing is that guys should not be ashamed to do some or all of their pushups in a modified way (such as from the knees) in order to lessen the likelihood of overly straining parts of their body (joints such as shoulders, wrists or elbows can start to feel the daily tension), and so to me, it seems better to either do some kind of modified easier form with more reps and to work up to more reps and to better form, but your body, joints have to get used to it.. including even sternum pain.. which I have a little bit of that too.. and so far I have been doing the full pushups.. but I can feel that there are ways that I could end up over doing it, even though it helps to have more time to have had been doing it and making sure that my body is more or less improving in its recovery time and even its muscle definition, which creates some sense of better overall health.

Maybe one other BIG thing that I have found to be helpful is to engage in pretty heavy breathing while doing the push-ups.   It can give a sense of energy and purpose, whether you breath deeply on every single rep or if you have some other way of doing it, it is likely going to invigorate you and empower you if you make sure that you are getting a lot of oxygen in your system during this whole process.. and while you are potentially getting used to routinely doing an exercise that had not previously been in your daily routine.

I assume we are allowed to change pushup style between finger tip, fist, diamond, wide hands, wide feet, but may I request an official ruling on these please?

I don’t know if I’m the guy doing the official rulings or not, but hey, I’ll take up the responsibility. My official ruling is that you can and should do whatever makes you a better person. In this case it’s strengthening. Any activity or commitment you want to make towards that is better than allowed, it is praised.

Exactly, everybody should do whatever he/she feels the most comfortable with.

For me, I really have to get this one going and I will up soon, 100 is not enough. Today I got the results of my health check and I must admit, it could be better.
Already changed some eating habits and going to gym since last month. But seeing these results now, I guess this challenge comes at the right time.
Let's all get healthy guys and grow our strength and energy just as btc will grow in value (hopefully).

I am starting to average a bit more than 100 per day too.... and I am still not sure how I am going to treat that.  I just like having a cushion in order that there might be some days that I am not able to do 100, but if my average is above 100, then it may well not be as onerous to make up for any days in which I might not reach my goal of trying to maintain at least a 100 average.

In regards to your health check, it likely depends on what areas you are struggling, yet my own ideas about metabolic problems or trying to engage in healthy living, I consider diet and sleep to be more important than exercise, even though I have had an exercise routine for much of my adult life, even though I am a bit negative on walking recently, because I had been doing it for so many years and then realizing that probably between about somewhere in 2019 and 2023) I had been neglecting some of the resistance training.. which since about mid-2023, I had been trying to incorporate more of the resistance training back into my routine.. and so these pushups are working better for me than I had previously considered.. In other words, I wasn't doing any pushups.. and I was a bit afraid of them until getting back into doing them in the last 12 days.

Here's my exercise equipment:

To each their own, but I would not poo-poo the benefits of resistance training, especially at your age... I know it can hurt.. and surely there are folks who do not exercise very much at all, and I am not even sure if I should go over very much of my own past in terms of some of the various kinds of exercises that I have done.. but even though playing the piano and fishing are forms of activity, and it is better than nothing, it would be difficult to classify them in terms of the potential benefits of resistance training.. .again.. poo poo it all you like, there can be some advantages in terms of having strength in your elderly times, whether it is to carry the groceries up the stairs, or to move your piano from one room to another (not that pianos are moved very often) or maybe it is to attempt to get away from the bear when he (or she) is after your fish.

[Bravut]

Bitcoin is headed to $100,000 and that's not speculation. OK, maybe it is, but the 100 Push-Ups A Day Until Bitcoin Is $100K challenge is real and has been echoing throughout the community for a week now, so I thought I would make a thread here for those of us who want to try and hold ourselves accountable.

The first video that comes up when you do a quick search for this is Jae from Proof of Work Fitness, so I'll give him credit for kicking off this trend until someone corrects me with better information.  You can see his video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPrsA7gBc3U

I myself started this challenge on 2/2/24 and hope to inspire other Bitcoiners to take this step to help build some muscle in the community.  

