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

[Mayor of ogba]

Nobody welcomed me here when I posted my first report that's not how treat a lady 😊. I joined this challenge 3 weeks ago and to be honest it was so difficult you men are really trying, when I started I was doing only 30 pushups a day and I did 10 in the morning 10 in the afternoon and 10 in the evening, but now I'm doing 100 pushups a day and I separate it so it won't be difficult for me to achieve. So far so good I have already posted my report, thanks dirtykeyboard for including me in the list and thanks to everyone for making this challenge move forward.

Sorry that we didn't welcome you on this push-up thread when you made your first post here; maybe no one noticed you as a new member then. I want to use this opportunity to welcome you to this push-up thread, and I am happy you joined us on your own free will. There's no need to tell you how things are being done here because you are already figuring it out. I can see you have already reported your push-up, and it has been entered in the push-up table, which means you reported it in the right way.

Uhwuchukwu53 how are you doing your push-up that your total numbers of push-up is not increasing even when your days of push-up is increasing, your previous push-up number and your current push-up number is just the same 75 or is it that you are not adding up your push-up number?

He is just doing a certain number of push-ups a day, which is the 75 push-ups he usually reports on this push-up thread daily. What Uhwuchukwu53 should be doing is adding his present push-ups to his existing push-ups to get the total push-ups he has done before reporting it here, so that Dirtykeyboard will not have to do the calculations by himself, and it will also reduce the workload for Dirtykeyboard.

[OgNasty]

Weighed myself after a quick 50 push-ups and I’m back to losing weight again. Very strange how I’ve been seesawing so much in the weight department as I step up these exercises. I figured I was on the up only path but I guess my eating right and stepping up the aerobic exercises has caused me to get skinnier. Not sure how I feel about that.

[philipma1957]

Weighed myself after a quick 50 push-ups and I’m back to losing weight again. Very strange how I’ve been seesawing so much in the weight department as I step up these exercises. I figured I was on the up only path but I guess my eating right and stepping up the aerobic exercises has caused me to get skinnier. Not sure how I feel about that.

As a guy that knows kind of fat. (256 lbs) and in shape 175lbs

weight is funky. I am at 192-195 right now very happy with this weight.

What I do see is my legs and butt and lungs along with heart are all in good shape.

I will do some upper body exercises beside the stretch bands. Wife has me doing partial pushups they seem okay. I would like to do some work for my upper body and not hurt the repaired umbilical hernia.

As for weight anything under 200 is good. I am liking how I bounce back to  a normal heartbeat after the 360 steps.  Much more important than weight.

[2Pizza410000BTC]

Weighed myself after a quick 50 push-ups and I’m back to losing weight again. Very strange how I’ve been seesawing so much in the weight department as I step up these exercises. I figured I was on the up only path but I guess my eating right and stepping up the aerobic exercises has caused me to get skinnier. Not sure how I feel about that.

wow very nice, maybe you have been practicing for a long time that's why you managed to do 50 pushups. When I started I could do 30 to 40 pushups but after a few months of regularity it improved to 60-70. I was able to do 15 to 20 pushups at the gym I was told to do a few days ago. The rules they told me are that you should keep 1.5 feet between your hands and stay straight from body to feet and keep your head and face slightly elevated. I was able to do a maximum of 15 to 20 pushups while following their rules. However, if we do it regularly as shown in the gym, then the body health and various organs including hand muscles will become strong in a few days.

[OgNasty]

I decided to get 200 push-ups in today to celebrate my 13 year anniversary on this forum. Felt so good that I got some curls and work on the heavy bag in until my elbow got sore. I’m surprised how easily I got 200 in this time. Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

100k,OgNasty,124,12600,2024-06-04

[JayJuanGee]

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average to drop down to around 150 per day, so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

I plan to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

I once felt this way when I was doing an average of 200 push-ups a day for some weeks. It got to a point when my body was so stressed that I couldn't keep up with the average of 200 push-ups a day. I had to reduce my daily push-up number to ease the pain in my body and keep on doing my push-ups. For now, my push-up average is around 150 push-ups per day, and I have adopted a strategy of 5 sets of 30 reps to maintain the 150 push-ups a day.

yep as too much pain means setback and possible injury.

There can be some psychology to the whole matter too... it is just a lot of pushups.. and maybe it was worse on the days that my average got below 200  and then I felt that I had to do extra for several days in order to get my average back up to 200 pushups per day.. .. I will see how the next month or two goes.. and hopefully I can stick with some kind of an average of 100-150 pushups per day without feeling so much pressure...and hopeully still somewhat stay "in shape."

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average drop down to around 150 per day, and so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself, because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

My plan is to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, and so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. and maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

Though I may not know your age but I believe age and stamina  are among  the two things that determined how many push-up one will go a day without been affected and
i think your idea is nice cause it will help you round up fast without much stress and pains.

Sure I still have physical pain, but my physical pain is quite a bit less than it was in the first 2-3 months, and so the last couple of months have not been as bad for physical pain, even though surely there is still some ongoing lingering pain.. just not as intense as in the first 2-3 months.

