100 Push-Ups Challenge

I've become a 100 Push-Ups Challenge groupie! The ladies over at RA have such an enabling way about them. :o)

I seem to be a day behind most of the other groupies, so I opted to do my initial test AND my first push-up workout today.

I completed the initial test this morning and did 24 military style (no knees) 'good form' push-ups. I could have squeeked out a few additional 'crappy form' ones, but I think quality over quantity really applies with strength training.

My initial test results told me that I needed to start the program on level 3, which basically goes like this:

10 push-ups followed by 60 seconds of rest

10 push-ups followed by 60 seconds of rest

8 push-ups followed by 60 seconds of rest

6 push-ups followed by 60 seconds of rest

Max push-ups (program says at least 7) --> I ended up doing 15.

In total, I pumped out 73 military style push-ups today... this alone, shocks the shit out of me. I know it wasn't all at one time, but seriously! I even impressed myself! Woot! To be able to eventually do 100 at one shot! Well, that should surely help my swimming... to say the least.

So there it is. Week 1/Day 1 is ovah! I'll complete day 2 on Thursday and continue on every other day until the program ends 6 weeks from now. I 'should' be able to do 100 consecutive military style push-ups by then. If it builds up properly like C25K did, I have no doubt that I'll be there... we shall see!