[get_fitter_ed]

Any one done the one hundred push up challenge?

Found here: http://hundredpushups.com/index.html

You do an initial test where the plan gauges your performance and gives you a set plan and workout up to your 100 goal.



My initial test i did 14 pushups, within 16 days i was up to 30, and i'm currently able to do about 40-45 straight!

[Gubernatrix]

I'm doing the twenty pull-ups by the same guy. It's a bit early to tell how effective it is but another friend completed it successfully recently so I have high hopes.

[greg]

maybe i should try this as i'm rubbish at push-ups

[moose]

get_fitter_ed, on Aug 4 2009, 11:51 PM, said:

Any one done the one hundred push up challenge?

Found here: http://hundredpushups.com/index.html

You do an initial test where the plan gauges your performance and gives you a set plan and workout up to your 100 goal.

My initial test i did 14 pushups, within 16 days i was up to 30, and i'm currently able to do about 40-45 straight!

Hi

I've been doing this. Kind of...
I had shoulder problems from long-term benching and switched my focus to press-ups to recover.
I can tell you that push-ups give me none of the issues that benching did - from that point of view alone, push-ups get a thumbs up from me.
As far as "doing 100" I'm not convinced of the benefit of a target like this over CF programming, though a target can provide the impetus to get somewhere...

Regardless, at about 3 weeks in, I've found a very positive knock-on effect on my other training. I doubt if I'll bother trying to do 100 at any point, but I will be using the program simply to keep me in the habit of doing push-ups. It serves pretty well as a work-out "finisher" - doing a couple of sets and then a set of max reps push-ups after a WOD - especially a pressing one - finishes me off nicely. Of course, using it like this means that my max isn't going up too fast (or at all), but I'm getting a beasting every time I do it.

(It causes me physical pain to say this , but) anything where I'm using my body weight seems to have far greater effects on my overall conditioning than any amount of throwing weights around...

[moose]

Gubernatrix, on Aug 5 2009, 01:40 AM, said:

I'm doing the twenty pull-ups by the same guy.

And I just wish I could do a decent pull-up in the first place so I could try this program...

[Gubernatrix]

moose, on Aug 5 2009, 09:56 AM, said:

And I just wish I could do a decent pull-up in the first place so I could try this program...

Actually you don't have to be able to do a decent pull up to start the programme. People start at different points depending on how many pull ups they can do initially, including none!

[Johny Cash]

I'm doing the push-ups too, I use them as part of my warm-up which helps as it gives focus to my warm-ups and I don't just plunge straight into a WOD. Push-ups are coming along nicely but I think my pull-ups are suffering for it. Don't know why though.

[Mark]

one hundred push up challenge.

Sorry, but what a load of s***e

Just work press-ups into your training or just GTG.

[Franz29]

Mark, on Aug 11 2009, 12:10 AM, said:

Just work press-ups into your training or just GTG.

I agree, you want to get good at something, do it in your training. However........

Having said that, this type of routine may be what some people need to add the structure required to their workouts to achieve a goal (be that 100 push-ups, 20 pull-ups etc) and people are reporting progress from following the posted plan. Don't forget, not everyone is as knowledgeable about training as you and may need some guidance to get to where they want to be, whether they get it from the community here or from an internet site (and yes, I appreciate the irony of me talking as if this isn't an internet site).

If the 100 push-ups goal is something people want to achieve and this helps them get there, then good for them.

[Gubernatrix]

Mark, on Aug 11 2009, 12:10 AM, said:

one hundred push up challenge.

Sorry, but what a load of s***e

Just work press-ups into your training or just GTG.

It's not a load of crap! It's actually GTG, it's just that someone has kindly taken the time to come up with a programme so that you don't have to. I am finding the 20 pull ups one very useful. And what do you mean 'work it into your training' - this is training. What else did you think it was, shopping?