In as much as we have a target and also trying to keep our body fit that doesn't mean one should over do it cause there are effects when someone overstressed his/her muscles and sometimes the pains are usually not funny and too much of everything is not good.

It seems to be less enjoyable when the quantity has to be sustained, and maybe I might be able to tolerate the ongoing quantity better if I were in my 20s..   I feel good to adjust downward, since I believe I kind of already had gotten myself up to a certain amount of pushups that made me feel good about the progress that I had made, and even my doing 100-150 per day is still likely going to have its challenges, since I am more likely going to give a bit more emphasis to form.. and sure maybe every once in a while I might try to do some sets with quantity in mind, but having a lower overall daily target gives me more space to be less concerned about quantity.

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An average of 200 pushups per day is too much. 200 pushups a day can harm the body instead of keeping it physically healthy. Because, when you do 200 pushups, your body feels the stress. Doing too many pushups can cause damage to the body by stressing the body.
https://youtu.be/JRej2i8zZD8?si=wFC9KzWN_9XB8Dzt
From this video you will know how many pushups you should do in a day for your body. From what I can understand from the video, not everyone's physical ability is the same, so how many pushups you should do in a day depends on your physical ability. That is, you should stop pushups when your body feels stressed. Instead of doing your 200 pushups, it is better to reduce the number if your physical capacity is low and your body feels stressed.
 You can test how many pushups your body can do without stress. You should prepare your pushup list accordingly.

That is a decently informative video, and some of the ideas underlying it may relate to why I ended up considering that I needed to reduce my quantity of pushups.  I plan to still going continue to spread my pushups through the day, and I plan to do them every day, since I believe that in the whole scheme of things I am getting enough recovery time, which allowance for additional recovery time will also end up getting improved with my reducing my average number of pushups per day.

I did disagree with their carbo-load suggestion that was at the end of the video, even though for more than 20 years, I have known about various "carbo-load" ideas that exist in exercise circles, I don't agree with needs to carbo load, though surely there are going to be some trainers and even some exercise practitioners who are going to swear to the supposed benefits of such carbo-loading..

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One important concept is time under tension when we discuss resistance training. The 100 push-ups challenge here is a great idea, but participants should not to it with speed to get over with it. There should still be body control or otherwise joints and tendons and cartilage have to bear more workload than they should. That's why reducing the number of push-ups when that leads to a better feeling and better body control is never wrong. Everyone of us knows this one guy from the gym hammering out the exercises as if it was about speed and not about strength, body control and body tension. This is problematic even more push-ups with one's own bodyweight as everything that creates force from exaggerated acceleration will make the body sore. So there is an important line between pumping out a high number of push-ups while neglecting form and doing it mindfully with the goal to make it for health reasons while not losing sight of the goal of this challenge.

I purposefully focused on quantity over quality since it had been a decently long time that I had been neglecting strength and/or resistance training, and so in that regard, felt a bit of a purpose to pump out various quantities of pushups while my body was getting used to it, so I probably did not begin to adjust my approach until after I had reached 200 pushups per day.. so that was on my day 95.. and then after that I tried to stick with 200 per day, and now I am graduating to the next level of doing even fewer pushups and perhaps still getting a decent amount of exhaustion from the pushups while not giving up on the idea of doing pushups every day, too.

No body welcomed me here when I posted my first report that's not how treat a lady 😊. I joined this challenge 3 weeks ago and to be honest it was so difficult you men are really trying, when I started I was doing only 30 pushups a day and I did 10 in the morning 10 in the afternoon and 10 in the evening, but now I'm doing 100 pushups a day and I separate it so it won't be difficult for me to achieve. So far so good I have already posted my report, thanks dirtykeyboard for including me in the list and thanks to everyone for making this challenge move forward.

I doubt that there is any need to treat you special, and surely the longer that you participate in various forum threads, the more that other members get to know you, but if you are whining about needing more attention and/or praise and/or appreciation for your contributions, then you are more likely going to get the opposite effect... and perhaps even hostility.. and many times, through the years, I have tried to let other members know (and even lead through example) in terms of not getting overly emotional, even though sometimes any of us might purposefully throw in some seemingly emotional zingers to make our points, and it surely can take a long time for members to get to know you or even like you and some members may well hate you with a certain amount of passion, so I would suggest NOT to take these matters too personally.. but hey whatever, do what you like... and if you want to be an emotional little whiner who is begging for positive feedback, then so be it.. .. Find out how far it gets you.

Doing 200 push-up a day is very possible,

Yes, doing 200 pushups is easy if your body can handle it. Maybe your body can easily do 200 pushups a day. But, there are very few people who are good at pushups and can easily do 200 pushups. 200 pushups are easy to say but not easy to master. Even if mastered after much trouble, it is very hard to bear. Because it is not possible to do more than 4-5 sets of pushups in a day and 40-50 pushups per set is not easy to do.

it is also not too much and can't never harm the body if you have been consistent in this push-up challenge,

200 pushups can cause damage to you if you do more pushups than your body can handle. Suppose your body is capable of doing 100 pushups in a day, if you do 110 pushups then maybe nothing will happen to your body. But if you do 200 pushups instead of 100 pushups, your body is more likely to be damaged. It is very important to be aware of your physical capacity in doing any exercise.

