Monday, May 14, 2012

100 push up challenge - so tough!

A few months ago, I posted about starting the 100 push up challenge. I unsuccessfully ended it about a month ago so I thought I would post my results and thoughts.  You can see my results on the side bar.  I did 9 weeks of the 6 week challenge and in the end I went from being able to 20 push ups (yes on my toes)  to 55 push ups.  The program says that if you are unable to complete a week to repeat it (hence 9 weeks). During the first 3 weeks it was really fun to challenge myself and I could see and feel my strength increasing.  The last month I literally made myself do it as the workouts got longer and harder.  I feel like I hit a plateau about 35 push ups.  After 35 each push up was arm shaking agony!
This program is a great way to increase your strength.  
I just think it was too much too fast.  It is fun to have a goal like this for the short term but it is nothing that I can keep up.



No comments:

Post a Comment