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[Ian]

I intend to do the 100 push-up challenge MWF, so I'll start on the 6th. For my initial test I managed 23 push-ups, so I will be trying the third column. Maybe I could have done more with a gun to my head - I think I'm not very good at pushing myself hard. Hopefully the daunting progression over the coming weeks will help me overcome this.

I am adding in the 30-days-to-plank challenge to the situp and pushup challenge:
http://30dayfitnesschallenges.com/30-day-plank-challenge/

Let me know how that goes. I've been doing planks for a while (though admittedly not every day like that) and it feels like there's a huge difference in being able to do a plank for a minute or two and holding it for more than three minutes.

[YK-Phil]

You might also like the Prime Mover app for IOS and Android. Level 1 is free, the other 8 levels are $2,99 but I find that level 1, if you do it as hard as you can and later modify some of the exercises in week 2 as you progress, is more than adequate. I find this to be a great workout, full body, in 20 minutes. It is worth the try. I just had to quit doing squats due to pain in my left knee, so I need to work on the rest of the core muscles that pushups alone do not focus on.

[oldtoyota]

I intend to do the 100 push-up challenge MWF, so I'll start on the 6th. For my initial test I managed 23 push-ups, so I will be trying the third column. Maybe I could have done more with a gun to my head - I think I'm not very good at pushing myself hard. Hopefully the daunting progression over the coming weeks will help me overcome this.

I am adding in the 30-days-to-plank challenge to the situp and pushup challenge:
http://30dayfitnesschallenges.com/30-day-plank-challenge/

Let me know how that goes. I've been doing planks for a while (though admittedly not every day like that) and it feels like there's a huge difference in being able to do a plank for a minute or two and holding it for more than three minutes.

That sounds great! I will let you know about the plank. So far, I am only at 30 seconds. I am doing the plank every day and then the pushups/situps every *other* day.

I want to incorporate squats. Since I like the idea of "six weeks to xyz," I might look for the equivalent for squats.

To save time and increase my heart rate, I do pushups and then do the situps during the break for the pushups. During the situp break, I do pushups. I hope to incorporate squats into this so that I rotate through all three.

I've never had more fun working out! It sure beats taking time to go to a gym. Bleh!

Also, I walk anywhere from 6-18 miles per week, and I aim to walk *fast* to get my heartrate up.

[Ian]

Week #1 is down, but that's unsurprising because I started with an edge. We'll see how far that persists.

Total Pushups So Far: 184

[oldtoyota]

You might also like the Prime Mover app for IOS and Android. Level 1 is free, the other 8 levels are $2,99 but I find that level 1, if you do it as hard as you can and later modify some of the exercises in week 2 as you progress, is more than adequate. I find this to be a great workout, full body, in 20 minutes. It is worth the try. I just had to quit doing squats due to pain in my left knee, so I need to work on the rest of the core muscles that pushups alone do not focus on.

Thanks! One reason I've not done squats more often before is concerns with my knees. I hope your kneww feels better soon

[oldtoyota]

Sits ups: 75 today. The app had me do 121 in week two. For some reason, I must not have done well on the weekly test.

Pushups: 57

Plank: 45 seconds

[oldtoyota]

Sits ups: 75 today. The app had me do 121 in week two. For some reason, I must not have done well on the weekly test.

Pushups: 57

Plank: 45 seconds

It's a rest day for sit ups and pushups.

Plank: 60 seconds.

[YK-Phil]

At almost 56, i've never been fitter in my life. But I can't seem to get rid of the couple of pounds of belly fat. I have the suspicion that no matter how hard I work out, I might have to stop eating French pastries, Belgium chocolate, and fine cheeses? Naaaahhhh...

[Ian]

Not exercising on the weekend feels a little odd, but these are supposed to be rest days according to the plan. So rest I shall, because one of my subgoals is to follow a plan without making a bunch of alterations.

