I may stretch it out and try for two days per week (maybe Monday and Thursday), depending on what happens tomorrow. If I do that, I'll re-start next Monday on the Week 1, Day 3 of the challenge.
That is one way to modify it that might work out well.
I was also thinking along the lines of reducing the number of reps to an amount that would be manageable 3-4 days/week in order to maximize the number of reps per the whole week.
Maybe something like a 7-12-15-12-7 pyramid (30%-50%-62.5% my max number of reps from my test day), which if I did that 4 days a week would give me 212 pushups/week and probably would be something I could sustain without seriously straining. Then re-rest my max # of reps every couple of weeks and increase my pyramid set proportionately. (For comparisons sake, 100 pushups wants me to do 240 pushups this week).
There's also the possibility of splitting up the workout throughout the day to get even more volume of pushups in. For example, my first workout on 100 pushups had me doing 72 reps over 5 sets, which was very challenging. But I could probably do 72 reps easily if it were in 6 sets of 12 spread out throughout the day (granted you have to remember to do them). Make that 10 sets throughout the day and you've got 120 pushups/day which would give you 360-480 if you can do 3 or 4 days a week. I'm sure the fatigue would really build up over the week, so I'd have to play around with the frequency that's comfortable.
Not sure what I'll do yet. For now just gonna finish out the week on the current scheme and then re-evaluate.
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