hundredpushups.com

NorioDS

Anyone tried this yet?

I'm on week 4 and I'm definitely seeing good results. Stronger, muscles showing up where there weren't any and tummy is going away. Most effective fitness program I've ever tried. (Most are too challenging too early and I give up ?)

We've modified it (by multiplying by 5) for Tanya's stepper and I'm gonna try it (once I've reached my goal) with situps. It's an awesome program and the pocket-mod is incredibly useful!

deanBailey

Haven't really heard of it till now, will check it out ?

I train daily and I'm in the 50 push-up range. Is the main goal to just get to 100 push-ups?

Squonk

Will check this out, don t have time to go to GYM.

NorioDS

@dean Yep, 100 consecutive pushups. I started off on 14 and I'm on 42 now. Works very well and now there's twohundredsitups.com (or something like that) as well which I wanna try -- all in the name of being able to rock-out for longer ?

themanthatwalks

almost seems to easy

NorioDS

themanthatwalks wrotealmost seems to easy

I can vouch for it NOT being easy. Only manageable. I sukkel during some sets but it's just within my grasp each time so I manage. I think that's the difference between setting realistic goals for each session and having unrealistic goals. Pushing yourself that little 1% - 10% extra is what makes the difference and I think that's true for guitar as well!

themanthatwalks

I like the fact that its only every second day and not 2 hours every day

Squonk

I am going to try the initial test and see how much I can do. Norio's 14 might seem quite far away.

In theory in seems like an easy exercise but when you are down on the floor and it get's past 5....
In 1980 in a small town called Middelburg, in the fourth south african infantry, I could do 200 pushups quite easily.

Riaan

As a schoolkid, I was seriously into karate, and even before the class started, we would challenge each other to situp and pushup competitions. Just about everyone of us could do 100 pushups and over 200 situps, then go on to do the karate class.

But that was many moons ago... Now Neil Armstrong's famous quote makes a lot of sense to me. He said something along the lines of "the Good Lord gave each of us a finite number of heartbeats, and I'm not going to use mine up running down the street". ?

Squonk

I did the initial test yesterday and feeling a bit sore in chest region. I know my level and will start tonight.
Norio you are right this is a discipline and running concurrently with guitar can make me more focused, fitter and a better player

Sean

Guys, how heavy are your guitars? ??? ?

CornFlakes

Cool Workout! I'm going to try this out, because i dont really have the cash to go to a gym..

Squonk

Sean wrote Guys, how heavy are your guitars? ??? ?

I have a Peavey T-60 and it's quite heavy ?

Riaan

Guys, how heavy are your guitars?

I have a Godin Solidac, and it's also quite heavy. But speaking of exercise: nothing excercises a middle aged guy better than having a four year old and one year old daughter. There's just no end to their energy, and they have no sense of time...I've been on a trampoline at 6:30 on a Sunday morning after going to bed at 3:00... ?

Ray

Ya, I have two sons. One is 20 and the other is 18. But they wont let me carry them around anymore and they dont even want to play with me. So I just do cagefighting.

Sean

Ray wrote Ya, I have two sons. One is 20 and the other is 18. But they wont let me carry them around anymore and they dont even want to play with me. So I just do cagefighting.

You must be following the thousandpushup program then? ?

NorioDS

CornFlakes wrote Cool Workout! I'm going to try this out, because i dont really have the cash to go to a gym..

That's what I love about these fitness plans - you don't need anything other than yourself to do them. I do my pushups when I'm sleeping over at a friend's house, on the floor of my bedroom, in my office, in-between ads on TV, anywhere ?

Wizard

Been there, done that Riaan.
I remember going up to Rhodes Mem at 05h30 with a wide awake 5 year old son.

Then they hit 13 and can sleep until lunchtime and play x-box until supper time.

Unless he has a golf game, in which case he can be awake at 06h30 on a Sunday morning