Well I did week 1 day 1 on Tuesday and am going to do day 2 today, but it STILL HURTS!
I'll have to have a crack at this, used to do 5 x 20 with 30 second rest every night when I was back at school/uni, don't think there's much chance I could do anything like that now.
Restarted yoga classes yesterday, been nearly 3 months since I last went and I've done no upper body conditioning work in the meantime. We were doing some strength exercises at the start. 20 push ups, pushing up movement lasting 2 seconds and lowering back down slowly over 6 seconds. Killer. Followed by sit ups done the same way, slowly lowering back down, and then leg lifts. I hurt today!
Initial : 20 pushups
Week 1 Day 1: 10 / 12 / 7 / 7 / max (13) - 49 total
Week 1 Day 2: 12 / 12 / 8 / 8 / max (13) - 53 total
Week 1 Day 3: 11 / 15 / 9 / 9 / max (16) - 60 total
Week 2 Day 1: 14 / 14 / 10 /10 / max (15) - 63 total
Week 2 Day 2: 14 / 16 / 12 / 12 / max (17) - 71 total
Week 2 Day 3: 16 / 17 / 14 / 14 / max (20) - 81 total
Review Test : 30 pushups
Week 3 Day 1: 14 / 18 / 14 / 14 / max (20) - 80 total
Managed sets 1-4 with relative ease but the last set was murder and had to split it into sections - 10 / 3 / 3 / 4
Week 4 Day 3 Col 3
29/33/29/29/Max 42 (162 total!
Felt really good. Exhaustion test on Sunday. First test since the initial test. Bring it on!
Week 1 Day 3 today... actually I feel less like I'll be struggling in the morning to lift my arms than when I did day 1 and 2! maybe it's working
Good stuff OHW. I found day 3 easier than 1+2 aswell. Does make it feel like you're getting somewhere, don't it? Keep the faith!Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
Week 1 Day 3 today... actually I feel less like I'll be struggling in the morning to lift my arms than when I did day 1 and 2! maybe it's working
Week 3 day 3 was a killer!!
Managed sets 1 - 4 but set 5 did me. Got 20 proper press ups then just scraped the last 8 on my knees! Had been a hard week tho so not yet decided to move onto week 4 or repeat week 3
Initial : 20 pushups
Week 1 Day 1: 10 / 12 / 7 / 7 / max (13) - 49 total
Week 1 Day 2: 12 / 12 / 8 / 8 / max (13) - 53 total
Week 1 Day 3: 11 / 15 / 9 / 9 / max (16) - 60 total
Week 2 Day 1: 14 / 14 / 10 /10 / max (15) - 63 total
Week 2 Day 2: 14 / 16 / 12 / 12 / max (17) - 71 total
Week 2 Day 3: 16 / 17 / 14 / 14 / max (20) - 81 total
Review Test : 30 pushups
Week 3 Day 1: 14 / 18 / 14 / 14 / max (20) - 80 total
Week 3 Day 2: 20 / 25 / 15 / 15 / max (30) - 105 total
Last set included 8 press-ups on my knees. Definitely getting stronger as the first set (which was my original maximum) was pretty easy. Sets 4 & 5 weren't though!
I think I'm gonna have to do week 3 twice; there's no way that I'm ready to go onto week 4 yet.
Didnt get chance to do days 2 and 3 this week so im going to re-start week 2 on monday.
i used to do 80 full pressups in 1 minute when i used to go to the gym a lot. had to give that up because it never did any good for the stamina on long distance runs at all. the best way to improve is to do close hand pressups finger and thumbs touching bringing your nose down to your thumbs, this used to sort the men from the boys out at curcuit training.
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