One Hundred Push up Challenge

A while ago I started following The blog of Impossible Things and came across a challenge he’d recently completed. The One Hundred Press-up Challenge. It wasn’t until about two months that I decided that I’d try and tick that one off. Unfortunately, I hate having to schedule my exercise patterns so I tried the suggested build up workouts but couldn’t get into a good regime. Instead, maybe once or twice a week I’d go and do a push up pyramid with my other stuff. A week ago I had my second attempt at the feat and despite with the not so consistent training, I was able to pull it off!

Pushups the hard way (MAD Comic Karate kid spoof)

With a group of other people doing it as part of the Impossible League, I knew I had to do it one more time and record it. Earlier today after a long run through the park with my barefoot shoes, I decided I might as well give it a shot. I started well but my pace slowed down a lot after the 50 mark, and after 70 I was doing little sets of between 2 and 4. My form wasn’t perfect by all means, and seeing myself in the video has made me aware that I need to work on my form a little. My hands were getting quite sweaty on the cold floor, and I almost slipped at 91, but managed to keep going to 100. I want to work my way to the 150 mark at some point so that will be the next step.

By the way for your information, I suffer from video awkwardness. Its my first time really on video and I hate watching myself and hearing myself, though I hope to start doing a few more video blogs as some things are best shown on video.