A couple weeks ago my blogging buddy Derek posted about the 100 push up challenge he was taking on.  Derek is even giving away some cash and t-shirts to participators.  The actual program itself is from HundredPushups.com, and it’s a 6-week challenge that can get your pushup #’s to 100.

Once I read about the program from Derek, I decided I’d give it a shot myself.  The first thing they want you to do is take an initial test, which I didn’t do.  The initial test has two reasons for being there.  One is to have a benchmark and see how much you can improve, and two is to put you in the appropriate “level” in order to see how many pushups you’ll be doing in each set for the first two weeks.

I didn’t take the initial test because I knew I could enough that would put me into the top level, and I didn’t want to be sore for the start of the program haha.  I wish I did it though, so I knew what my max was, but I’m guessing it would have been around 20-something.

So now I’m about to start the 2nd week of the program, and so far so good.  The program wants you to do pushups three times a week, so I’m doing Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  The first day was a bit rough, going from not doing pushups in a while, to doing a bunch…but it wasn’t too bad.  The second day was probably the toughest, I was definitely the most sore, and it was fairly difficult to complete the sets.  By Friday though, I seemed to fly through everything, even though I was doing more pushups than on Wednesday.

Week 2, which I start today, seems fairly comparable to week 1…so it shouldn’t be too bad.  The line between week 2 and week 3 is pretty hardcore, so we’ll see how week 3 manages next week.  By the end of 6 weeks, I should hopefully be able to do 100 pushups in one sitting.

If you have already taken the challenge, are doing the challenge, or want to do the challenge, post a comment and let me know what’s up.  It’s a nice little workout, and who wouldn’t want to say they could do 100 pushups!