There is no strict number Jewan420, even if you might be reading too much into that video that you provided, and you likely do not even know enough about guys in order to proclaim that you know, even if some of us might say that we are sore and various kinds of claim, you still might not have enough information to know what might be the cause of the problem, beyond just claiming that the number of pushups is too high.  I can show you my whole history, and my first 5 days were less than 100 pushups per day, and it took me until day 43 to get up to 200 pushups in a day, and the most pushups I did in any one day was on day 93 with 300 in that day...

Surely i could have kept going for quantity and even started working up to 400 pushups in a day, but I personally (and optionally) decided to change my priorities and to reduce my pushups down to averaging 200 per day until just a day (which I did for about 25 days between day 95 and day 120), and so so two ago I decided to continue to average my number of pushups per day even further downward, and that was also optional, and I did not need to do it, except just overall package of things that I was doing, I was rather more interested in prioritizing other things.  So there are options and not necessarily absolutes when it comes to these kinds of decisions that guys (and perhaps a gal or two) choose to make.

and I may just may try a handful of wait for it. pushups.

Don't over do it, you old fart.    you can also build up to them by doing them against the wall and/or doing them from your knees and then maybe once you get to full pushups do only 5-8 at a time...

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Uhwuchukwu53 how are you doing your push-up that your total numbers of push-up is not increasing even when your days of push-up is increasing, your previous push-up number and your current push-up number is just the same 75 or is it that you are not adding up your push-up number?

Surely Uhwuchukwu53 is challenged in terms of following instructions.  Total number of days.  Total number of pushups.  We don't need to know how many pushups he did that day (at least in terms of the pushups report).  So yeah for me it has become tempting to not say something mean...

Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

I might be willing to do 500 pushups on the day that bitcoin reaches $100k (or the next day).. but of course, I might have to do 10 or more sets of pushups rather than my usual maximum of 5 sets in any day... but truly $100k would be a day to celebrate.. that is if we happen to be able to actually do the extra pushups on that particular day or maybe on the following day or some other day that is sufficiently proximate to the day that bitcoin reaches $100k, which you never know.. could be within a week or two, or maybe it will take another 18 months to two years.  I am thinking that there are decently good odds that $100k will be reached between 1-3 months... but yeah, you never really know.

[Zackz5000]

I decided to get 200 push-ups in today to celebrate my 13 year anniversary on this forum. Felt so good that I got some curls and work on the heavy bag in until my elbow got sore. I’m surprised how easily I got 200 in this time. Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

100k,OgNasty,124,12600,2024-06-04

Wow Congratulations OgNasty I celebrate with you on your 13 year Anniversary on this forum, I believe you have a great motivator to somany person in this forum and also coming out with this great Idea of 100 push-up a day until BTC reach$100k has really help most persons here also achieve something in one way or another expecially the aspect of healthy living, body fitness, strength and body transformation I applaud you for that.

I believe you have pushed so hard for you to get sore in your elbow that is a great determination to celebrate your 13 year Anniversary in this forum with 200 push-up a day, I think you will need some rest now so to help relief the sore in your elbow.

But OgNasty 1000 push-up a day? don't you think it will be too much? Well there is no harm in giving it a try, and I believe it will be a great day when Bitcoin will finally hit $100k, we will all celebrate together that great day.

[Mayor of ogba]

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average to drop down to around 150 per day, so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

I plan to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

I once felt this way when I was doing an average of 200 push-ups a day for some weeks. It got to a point when my body was so stressed that I couldn't keep up with the average of 200 push-ups a day. I had to reduce my daily push-up number to ease the pain in my body and keep on doing my push-ups. For now, my push-up average is around 150 push-ups per day, and I have adopted a strategy of 5 sets of 30 reps to maintain the 150 push-ups a day.

yep as too much pain means setback and possible injury.

There can be some psychology to the whole matter too... it is just a lot of pushups.. and maybe it was worse on the days that my average got below 200  and then I felt that I had to do extra for several days in order to get my average back up to 200 pushups per day.. .. I will see how the next month or two goes.. and hopefully I can stick with some kind of an average of 100-150 pushups per day without feeling so much pressure...and hopeully still somewhat stay "in shape."

Oh! I believe the extra push-ups you did to make up for the days you didn't do an average of 200 push-ups were another thing that put your body under pressure. But I believe if you stick with an average of 100–150 push-ups a day, your body will not be stressed out because you can easily handle the 100–150 with 30 push-ups in each of your sets a day to achieve the 100–150 push-ups without doing 40 push-ups in a set, which would stress out your body.

[Cossyblack]

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average drop down to around 150 per day, and so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself, because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

My plan is to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, and so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. and maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

An average of 200 pushups per day is too much. 200 pushups a day can harm the body instead of keeping it physically healthy. Because, when you do 200 pushups, your body feels the stress. Doing too many pushups can cause damage to the body by stressing the body.

https://youtu.be/JRej2i8zZD8?si=wFC9KzWN_9XB8Dzt
From this video you will know how many pushups you should do in a day for your body. From what I can understand from the video, not everyone's physical ability is the same, so how many pushups you should do in a day depends on your physical ability. That is, you should stop pushups when your body feels stressed. Instead of doing your 200 pushups, it is better to reduce the number if your physical capacity is low and your body feels stressed.
 You can test how many pushups your body can do without stress. You should prepare your pushup list accordingly.

