Week 5 Exhaustion Test: 82
60 easy, next 11 not so, managed to push out one at a time until I got to the end.
13 more than the last exhaustion test a week ago, and only 18 left for the hundred!!
Haha! If you knew me you'd know I'm anything but macho! (Camp as Christmas!!Originally Posted by Stef F
Well that's helpful! Given that my arms and shoulders are too pathetic to start properly do you have an alternative suggestion? Or is this thread for the macho only?)
If you're stuggling from your knees, try doing negative press-ups:
(1) start in press up position; (2) lower yourself (place a tennis ball under your chest and stop when you touch it); (3) hold for 2 secs. Get into position again at (1), and repeat. This will begin to develop the muscles required for a full press-up and get them used to the movement and load.
Do as many of these as you can and use this as an initial test. Do weeks 1-2 of the programme in this way, then try an initial test again, but this time adding in the press after (2).
If needs be you can do it in 3 stages: do the negative reps on the knees; do the press-up from the knees; get cracking with the full press-up. Do weeks 1-2 for each stage until you can do the full one and then go all the way!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0eVeHVJ7wA
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