Still out of breath from setting a new single set high for myself. Yesterday, I didn’t do any additional weights or exercising other than my 100 push-ups. I also am getting a late start today. That combination had me feeling pretty good when I was around 30 push-ups into my set so I decided to go for it. I gassed out at 70. Still a ways away from 100, but it feels good to be making continued progress towards my goal.
Since about April 9th, I have had several sets over 60 pushups, and maybe around 30 pushup sets, and my highest was 69 on April 30th.. and I had a 65 in one of yesterday's set...
For me, I am not really finding myself to be gassing out because there are ways to pace in order to keep being able to breath, but at a certain point my muscles start to fail, and I am not sure if it is the same thing.. so yeah, I can do more if I go faster, yet my form is not quite as good, but I still count them as good enough, and so there is kind of a combination of form and speed, and surely some of my faster pushups are more sloppy, so I still find that there is likely some advantage in some of my slower pushups that are not getting me as many pushups,
yet at the same time, if ever I am going to try to beat my own personal record of pushups per set, I am pretty sure that I am going to have to do them fast otherwise, I won't be able to do as many, and usually it seems that me muscles are stopping to work rather than my gassing out - even though surely there is a combination of both going on.. yet for sure, when we started these pushups in early February, there is no way I could have even physically accomplished 40 pushups in one set.. yet I was able to get up to 4 pushups in a set within a week or so and it took me just over a month to get up to 50 in a set.. and another month to get up to 60 in a set... so surely it takes long to build up to both being able to do more and to do them with some kind of decent form, even though each of us is the judge to our own form and what we consider to be legitimate and acceptable form in order to count them in our own reports.
And, by the way, yesterday when I was able to do 10 pushup sets in a day, I am still quite impressed with myself in regards to my average of 53 pushups per set, and sure I will admit that I was somewhat focused upon quantity over quality, but there still is no way that I can deny myself that there are a lot of improvements in my abilities to do pushups, including even being able to do a whole 10 pushup sets in a day.. so I am exceeding my own expectations and even setting higher goals, while at the same time realizing that I can ONLY do so much when it comes to overall physical exertions, so I still have to pace myself and also try to make sure that I am not over doing it in terms of how much time and effort and energies that I am choosing to spend on pushups versus other activities.. or other ways of spending my time and my focus.
(Apologies if this has already been asked) Is there any way to seperate the table into two sub groups e.g. those who last posted more than 30 days ago (notionally called "inactive")
I can see at least a couple of participants last posted as far back as April.
Personally, I like this idea, too... yet I am not completely sure about the threshold of separation, even though 30 days does not seem unreasonable.. or maybe 50 days is half of 100, so 50 might also be reasonable... or some other number of days in the ballpark of such. Many of the active pushup report submitters are doing so on at least a weekly basis.. and my own has tended to be submitting my reports every few days.
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