@Jewan420 I disagree with you,I have been doing Over 200 Push-Ups a day and its hasn't caused any harm to my body. I think the more number of push-Ups you can do for a day determines how stronger you have become. PushUps exercise will always cause Stress to the body that is why its advisable to have plenty of rest after exercise.

[Cityhunter34]

I decided to get 200 push-ups in today to celebrate my 13 year anniversary on this forum. Felt so good that I got some curls and work on the heavy bag in until my elbow got sore. I’m surprised how easily I got 200 in this time. Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

100k,OgNasty,124,12600,2024-06-04

Wow a big Congratulations to you Sir I'm very happy to celebrate with you on your 13 years anniversary on this forum, thank you for bringing this wonderful idea of 100 push ups A day until Bitcoin price is $100k challenge and thank you for your great impact and dedication on the forum, l am always happy anytime I visit this thread because this thread have really helped me in gaining more fitness to my body, when ever I see my chest and my muscles I'm always happy being in this thread, once again happy anniversary.

[Cossyblack]

I decided to get 200 push-ups in today to celebrate my 13 year anniversary on this forum. Felt so good that I got some curls and work on the heavy bag in until my elbow got sore. I’m surprised how easily I got 200 in this time. Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

100k,OgNasty,124,12600,2024-06-04

Congratulations as you celebrate your 13 years anniversary on this forum,Your hard works and perseverance have paid off,your countless contribution to the growth of this forum is highly valued and appreciated.

I'm also happy to see how you were determined and was able to do 200 pushups today for the first time,I know it wasn't easy but you actually achieved it and please don't forget to take plenty of rest.

[sotelorene]

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average drop down to around 150 per day, and so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself, because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

My plan is to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, and so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. and maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

An average of 200 pushups per day is too much. 200 pushups a day can harm the body instead of keeping it physically healthy. Because, when you do 200 pushups, your body feels the stress. Doing too many pushups can cause damage to the body by stressing the body.

https://youtu.be/JRej2i8zZD8?si=wFC9KzWN_9XB8Dzt
From this video you will know how many pushups you should do in a day for your body. From what I can understand from the video, not everyone's physical ability is the same, so how many pushups you should do in a day depends on your physical ability. That is, you should stop pushups when your body feels stressed. Instead of doing your 200 pushups, it is better to reduce the number if your physical capacity is low and your body feels stressed.
 You can test how many pushups your body can do without stress. You should prepare your pushup list accordingly.

@Jewan420 I disagree with you,I have been doing Over 200 Push-Ups a day and its hasn't caused any harm to my body. I think the more number of push-Ups you can do for a day determines how stronger you have become. PushUps exercise will always cause Stress to the body that is why its advisable to have plenty of rest after exercise.

Just like I have said in my previous post, what determined how many push-up one will do is age and stamina in order for you to do good number of push-up you must have the two things I mentioned above and if one is not there ( if you are aged but has stamina or you are not aged but doesn't have stamina), believe me you can not perform well that is to say that one must be young and at same timr have stamina perhaps when someone is young his muscles can withstand  stress or any weight that will be acting downward for considerably amount of time when doing push-ups while aged person can't cause there muscules and body will be weak.

Getting 1k push- up a day can  be very stressful and hard but i think it all depend on your strategy and also how many, one can go in a time though I already have my strategy and using it will take time but i still feel that's the best strategy cause you won't get tired quick, I said it in my previous post but I will say it again for people that will not be able to find that post. The strategy is, first of all draw a square and divide it into the number of time you will like to push-up and then choose a number you will be pushing at a time that will not affect your performance quick  and then start, when you are done with the first round you tick the first box in the square till you finish ticking all the box however, I feel the best way to do without getting stressed out easily is by pushing 10 or 15 at a time and draw like 25 to 30 box. if you can do this in the morning, afternoon and evening I think you will get to 1k if not more than though there will be little or no pains cause of the strategy.

[Mayor of ogba]

I decided to get 200 push-ups in today to celebrate my 13 year anniversary on this forum. Felt so good that I got some curls and work on the heavy bag in until my elbow got sore. I’m surprised how easily I got 200 in this time. Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

100k,OgNasty,124,12600,2024-06-04

Congratulations on your 13 years on the forum! It is a good thing to have a reputable member like you on this forum, who has helped this forum move forward and also wants other users to improve and grow on this forum. I celebrate you today for achieving a great milestone of 13 years of active participation on this forum.

I am not surprised you were able to hit 200 push-ups a day easily. With the help of this push-up thread you created, you have been consistently doing push-ups for close to 4 months now; achieving 200 push-ups a day isn't a big deal for you again. Hitting 1000 push-ups a day is not an easy ride, unless you will not do anything that day and develop the whole of your time in doing push-ups the day bitcoin will reach $100k. Attempting to do 1000 push-ups a day might lead to injury because your body will be tired and there will not be enough strength for you to keep pushing yourself in the right way, which can cause you to slip off the floor.

