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Someone noticed I didn’t add an update for this week, and left a comment in an older post asking for one. Basically I’m taking the week off, doing a few sets of pushups 2 or 3 days this week just to keep some rhythm, and I’ll attack Week 5 again starting Sunday night. I suffered [...]
Actually, it might be more honest to note that I didn’t even finish the Week 5 program last week. There were several reasons for this, including that Week 5 is another significant step up from the previous week, travel, and others, but I both had trouble finishing individual sessions, and I only did 2 [...]
Thursday night I finished the Week 4 program on Level 2. Last night I took the exhaustion test and did 50 pushups. This puts me off the charts for this point of the program: 31-35 pushups puts you in Level 1, 36-40 in Level 2, and 40+ in Level 3.
NB: I just noticed I’ve been [...]
Thursday night I finished the Week 3 program on Level 2. My performance was similar to Day 2. I was able to exceed the minimum on the last set by just a few, but ended up doing 105 pushups overall in 5 sets, 2 minutes apart. This is the first time I broke 100. I’m [...]
Much, much better than Day 1. Back in my Level 2 sweet spot, I did just fine on Day 2. The program requires:
22
17
17
15
20 minimum
91 total
I did 25 in the last set, for 96 total. The Day 3 workout is tougher than the Level 3 Day 1 workout I tried and did so poorly on. [...]
That was too tough. As I wrote Saturday, I did enough pushups in the interim test before Week 3 to graduate to the third level of difficulty. The jum was too much. In fact, the jump from Week 2 Day 3 at Level 2 to Week 3 Day 1 at Level 2 is pretty high.
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