100 pushup challenge – Week 3

I’m on week three of the one hundred pushup challenge. I hadn’t been keeping up with my other exercise goals so I figured this one can be done in a few minutes a day, 3 times a week. I’m currently on the 2nd day of the week 3 regiment.

There are 3 tracks you can choose from which basically correlate to a beginner, intermediate and advanced track, based on how many pushups you can do before the challenge. I was doing about 20-25 a couple of times a week for a long time but never really pushed myself to do more.

Each track has you do 5 sets of pushups, 3 days a week. Each set is different in number, but is designed to push you to max out in the last set.

I started on the highest track and the first week was relatively easy. Week 2 started to get a little harder but I was able to complete every set.

After week 2, you do another test to see how many pushups you can do non-stop. If you can do more than 26, you are on the highest track, which I remained. Ow. Day 1 has you do sets of 25, 17, 17, 15, 25+. I got through this with a little exhaustion and barely made it to 25 in the last set. Day two is even rougher with 27, 19, 19, 15, 25+. I unfortunately barely made it through the 4th set and could only get to 15 in the last set. I’ll see how day 3 is and maybe do week 3 over again depending on how I do.

The goal of course is to get to 100 pushups in one set. I think by the end of week 6, I’ll be doing something like 250 pushups over 9 sets. That is, if my arms don’t fall off by then.

Now I just need to find a 6 pack ab challenge somewhere.