At almost 56, i've never been fitter in my life. But I can't seem to get rid of the couple of pounds of belly fat. I have the suspicion that no matter how hard I work out, I might have to stop eating French pastries, Belgium chocolate, and fine cheeses? Naaaahhhh...

Look at it the other way: if you can eat what you want and stay in good shape, you've set up your life pretty well. I feel like there are diminishing returns on fitness unless it's really your passion, so you want a balance between different parts of life.

[oldtoyota]

Not exercising on the weekend feels a little odd, but these are supposed to be rest days according to the plan. So rest I shall, because one of my subgoals is to follow a plan without making a bunch of alterations.

At almost 56, i've never been fitter in my life. But I can't seem to get rid of the couple of pounds of belly fat. I have the suspicion that no matter how hard I work out, I might have to stop eating French pastries, Belgium chocolate, and fine cheeses? Naaaahhhh...

Look at it the other way: if you can eat what you want and stay in good shape, you've set up your life pretty well. I feel like there are diminishing returns on fitness unless it's really your passion, so you want a balance between different parts of life.

Good for you for resting! It's good.

I did not start exactly on a Monday so I was a little off of the regular schedule. By skipping a day, I think I have myself back on track to do MWF this coming week and all weeks ahead.

[YK-Phil]

Not exercising on the weekend feels a little odd, but these are supposed to be rest days according to the plan. So rest I shall, because one of my subgoals is to follow a plan without making a bunch of alterations.

At almost 56, i've never been fitter in my life. But I can't seem to get rid of the couple of pounds of belly fat. I have the suspicion that no matter how hard I work out, I might have to stop eating French pastries, Belgium chocolate, and fine cheeses? Naaaahhhh...

Look at it the other way: if you can eat what you want and stay in good shape, you've set up your life pretty well. I feel like there are diminishing returns on fitness unless it's really your passion, so you want a balance between different parts of life.

Did my 300 pushups and 300 squats today. Then stopped at the local coop where there is always free coffee brewing....and free little cookies made at the bakery here...

[prestojx]

Over the next six or so weeks, I am aiming to reach a goal of 100 situps and 100 pushups.

200 situps info:
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/

100 pushups info:
http://www.hundredpushups.com/#sthash.AjJwvs6l.dpbs


I first started with using the website and then I downloaded the app. I am not an "app person," but this one makes it easy to track progress.

Also, I am feeling badass. I did enough pushups to jump into week 3 so maybe I will reach the pushup goal sooner than I thought.

Anyone want to join me?

+1

[prestojx]

You might also like the Prime Mover app for IOS and Android. Level 1 is free, the other 8 levels are $2,99 but I find that level 1, if you do it as hard as you can and later modify some of the exercises in week 2 as you progress, is more than adequate. I find this to be a great workout, full body, in 20 minutes. It is worth the try. I just had to quit doing squats due to pain in my left knee, so I need to work on the rest of the core muscles that pushups alone do not focus on.

Check out the 7 Minute Workout.

[oldtoyota]

Pushups: 66
Plank: 60 seconds (I seem to be stuck here.)
Situps: 95

I need to eat more protein!

[Ian]

Still following the plan. I'll report at the end of the week.

Plank: 60 seconds (I seem to be stuck here.)

I found that focusing on variations (side planks and the like) made normal planks much easier when I returned to them. It hasn't worked with my current plateau, but you might give it a try if the 30-day plan is stalling.

[oldtoyota]

Still following the plan. I'll report at the end of the week.

Plank: 60 seconds (I seem to be stuck here.)

I found that focusing on variations (side planks and the like) made normal planks much easier when I returned to them. It hasn't worked with my current plateau, but you might give it a try if the 30-day plan is stalling.

Thank you! I will try with that. I am learning how to do a proper squat these days. Will report more later this week.

[Ian]

Barely finished week #2. This weekend I'll see if my exhaustion test is up and then try week #3, but those numbers don't look possible to me right now.

