Here We Go Again: One Hundred Push Ups Week 2 Day 1

Here we go again with Day 1 of the second week of the hundred push ups plan.

Last Thursday I was able to finish Week 1 quite strongly and felt quietly confident about my chances of getting through Week 2 without too much of a problem.

The plan had me sticking with column 3 of the workout as follows –
Required: 12, 12, 9, 9, at least 10

Here’s how it went. First of all I gave myself 10 or 15 minutes recovery time after a 10k run in the heat. The run went well, but I was a little dehydrated – luckily my thoughtful wife (who incidentally is taking the initial test today and will start the push up plan this week) had an ice cold bottle of Mandarin-flavored HEED waiting for me which really helped. Thanks!

The first 12 were tough; tougher than I expected them to be. The clicks and creaks of my joints and bones told me I should have warmed up a bit first, but too late to worry about that now. 60 seconds later I was on my second set of 12 – much better this time around. The couple of nines were fine and after another 60 seconds rest and a quick chug of HEED I ploughed right in to the final set. I was determined to beat my initial test (18) and my max from Thursday (21) and somehow I gutted out 25 before calling it a day! Good times…

Actual: 12, 12, 9, 9, 25

After another five or six minutes rest, I completed Week 2 of the Essential Abs program – another progressive 6-week plan to improve core strength. I like the way this one is turning out too.

How’s everyone else doing on the plan?