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The +100 Push Up Club

January 6th, 2011
In 2005 I watched the movie Coach Carter where Samuel Jackson was trying to get the kids running suicides drills from one corner of the court to the other side and back again. That is brutal. What peaked my interest was actually the push ups. One kid was being punished and Samuel Jackson asked him to do 1,000 push ups. It got me thinking whether that is realistic? I’ve seen a lot of military type movies where the sergeant would ask the soldiers to drop and give me 500 push ups.

I started to try to do 500 push ups in 24 hours, taking as many breaks as I wanted. Eventually other joined in and many of them reached 1,000 push ups in 24 hours and I reached 2,400 in 24 hours. In 2011, I decided to start again.

The purpose is to
- do incremental exercise throughout the day instead of going to a gym
- show that you can reach an unimaginable goal by doing a little bit toward the goal
- building arm muscles
A good way to get started is to remember that you have 24 hours.

1) Start doing push ups to see how many reps you can do and still feel comfortable. Don’t do it until it hurts or until your very last one. Let’s say it’s 15 / set. This is very important, if you can do 20 / set max, only do 15.

2) Then just start doing it. Set a goal of 100 / day and if you break it down, 15 / set, you only need about 6 sets. Then whenever you feel comfortable, drop and do 15 and record the time when you did it.

3) You will find that 100 / day will actually be easy no matter how man you can do per set. Even if can only do 10 / set you can hit 100 in 10 sets

4) So make sure you do the 100, 200 / day consistently.

5) Every Thursday increase the count by 100. But you keep on doing your normal sets of 100, 200. So you are working towards the ultimate goal of increasing your number by 100 each week.

6) The hardest thing is not doing it, but making time for it. Sometimes I find myself just dropping down and doing my sets when I’m outside, in the elevator by myself. Watching TV is a good time, after 1 – 2 hours of computers is a good time. Water break is a good time. But make that time for it. it’s only about 2-3 minsper set
Push Up Thursday, week 2: 200

January 6th, 2011

Listening to Maria Callas starts my 2nd week of push ups. I set a 15 minute timer to do 40 every 15 minutes, but you can spread it out over 24 hours if you wish

9:19 am @ cube +40 40
9:38 am @ cube +40 80 (listening to Handel)
9:53 am @ cube +40 120 (listening to Mozart)
10:15am @ cube +40 160 (listening to Johann Adolf Hasse)
11:39am @ cube +40 200 (listening to Sarah Change The Four Seasons)

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A few years ago, I started a club in Yahoo to do as many push ups we can in 24 hours.

We started at 100 and each week, we increased it by 100. most members got to 1,000. I got to 2,200 in 24 hours. It is based on a simple concept that if you spread out the exercise to 24 hours, you can accomplish a large number even if you can only do 5 push ups at a time.

Not sure why we stopped, maybe we got to a milestone.

I want to start again this year and get back to 2,000 push ups in 24 hours. Here are my previous posts and the rules.
Push Up Thursday Week 1: 100

December 29th, 2010

A few years ago, I started a club in Yahoo to do as many push ups we can in 24 hours.

We started at 100 and each week, we increased it by 100. most members got to 1,000. I got to 2,200 in 24 hours. It is based on a simple concept that if you spread out the exercise to 24 hours, you can accomplish a large number even if you can only do 5 push ups at a time.

Not sure why we stopped, maybe we got to a milestone.

I want to start again this year and get back to 2,000 push ups in 24 hours

12/29/2010

11:33 +35 35
11:34 +30 75
11:37 +25 100

done

12/30/2010
8:30 +20 20
11:11 +30 50
4:03 +30 80
7:54 +15 95
10:10 +15 110

pull ups
8:40 +5 5
11:10 +5 10
4:04 +5 15
10:12 +5 20

12/31/2010

pull ups
7:30 +5 5

1/05/2011

push up

1:35pm +30 30
Push Up Thursday is back (2,100)

October 27th, 2005

I’ve been sick with a flu and cough for the last 3 weeks and pushups stopped because my whole body was sored. This dude has now gotten to 2,001 and we are both shooting for 2,100 push ups in 24 hours.

