I took up this challenge from today, I don't exercise regularly, and I'm a bit fat so I can't do push-ups much, but today I tried my best to do 15 push-ups, that's all I managed. . I will try to give more push-ups.
[edited out] inearth,1,15,2024-11-17
Hope there is no mistake in my report
Welcome to the thread. I cannot tell if you only did one set, and surely it can be both difficult to ONLY do one set in a day, and also I question if you are going to get better with ONLY 1 set in a day.
Consider doing 3 sets in a day.. perhaps.. 3 sets of 8 pushups or whatever other quantity feels comfortable, and perhaps in the beginning to spread the sets out through the whole day.
If you are not used to doing pushups and you are heavy (fat), then you might be sore for several weeks, but it still should be good to find a quantity of pushups that you might be able to do every day, and maybe three sets per day.... and as you get used to it, then you can increase your quantity of pushups per set and perhaps your quantity of sets per day.
Of course, in the end, you know your body best, and you need to figure out what is comfortable for you and whether you want to try to get a point in which you are able to do pushups every day.
Another thing that you can do while you are getting used to pushups and building up your quantity of pushups is to carry out modified pushups either by doing them from your knees rather than full pushups or using a surface that raises your chest higher than your legs. Phil is using stairs to modify his pushups, but there can be other ways to accomplish such raise of your chest higher (modified pushups) if you don't have a convenient location that has stairs.
Honestly thought it would take longer but just seems inevitable right now. Really wish I were sitting on a reservoir of satoshi but am so happy nevertheless. Enjoy, people.
~hopefully we are not comparing ourselves to other folks, but instead comparing ourselves to other versions of ourselves with a kind of knowledge that "I stacked as much as I could at those earlier prices," and the stacking surely might not end for a lot of folks who might not have had quite gotten to a place of having enough (or more than enough) satoshis.
And where is your pushup report, buwaytress?
Wise words. And because we're all the wiser for knowing these come in cycles (even with the low amplitudes I've come to know), DCA always rewards in the long term. I had to start all over again in '21, and then again in '23 (last year), but I've already pushed the payout assumption to that of the generation after me (it's the least I can do if I can't leave much behind haha), who already have the home the 21 liquidation paid for.
Had I not stacked then, I wouldn't be where I am today anyway!
I know that frequently there is a temptation to want to get into your own house rather than renting or not having some kind of a residence that you can call your own, yet if we look at various median price houses as compared with bitcoin over the years, it is quite amazing how median price houses seem to be going up quite a lot in dollar (or fiat) terms, but in bitcoin terms, the outcomes are quite amazing in terms of how few bitcoin are needed to buy median houses as compared to several years earlier, and even more stark contrasts if we are looking at time frames that are 6 years or longer.
Of course, I don't know your particulars, and I am not completely writing this for you, since we are in a public thread.
Anyhow, let's say that a median house had gone from $200k to $500k in the past 8 years or so, using your forum registration date of
September 2016, and so if you invested $100 per week in bitcoin for that time, you would have had invested close to $42k and you would have just about 7.9 BTC. Right now you could completely buy a house outright with that money, yet if you had taken out half or 1/3 of the money and then stopped buying bitcoin and instead making house payments, then you really only own part of the house, and the other part is own by the bank, and you also don't have any (or hardly any) bitcoin. Surely there are ways to defer gratification, and even if you make the investment into the house to continue to buy bitcoin. However, when you, or anyone else rushes into buying the house before sufficiently building up their bitcoin stash, then they both overly deplete the bitcoin stash, but they also discontinue building the bitcoin stash while likely never getting anywhere in terms of even realizing (or we should realize by now) that bitcoin is the best place to have our investments, and maintaining our focus on bitcoin does not necessarily mean that we have to give up on our other dreams, even though some of them might be delayed a bit, and such delay can also end up in way better results.. even though surely there are always going to be scenarios in which we could imagine even better results, so we do have to take the plunge at some point, yet each of us has to figure out the balance that works, not only in the short term, but also in the medium to longer timeline too...and yeah, once we made the plunge, it is not so easy to reverse some decisions that we had already made, even though there may well be ways that we can attempt to learn from our experiences in terms of trying to figure out where to allocate our value and when and how to start to withdraw from such value if we do end up putting good chunks of it into bitcoin.
A house has tended to be a BIG ticket item, and surely I have seen that sometimes people are quite anxious to get into more house than they really can afford, so its a pretty common theme that also removes a lot of folks from too many of their bitcoin too soon, too.
No pushup report for me -- complicated personal situation but I physically can't do pushups -- targeting February to start being able to again. My physical recovery has been focusing on regaining use (it's now 16 months since I lost use of my left arm). I'll be here for the next milestone.
Surely more difficult to do pushups in those kinds of one-armed circumstances.
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