Yekrats.com: Scotto’s Seafud Shanty

I had been trying to achieve the goal of 100 push-ups, as suggested by HundredPushups.com. Well, I did have the question whether I’ve kept up with the push-up routine. The answer, “Yes and no.”

Between Week 2 and Week 3, the site asks you to do as many as you can and do as a test. Unfortunately, the minimum number for ranking is 16. I could do only 10 maximum at the time. So what to do? Well, the site is not exactly clear about that. It says to repeat the weak that you’re having problems with, which is significantly less than 16 pushups at a time. (Fact is, I still can’t do 16 push-ups.)

That being said, I’ve kinda invented my own 3-times-a-week routine. I’ve done a number of pushups, taking from where Week two left off, and gradually increasing it. I am getting stronger, and can now do 15 pushups in a stretch. Right now I’m doing about 5 sets of 10.

The way I figure, if I can do 5 sets of 20, that’s 100. Then I would just need to decrease my rest times in between sets, and that’s 100, right? I think doing 100 pushups is possible for me, but just not within the 6-week window that the site suggested.

Thanks to Fuzzy’s blog, I started the excercise program on Hundredpushups.com. Basically, it’s a six-week program which encourages readers to achieve 100 push-ups in a row by incrementally increasing numbers. I’m wanting to do this because I’m such a wussie weenie, and frankly, now I’m a little scared of Fuzzy beating me up.

So, I’m now two weeks into the program on the wussiest level, but I am improving by push-up form. I started out “one twentieth of the way there” but now I know I can go way beyond that. Check back next month to see how far I go.