Total Pushups So Far: 401

[Hamster]

Working on the 100 puship challenge, I found i needed about 2-3 rest days between workouts to fully recover to get through the workouts. I finished week 4, and got up to 51 consecutive pushups on my test for week 5.

Then I broke a rib skiing into a 9 year old girl... She was fine, fortunately. I'm almost 2 weeks into my recovery and not able to do push ups.

 Maybe I should work on the 200 squat challenge in the meantime.

[oldtoyota]

My body revolted on Wednesday so I took the day off. I hurt everywhere!

I started up again Thursday and did the workout today to make up for my schedule adjustment.

As of now, I am at:

Pushups: 87 reps
Situps: 121 reps
Plank: I realized why I can't do this beyond a minute. I get bored out of my mind just sitting there, so I am going to fold this into a pilates workout (which works out more of my core anyway). I'm happiest when I can keep moving.
Walking for the Week: Around seven miles at minimum.

ETA: To correct a number. Also edited to change 221 to 121. Oops!

[Ian]

The first day of week #3 left me concerned I'd injure myself, so I rested with a light repeat of week #2. Next week I plan to do a harder version of #2 before giving #3 a try.

Total Pushups: 576

[poxpower]

Those plans are GARBAGE and IMPOSSIBLE.
I've never seen a human do 100 good form pushups consecutively. The people who get the closest are Olympic-level gymnasts who have huge upper bodies and tiny legs.

These "do tons of pushup" people cheat them. They don't go down far enough, they do extremely tiny, fast reps to get them out of the way asap. For instance, you shouldn't be able to do 50 in one minute, each one should take you 3-4 seconds to be in good form.

Most people in decent shape can do 20-30 pushups, this plan promises that you'll more than TRIPLE your strength in 2-3 months?

Ridiculous. Those gains are impossible unless you are an absolute beginner, on SERIOUS drugs or cheating.

edit: And yes obviously doing something is better than nothing, but then why not follow a program that won't demotivate you with impossible goals or have you risk injury by trying to cheat form?
In case anyone doesn't know him by now: http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961

Scooby is the best fitness advice person of all time and he's 100% mustache-approved.

[oldtoyota]

Those plans are GARBAGE and IMPOSSIBLE.
I've never seen a human do 100 good form pushups consecutively. The people who get the closest are Olympic-level gymnasts who have huge upper bodies and tiny legs.

These "do tons of pushup" people cheat them. They don't go down far enough, they do extremely tiny, fast reps to get them out of the way asap. For instance, you shouldn't be able to do 50 in one minute, each one should take you 3-4 seconds to be in good form.

Most people in decent shape can do 20-30 pushups, this plan promises that you'll more than TRIPLE your strength in 2-3 months?

Ridiculous. Those gains are impossible unless you are an absolute beginner, on SERIOUS drugs or cheating.

edit: And yes obviously doing something is better than nothing, but then why not follow a program that won't demotivate you with impossible goals or have you risk injury by trying to cheat form?
In case anyone doesn't know him by now: http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961

Scooby is the best fitness advice person of all time and he's 100% mustache-approved.

Up above, we talked about how the goal isn't to do 100 pushups in a row. At least for me.

Read before you rage! =-D

[YK-Phil]

I have not done that program specifically but I have been alternating daily with the Prime Mover workout, and 300 pushups and 300 squats in sets of 10, with about 20 seconds rest between sets, for several months now. A few times, I pushed myself to do 39 pushups in a row now, with a normal grip. Maybe if there were a $1M prize to be had, I might be able to reach 50 but it would really tough. Then again, I am 55 and no longer have the stamina of a 25 year-old guy even if I am relatively in great shape. I think some folks out there can do crazy numbers of burpees and pushups and whatnot, so if someone can do 100 consecutive pushups, I'd be curious to see this on video.

