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Hundred Push Ups Revisited: Week 5 Day 1
Here we go again: Week 5 Day 1 of the Hundred Push Ups plan: Required: 36, 40, 30, 24, at least 40 Actual: 36, 40, 30, 24, 44 for a total 174 push ups. Felt quite strong today. I won’t say they were easy, but I didn’t really have to start working until the final [...]
Hundred Push Ups Revisited: Week 4 Day 2
Probably should have taken the prescribed rest day as per the Hundred Push Ups Plan (you’d think I’d know better being the author of the web site), but I didn’t. For some reason this morning I had the urge to continue with Week 4 and perform workout number 2…. I managed column 3 with relative [...]
Hundred Push Ups Revisited: Week 4 Day 1
After several weeks of experimenting with different workouts, I’m back on track with a regular push ups routine. Last week I worked my through Week 3 of the Hundred Push Ups plan, which meant today I started on Week 4. The “new improved” plan has been well received and personally I feel the progression through [...]
Get Results With Bowflex
Bowflex have been around since the mid 1980’s and are probably most famous for their impressive range of home multigyms and fitness machines such as the Xtreme SE Homegym. The Homegym offers a staggering 65 gym-quality exercises and utilizes the unique Power Rod Resistance technology. The machine enables you to do squats, leg extensions, leg [...]
Hundred Push Ups Week 5 Day 2
Required: 20, 20, 18, 18, 15, 15, 14, at least 40 Same as last week; I managed the 2×20, 2×18 and 2×15 quite comfortably, but lost concentration and for some reason performed two sets of 14 instead of the required one. I only realized as I started my assault on the final 40. After failing [...]
Push Ups, Abs, McMillan
Thought I’d continue the trend of combining all three workouts into one post. Hope you don’t mind… I’ll start with the end of Week 4 Hundred Push Upsexhaustion test. Basically I just needed to perform as many push ups in one go as possible which would determine the column I’ll be following in Week 5 [...]