[Obim34]

I decided to get 200 push-ups in today to celebrate my 13 year anniversary on this forum. Felt so good that I got some curls and work on the heavy bag in until my elbow got sore. I’m surprised how easily I got 200 in this time. Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

100k,OgNasty,124,12600,2024-06-04

Congrats for achieving such a mile stone, 13 years here in the forum and still counting shows how competent, trustworthy and reliable your existence in the forum has impacted many users. We still hope to see you celebrate another anniversary in the coming years.

How do I believe that you can hit 1000 pushups a day, I still doubt knowing how intense and painful it will be and once your arms gets weak you can't survive to complete the rest. Achieving such a number of pushups then the preparation should begin from now, start by hitting 200-400-600-800 before getting to 1000 because it's a gradual process of bearing those pains and your arms needs to get used to larger numbers before attempting that greater figure.

100k,Obim34,85,5663,2024-06-05

You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you, so do them.
By Jim Rohn

[DirtyKeyboard]

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average drop down to around 150 per day, and so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself, because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

My plan is to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, and so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. and maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

Wow!  If pushups were miles you could go around the Earth, just about.

Hey everybody.  IF you had the option to report your daily pushups instead of your total pushups would you

• A: Vote that reporting daily, not total pushups, should become the default immediately
• B: Vote you like the idea and agree to put in one post, "111,User Name,daily", one time to get on the "daily reporter" list
• C: Vote to stick to the OP format, sink or swim
• D: Quote the table and have your vote invalidated.  
• E: Other (improvment suggestions) _______________

My votes...
A.  Let's blow up the whole table, and start over with 100 pushups reported per day max.
B. 111,DirtyKeyboard,daily
100k,DirtyKeyboard,115,103,2024-06-04
D.  Fsck!  
E.  Who needs to report a date?  I'm going to work to auto post the table daily just prior to midnight UTC, and then just put the UTC date for the last date seen, and no one has to worry about the date anymore, as long as the 'Days In' are correct, that should work, right?  If it's not a greater Days In, then don't add the quoted report's pushups.
If no one quoted anyone else's report this would be gravy.  

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│ Username          │   Days │   Pushups │ Last Date   │   PU/day │ % of    │    Days till │
│                   │     In │      Done │ Seen        │          │ Total   │   next digit │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ 7juju             │     77 │     11550 │ 2024-05-01  │   150    │ 5.99%   │          590 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ proty             │      4 │       504 │ 2024-05-12  │   126    │ 0.26%   │            4 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Obari             │      3 │       115 │ 2024-05-07  │    38.33 │ 0.06%   │           24 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Makus             │      5 │       495 │ 2024-05-30  │    99    │ 0.26%   │            6 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Tmoonz            │     91 │     10192 │ 2024-06-02  │   112    │ 5.29%   │          802 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Gallar            │     55 │      8289 │ 2024-05-19  │   150.71 │ 4.30%   │           12 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Bravut            │      4 │       285 │ 2024-04-20  │    71.25 │ 0.15%   │           11 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Obim34            │     85 │      5663 │ 2024-06-05  │    66.62 │ 2.94%   │           66 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Obulis            │     15 │      1345 │ 2024-06-03  │    89.67 │ 0.70%   │           97 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Kwarkam           │     52 │     10560 │ 2024-04-19  │   203.08 │ 5.48%   │          441 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ I_Anime           │     77 │      5662 │ 2024-05-18  │    73.53 │ 2.94%   │           59 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ OgNasty           │    124 │     12600 │ 2024-06-04  │   101.61 │ 6.53%   │          861 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Antonil           │     54 │      2102 │ 2024-05-04  │    38.93 │ 1.09%   │          203 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Dracoco           │      2 │        90 │ 2024-05-04  │    45    │ 0.05%   │            1 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Kelward           │     15 │       628 │ 2024-05-30  │    41.87 │ 0.33%   │            9 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ wxa7115           │     11 │      1000 │ 2024-06-03  │    90.91 │ 0.52%   │           99 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Troytech          │     45 │      4605 │ 2024-05-04  │   102.33 │ 2.39%   │           53 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Ambatman          │     19 │      2115 │ 2024-04-30  │   111.32 │ 1.10%   │           71 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Tungbulu          │     12 │      1412 │ 2024-04-28  │   117.67 │ 0.73%   │           73 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Notalony          │     27 │      2473 │ 2024-05-25  │    91.59 │ 1.28%   │           83 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Jewan420          │     13 │       940 │ 2024-05-22  │    72.31 │ 0.49%   │            1 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ laijsica          │     86 │      3268 │ 2024-05-21  │    38    │ 1.69%   │          178 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Zackz5000         │     79 │      9672 │ 2024-05-27  │   122.43 │ 5.02%   │            3 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Ricardo11         │     67 │      3683 │ 2024-05-09  │    54.97 │ 1.91%   │          115 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ SickDayIn         │      3 │        73 │ 2024-05-21  │    24.33 │ 0.04%   │            2 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ AmaGold70         │     12 │      1000 │ 2024-05-14  │    83.33 │ 0.52%   │          109 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ CoinMin3r         │      8 │       400 │ 2024-06-02  │    50    │ 0.21%   │           12 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ JayJuanGee        │    120 │     24000 │ 2024-06-03  │   200    │ 12.45%  │          380 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ teamsherry        │     52 │      6105 │ 2024-05-31  │   117.4  │ 3.17%   │           34 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Bd officer        │     66 │      5064 │ 2024-05-31  │    76.73 │ 2.63%   │           65 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Briankimp1        │     17 │       270 │ 2024-06-04  │    15.88 │ 0.14%   │           46 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Cossyblack        │     46 │      7775 │ 2024-06-03  │   169.02 │ 4.03%   │           14 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Sotelorene        │      6 │      1200 │ 2024-05-29  │   200    │ 0.62%   │           44 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ adultcrypto       │     21 │      1575 │ 2024-05-02  │    75    │ 0.82%   │          113 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Judith87403       │     50 │       800 │ 2024-04-22  │    16    │ 0.41%   │           13 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ hardyrobust       │      1 │        70 │ 2024-05-07  │    70    │ 0.04%   │            1 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Churchillvv       │    115 │     11827 │ 2024-06-02  │   102.84 │ 6.13%   │          858 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ promise444c5      │     54 │      2470 │ 2024-06-01  │    45.74 │ 1.28%   │          165 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Cityhunter34      │     25 │      3500 │ 2025-05-25  │   140    │ 1.82%   │           47 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Justinapeter      │      7 │       210 │ 2024-05-31  │    30    │ 0.11%   │           27 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Uhwuchukwu53      │      4 │       300 │ 2024-06-04  │    75    │ 0.16%   │           10 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ DirtyKeyboard     │    115 │     11623 │ 2024-06-04  │   101.07 │ 6.03%   │          875 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ Mayor of Ogba     │     87 │     11426 │ 2024-05-30  │   131.33 │ 5.93%   │          675 │
├───────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ smilevictorobinna │     39 │      3900 │ 2024-05-29  │   100    │ 2.02%   │           61 │
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│      Team │   Pushers │       Pushups │         Days │   Pushups/Pusher │   Pushups │   Days till │
│   Pushups │           │    per Pusher │   per Pusher │          per Day │   per Day │     200_000 │
├───────────┼───────────┼───────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────┤
│    192836 │        44 │       4382.64 │         42.5 │          103.121 │   4537.32 │     1.57891 │
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[Cossyblack]