Here's a video showing you what happens to your body after doing 100 push-ups a day for a month and gives some tips on proper form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euPXf2hqU3s

My only real tips would be to not worry about trying to do 100 push-ups at once.  Break them down into as small of sets as you need to keep from hurting yourself.  I also prefer doing push-ups on my knuckles as I think it saves my wrists from a lot of stress.

If 100 a day is too much, maybe try to start with whatever "K" the Bitcoin price is at and work your way up to 100 along with Bitcoin.  

Who's in?!?!?

Bitcoin might reach $100k,entering the challenge is appluasible,as that will make my body fit.
As a newbie seeing such morale is encouraging, just as we bitcoiners also we should be fit.
Especially some of us that is addicted to our screen this will be a time we visit the gym again or even do some home workout to come out healthy and hold. It's a kill two bird with a stone challenge.

[goldkingcoiner]

100 is not that much. Just divide it up and do 20 five times a day. Although at this rate, I think Bitcoin will reach 100k before we see any muscle gain results. At the end of this challenge, (if enough time has passed), we are going to have chad bods.

Either way, I am in and still going!

[JimboToronto]

Here's my exercise equipment:

To each their own, but I would not poo-poo the benefits of resistance training, especially at your age... I know it can hurt.. and surely there are folks who do not exercise very much at all, and I am not even sure if I should go over very much of my own past in terms of some of the various kinds of exercises that I have done.. but even though playing the piano and fishing are forms of activity, and it is better than nothing, it would be difficult to classify them in terms of the potential benefits of resistance training.. .again.. poo poo it all you like, there can be some advantages in terms of having strength in your elderly times, whether it is to carry the groceries up the stairs, or to move your piano from one room to another (not that pianos are moved very often) or maybe it is to attempt to get away from the bear when he (or she) is after your fish.

You missed a couple of things.

First of all that's a Hammond organ, not a piano. See the bass pedals? They mean my left leg gets more exercise than either of my arms. Also, while it doesn't weigh as much as a tone-wheel Hammond B3, it and its accessories still represent a decent total weight to haul into and out of a taxicab or up and down stairs.

In the other picture you'll notice the trailer in the background. Being off the grid means lots of work, from hauling in drinking water and other supplies to pulling the recoil starter cable on the Honda generator. That can be exhausting if it has spent any considerable time since being used. Also, I don't allow any motors on our lake. That means either pedaling our pedal boat or paddling a canoe.

The real point I'm making is that productive activity is usually better than exercise for exercise's sake. I laugh when I see people paying a gym and using a stationary bicycle and then driving a car less then a half mile to buy cigarettes, or using a step-up machine and then taking an elevator to avoid going up one or two flights of stairs, or pulling on weights and pulleys while hiring someone to wash their walls. Some people pay to exercise, others get paid.

[OgNasty]

100 is not that much. Just divide it up and do 20 five times a day. Although at this rate, I think Bitcoin will reach 100k before we see any muscle gain results. At the end of this challenge, (if enough time has passed), we are going to have chad bods.

Either way, I am in and still going!

100 is quite a bit to do on a daily basis. I’m on day 16 and just now feeling like I could be doing more than 100 per day without hurting myself and I’ve been regularly lifting weights for years. A lot could depend on your body weight too I guess. I’m over 200lbs so it’s definitely not light work doing things like push-ups and pull-ups.

[JayJuanGee]

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I laugh when I see people ........

driving a car less then a half mile to buy cigarettes, ........

taking an elevator to avoid going up one or two flights of stairs, ....

Actually, these are a couple that kind of bother me too.. .. meaning the tendency for people to avoid any kind of exertion.. whether it is walking and/or taking the stairs or overly using their cars when some of the destinations are close by and the weather is not bad...

Sometimes when in a building.. whether it is up or down, but if the destination is only 1 or 2 flights, then it should be really easy to accomplish, unless your hands are full of a lot of stuff or maybe if some other special circumstances justify the use of the elevator.. .. but sometimes, if any of us might say, let's take the stairs, and then there might be some difficulties locating the stairs, so maybe sometimes the stairs might need to be closer to the elevators and perhaps more open and inviting in terms of building designs.