Here goes

+50 : 50 11:02 am
+50 : 100 11:04 am
+80 : 180 11:24 am
+80 : 260 11:33 am
+80 : 340 11:50 am
+80 : 420 12:28 pm
+80 : 500 12:51 pm (lunch time)
+50 : 550 2:50 pm
+60 : 610 2:55 pm
+50 : 660 2:59 pm
+50 : 710 3:03 pm
+50 : 760 3:20 pm
+50 : 810 5:49 pm (procastinating again)
+50 : 860 10:22pm (opening a bottle of Joel Gott Cabernet Sauvignon to help me continue)
+50 : 910 10:43 pm
+50 : 960 11:02 pm
+50 : 1010 11:16 pm
+50 : 1060 11:23 pm
+50 : 1110 11:36 pm (fell asleep, no good)
+50 : 1160 2:31 am
+50 : 1210 2:42 am
+50 : 1260 8:27 am
+50 : 1310 9:01 am
+60 : 1370 9:12 am
+50 : 1420 9:29 am
——— time for a schedule to shoot to finish at 11 —
+50 : 1470 9:35 am
+50 : 1520 9:40 am
+50 : 1570 9:45 am
+50 : 1620 9:50 am
+50 : 1670 9:55 am
+50 : 1720 10:00 am
+50 : 1770 10:05 am
+50 : 1820 10:10 am
+50 : 1870 10:15 am
+50 : 1920 10:20 am
+50 : 1970 10:39 am
+50 : 2020 10:44 am
+50 : 2070 10:49 am
+30 : 2,100 10:54 am (done)

Background: A group of people trying to do as many push ups, pull-ups, sit-ups as we can in 24 hours. Start anytime between 12:00am and 12:00pm of the day, you can blog, blast message about your status
during the day. Join in for the fun at the Y! pushup club
Push Up Contest At Yahoo!

September 22nd, 2005

Over at the Vendor showcase day at Yahoo! they were doing of all things a push up contest. Everyone was getting me on to try it. The record was 201 push ups by a Yahoo! super stud. (Stu Y.) The rule was that you can rest on top or do a downward facing dog.

I topped out at 114 and couldn’t go on. I took 2 breaks, should have taken my time. Stu supposely took 10 breaks. My muscle just couldn’t pump anymore.

This got me excited about another goal to shoot for: 202 consecutive push ups.

Good start to Push Up Thursday

+114 114 12:00pm
+120 234 11:17pm
+100 334 12:09am
+150 484 12:27am
+205 689 12:40am
+80 769 12:57am
+50 819 1:09am
+50 869 7:52am
+50 919 9:04am
+50 969 9:24am
(missed the 24 hour cut off, oh well, on to 1,900)
+50 1019 1:34pm
Push Up Thursday (1,800)

September 15th, 2005

Y! Push Up Club

A group of people trying to do as many push ups, pull-ups, sit-ups as we can in 24 hours. Start anytime between 12:00am and 12:00pm of the day, you can blog, blast message about your status during the day.