[dragoncar]

Those plans are GARBAGE and IMPOSSIBLE.
I've never seen a human do 100 good form pushups consecutively. The people who get the closest are Olympic-level gymnasts who have huge upper bodies and tiny legs.

These "do tons of pushup" people cheat them. They don't go down far enough, they do extremely tiny, fast reps to get them out of the way asap. For instance, you shouldn't be able to do 50 in one minute, each one should take you 3-4 seconds to be in good form.

Most people in decent shape can do 20-30 pushups, this plan promises that you'll more than TRIPLE your strength in 2-3 months?

Ridiculous. Those gains are impossible unless you are an absolute beginner, on SERIOUS drugs or cheating.

edit: And yes obviously doing something is better than nothing, but then why not follow a program that won't demotivate you with impossible goals or have you risk injury by trying to cheat form?
In case anyone doesn't know him by now: http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961

Scooby is the best fitness advice person of all time and he's 100% mustache-approved.

Thanks for this... I was wondering if anyone had reached 100 consecutive pushups.

[oldtoyota]

I have not done that program specifically but I have been alternating daily with the Prime Mover workout, and 300 pushups and 300 squats in sets of 10, with about 20 seconds rest between sets, for several months now. A few times, I pushed myself to do 39 pushups in a row now, with a normal grip. Maybe if there were a $1M prize to be had, I might be able to reach 50 but it would really tough. Then again, I am 55 and no longer have the stamina of a 25 year-old guy even if I am relatively in great shape. I think some folks out there can do crazy numbers of burpees and pushups and whatnot, so if someone can do 100 consecutive pushups, I'd be curious to see this on video.

Yep. Exactly. I remember we chatted about this and about how we alternated sets.

[poxpower]

Read before you rage! =-D

The website clearly promises "100 consecutive pushups".
I know it's a little late now to warn newcomers that it's nonsense but I thought I'd try and if anyone is new to fitness and thinking about trying this, know that it ain't happening. You're not going from 20 pushups on week 1 to 5 times that amount on week 6, not even if you're a roided out 16 year old in the middle of the most epic growth spurt of all time lol.

Thanks for this... I was wondering if anyone had reached 100 consecutive pushups.

At the time I had found that program, I looked on youtube to see if anyone actually could do it.
I even went to a fitness forum and ask that people find me videos of people doing it. I think I only saw one guy recording himself who was able to do it ( not even sure ). He had MASSIVE arms and shoulders, you'd never get this size in 6 weeks no matter what.

Even in the event that they do it with good form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1juzs_9wgg
They do them super fast, cutting the effort by a factor of 2-3. Notice he doesn't manage 100 in a row and look how big, strong, thin and young he is.

[oldtoyota]

Read before you rage! =-D

The website clearly promises "100 consecutive pushups".
I know it's a little late now to warn newcomers that it's nonsense but I thought I'd try and if anyone is new to fitness and thinking about trying this, know that it ain't happening. You're not going from 20 pushups on week 1 to 5 times that amount on week 6, not even if you're a roided out 16 year old in the middle of the most epic growth spurt of all time lol.

Yes. The website said that. However, I mentioned to you that we discussed on this thread that we're not aiming for that.

That's why I said: Read Before You Rage. In other words, read the thread before you come in with guns blazing.

/shrug. If you don't want to do the challenge, don't do it.

[poxpower]

/shrug. If you don't want to do the challenge, don't do it.

Not everyone who will read this topic has posted in it and they will come across those websites and think it's doable.
Just trying to prevent future sadness :,(

[dragoncar]

/shrug. If you don't want to do the challenge, don't do it.

Not everyone who will read this topic has posted in it and they will come across those websites and think it's doable.
Just trying to prevent future sadness :,(

Well I've done over 100 pushups in my lifetime.  Challenge completed!

[jba302]

Those plans are GARBAGE and IMPOSSIBLE.
I've never seen a human do 100 good form pushups consecutively. The people who get the closest are Olympic-level gymnasts who have huge upper bodies and tiny legs.