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average drop down to around 150 per day, and so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself, because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

My plan is to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, and so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. and maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

An average of 200 pushups per day is too much. 200 pushups a day can harm the body instead of keeping it physically healthy. Because, when you do 200 pushups, your body feels the stress. Doing too many pushups can cause damage to the body by stressing the body.

https://youtu.be/JRej2i8zZD8?si=wFC9KzWN_9XB8Dzt
From this video you will know how many pushups you should do in a day for your body. From what I can understand from the video, not everyone's physical ability is the same, so how many pushups you should do in a day depends on your physical ability. That is, you should stop pushups when your body feels stressed. Instead of doing your 200 pushups, it is better to reduce the number if your physical capacity is low and your body feels stressed.
 You can test how many pushups your body can do without stress. You should prepare your pushup list accordingly.

@Jewan420 I disagree with you,I have been doing Over 200 Push-Ups a day and its hasn't caused any harm to my body. I think the more number of push-Ups you can do for a day determines how stronger you have become. PushUps exercise will always cause Stress to the body that is why its advisable to have plenty of rest after exercise.

Just like I have said in my previous post, what determined how many push-up one will do is age and stamina in order for you to do good number of push-up you must have the two things I mentioned above and if one is not there ( if you are aged but has stamina or you are not aged but doesn't have stamina), believe me you can not perform well that is to say that one must be young and at same timr have stamina perhaps when someone is young his muscles can withstand  stress or any weight that will be acting downward for considerably amount of time when doing push-ups while aged person can't cause there muscules and body will be weak.

Getting 1k push- up a day can  be very stressful and hard but i think it all depend on your strategy and also how many, one can go in a time though I already have my strategy and using it will take time but i still feel that's the best strategy cause you won't get tired quick, I said it in my previous post but I will say it again for people that will not be able to find that post. The strategy is, first of all draw a square and divide it into the number of time you will like to push-up and then choose a number you will be pushing at a time that will not affect your performance quick  and then start, when you are done with the first round you tick the first box in the square till you finish ticking all the box however, I feel the best way to do without getting stressed out easily is by pushing 10 or 15 at a time and draw like 25 to 30 box. if you can do this in the morning, afternoon and evening I think you will get to 1k if not more than though there will be little or no pains cause of the strategy.

Why would someone wants to do 1k pushups in a day,is this even achievable because I can't even imagine myself or another person doing it in a day. I haven't heard or see it in any records that someone did 1k pushups in day and I might not know how you came up with this strategy of yours but I expect you to test it on yourself and see if its achievable before bringing it up for people to try.

[Bd officer]

I decided to get 200 push-ups in today to celebrate my 13 year anniversary on this forum. Felt so good that I got some curls and work on the heavy bag in until my elbow got sore. I’m surprised how easily I got 200 in this time. Sort of makes me wonder how many I could do in a day if I really tried. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot. 1000 push-ups the day Bitcoin hits $100K?