BTW it isn't much to do with knowledge either, it's just convenience. Mark is not the only person around here who knows how to add push ups into training!! My training is multi-faceted and quite complex - if I choose to use the convenience of a mini programme to help me reach a particular goal, that's one less thing I have to think about in my busy life.

[Franz29]

I wasn't suggesting you didn't have the knowledge, I was trying to point out that some people like the structure offered by this program and find it easier (or more convenient) to achieve their goals by following a prescribed plan rather than planning it for themselves.

[Gubernatrix]

Weeelll, you did say "not everyone is as knowledgeable about training as you and may need some guidance to get to where they want to be". Looking at the people who are using it (me, johny, moose etc), it's not an issue of knowledge as we all know what we are doing. We just like the idea of the programme.

[moose]

Indeed.

For me, I just need a target - that's the key part.

It doesn't matter what the target is (it could be the 100 push-ups, 20 pull-ups, a competition, unpowered human flight), as long as it's defined. Even if I know that in reality I might not make it, it's the discipline of aiming for it that gives me focus. For example, I've lost count of the number of PL comps and road races I've trained for and not actually competed in - but on every occasion my numbers have improved in the process. I think that's because having a target gave the training more purpose.

I'm sure there are lots of you out there for whom training is perfectly sufficent focus in itself, but we're all different aren't we?
I'm also sure you could argue all sorts of things about strength of charatcter, commitment and the like, and you'd probably be right. But life's a balance of lots of stuff already, and I've got lots of stuff to lose sleep over already. Be wary of trying to mould others around what works for you/me/anyone else (and yes, I was wagging a finger as I typed that ).

I enjoyed that (Gee, I can off on one can't I?). I feel like a philosopher. I'm may have to dress in a bed sheet and look pensive for a while...


PS Where I say "you" in the drivel above - it's not directed at anyone specific. Don't go getting paranoid...

[Mark]

If you want to train for 100 bunny hops crack on, I have no problem with that, each to their own, its the what floats your boat........ You know this is not even worth discussing as its a nothingness... If you like it then crack on, but a press-up is a press-up just do them nothing more is rx'd.

And I have wrote this with a nice meaning so don't read it as a f##k U

[Johny Cash]

The only reason I am doing push-ups is for the reason that I use my warm-ups to practice movements that I struggle with, hence at the moment my warm-ups contain a mixture of burpees, push-ups and ring pull-ups. This is a method that works well for me as it provides structure to my warm-ups. Also I'm not too bothered about hitting 100 push-ups I'm more bothered about being able to perform push-ups consistently with proper form and I'm finding that there is a transference into my WOD's especially Tabata push-ups or other WOD's that require high numbers of push-ups, in fact even my 100 burpees time has decreased.

I also don't think anyone on here would give FU and I like the fact that discussions like this take place.

[Mark]

Johny Cash, on Aug 12 2009, 07:26 PM, said:

The only reason I am doing push-ups is for the reason that I use my warm-ups to practice movements that I struggle with, hence at the moment my warm-ups contain a mixture of burpees, push-ups and ring pull-ups. This is a method that works well for me as it provides structure to my warm-ups. Also I'm not too bothered about hitting 100 push-ups I'm more bothered about being able to perform push-ups consistently with proper form and I'm finding that there is a transference into my WOD's especially Tabata push-ups or other WOD's that require high numbers of push-ups, in fact even my 100 burpees time has decreased.

I also don't think anyone on here would give FU and I like the fact that discussions like this take place.

Now that makes sense and from a quality training point of view it's a good way to integrate a weak movement. and hitting 100....???? No point time can be better spent.

And the final note wasn't aimed at you bud

[Matt M]

I don't wish t dig up an old and well discussed topic but thanks for the link.

I think I'll try the pull ups program. I've tried many times over the years to increase volume but ultimately get bored or distracted and stop.
Is ther any benefit in the program? I don't know enough to say, but if it helps me focus on hitting a goal then its good for me.