These "do tons of pushup" people cheat them. They don't go down far enough, they do extremely tiny, fast reps to get them out of the way asap. For instance, you shouldn't be able to do 50 in one minute, each one should take you 3-4 seconds to be in good form.

Most people in decent shape can do 20-30 pushups, this plan promises that you'll more than TRIPLE your strength in 2-3 months?

Ridiculous. Those gains are impossible unless you are an absolute beginner, on SERIOUS drugs or cheating.

edit: And yes obviously doing something is better than nothing, but then why not follow a program that won't demotivate you with impossible goals or have you risk injury by trying to cheat form?
In case anyone doesn't know him by now: http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961

Scooby is the best fitness advice person of all time and he's 100% mustache-approved.

The level of nonsense in this post is staggering.

[oldtoyota]

/shrug. If you don't want to do the challenge, don't do it.

Not everyone who will read this topic has posted in it and they will come across those websites and think it's doable.
Just trying to prevent future sadness :,(

Well I've done over 100 pushups in my lifetime.  Challenge completed!

We all aspire to your greatness, amigo. ;-)

[oldtoyota]

Those plans are GARBAGE and IMPOSSIBLE.
I've never seen a human do 100 good form pushups consecutively. The people who get the closest are Olympic-level gymnasts who have huge upper bodies and tiny legs.

These "do tons of pushup" people cheat them. They don't go down far enough, they do extremely tiny, fast reps to get them out of the way asap. For instance, you shouldn't be able to do 50 in one minute, each one should take you 3-4 seconds to be in good form.

Most people in decent shape can do 20-30 pushups, this plan promises that you'll more than TRIPLE your strength in 2-3 months?

Ridiculous. Those gains are impossible unless you are an absolute beginner, on SERIOUS drugs or cheating.

edit: And yes obviously doing something is better than nothing, but then why not follow a program that won't demotivate you with impossible goals or have you risk injury by trying to cheat form?
In case anyone doesn't know him by now: http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961

Scooby is the best fitness advice person of all time and he's 100% mustache-approved.

The level of nonsense in this post is staggering.

Agreed.

[dragoncar]

Those plans are GARBAGE and IMPOSSIBLE.
I've never seen a human do 100 good form pushups consecutively. The people who get the closest are Olympic-level gymnasts who have huge upper bodies and tiny legs.

These "do tons of pushup" people cheat them. They don't go down far enough, they do extremely tiny, fast reps to get them out of the way asap. For instance, you shouldn't be able to do 50 in one minute, each one should take you 3-4 seconds to be in good form.

Most people in decent shape can do 20-30 pushups, this plan promises that you'll more than TRIPLE your strength in 2-3 months?

Ridiculous. Those gains are impossible unless you are an absolute beginner, on SERIOUS drugs or cheating.

edit: And yes obviously doing something is better than nothing, but then why not follow a program that won't demotivate you with impossible goals or have you risk injury by trying to cheat form?
In case anyone doesn't know him by now: http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961

Scooby is the best fitness advice person of all time and he's 100% mustache-approved.

The level of nonsense in this post is staggering.

Agreed.

Explain.

[YK-Phil]

Those plans are GARBAGE and IMPOSSIBLE.
I've never seen a human do 100 good form pushups consecutively. The people who get the closest are Olympic-level gymnasts who have huge upper bodies and tiny legs.

These "do tons of pushup" people cheat them. They don't go down far enough, they do extremely tiny, fast reps to get them out of the way asap. For instance, you shouldn't be able to do 50 in one minute, each one should take you 3-4 seconds to be in good form.

Most people in decent shape can do 20-30 pushups, this plan promises that you'll more than TRIPLE your strength in 2-3 months?

Ridiculous. Those gains are impossible unless you are an absolute beginner, on SERIOUS drugs or cheating.

edit: And yes obviously doing something is better than nothing, but then why not follow a program that won't demotivate you with impossible goals or have you risk injury by trying to cheat form?
In case anyone doesn't know him by now: http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961

Scooby is the best fitness advice person of all time and he's 100% mustache-approved.