..and yeah car use for a few blocks seems a bit much, and perhaps interferes with our abilities to more easily run into and get to know our neighbors - including that sometimes we may well end up being afraid of and/or hating our neighbors more than we should... it is not easy to know the solution to some of these circumstances, and surely many cities (and even towns) and buildings are designed in ways to NOT be very inviting to walkability and/or social interaction.. .. I am not sure if these design choices are on purpose in all cases, but surely in some cases they are.


Call me a dummy when it had come to the organ versus piano distinction, and you must admit that you failed/refused to mention anything in regards to your preparedness (or lack thereof) to be able to get away from a bear... and maybe some other stamina type benefits that could come from resistance training.... and I am going to still battle any attempts that you are seeming to overly equate having a lot of work and exercise in your life towards being sufficient levels of preparation and fitness for either strength and/or other general attempts at exertion that might be improved through various kinds of exercising, whether it is resistance training, cardio, core exercises and/or stretching.. and not even saying that you are completely avoiding these things even though you are poo pooing on them a lot, including the likely benefits that come from resistance training.. .whether body weight only or assisted through weights.


I am going to consistently say that these push ups are not easy.. and hopefully, I am not coming to regret my attempts to continue to keep up with the 100 per day average.. (currently plus a little more than 100 on average).

[bitzizzix]

100 is not that much. Just divide it up and do 20 five times a day. Although at this rate, I think Bitcoin will reach 100k before we see any muscle gain results. At the end of this challenge, (if enough time has passed), we are going to have chad bods.

Either way, I am in and still going!

100 is quite a bit to do on a daily basis. I’m on day 16 and just now feeling like I could be doing more than 100 per day without hurting myself and I’ve been regularly lifting weights for years. A lot could depend on your body weight too I guess. I’m over 200lbs so it’s definitely not light work doing things like push-ups and pull-ups.

200 pounds is the same as 90.7185 kilograms and in my opinion it is quite heavy to do 100 push ups, but if you are used to lifting weights or fitness then it will feel light to do a lot of push ups. It looks like your arm muscles are very strong and big, because doing push ups requires strong arms, especially if you have a big body, and that's cool because the result is that your body will be strong and your weight will be reduced.
And I worked hard to be able to do 100 push ups a day. And now I have only been able to do it 37 times in 13 days and there are already results, my body is a little lighter, because before I did this my weight was 233 pounds and now it is 229 pounds. And I will continue to do it until I reach 100 a day because I am also fed up with my fat body and want to get my body back to how it used to be when I still liked exercising and also liked lifting weights.

[JimboToronto]

..and yeah car use for a few blocks seems a bit much, and perhaps interferes with our abilities to more easily run into and get to know our neighbors - including that sometimes we may well end up being afraid of and/or hating our neighbors more than we should... it is not easy to know the solution to some of these circumstances, and surely many cities (and even towns) and buildings are designed in ways to NOT be very inviting to walkability and/or social interaction.. .. I am not sure if these design choices are on purpose in all cases, but surely in some cases they are.

This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem with each year and it is compounded by the trend toward social distancing. Many people now prefer texting over voice communication and electronic over face-to-face human interaction. They avoid looking people straight in the eye, hearing their tone of voice and smelling their pheromones. They avoid social contact by staying at home, using Uber Eats and other delivery services and try to replace it with impersonal so-called "social" media.

It can be a challenge if you live in a big city even if you don't drive. If you can afford to live in a house downtown in a close knit neighborhood, it's easier to get to get to know your neighbors. If all you can afford is a high-rise condominium it takes extra effort. It's not all that hard though.

Take time to learn people's names. At the SkyDome all the employees wear name tags. Every time I see a new employee I read his or her name tag and try to remember his or her name. Then the next time I want to buy a beer, I'll get the vendor's attention by calling out his or her name. That and decent cash tips go a long way towards them remembering you. Eventually someone will learn your name and spread the word among the others. Almost all of the beer vendors in our section know me by name and it pays off in special treatment at last call and lots of free beers. Many people look at the beer vendors as faceless employees and never take the time to get to know them as human beings.

