Push-ups – Another 30-day trial
About one month ago I decided to undertake yet another 30-day trial. The first one, getting up crazy early (4:45 am), went splendid. August went fantastic and I think I only slip once by about 15 minutes. During September I slipped back into old routines a couple of times but overall I’m very pleased with the results. It has gotten a lot tougher now since the sun is no longer there to greet me in the morning. The cure? A sun-rise simulator alarm clock. Just bought, not collected yet, but on Sunday I will have my first experience with it. Will report back what it’s like to use.
Anyway, I didn’t really want to talk about the getting up early trial, but rather my push-up trial. I completed the first 30 days yesterday and I’m very excited about the results. While I can’t really say that I’ve visually changed all that much the results speak for themselves.
The schedule
The schedule was pretty simple. Get up, early in the morning, go for a semi-long walk (around 30 minutes), come back (obviously), do a salute to the sun yoga session then push-ups. I wanted to always do maximum amount of push-ups and I had planned to do three sets and in each set do the maximum amount I could muster. Oh, I just remembered, I did this every other day, so one day rest in between.
The first round of push-ups were rather disappointing. I managed to complete two sets, and in the first set I did 16 push-ups, and 4 in the second, none in the third. However , I’m happy to report that after one month of consistently doing push-ups I can now do about 1:26, 2:10, 3:5 which totals at 41 push-ups. I’m very pleased with those results considering what I began with.
Here’s a chart of my results. I had a very interesting dip on the 14th of September, can’t really remember why that is. I should probably try and correlate this with nutritional intake in order to see if I can boost my performance by eating certain types of food.