100k,OgNasty,124,12600,2024-06-04

Congratulations OgNasty. You've done 200 push ups in a day to celebrate 13 years on this forum, which is amazing. You will do 1000 push ups a day which will be very difficult, but you can do it if you try. But you should not take too much pressure as you can injure your body. You will do push ups with a few breaks.

For you many in this forum have been doing regular push ups, I didn't do regular push ups before but after seeing your topic I accepted the challenge. I also do regular push ups now, many others like me do regular push ups. However, I also tried to do 200 push ups a day but still couldn't complete it. I am also inspired by your 200 push ups a day, I will also try to do 200 push ups a day in a few days.

My new report:
100k,Bd officer,70,5544,2024-06-05

[Mayor of ogba]

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average drop down to around 150 per day, and so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself, because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

My plan is to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, and so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. and maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

An average of 200 pushups per day is too much. 200 pushups a day can harm the body instead of keeping it physically healthy. Because, when you do 200 pushups, your body feels the stress. Doing too many pushups can cause damage to the body by stressing the body.

https://youtu.be/JRej2i8zZD8?si=wFC9KzWN_9XB8Dzt
From this video you will know how many pushups you should do in a day for your body. From what I can understand from the video, not everyone's physical ability is the same, so how many pushups you should do in a day depends on your physical ability. That is, you should stop pushups when your body feels stressed. Instead of doing your 200 pushups, it is better to reduce the number if your physical capacity is low and your body feels stressed.
 You can test how many pushups your body can do without stress. You should prepare your pushup list accordingly.

@Jewan420 I disagree with you,I have been doing Over 200 Push-Ups a day and its hasn't caused any harm to my body. I think the more number of push-Ups you can do for a day determines how stronger you have become. PushUps exercise will always cause Stress to the body that is why its advisable to have plenty of rest after exercise.

Just like I have said in my previous post, what determined how many push-up one will do is age and stamina in order for you to do good number of push-up you must have the two things I mentioned above and if one is not there ( if you are aged but has stamina or you are not aged but doesn't have stamina), believe me you can not perform well that is to say that one must be young and at same timr have stamina perhaps when someone is young his muscles can withstand  stress or any weight that will be acting downward for considerably amount of time when doing push-ups while aged person can't cause there muscules and body will be weak.

Getting 1k push- up a day can  be very stressful and hard but i think it all depend on your strategy and also how many, one can go in a time though I already have my strategy and using it will take time but i still feel that's the best strategy cause you won't get tired quick, I said it in my previous post but I will say it again for people that will not be able to find that post. The strategy is, first of all draw a square and divide it into the number of time you will like to push-up and then choose a number you will be pushing at a time that will not affect your performance quick  and then start, when you are done with the first round you tick the first box in the square till you finish ticking all the box however, I feel the best way to do without getting stressed out easily is by pushing 10 or 15 at a time and draw like 25 to 30 box. if you can do this in the morning, afternoon and evening I think you will get to 1k if not more than though there will be little or no pains cause of the strategy.

Why would someone wants to do 1k pushups in a day,is this even achievable because I can't even imagine myself or another person doing it in a day. I haven't heard or see it in any records that someone did 1k pushups in day and I might not know how you came up with this strategy of yours but I expect you to test it on yourself and see if its achievable before bringing it up for people to try.

He wants to do 1,000 push-ups to celebrate bitcoin's $100k price. Yes, 1,000 push-ups is achievable a day if you have the strength to maintain 50 push-ups in each of your sets so that you will be able to do 200 push-ups in 4 sets in under an hour. After achieving the first 200 push-ups, you rest for like 2–3 hours before you do another 200 push-ups until you complete 1,000 push-up.

[Dump3er]

[edited out]

One important concept is time under tension when we discuss resistance training. The 100 push-ups challenge here is a great idea, but participants should not to it with speed to get over with it. There should still be body control or otherwise joints and tendons and cartilage have to bear more workload than they should. That's why reducing the number of push-ups when that leads to a better feeling and better body control is never wrong. Everyone of us knows this one guy from the gym hammering out the exercises as if it was about speed and not about strength, body control and body tension. This is problematic even more push-ups with one's own bodyweight as everything that creates force from exaggerated acceleration will make the body sore. So there is an important line between pumping out a high number of push-ups while neglecting form and doing it mindfully with the goal to make it for health reasons while not losing sight of the goal of this challenge.

I purposefully focused on quantity over quality since it had been a decently long time that I had been neglecting strength and/or resistance training, and so in that regard, felt a bit of a purpose to pump out various quantities of pushups while my body was getting used to it, so I probably did not begin to adjust my approach until after I had reached 200 pushups per day.. so that was on my day 95.. and then after that I tried to stick with 200 per day, and now I am graduating to the next level of doing even fewer pushups and perhaps still getting a decent amount of exhaustion from the pushups while not giving up on the idea of doing pushups every day, too.

Yes I am just bringing up some concepts that I know have been proven with research, but above all well researched concepts in terms of physiological parameters is psychology and motivation. I brought this up when it comes to food, same thing. It's worthless when someone tells you what the best diet is when in fact you realize that you can't maintain it. The best diet is the one that is as healthy as possible and that you can maintain for as long as possible.

