Proof of my hard days work… About 1700 Christmas lights total :).

As I said in my last post, I decided to take up their offer and repeat last week. Except, without realizing it, the onehundred pushups app put me back to the 2nd day of week 2! Friday, I was completely surprised when it asked me to do the evaluation test again.

So here are the results for the end of last week.
Week 4 – Week 2 (level 2):
Monday – Day 1 Goal: 10, 12, 9, 9, max (13+) – Actual: 10, 12, 9, 9, 14
Tuesday – Day 2 Goal: 12, 13, 10, 10, max (15+) – Actual: 12, 13, 10, 10, 15
Evaluation Test: 25 Total
Total That Week: 120 Pushups.

And the results for the end of this week.
Week 5 – Week 3 (level 2):
Monday – Day 1 Goal: 12, 17, 13, 13, max (17+) – Actual: 12, 17, 13, 8, 7
Tuesday – Day 2 Goal: 14, 19, 14, 14, max (19+) – Actual: 14, 19, 14, 7, 8
Friday – Day 3 Goal: 16, 21, 15, 15, max ( 21+) – Actual: 16, 21, 15, 11, 13
Total This Week: 194 Pushups.

So, as you can see I have definitely started to improve. It didn’t ask me if I wanted to restart this week this last time, so I am going to press forward onto the Week 4 plan.

Week 3 was tough, but I have been pretty happy with the results. Again I’ve had trouble finishing all my sets, so I’ve decided to repeat this week.

As I said last week the iPhone App wanted me to take the exhaustion test again. I was able to do 23 good form pushups, which put me at level 2 for Week 3.

Week 3 (level 2):
Monday – Day 1 Goal: 12, 17, 13, 13, max (17+) – Actual: 12, 17, 10, 5, 5
Tuesday – Day 2 Goal: 14, 19, 14, 14, max (19+) – Actual: 14, 19, 9, 9, 7
Friday – Day 3 Goal: 16, 21, 15, 15, max ( 21+) – Actual: 16, 17, 9, 9, 8
Total This Week: 166 Pushups (27 more than last week).

Week 2 has been tough… I haven’t really been able to finish a set at all. My first two reps always go fine, but then I deteriorated quickly.

The iPhone App keeps asking me if I want to do the same set next time, or go back a week. I decided to “press on” because at the end of this week (I’ll do it Sunday) there is a re-test to see where you start off on the third week.

So here we go… week 2 (level 3):
Monday – Day 1 Goal: 14, 14, 10, 10, max (15+) – Actual: 14, 14, 5, 1, 2
Tuesday – Day 2 Goal: 14, 16, 12, 12, max (17+) – Actual: 14, 16, 9, 6, 4
Friday – Day 3 Goal: 16, 17, 14, 14, max (20+) – Actual: 16, 17, 9, 6, 6
Total This Week: 139 Pushups (16 more than last week).

As I said, Sunday I will retake the evaluation test to see where I’m suppose to start. By the way, a friend asked me what the rest was between each set. Day 1 – 60 seconds, Day 2 – 90 seconds, Day 3 – 120 seconds.

This month I decided to try the 100 Pushups Program. This program is 6 weeks long, so by Christmas I should be able to do 100 pushups.

First, I purchased the iPhone App here (they also have a “multiuser” version available here). I bought the single user version. I like the app because it doesn’t require me to look anything up, just tells me what I’m suppose to do and has a built-in rest timer for resting between sets. I didn’t want to have to deal with tracking that information on my own.

These are the results from week 1:
Sunday – Initial Test – 19 Consecutive Pushups (Which starts me out in Level 3).
Monday – Day 1 Goal: 10, 12, 7, 7, max (9+) – Actual: 10, 12, 6, 4, 8
Tuesday – Day 2 Goal: 10, 12, 8, 8, max (12+) – Actual: 10, 12, 7, 5, 5
Friday – Day 3 Goal: 11, 15, 9, 9, max( 13+) – Actual: 11, 15, 8, 5, 5
Total This Week: 123 Pushups ( +19 Initial Test )

I was very happy with my initial test results, 19 consecutive pushups is actually much more than I’ve ever been able to do. As you can see, I have had some trouble with the program, being too fatigued to finish the last few sets. In cases where I cannot make the goal, I do knee pushups to finish off the set. But I only count the full pushups. I also did Day 2 in the evenings, Days 1 and 3 were both completed in the afternoon. In the future, I will do them all at the same time.