30 Days- 10,000 Push Ups

how many are you doing each day, and are you dieting as well as other workouts?

1st Day was underwhelming. I only got 220, so I have to make that up. Yesterday i did 333. I will try to make up the push ups missed Monday later on in the week. Once I finish this week I will recalculate so that I can take Sunday's off. I did that last time and it was nice to have a break each week.

For my diet I am IF as well as trying to only eat mostly fats, green veggies and protein. I gave up fried foods, soft drinks and pizza for lent, so it should help.

Right now I’m cranking out about 15-20 at a time. Strict chest to floor and then lock out. I’ll get stronger as the challenge goes on, so I will be able to increase my reps per set.

What benefit did you see from the challenge?

I did this a while back, I made an awesome Excel sheet breaking everything down....but I lost it when my computer crashed....

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What benefit did you see from the challenge?

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I'd like to know this as well.

hey gotta start somewhere 200-300 range on the first few days is really good

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What benefit did you see from the challenge?

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I don't find that it correlates super well to massive strength gains from a lifting standpoint.

However, your shoulders and triceps will explode. From a visual / asthetics standpoint, I've never looked more in-shape than I did a year ago after completing this challenge. You will look like an absolute animal.

I like this response, I think I may add this to my routine (lift 3 days and run 2-3 with some yoga or pilates 1 day).

This my pair well with my no drinking during lent to slim down for the spring / summer

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Did you do any other lifting throughout the month?

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I did it as auxiliary additional work outside of my usual lifts. So I was still doing my nowrmal heaving lifting MWF with yoga on T and Th.

If I did it again (which this thread has me thinking of doing), I think I'd reduce my daily push-ups. Towards the end (after I was doing it for many more than one month) I was getting to the point where I was knocking out sets of ~80 push-ups every hour on the hour (yea I was the guy doing push-ups in his office), and then on top of that (which usually ended up being close to a thousand push-ups by the end of the day, I'd then go hit the gym and do my normal lifts.

I think I kept up with that pace for right around 4 months and then all the sudden I just got gassed. My lifts were plateauing bingtime, and my shoulders were getting crazy sore.

I tell ya what, though, at the end of it I looked like I'd just finished a fricking cycle, easily the most jacked I've ever looked.