It is the exact same thing with exercise. Time under tension is indeed an important concept as the muscle is a bit similar to an onion and with increased time under tension you send impulses to all the various layers/fibers of your muscle. The goal in a best case scenario is of course to stimulate them all. Some people take it to an extreme and have their repetitions take 7-8 seconds, but I can tell you that I could never maintain that for long as it would drain me psychologically. I would lose interest in doing the exercise. I think we both are more the average guys here who love to get some numbers done as well. To achieve some numerical goal.

However, I do pay attention to soreness. Pumping out push-ups or any repetitions of any exercise for that matter should not be too much of a burden for the joints too often. Joints can recover and adapt and that's a desired outcome though.

But once you achieved the goal of reaching a certain number of push-ups, I think it can be fun to torture the body a bit at times with time under tension techniques as well. A little bit of soreness in the muscle and not in the joints doesn't feel too bad sometimes. Feels somewhat good because you know you have performed.

But as a conclusion, being able to maintain an activity is first priority. May that be for fun or dedication or discipline. 200 a day is enough stimulus to strengthen the muscle. It won't grow a lot, but it gives healthy muscles that understand they are needed and hence, here to stay.

Are you also into cardio at the moment?

[Tmoonz]

100k,JayJuanGee,120,24000,2024-06-03

I am going to say that I brought my average up to 200 pushups per day for today, yet tentatively, I am now planning to allow my average drop down to around 150 per day, and so it could take more than a month to achieve that, but I am going to take some pressure off of myself, because it is just too much for me to be trying to keep my 200 pushups average.

My plan is to try to do between 100 and 150 pushups, and so I am not going to get stressed out as long as my pushups are somewhere in that range.. and maybe, I will just see how it goes in the coming weeks as far as the next target.

An average of 200 pushups per day is too much. 200 pushups a day can harm the body instead of keeping it physically healthy. Because, when you do 200 pushups, your body feels the stress. Doing too many pushups can cause damage to the body by stressing the body.

https://youtu.be/JRej2i8zZD8?si=wFC9KzWN_9XB8Dzt
From this video you will know how many pushups you should do in a day for your body. From what I can understand from the video, not everyone's physical ability is the same, so how many pushups you should do in a day depends on your physical ability. That is, you should stop pushups when your body feels stressed. Instead of doing your 200 pushups, it is better to reduce the number if your physical capacity is low and your body feels stressed.
 You can test how many pushups your body can do without stress. You should prepare your pushup list accordingly.

@Jewan420 I disagree with you,I have been doing Over 200 Push-Ups a day and its hasn't caused any harm to my body. I think the more number of push-Ups you can do for a day determines how stronger you have become. PushUps exercise will always cause Stress to the body that is why its advisable to have plenty of rest after exercise.

Just like I have said in my previous post, what determined how many push-up one will do is age and stamina in order for you to do good number of push-up you must have the two things I mentioned above and if one is not there ( if you are aged but has stamina or you are not aged but doesn't have stamina), believe me you can not perform well that is to say that one must be young and at same timr have stamina perhaps when someone is young his muscles can withstand  stress or any weight that will be acting downward for considerably amount of time when doing push-ups while aged person can't cause there muscules and body will be weak.

Getting 1k push- up a day can  be very stressful and hard but i think it all depend on your strategy and also how many, one can go in a time though I already have my strategy and using it will take time but i still feel that's the best strategy cause you won't get tired quick, I said it in my previous post but I will say it again for people that will not be able to find that post. The strategy is, first of all draw a square and divide it into the number of time you will like to push-up and then choose a number you will be pushing at a time that will not affect your performance quick  and then start, when you are done with the first round you tick the first box in the square till you finish ticking all the box however, I feel the best way to do without getting stressed out easily is by pushing 10 or 15 at a time and draw like 25 to 30 box. if you can do this in the morning, afternoon and evening I think you will get to 1k if not more than though there will be little or no pains cause of the strategy.

Why would someone wants to do 1k pushups in a day,is this even achievable because I can't even imagine myself or another person doing it in a day. I haven't heard or see it in any records that someone did 1k pushups in day and I might not know how you came up with this strategy of yours but I expect you to test it on yourself and see if its achievable before bringing it up for people to try.

He wants to do 1,000 push-ups to celebrate bitcoin's $100k price. Yes, 1,000 push-ups is achievable a day if you have the strength to maintain 50 push-ups in each of your sets so that you will be able to do 200 push-ups in 4 sets in under an hour. After achieving the first 200 push-ups, you rest for like 2–3 hours before you do another 200 push-ups until you complete 1,000 push-up.

Am not can not be suggesting anyone should be doing 1000 push a day and that seems unrealistic as it is  going to take the whole of the day activities and possibly make your body so sore that one can probably get injured which is one of the things that is been talked against here, it has always been advised to only do as your body can carry, as the body also need enough rest to regain energy and vitality, as most time of doing push ups it always tend to be that the higher we are attenting to go up the lower we becomes both in different sets and sessions, for me achieving 1000 push ups a day can be very unrealistic.