100 Push Ups

Eek. Thanks Jen at Runner...maybe? for a great idea. Well, it *seemed* like a great idea until I tried doing my initial push up test. This is a six-week training program to do 100 push ups. Um, my baseline is 10 girlie push ups. I have a ways to go to reach 100, haha.

Read about it here. Like Jen, I am concerned about my less-than-sculpted arms and related areas. And because Jen is doing the training program, and I am very good at glomming onto my friend's ideas doing things when I am motivated by friend, this will be fun.

Fun. Yeah, like climbing 88 flights of stairs a day is so freaking fun. But hopefully, with this program I'll begin to see some of the same definition and results in my arms and chest that I am seeing in my butt and thighs after all this stair climbing!

So, today's initial test was 10 push ups. I actually did 3-4 a couple times before that, but stopped when I saw people coming my way in the cube farm. (Yes, I did indeed drop down in my cube and do my push ups!) I wish I would have done the test consecutively without tiring myself out, but the reality is that I just don't have a lot of upper body strength, so I don't think it would have made much of a difference.

I'll be doing this on M/W/F

Day 1


rest 60 seconds between each SET (longer if required)

Set 1: 6 push ups
Set 2: 6 push ups
Set 3: 4 push ups
Set 4: 4 push ups
Set 5: max - at least 5 push ups

Day 2

Set 1: 6 push ups
Set 2: 8 push ups
Set 3: 6 push ups
Set 4: 6 push ups
Set 5: max - at least 7 push ups

Day 3

Set 1: 8 push ups
Set 2: 10 push ups
Set 3: 7 push ups
Set 4: 7 push ups
Set 5: max - at least 10 push ups

Exciting!