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100Pushups: Back On Track
Last week I took a break because of elbow and wrist soreness and pain, this week I’m back on track having gone to Body Pump on Tuesday and restarting the 100 Pushups regime on Monday. I just finished up Week One, Day Two with good results despite the layoff.
What I like the most about the idea of doing 100 pushups is that it’s very much high repetition, low weight training. High reps, low weight is the same idea behinds Body Pump so the two are very in tandem. I know a lot of guys prefer to do low rep, high weight in order to build muscle mass so it’s a bit incongruous to work on your stamina. As much as I respect larger muscle mass, I don’t see the point. The one benefit of more muscle is that you have a higher metabolism but outside of that I don’t see the purpose.
One thing to note when you’re doing these pushups, the period of rest as the days progress increases. You’re supposed to rest 60 seconds between “sets” on Day one, 90 between “sets” on Day two, and 120 seconds between sets on Day Three. Keep that in mind if you’re doing these.
Anyway, Day Two was a success with only minor soreness and clicking in my elbow so we’ll keep going. On the last max-out set I was able to do nineteen pushups.
Subscribe to the comments for this postElbow Clicking & Sore
Last week at Body Pump, while I was doing the quad/hamstring track (which consists of a ton of squats), I think I overextended my elbow. On that track, I put the weight bar on my shoulders, and my arms, essentially just keeping the weight steady, were unloaded. I think I was getting a little lazy because I was leaning into my arm, which meant my elbow was over extended and ended up being a little sore when I unloaded.
Now, you may also remember I started the 100 Pushup’s regime last week. I made it through the first week without incident except my elbow started intermittently clicking and was starting to get sore. I mentioned to Nickel, who started his own fitness blog at fit36.com, and he said it could be bone rubbing on bone. I think I just stretched out some tendons and need to just rest it a little.
As such, I think I’m going to take a one week break from the pushups (which is really the only activity that strains the elbows) to see if my elbow gets back to normal.
Weekly Roundup: Diets & Pushups Are Popular
The man who told me about 100 pushups in the first place is also joining the 100 push up challenge. A few others are joining the craze as well, we’ll all be ripped in six weeks.
Elsewhere in the fitness world, there’s been a deluge of posts about diets. Fat Man Unleased unleashed a post on the 4 physical laws of dieting while Lazy Man was concerned about the safety and effectiveness of diet pills. Not to be outdone, Weight Ladder gave 3 tips on how to avoid diet stress.
Finally, NCN shares a recent trip to the dentist and some basic dental hygiene tips.
Week1, Day 1 of 100 Pushups
Yesterday I wrote I was doing the 100 Pushups plan and fired off 27 pushups in the initial test. I was surprised at rattling off 27 because I really thought I was only going to get somewhere in the low 20’s – body pump is really doing its thing I think.
Today, I did the first day of exercise which consisted of more and more pushups. According to the tables for Week One, I had to do 10, 10, 8, and 6 pushups, with sixty seconds rest, followed by a “pushup until failure” phase of at least 7. On the “pushup until failure phase” I was able to get out 12.
The 10, 10, and 8 pushup rounds were pretty casual. I didn’t feel particularly fatigued but near the end of the 8 I was starting to feel it. The round of 6 was less nice and then the maxout round really took whatever I had left out. I think the last three pushups were barely “good” and then I stopped. I didn’t want to do bad form pushups just to get the number higher, because that’s not particularly useful.
So, day one is in the books and already I’ve done 46 more pushups than I would have today. 
Doing the 100 Push Ups Training Plan
One Hundred Pushups is a site that outlines a six-week training program that claims to have you doing one hundred pushups straight after you’re done. That’s right… a hundred. That’s a lot of freaking push ups!
It all begins with an initial test that calibrates the six week training regimen and each week requires three days of training, which consists strictly of pushups. That’s right, all you do is more and more pushups. After the first two weeks, you take another calibration test similar to the initial test and continue onward. After week four, you take yet another test. The hits just keep on coming.
I think it sounds like a great idea and I like the idea of a challenge. Based on what I know about myself, I estimated I could do around 20-25 solid correct form pushups.
My initial test, which I did last night at around 11pm, yielded 27 good pushups before exhaustion started messing up my form. So, that sets me up for success tomorrow when I start the program.