... you must admit that you failed/refused to mention anything in regards to your preparedness (or lack thereof) to be able to get away from a bear...

Most bush bears are deadly afraid of humans and will usually run away if they can unless they are sick or are mothers with cubs. It's bears that have learned to trust humans that are the problem, such as in parks or around campgrounds where people feed them, leave food lying around or throw scraps into the bush to "feed the animals" instead of burning them or otherwise safely disposing of them.

If you do have to deal with a bear, the best thing is to make a loud noise. I carry a compressed air horn for this purpose. Warning: loud noises do not work with moose. The noise will aggravate a moose. It's best to walk away from the moose quietly. Luckily moose are herbivorous.

[DirtyKeyboard]

I assume we are allowed to change pushup style between finger tip, fist, diamond, wide hands, wide feet, but may I request an official ruling on these please?

I don’t know if I’m the guy doing the official rulings or not, but hey, I’ll take up the responsibility. My official ruling is that you can and should do whatever makes you a better person. In this case it’s strengthening. Any activity or commitment you want to make towards that is better than allowed, it is praised.

Hey thanks for the affirmation!  Sounds like solid advice.

We could all have opinions on this, and we don't necessarily need to agree, even though I do agree with your (@OgNasty) ways of expressing these kinds of personalized physical fitness goals.

One thing that we should attempt to do would be as much as we can within the reasonable parameters of the exercise and surely within our own time and space constraints.. .. but just like bitcoin, we should also be attempting to make sure that we stay in the game, which might mean that we need to modify the exercise in various ways, and so if we might emphasize making sure that we get in the repetitions of the count or if we might emphasize that we have quality push-ups (or whatever substitution that we might be doing), we shouldn't want to injure ourselves or to push ourselves so hard that we end up giving up because it hurts too much. 

In the last 12 days, I am still hurting every day, but I am still trying to make sure to pace myself, including for my own schedule of fitting things in and spreading it through the day, and to work on improving my form now that it is seeming pretty clear that I am meeting and/or exceeding the average in terms of the quantity of 100 per day on average. 

I am finding it somewhat comforting to allow 3-4 hours to pass between my push up sets, and so far I have been doing 3-4 sets per day, and sure there could be a time in the future in which I am going to be able to do two sets per day rather than 3 or 4 sets in a day ... but I might be a ways off from that kind of an accomplishment, and even if I don't get to that point of being able to do to sets of 50 relatively decent push-ups at one go, I am o.k. continuing to do 3-4 sets which largely are now falling between 25-35 pushups for each of the sets, with outlier quantities once in a while, and maybe even some desires that I might have to add some other kinds of exercises into the mix.

Another thing is that guys should not be ashamed to do some or all of their pushups in a modified way (such as from the knees) in order to lessen the likelihood of overly straining parts of their body (joints such as shoulders, wrists or elbows can start to feel the daily tension), and so to me, it seems better to either do some kind of modified easier form with more reps and to work up to more reps and to better form, but your body, joints have to get used to it.. including even sternum pain.. which I have a little bit of that too.. and so far I have been doing the full pushups.. but I can feel that there are ways that I could end up over doing it, even though it helps to have more time to have had been doing it and making sure that my body is more or less improving in its recovery time and even its muscle definition, which creates some sense of better overall health.

Maybe one other BIG thing that I have found to be helpful is to engage in pretty heavy breathing while doing the push-ups.   It can give a sense of energy and purpose, whether you breath deeply on every single rep or if you have some other way of doing it, it is likely going to invigorate you and empower you if you make sure that you are getting a lot of oxygen in your system during this whole process.. and while you are potentially getting used to routinely doing an exercise that had not previously been in your daily routine.

That's great progress!  Yeah if you don't breathe out on the push you might get a hernia is what I heard.
This turned out to be an informative read.

