The One Hundred Press-Ups Challenge

[Poison Ivy]

http://hundredpushups.com/

Anyone interested in partaking of the challenge?...I'm gonna do it mainly as my upper body strength is a little on the non-existent side at the minute and I quite like the idea of being able to do 100 push-ups.

There's also a useful little guide to variations on the traditional push up here (http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=75), so you can work up to a full push-up the right way.:)

[LGBunny]

Is this 100 without stopping?

[Poison Ivy]

Probably, it's consecutive push-ups, so I'm thinking it's without stopping - could be wrong though?:hmm:

[xrodolfox]

That does take some fitness.
I just did 81 consecutive pushups without stopping, after reading this, no warmup, no nothing. The damn cat that lives with us kept on shedding right on my sweat the whole time, and walking under my torso as I went up on the pushup, and licking my fingertips on the floor, and then nuzzling his whiskers on my face as I was breathing... and generally made it impossible for me to do more. Although it was cute. It was still quite annoying and distracting and ticklish.
Then again, I'm already in shape (I lifted upper body this morning), so I doubt that what I did is standard.
I'm going to at least finish off the last 19 right now, once I let the cat out of the computer room.

edit: done with 101 split into two sets.

[bryzee86]

I can do 100 cookies in a sitting.

I win.

[tipsy]

thats cute, rodolfo :D
my cats climb all over me whenever im on the floor... pilates, yoga, crunches, im really just their junglegym... :D

no push ups for me. my left shoulder doesnt like them and trys to dissattach itself from my body...

the last few times i tried pushups, i had to visit the E.R. :(

[bryzee86]

the last few times i tried pushups, i had to visit the E.R. :(
The TV show?

Was George Clooney nice?

[tipsy]

he's even better looking in person! :bigsmile2:

[Cherry]

I can do 100 cookies in a sitting.

I win.

Wow! That is impressive. I can only do about 40.

As for press ups, I did the first in my life last week. I did about 10 and it nearly killed me!!

[bryzee86]

Wow! That is impressive. I can only do about 40.


They'd have to be diddy ones. Like those maryland ones type size. I couldn't do more than about 10 humongo-cookies.

[tipsy]

I couldn't do more than about 10 humongo-cookies.

wimp

[gogs67]

http://hundredpushups.com/

Anyone interested in partaking of the challenge?...I'm gonna do it mainly as my upper body strength is a little on the non-existent side at the minute and I quite like the idea of being able to do 100 push-ups.

There's also a useful little guide to variations on the traditional push up here (http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=75), so you can work up to a full push-up the right way.:)
Work your way up to it, do 5 or 10 more every few days and you'll soon get there. I try and do 2 sets of 160 with my feet on a chair every morning, and 2 x 30 chin ups on a pull up bar. Seems hard but once you can do them it's pretty easy. :thumbsup:
Some mornings i just can't be arsed though!:D

[vegcurry]

The title alone has worn me out already.

[Enchantress]

*makes Vegcurry a nice cup of tea and invites him over for a sit down*

I might give this a go. I think I'll save the initial test for a time when I'm less hungover though :o.

[Big Good Wolf]

I had a go at a 10 minute press up challenge a while ago and got up to 180 by doing 9 every 30 seconds.
50 is the most I have ever done non stop.
I might give this a go, although I haven't been doing much bodyweight exercise recently so it may take some time to get back to that standard. :)

[puffin]

I can do 25 max in one go, my arms would fall of if i tried to do that many.

[xrodolfox]

I think that the training plan looks good, so I might as well do it because doing pushups is easier to do in the office than my swimming.

Next Monday will be day #1. :)

[karenann33]

100 pushups? Are you kidding me? I just started taking Taekwondo classes and we MUST do pushups as part of the training.

I can't even do ONE real one and struggle to do 20 lame ones on my knees.

But I'm still working on it.

[Stu]

I think that the training plan looks good, so I might as well do it because doing pushups is easier to do in the office than my swimming.

Yeah, swimming can be quite tricky in the office.

[ellaminnowpea]

What about making it 100 side ab crunches (bicycle crunches) instead? :p I've got shoddy shoulders...