The level of nonsense in this post is staggering.

Agreed.

+1 Agreed.

[poxpower]

+1 Agreed.

Wish I also lived in your magical world where someone can triple their strength in less than two months.
:,(

[jba302]

+1 Agreed.

Wish I also lived in your magical world where someone can triple their strength in less than two months.
:,(

I took my wife's squat from 25 pounds to 115 pounds in 3.5 months. So we can use that as a valuable starting point.

Edit - 3.5 months not 2.5, had to look it up to make sure I wasn't bullshitting myself.

[poxpower]

Edit - 3.5 months not 2.5, had to look it up to make sure I wasn't bullshitting myself.

Well for anyone not into fitness: This is what are known as "newbie gains" i.e. the amazing gains everyone makes when they first start out.
These are generally a mix of strength gain, improving technique, motivation and improving pain tolerance ( and sometimes weight loss).

Your wife won't be able to triple her current deadlift again in 2 months, for instance, since now that she's started, every gain becomes smaller and smaller.

This is important because the 100 pushup program doesn't promise that you'll just improve or go from doing 1 pushup to 10, they claim you can do 100 consecutive ones on week 7.

My "tripling your strength" number just came from what I know to be about the average number of good form pushups most fit people I know can manage. These people are thin, fit and train relatively often, which means they are no longer fitness newcomers.
For instance, I look like this and can do maybe 20-30: http://www.thepoxbox.com/contentimages2/workoutdone4.jpg

So while most people will embark on this "100 pushup" plan and make AMAZING improvements at first, they will quickly plateau as their technique and motivation ( and probably cheating) reaches their body's true current potential and then the amazing streak of gains will stop and they are liable to just quit, having learned nothing about fitness and just returning to bad habits and not understanding why they failed to reach a goal that was impossible in the first place...

[Ian]

I'm going to keep trying, because as I said above, I think it's a good offset to what I've done in the past.

Having said that, I am skeptical about the progression in the 100 pushup challenge. For example, if you can do 25 pushups going into week #3, they expect you to 22/30/20/20/28 later that same week. That doesn't strike me as very likely. Also, given that everyone has the same goal, the number of different columns should decrease as you reach the later weeks, but they don't. On week #6, over nine reps they have some people doing 170 pushups and others 274 - are they equally prepared to be doing 100 consecutive pushups?

[SwordGuy]

I've just spent the last week with my mom, taking care of her after a fall.

She won't exercise.   

She now has trouble getting out of bed by herself or getting out of a chair by herself. 

I'm in.

[TreeTired]

My pre-run warmup routine has included 50 situps for a long time.  I occasionally do more... maybe 75,  and once did 100 just to see if I could,  so the situp part is no problem for me.  I am pretty sure I could easily ramp it up to 200.    I added some pushups not too long ago because my upper body strength has always been a bit light, and as I age I am getting weaker.  I am only doing 10 - 12 real, complete, good form pushups, and 15 is about the max I can do.   I don't see how I can increase that to 100.    I will read the linked pages (check out the videos) to see what the actual challenge is, and how to get there.

[poxpower]

My pre-run warmup routine has included 50 situps for a long time.  I occasionally do more... maybe 75,  and once did 100 just to see if I could,  so the situp part is no problem for me.  I am pretty sure I could easily ramp it up to 200.    I added some pushups not too long ago because my upper body strength has always been a bit light, and as I age I am getting weaker.  I am only doing 10 - 12 real, complete, good form pushups, and 15 is about the max I can do.   I don't see how I can increase that to 100.    I will read the linked pages (check out the videos) to see what the actual challenge is, and how to get there.

You can check out this page: http://scoobysworkshop.com/zero-to-100-pushups-for-complete-beginners/

Much better program and much more realistic expectations.