Code:

https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/know-when-to-hold-it-how-to-breathe-while-lifting.html

https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/know-when-to-hold-it-how-to-breathe-while-lifting.html

TLDR:  For short one time exertions, holding your breath can actually increase your max in part by strengthening your body by inflating it.  But for longer reps, holding your breath "can cause a dangerous spike in blood pressure, bursting blood vessels in your eyes and forehead" -Source above

I'm up to around 70 pushups a day, sets of 10 is all I can do with good form, for now.  I am 480 behind, but feeling good.  I'm going to try to set some phone alarms to remind me to get my sets in.

[Bravut]

 


That does not seem to be a good way to think about it... to be in debt with push-ups?

Surely, different folks have different ways of thinking about these kinds of matters in order to motivate themselves... .so maybe that kind of a negative framework (push-up debt) works for you?

Not trynna cause some muscle cramp to yourself but rather was just a kind of motivation about it.
But the truth is, everyone is entitled to her own opinion but that doesn't mean you stress out your body.
Everyone has what pushes them to get involved into any activity at all.
Push-up debt should be for military personnels,who take it as food for the body to build there muscles but I don't support the idea of one overworking there body or muscle simply because of speculation but rather take it  as a time you go off-chart to build yourself physically.

[DirtyKeyboard]

Here's my exercise equipment:

To each their own, but I would not poo-poo the benefits of resistance training, especially at your age... I know it can hurt.. and surely there are folks who do not exercise very much at all, and I am not even sure if I should go over very much of my own past in terms of some of the various kinds of exercises that I have done.. but even though playing the piano and fishing are forms of activity, and it is better than nothing, it would be difficult to classify them in terms of the potential benefits of resistance training.. .again.. poo poo it all you like, there can be some advantages in terms of having strength in your elderly times, whether it is to carry the groceries up the stairs, or to move your piano from one room to another (not that pianos are moved very often) or maybe it is to attempt to get away from the bear when he (or she) is after your fish.

You missed a couple of things.

First of all that's a Hammond organ, not a piano. See the bass pedals? They mean my left leg gets more exercise than either of my arms. Also, while it doesn't weigh as much as a tone-wheel Hammond B3, it and its accessories still represent a decent total weight to haul into and out of a taxicab or up and down stairs.

In the other picture you'll notice the trailer in the background. Being off the grid means lots of work, from hauling in drinking water and other supplies to pulling the recoil starter cable on the Honda generator. That can be exhausting if it has spent any considerable time since being used. Also, I don't allow any motors on our lake. That means either pedaling our pedal boat or paddling a canoe.

The real point I'm making is that productive activity is usually better than exercise for exercise's sake. I laugh when I see people paying a gym and using a stationary bicycle and then driving a car less then a half mile to buy cigarettes, or using a step-up machine and then taking an elevator to avoid going up one or two flights of stairs, or pulling on weights and pulleys while hiring someone to wash their walls. Some people pay to exercise, others get paid.

That's awesome.  I'm totally with you on the productive activities.  Yesterday I got to mow the lawn, but was only able to do 75 pushups.  But today, I've done 3 sets of 15 so far!  Let's go. 

Pushups Printed:    1000
Proof of Pushups:   520 
Net Pushups:        -480

To OgNasty, and all of you, to me, and to bitcoin.  Thank you!
..

[Bravut]

Actually, these are a couple that kind of bother me too.. .. meaning the tendency for people to avoid any kind of exertion..

Smiling,I have a friend that uses any possible means available for him to avoid any work at all
Some persons ate like that, nothing if this kind motivates them to get involved in any rigorous exercise,they just want easy going life.I believe different kind of people have the lifestyle they wanna live which influences there actions.

 I am not coming to regret my attempts to continue to keep up with the 100 per day average.. (currently plus a little more than 100 on average).

No need for regret for what is beneficial to our body,the fact is us not exhausting ourselves but rather build a healthy lifestyle,mind,body and soul.

[JayJuanGee]

100 is not that much. Just divide it up and do 20 five times a day. Although at this rate, I think Bitcoin will reach 100k before we see any muscle gain results. At the end of this challenge, (if enough time has passed), we are going to have chad bods.

Either way, I am in and still going!

