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Hi JJG,
yes, you are mostly correct about the study, which doesn't surprise me. But you missed one point: someone who is able to ramp up push-ups like you did and are still doing, is positively correlated with the decreased incidence for cardiovascular diseases. This is not surprising to me. It means that your body is still able to ramp up physical capacity. This would not be the case for someone who is severely limited due to health shortcomings.
But let's be more concrete: if someone told me that JJG ramped up push-ups from 50 to 1000 per day over the course of some months and that JJG is going to compete with a person already affected by CVD, who would I place my bet on for certain hypothetical competitions?
There is some truth to it although - as always in science - there are outliers and often a number of people that fulfill all the markers to be considered part of the tail of the distribution.
Those are reasonably fair points, even though I have my doubts in regards to the extent that the study supports the points, even though it is still interesting to see a study that includes pushups in it.
Regarding my level of physical fitness, I know that so often there are regular folks who do not really do any exercises, and frequently there might even be overemphasis on cardio, and maybe even the emphasis on cardio is not necessarily a bad thing, even though it is likely beneficial to include some resistance training into the mix... and even stretching.. which sometimes I am not personally employing enough stretching.
Regarding your suggestion of a progression from a 50 to a 1,000 daily pushup amount, I would think that you were correct that I was pretty close to a 50-ish range when I started, and it really did not take to long to get over 100 per day and then to slowly gravitate to higher levels, and so now I would consider my daily maintenance range to be right around 250 and tending to be a bit more than 250 per day. And so probably I have had right around 10 spurt days which have been between 410 and 785 pushups in those days.. .. Actually, I just added those up, so the spurt days added up to 5,295 - so they averaged just about 530 pushups for each of those spurt days.
I think that it becomes difficult to characterize an ability to do 1,000 pushups in a day, even though surely I am close to being able to have a spurt day that might be able to accomplish that in the coming months (anticipating that perhaps BTC prices are not going to reach $100k for at least a couple of months, but who knows?).
Other than that, my fellow push-uppers, I don't have too many push-ups to add here as I am currently ramping up my sessions in the gym. By the way, @JJG, are you intending to hit the gym again? I don't know your age, but it is almost always a good thing to go for it. As you said that you aren't doing much besides the gym, given your persistence, I think you could transform your physical capacity by a lot! But anyway, everybody has certain backpacks to carry and sometimes time doesn#t allow for all the things we wish to accomplish. Keep going with the push-up challenge everybody!
I am not opposed to going to the gym, but it can sometimes be difficult to fit in, yet pushups can fit in anywhere. If we had a going to the gym thread, I may well have participated in such thread when I was younger, but these days, I am geographically moving around more frequently, so it can be difficult to fit in.. I know sometimes people will fit going to the gym before or after their job (or commute), and I used to do that too.. but it is not something that I currently feel is convenient for me... though if a hotel or Airbnb that I stay has a gym, then I will try to use it at least a little bit.
Hey I wonder how many push-up I will have to take until bitcoin reaches 100k. Actually I wonder more when BTC will reach 100k dollars.
Of course, it would be nice to reach and/or surpass $100k in 2024, but it is difficult to really know how possible reaching $100k in 2024 might be... Maybe right now I would say that the odds of BTC reaching $100k in 2024 are in the ballpark of 45%.. but I am kind of guessing, too.
Anyone else have better odds or some kind of a meaningful rationale for their odds?
