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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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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.