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Well at the risk of having some of you think there may be a spaghetti-armed communist faggot shitposting in your midst, I'm gonna put it out there that I failed to complete the second workout of this routine.

Probably 2 reasons why:

1) Lack of recovery. My muscles are still a little broken down from the workout two days ago. To this end, I could've done a little better with sleep and maybe could have taken some NSAIDs or iced the upper shoulders to speed up my recovery. edit: I also rushed in the first workout the day after my test day, which is a little much.

2) Workout two is like a 10% increase in volume over workout 1, and I could not have possibly gotten 10% stronger in the past 2 days.

I did get the first three sets, but failed on set 4 after 5 reps, just 100% out of gas. After that I stopped and did not attempt to complete the 5th set (as many of you have pointed out already, gotta listen to your body).

I'm happy to have pushed myself, but I can see on the horizon for the next workout another 10% increase in volume. I think I'll try to complete the higher rep sets and stop again if I hit failure.

I'm open to reformulating this plan if it turns out to be unrealistic, but I do like the goal of 100 pushups. Those of you who are also doing 100 pushups, hows it's going?

Well at the risk of having some of you think there may be a spaghetti-armed communist faggot shitposting in your midst, I'm gonna put it out there that I failed to complete the second workout of this routine. Probably 2 reasons why: 1) Lack of recovery. My muscles are still a little broken down from the workout two days ago. To this end, I could've done a little better with sleep and maybe could have taken some NSAIDs or iced the upper shoulders to speed up my recovery. edit: I also rushed in the first workout the day after my test day, which is a little much. 2) Workout two is like a 10% increase in volume over workout 1, and I could not have possibly gotten 10% stronger in the past 2 days. I did get the first three sets, but failed on set 4 after 5 reps, just 100% out of gas. After that I stopped and did not attempt to complete the 5th set (as many of you have pointed out already, gotta listen to your body). I'm happy to have pushed myself, but I can see on the horizon for the next workout another 10% increase in volume. I think I'll try to complete the higher rep sets and stop again if I hit failure. I'm open to reformulating this plan if it turns out to be unrealistic, but I do like the goal of 100 pushups. Those of you who are also doing 100 pushups, hows it's going?

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When I did my initial test I tested into Column C but when I looked at the progression I decided Column C was too aggressive and I went with Column B. This so far seems to be working out fine.

I did a little data analysis of the progression and together with my fitness knowledge, my conclusions are as follows:

  • Don't push to failure on the final set
  • If you are barely making the reps for one column, consider moving to a lower column
  • I think the tests place people into a column that is too aggressive.

The following pic displays the daily rep totals with the min number on the final set. I think staying above the red Column B line and below the yellow Column C line is a challenge but doable. So far everyone who has struggled has been aggressive and well above the yellow Column C line.