[Russ]

Oh so now 100 pushups is possible? what happened to

I've never seen a human do 100 good form pushups consecutively. The people who get the closest are Olympic-level gymnasts who have huge upper bodies and tiny legs.

For the record I do agree that going from 10 to 100 in 6 weeks is unrealistic. I don't think the program this thread is based on claims that. It's pretty clear that if you complete the first level you won't be doing 100 pushups, instead you go back and start the second level, and then the third level, and maybe repeat a few weeks here and there. I think everyone in this thread has been pretty forthright about repeating weeks and such, so I doubt anyone reading this would have unrealistic expectations.

Thanks for the reality check though

[poxpower]

Oh so now 100 pushups is possible? what happened to

I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying I've never seen anyone do it.
It's not really something people into fitness / lifting care much about so they don't focus their efforts on that and it's a really boring thing to show off as opposed to muscle ups or deadlifts...
The people who I've found on youtube all cheat. Some do entire pushups ( up and down ) in half a second! Lol.

I'm sure that using Scooby's program will get you real close eventually but it takes massive amounts of strength and you need to be at a certain body fat % as you are lifting your belly and ass and if you're fat then it makes it much MUCH harder.

[oldtoyota]

I've just spent the last week with my mom, taking care of her after a fall.

She won't exercise.   

She now has trouble getting out of bed by herself or getting out of a chair by herself. 

I'm in.

I am sorry about your mom. =-(

It's amazing what exercise can do at any age. My grandma (at age 90-something) was doing physical therapy and was able to stand up from a chair without using her arms to push herself up. I was amazed someone at her age could gain strength like that.

[oldtoyota]

I must not have done well on this week's pushup challenge as I was "told" to perform fewer pushups this go around:

Pushups: 80 (down from 87)
Situps: 132
Plank: I found this too boring to hold for more than a minute and ten seconds, so I am going back to pilates to work out my entire core.

What's cool is that I can easily do 30 good form situps now, and I did not have that strength before.

[jba302]

I'm sure that using Scooby's program will get you real close eventually but it takes massive amounts of strength and you need to be at a certain body fat % as you are lifting your belly and ass and if you're fat then it makes it much MUCH harder.

You got a real thing for this scooby dude as a strength consultant. What does he total? Oly or PL?

[Hamster]

Oh so now 100 pushups is possible? what happened to

...
It's not really something people into fitness / lifting care much about so they don't focus their efforts on that and it's a really boring thing to show off as opposed to muscle ups or deadlifts...
The people who I've found on youtube all cheat. Some do entire pushups ( up and down ) in half a second! Lol.

I don't get your pushup police thing. By whose definition is up and down in under a second no longer a pushup? The army physical fitness test gives you 2 minutes to do as many as you can, and depending on your age a perfect score of 100 requires at least 77 pushups. They also only require that your upper arms reach horizontal when you go down, which may leave your chest 3 inches off the ground.
Today when I was skiing, there was a German guy boasting: "They would never call this run a black diamond in Germany". Maybe so, but if you enjoy the run, who cares what it's labelled?
If you enjoy the pushup challenge, make some progress toward a goal, and don't get injured, who cares if the definition of an acceptable pushup is different from yours?

[Hamster]

OK, just looked at Scooby's site. Although he advocates slow perfect form when training, he also says to throw that out the window when actually doing the 100 pushups consecutively:

Although during the pushup workouts in phase 1-4 above you used flawless, slow, deliberate form, you can throw that out the window now!  Its all about speed, the faster you can do the pushups, the more you will be able to do.  You can fudge a little too, dont go quite as far down as you normally would.  Go for it!  Join the 100 club! 

[TreeTired]

  I did a test the other day, and I completely maxed out at 20 pushups.  I am going to give this thing a try and see how far I get. 

[oldtoyota]

  I did a test the other day, and I completely maxed out at 20 pushups.  I am going to give this thing a try and see how far I get.

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