Push-ups are pretty easy (so far).
I might sing a different tune when I try to crank out 100 of them six weeks from now.
With 30 push-ups done in my push-up test, hundredpushups.com said my first day’s workout would include four sets of push-ups: 10, 10, 8, 6 and a maximum set of at least 7. I wound up doing 10, 10, 8, 6, 20. This was Sunday night.
Danny told me to pay close attention to the rest times between sets, as that will have a lot to do with progressing toward the eventual 100-push-up goal.
In other news, I did both cardio and upper body on Sunday morning. I have a lot more energy now than I used to, and I’ve noticed I can stack cardio and resistance workouts with no more exhaustion than I used to get from doing one or the other.
Danny says I can stack push-up workouts on upper-body weight training days — but not the day before or the day after, as that will mess up my recovery period. In this way, we’re adding the 100-push-up goal on top of the 4.5% body fat loss goal. I’m sure I can do them on lower-body training days too, as the exercises are completely unrelated.
According to Danny, push-ups will not help my weight training as much as my weight training will allow me to do more push-ups.
If you’re doing the challenge at http://www.onehundredpushups.com, don’t forget to drop a comment here to let us know how it’s going for you.
Bryan