100 is quite a bit to do on a daily basis. I’m on day 16 and just now feeling like I could be doing more than 100 per day without hurting myself and I’ve been regularly lifting weights for years. A lot could depend on your body weight too I guess. I’m over 200lbs so it’s definitely not light work doing things like push-ups and pull-ups.

200 pounds is the same as 90.7185 kilograms and in my opinion it is quite heavy to do 100 push ups, but if you are used to lifting weights or fitness then it will feel light to do a lot of push ups. It looks like your arm muscles are very strong and big, because doing push ups requires strong arms, especially if you have a big body, and that's cool because the result is that your body will be strong and your weight will be reduced.

Even though the heaviness of the push up will be proportionate to your weight, we should not be assuming that a 200 lb guy is pushing up 200 lbs of weight.. instead it appears that regular push ups are about 64% of the weight, elevating the feet causes a higher percentage and lowering the feet causes a lower percentage.



https://medium.com/house-of-hypertrophy/push-ups-how-much-weight-are-you-pushing-e41b4662d8e3#:~:text=The%20table%20below%20summarizes%20the,feet%20are%20elevated%2060%20centimeters).

And I worked hard to be able to do 100 push ups a day. And now I have only been able to do it 37 times in 13 days and there are already results, my body is a little lighter, because before I did this my weight was 233 pounds and now it is 229 pounds.

Building or toning muscle likely makes our bodies more metabolically efficient.

And I will continue to do it until I reach 100 a day because I am also fed up with my fat body and want to get my body back to how it used to be when I still liked exercising and also liked lifting weights.

Yep there are questions regarding whether we exercise because we have excessive energy or whether we have excessive energy because we exercise, and I am not going to claim to know the answers exactly, because some of these matters can take a while to build up, such as endurance an strength, and the same with recovery time comes more to the youth and the people who are already in good shape.. so maybe it can take a while to get some of these things back, and we should also be careful not to injure ourselves in the process, while at the same time, there will likely be positive benefits by adding some of these kinds of exercises to our routine.

I am currently on day 16 and as of yesterday, I had an average of nearly 106 pushups per day with 1,585 by the end of the day.  And, some parts feel better, but still I feel sore on some days more than other days, while at the same time, I had even been feeling some soreness in my core (like around my mid-section), which maybe has to do with some of the efforts that are required to do regular push-ups and to maintain our bodies flat or like a plank while doing the pushups.

... you must admit that you failed/refused to mention anything in regards to your preparedness (or lack thereof) to be able to get away from a bear...

Most bush bears are deadly afraid of humans and will usually run away if they can unless they are sick or are mothers with cubs.

That is pretty cool and/or coincidental that you were speaking about beers and then about bears.. so then I started to think about bribing the bears, since you might not be able to get away from one since you are potentially too out of shape. hahahahha

It's bears that have learned to trust humans that are the problem, such as in parks or around campgrounds where people feed them, leave food lying around or throw scraps into the bush to "feed the animals" instead of burning them or otherwise safely disposing of them.

I have heard of this issue, and I think that it was even a worse problem in the 70s (or was it the 80s?)..  I heard a podcast on the topic, and there had been a need to change some of the policies and practices in parks after several bear attacks that likely had to do with bears having had gotten too accustomed to humans feeding them.

If you do have to deal with a bear, the best thing is to make a loud noise. I carry a compressed air horn for this purpose. Warning: loud noises do not work with moose. The noise will aggravate a moose. It's best to walk away from the moose quietly. Luckily moose are herbivorous.

Fair enough.  Good to have a plan, especially one that does not require you to do resistance training in preparation - and maybe that takes me back to some other scenarios in which strength and endurance might be needed.... .. yet do I need to go through each possible scenario in which strength and/or endurance might either save your life or increase your chances for survival?

I'm up to around 70 pushups a day, sets of 10 is all I can do with good form, for now.  I am 480 behind, but feeling good.  I'm going to try to set some phone alarms to remind me to get my sets in.