Thursday: Sep 16, 2005 1,800 push ups +100 each week

+70 70 12:06am
+70 140 12:31 (Sade, King Of Sorrow)
+70 210 12:35 (Sade, Sombody Already Broke My Heart)
+70 280 12:50 (Sade, Every Word)
+70 350 1:02 (Sade, Lover’s Rock) Some Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia
+70 420 1:12 (Sade, Flow)
+80 500 1:34 (Sade, All About Our Love)
+70 570 2:06 (Sade, By Your Side), doing some work for Y! Mail
(drive kate to school, work in Berkeley with wifi)
+35 600 5:54pm (with kate on back for the last 15)
+70 670 6:16pm (at parents)
(put kate down for bed)
+70 730 9:52pm (only 2 hours to go for 1,070)
+70 800 10:05pm (watching Memento)
+70 870 10:19pm (IM with a friend in between sets)
+70 940 10:25 (Sade, which song? oh when you’re cold i’ll be there hold you tight to me )
+70 1,000 10:33 (nice round number)
+70 1,070 11:08
+70 1,140 11:18
+70 1,210 11:27
+80 1,290 11:30 (30 mins for another 510)
+80 1,370 11:35
+70 1,440 11:45 (just another 360 to go)
+70 1,510 11:53 (13 mins to go for 290)
+30 1,540 11:58
+30 1,570 11:59
+30 1,600 12:00
+30 1,630 12:01
+30 1,660 12:02
+30 1,690 12:03
+30 1,720 12:04
+30 1,750 12:05
+30 1,780 12:05
+20 1,800 12:06 (done, story of my life, procrastination)

More Entries On Push Ups
Push Up Thursday (1,700 minus 700)

August 11th, 2005

This week marks 1,000 for many of the club members. I’ve ordered 2 cakes for the team. A chocolate valencia and a lemon chiffon.

I’m trying for 1,700 this week

+50 (50) 9:05am
+70 (120) 11:32am
+70 (190) 1:13pm
+50 (240) 4:11pm
+50 (290) 4:15pm
+70 (360) 4:38pm
+70 (440) 8:00pm
+70 (510) 9:58pm
+70 (580) 10:34pm (ok this week only 1,000 for me just so I can eat my own cake)
+70 (650) 11:16pm
+70 (720) 11:50pm
+70 (790) 12:12am
+70 (860) 12:21am
+50 (910) 12:37am
+90 (1,000) 7:06am (at the downtown N metro car stop, done!)

Background: A group of people trying to do as many push ups, pull-ups, sit-ups as we can in 24 hours. Start anytime between 12:00am and 12:00pm of the day, you can blog, blast message about your status during the day.

Monday : Aug 8th, 2005 70 pull-ups +10 each week
Tuesday: Aug 9nd, 2005 600 crunches +100 each week
Thursday: Aug 11th, 2005 1,000 push ups +100 each week

Kelly, Shawn, Brian, JW, Tony, Scott, Jeff, Sean
Rewards Friday For 1,000

August 8th, 2005

This thursday marks the 1,000 push up milestone of the Y! Push Up Club.

On Friday, I will buy a Valencia chocolate cake for the team. Anyone who reaches 1,000 gets a slice.
No rewards for just trying, you don’t get to 1,000: NO CAKE

I’m counting 8 people in the open doing this, if you are doing it secretly, let me know so I can get some
for you.

Kelly, Shawn, Brian, JW, Tony, Scott, Jeff, Sean
Push up Thursday (1,500)

July 28th, 2005

Push up club starting again. There are 2 hidden members who are also doing it, but will be more public later (I hope)

Other members doing push ups on Thursdays
Kelly Shawn Brian JW Scott

+50 8:23am on train
+70 120 8:37am on train
+50 170 8:44am on train
+50 220 1:26pm (in cube now, damn kelly keeps on taunting me “start doing you push up, lazy bum”)
+50 270 1:37pm
+50 320 1:49pm
+50 370 3:21pm
+60 430 3:46pm
+50 480 4:12pm
+50 530 4:14pm
+50 580 5:13pm
+50 630 5:15pm
+50 680 5:42pm
+20 700 5:53pm
+30 730 5:54pm
+50 780 8:25pm (after drinks at the bar to send the news producers to LA, start doing them at the Sunnyvale Caltrain, with a newspaper on the ground to keep my hands clean)

wish I could get a free pass today. I took the train from sunnyvale at 8:20pm, got to bart in sf, took bart to castro valley, got to cv around 10:40, ran 1.7 miles to my home up hill because I’ve got a flat this morning, changed the flat tire in the dark, now I’m sitting here at 11:47pm with 720 push ups to go. Life iis still pretty good, I get to watch CSI

