As always, I like to be brutally honest. After watching this video from over at Get Fit Slowly, I’m convinced that I’ve been doing my pushups ‘wrong’. So, I retested myself, and I’m not ready to move to ‘level 3′. In fact, I’ve decided that I need to be doing ‘level 1′ training. Why? Because, I want to do 100, super-awesome, perfect push ups, not 100, kinda wobbly, sloppy, almost ups.
So, today, I did the level 1 workout for day 2, week 1. Here’s the chart -
As you can see, I’ll be doing far fewer push ups during each training session, but I feel that I’ll be much better served - in the long run - if I learn to do them correctly.
(I also need to hit the treadmill just a bit more.)
4 Responses
MizFit
June 25th, 2008 at 5:42 am
1hmmm.
those were some pretty perfect pushups (I HEART the alliteration ;)).
I may need to go back and reshoot my video now.
*sigh*
Miz.
Susan
June 25th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
2Ah! Flashbacks to military fitness testing!
Well, hey, at least you now know the correct way to do push-ups, so you’re not really taking a step backwards.
(Love the speaker’s accent on the video.)
Ken
June 30th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
3I think you are doing it wrong.
You are supposed to test yourself at the beginning. If you do less than 5 push ups you do the first column as your daily workout, 6-10 the second column and >10 the right column.
Then for each days workout you do all the levels for your column.
Greg
August 14th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
4Nice to see others doing the One Hundred Pushups Challenge!
My progress is here. http://www.fivezerofive.com/main/index.php?itemid=1461
I’m still stuck on getting started with week 5 due to my hectic schedule, lack of sleep, and just plain being tired from running and biking.
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