[gogs67]

Just out of interest here are all the world records for various press ups in case anyone feels the need to attempt them!:dizzy:

WORLD RECORDS


non-stop: 10,507; Minoru Yoshida (JAP), Oct 1980 DETAILS (http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/ulysses.html)
one year: 1,500,230; Paddy Doyle (http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/doyle.html) (GBR), Oct 1988 - Oct 1989
24 hours: 46,001; Charles Servizio (USA), 24/25 April 1993 at Hesperia
(new record claim, not yet verified: Jeffrey Warrick (USA), 46300)
1 hour: 3,877; Bijender Singh (IND), 20 Sept 1988 DETAILS AND NATIONAL RECORDS (http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups-hour.html)
30 minutes: 2,354; Rolf Heck (GER), 13 Nov 2000
10 minutes (women): 426; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Rekord-Klub SAXONIA Record Festival in Schwedt, 2 Sept 1995
5 minutes: 441; Giuseppe Cusano (GBR), Loftus Road Soccer Stadium at the Fulham v. Portsmouth game on 24 Nov 2003
3 minutes (women): 190; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Record Festival Pelhrimov 1995
one minute: Record claims up to 199 in one minute have been made. We do, however, not continue to publish these record claims, because it became impossible to judge about the correctness of the exercises at this speed.
one-armed, one week (168 hours): 16,723; Paddy Doyle (http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/doyle.html) (GBR), Feb 1996 in Birmingham
one-armed, 5 hours: 8,794; Paddy Doyle (http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/doyle.html) (GBR), 12 Feb 1996 in Birmingham
one-armed, 1 hour: 2521; Paddy Doyle (http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/doyle.html) (GBR), 12 Feb 1990 in Birmingham
one-armed, 30 minutes: 1382; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
one-armed, 10 minutes: 546; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
one-armed, on back of hands, one hour: 677; Doug Pruden (CAN) at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton, 9 Nov 2005
one-handed handstand pushups: Yury Tikhonovich (http://www.hand-acrobat.com/) (Russia) did twelve pushups while standing on one hand in June 2006 at the Starclub variete in Kassel (Germany). He repeats this feat almost every day in the rehearsal for his show VIDEO (AVI, 1.3 MB) (http://www.recordholders.org/en/video/pushups-on-one-hand.avi)
on fists: 5557 (in 3:02:30 hours), Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2004, Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
1000 pushups on fists: 18:13 minutes, Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
on back of hands, 15 minutes: 627; Paddy Doyle (http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/doyle.html) (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY (http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups-back.html)
on back of hands, 30 minutes: 1386; Paddy Doyle (http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/doyle.html) (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY (http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups-back.html)
on back of hands, 1 hour: 1940; Paddy Doyle (http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/doyle.html) (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY (http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups-back.html)
finger-tips, 5 hours: 8,200; Terry Cole (GBR), 11 May 1996 in Walthamstow
one finger: 124 Paul Lynch (GBR), 21 April 1992 in London
100 push-ups with feet at a 80 cm [2 ft 7 1/2 in] high table: 45.7 sec; Roy Berger (CAN), 24 Feb 2001 in Ottawa
with a 50 lb [22.68 kg] plate weight on his back: 4,100: Paddy Doyle (http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/doyle.html) (GBR), 28 May 1987 in Birmingham
with hands on raw eggs: 112; Johann Schneider (AUT) / a video can be downloaded here as Quicktime video (http://www.recordholders.org/video/pressups.mov) (1.2 MB) or AVI video (http://www.recordholders.org/video/pressups.mov) (1.4 MB)
4 hr relay (team of 10): 14907; Gatwick Airport Fire Service (Andrew Horstead, Clwyd Jones, Stuart Coxhill, Steven Bartlett, Jerramy Davison, Darryl Graham, Albert Lawson, Luke Philpott, Darren Hollman, Ian Mclean, Great Britain) at 18 November 2005 at Gatwick Airport

And i do urge you to click on Paddy Doyle and check out the unbelievable records he holds/has held!!!!:eek:

[Fungus]

Them numbers just made my frail arms collapse in on themselves :/ ;) :D
Trying just now I could do 5 in a row :)

[Big Good Wolf]

I was going to have a go at all those records myself, then I saw that one of them involves eggs, so I won't. :rolleyes:

[gogs67]

I was going to have a go at all those records myself, then I saw that one of them involves eggs, so I won't. :rolleyes:
You should work your way through them untill you reach that one then stop!:D

[Pilaf]

On my best, most well rested days I could crank out about sixty normal push ups. I've been in weight training for about six months and doubled that from thirty last year. Not bad for a guy who weighs 260 lbs (but I've been told I don't look it because I'm tall and lean)