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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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Well I mean continue the set you failed on (hopefully just the last one). So if they suggest 20+ and you're unable to do more than 12, take another recommended break time before doing the last 8.

I'm doing the pushup challenge (at least until I get injured or lose all faith in making progress).

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Gotcha. So failing set 4 of day two means you would wait a while to fully recover, then finish the reps for set 4, then do set 5.

Don't lose faith. If the progression is unrealistic, we can make a better one.

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If they say 60 seconds rest time - I'm trying pretty hard not to exceed that by much. I don't think there's any point in fully recovering between sets - my theory is the short rest times are a strategy to train your muscles to work through fatigue. We can all do a few pushups: we don't need more strength to do 100, just more endurance.