Today is my 4th day, and I was able to do a total of 5 sets of push-ups today. It was a bit difficult for me, I had a hard time doing push-ups in a set of 5, but I did it. And my total push-ups today is 75, I never thought that I would be able to do 75 push-ups one day. It really helped me in many ways, my body is much healthier because of it. I really love this challenge.
To me, it seems that if you keep doing pushups daily, you are most likely to see a lot of improvement throughout the whole first several weeks and maybe even over the whole first month of doing the pushups, as long as you do them daily and you don't end up overdoing it or injuring yourself. Another thing is that you might experience quite a bit of muscle soreness and perhaps even overall feelings of loss of energy as your body is adapting to your having had added this kind of pushup activity to your daily routine.
Of course, your own age, prior fitness level, nutrition and sleep may also affect how well you recover and/or are able to build up your pushups if you are able to continue to stick with doing the pushups on a daily-ish basis for something like a month or so.
Yes, you are absolutely right, I am feeling really sore in my muscles since yesterday. This may be due to lack of experience. Today when I start push-ups, this pain is felt very much, but after 10 to 12 push-ups with difficulty, it is not felt anymore.
Slowly maybe it will be all right. Anyway, I do 75 push-ups in 5 sets of 15 push-ups today, I couldn't do more push-ups today, but I will try to do more push-ups from tomorrow.
For sure, we are going to feel some pains in the earliest days that we are doing pushups, especially if we had not been doing them previously, and even if we might have been doing some similar exercises (like bench presses), the pushups still might end up working some different muscles, so in several senses, there is going to have to be some pain and soreness in muscles and even in joints and/or even overall body tiredness.
So we still have to figure out the extent to which we might be overdoing it and subjected to injuring ourselves or if we might be within a range of pain that is tolerable and a part of building our bodies up to the new exercise. I still sometimes get pains in differing parts such as shoulders, or chest or neck or wrists or abdomen, and/or some combination of them, so we have to gauge how much we might be pushing ourselves too much or if maybe just some kind of adjustment such as number of pushups per set or number of sets per day or time between sets might help us to pace ourselves out a bit better in terms of what we might be trying to achieve, including if we might have some scheduling considerations too in light of some of our other daily activities.
Probably the more that pushups are part of our daily routine, the more we get some sense in terms of gauging ourselves in terms of our own goals, since if you are already working up from 3 sets to 5 sets and also from 10 pushups per set to 15 pushups per set, you can see how you are progressing and where you might want to tweak.
Throughout my whole 181 days of doing pushups, I have had a lot of that time that I have been more interested in quantities of pushups rather than quality of pushups, yet from time to time, I still will purposefully do some very slow pushup sets, and I will also do some sets in which I make sure that I extend the whole range for several of the pushups, yet I still mix quantity and quality with more emphasis on quantity, even though on a personal level I can already notice that the quality of my pushups are improving, and I can carry out decently well pushups with good quality if I want.. yet for sure, each of us have limits in terms of both what we might want to do or how we might want to make our trade offs in terms of our pushups (quality/quantity) or even in terms of some of our other various measures regarding how we look, how strong we are, how we feel or maybe even if there might be some health benefits that are difficult to see or to feel.
I am pretty sure that we get into some kind of a preferred way of doing our pushups, and probably there is nothing wrong with that, since we can likely come to our own balances if we stick to our own systematic way of doing our pushups, and it is likely easier to measure progress or lack of progress when we are within a system that we have been following.
So you (ChocolateBitcoinK) likely already know that you are going to get to 100 pushups in a day, sooner or later, yet the question still can be whether you rush it to get to 100 pushups or if you just pace yourself out towards getting to 100 pushups in a day at a time as your body is progressing...
Even during periods that I am building up, I still find myself sticking at a plateau level for a bit of time before I try to push myself to the next level, so there are times when I already know that I can do a higher level of sets or a higher level of pushups per set, yet I may well decide to purposefully hold back in order to allow my body to adapt a bit better for some lower quantity of sets and/or pushups before I have the day that I end up doing the higher quantity.. so even the day that I ended up doing my 530 pushups in a day (on July 22 - my 169th day), I already knew that I felt way better on the previous day, but I still decided that I was going to shoot for 10 sets on that day (it was within my schedule to be able to do it).
I am going to submit my today's pushup report early, even though I might do 1 or 2 more sets for today. Also, I may amend my below report today, prior to DirtyKeyboard's running of his script (prior to around midnight UTC).
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