![]() I had mostly done 30 at a time, with the occasional 20 or 40, but now I was doing mostly 50 at a time. With my new drive to finish, I increased how many I did in each set. I was OK with going an extra day or so, but I figured I would make an effort for it. I’d have to push pretty hard to make it though. ![]() I could see the end and I saw the potential to finish in three weeks total time. With being adjusted to the new position, and having a decent schedule for doing the pushups, I made for a strong third week, upping my daily total each day. I rested the third weekend again doing less, but not as few as the previous weekend. ![]() My abs didn’t bother me anymore with my pushups so I guess some good came of it. I ended up winning and my abs were stronger for it. As I saw my co-workers not trying very hard at the crunches though I decided to jump back into it, especially on Friday when I doubled my week’s total. Also, with the pushups working my abs I thought maybe it would be a bad idea. I wasn’t that eager considering I was still doing my pushup challenge and didn’t really put much effort into it the first couple days. With this new posture I was able to get back into the flow again and made decent strides the second week while trying not to overdo it again.Īt work, a new competition was put forth. I used some folded towels for my wrists to rest against, which worked nicely. It felt weird, but it at least didn’t hurt my hands. The new position was with my wrists bent down and resting on the top of my wrists. My joints were swollen and I couldn’t get into pushup position without it causing a fair bit of pain. The next Monday I was still hurting and wondering if I’d be able to keep going. I had some sets where it was my abs that stopped me from doing more rather than my arms. I had never done so many before to really notice it uses your abs, but holding that flat posture really does work them after a while. One surprising find was how much doing pushups worked my abs. My pushups technique has me resting on the bottom of my knuckles and bending my fingers back a lot. I can’t bend my wrists up beyond a little less than straight. I have joint issues that limit the mobility of my wrists and elbows. My muscles were holding out well, but my joints were another story. I lost the competition by a few hundred, but only because I couldn’t count the ones I did at home as well. By the end of the week though, I pushed myself a little too hard trying to win (did over 200 in an hour at the end of the day), and over the second weekend I was hurting and needed to tone it down a bit. My first week went pretty well being pushed on by the competition from my co-workers. I still did some outside of work as well, but only counted the ones I did at work for that competition. It was a lesser challenge, only pushups for the current work week and only counting ones you do at work. At work, while talking about the challenge with people, a group of us decided to have a work challenge for pushups. I didn’t think I would be able to do as many while at work during the week so was trying to get more done during the weekend. I had an impressive first day of 500, but Sunday was a little less. I started the next day, which was the weekend so I was able focus on it. It sounded intriguing so I thought I’d go for it and see if I could make it to 10,000 in a month. The friend had done it before and done 20,000 in a month as well on a separate month. A couple weeks ago, a co-worker told me that his friend convinced him to take on a challenge to do 10,000 pushups in a month.
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