I have been gravitating towards 4 sets, even though I have had some days in which I only did 3 sets. I am currently more focused on quantity over quality, even though I am imagining that I will be able to increase my quality and difficulty level with the passage of time.. and currently I am still trying to just get through the portion of how much soreness I am ongoingly having.. and don't get me wrong.. it does seem to be a good kind of soreness that I expect to lessen a wee bit more as long as I keep up my persistency, consistency and ongoingness.

I think that it was on day 12 that I took a few mostly clothes-less photos in order to have another reference point... so if we don't make it to $100k in the coming months, maybe I could consider new photos around every 30 days or so.  Perhaps? perhaps?  It would be nice to see improvements in both performance and also physical appearance.  

One problem is having to fight off the chicks.. so probably going to need performance for that.. to off-set the potential costs of improvements in physical appearance.

Pushups Printed:    1000
Proof of Pushups:   520 
Net Pushups:        -480

Wow!!!!!

I like that you at least got your average above 50%  that is going to likely be helpful in terms of making progress on closing the debt, even if it may well take you a bit of time to get it down to zero.. and perhaps even to get to a point where you might build some surplus.

Actually, these are a couple that kind of bother me too.. .. meaning the tendency for people to avoid any kind of exertion..

Smiling,I have a friend that uses any possible means available for him to avoid any work at all
Some persons ate like that, nothing if this kind motivates them to get involved in any rigorous exercise,they just want easy going life.I believe different kind of people have the lifestyle they wanna live which influences there actions.

I am not coming to regret my attempts to continue to keep up with the 100 per day average.. (currently plus a little more than 100 on average).

No need for regret for what is beneficial to our body,the fact is us not exhausting ourselves but rather build a healthy lifestyle,mind,body and soul.

You had misquoted me..  You probably should make sure that you quote people correctly....

Anyhow, in my above re-quoting, I fixed how it should have had been quoted in order that it can better show what you said versus what I had said.

[OgNasty]

Up to 2,000 on the month now! Who’s still sticking with it? It’s great to have this thread to help hold myself accountable. I’ll admit I hit 100 pretty close to the wire here as there’s only a few minutes left in the day for me. Glad to still be sticking with it. I’m hoping 100K comes sooner than later though.

[Coin_trader]

Hey @OgNasty. I will accept your challenge and I will send my abs picture if 100K reach as proof that I completed your challenge in daily basis. I’m currently have medium body frame with a little bit of dad bud tummy.

I hope Bitcoin will reach 100K this year or else I might have a body of Liam Hemsworth as Thor! Aside from push up. I will add weekly purchase of Bitcoin with an amount of 100$ per week to increase my holdings.

This way I can be more rich and perfect bud when Bitcoin reach 100K. 

[Reatim]

can i make it at least 40 push ups? so that can be realistic in my part because 100 is too many for me to take 

But will definitely starts tomorrow morning as have just cross this thread now , How a interesting journey to see this coming if in next year then i will surely be fit before 100k reached .

[DirtyKeyboard]

Pushups Printed:    1000
Proof of Pushups:   520  
Net Pushups:        -480

Wow!!!!!

I like that you at least got your average above 50%  that is going to likely be helpful in terms of making progress on closing the debt, even if it may well take you a bit of time to get it down to zero.. and perhaps even to get to a point where you might build some surplus.

That was for the impeccably neat record keeping no doubt.  

Up to 2,000 on the month now! Who’s still sticking with it? It’s great to have this thread to help hold myself accountable. I’ll admit I hit 100 pretty close to the wire here as there’s only a few minutes left in the day for me. Glad to still be sticking with it. I’m hoping 100K comes sooner than later though.

Pushin' it up here boss!  What next, 200 daily until 200K?

can i make it at least 40 push ups? so that can be realistic in my part because 100 is too many for me to take  

But will definitely starts tomorrow morning as have just cross this thread now , How a interesting journey to see this coming if in next year then i will surely be fit before 100k reached .

Seems to be the consensus here that doing what you can, wisely within your limits is better than doing nothing.  Welcome aboard!

Progress update:  Total pushups in 12 days: 735 for a debt of 465.   My last post was before doing any pushups due that day, this one is after.  I did do 100 a few days ago, and managed a set of 20 quality reps today.  Keep up that form people!