+50 830 12:06am
+50 880 12:15am
+50 930 12:20am
+50 980 12:27am
+50 1,030 12:38am
+50 1,080 12:53am
+50 1,130 1:10am
+50 1,180 1:20am
+30 1,210 1:28am (down to 30/set now)
+30 1,240 1:33am
+30 1,270 1:36am
+30 1,300 1:47am
+30 1,330 1:55am
+30 1,360 1:59am
+30 1,390 2:04am
+30 1,420 2:11am
+30 1,450 2:15am
+25 1,475 2:19am
+25 1,500 2:21am (DONE, fun)
Push Up Thursday (1,400)

July 21st, 2005

It’s that time of the week, the Y! Pushup Club is going very strong. I’m shooting for 1,400 in 24 hours. It’s going to be harder since I’m seeing Les Miz tonight so I decided to start later to give more time tomorrow

Other members doing push ups on Thursdays
Kelly Shawn Brian JW Scott

+50: 50 11:34 am (in my cube)
+50: 100 11:36 am “”
+50: 150 12:30 pm
+50: 200 1:44pm
+50: 250 3:40
+50: 300 3:42
+50: 350 3:45
+20: 370 3:49
+30: 400 3:51
+80: 480 5:56 (still lots of time, no need to panic)
+70: 530 1:17am (after les miz, falling behind)
+50: 580 1:24am (watching billards, enjoying pastries from Frog Hollow)
+50: 630 1:30am
+30: 660 1:34am
+30: 690 1:40am
+50: 740 1:47am
+50: 790 1:48am
+50: 840 2:10am
+50: 890 2:32am
+50: 940 2:39am
+50: 990 2:51am
+50: 1040 6:30am
+50: 1090 6:40am
+50: 1140 10:56am
+50: 1190 10:58am
+110: 1300 11:24am
+80: 1380 11:31am
+20: 1400 11:33am (done)
Push up Thursday 1,200

July 7th, 2005

I’m impressed by Kelly and his dedication to push up Thursday even when he is in the UK.

Here goes my duty of the week for the Y! Push Up Club
Other Members Kelly Shawn Brian JW Scott
I’m shooting for 1,200 today.

100 6:30am (waiting for Amtrak)
150 8:30 (at work)
200 8:58
250 9:20
300 9:48
350 10:20
400 10:22
450 10:35 (In My Place, ColdPlay)
500 10:37 (God Put a Smile upon Your Face, ColdPlay)
570 11:49 (The Scientist, ColdPlay)
620 1:47 (Clock, “”)
670 1:50 (Daylight, “”)
620 1:54 (“”,””)
670 10:03 pm
720 10:08 pm (watching CSI: NY)
770 10:14pm
820 10:20pm
870 10:26pm
920 10:43pm
945 10:48pm (R. forcing me to sleep at 11 via IM, gotta hurry)
970 10:43pm
995 10:55pm
1,020 10:57pm
1,070 11:01pm
1,100 11:08pm
1,133 11:13pm
1,166 11:18pm
1,200 11:24pm (good night R.)
push ups: 2,000 in 24 hours reached

June 7th, 2005

I’ve hurt my foot recently and have not been able to run for a while. So I’ve started shooting for the 2,000 mark in push ups. 1,500 was reached on May 10th, 1,000 was reached April 22nd, 500 was reached March 02
Push up Log for June 6th
100 7:37 am
200 8:00 am
300 8:30 am
400 9:00 am
500 9:30 am
600 9:55 am
700 10:23 am
800 11:25 am
900 11:34 am
950 12:17 pm
— gum cleaning, work, dinner
1,000 9:28pm
1,050 10:20pm
1,100 10:49pm
1,150 11:45pm
1,200 11:50pm
1,250 12:29pm
1,300 12:49pm
1,350 12:58pm
— banging my head try to troubleshoot work related issues, need to clear my head
1,400 1:14am
1,450 1:29am
1,500 1:38am
1,550 2:08am
1,600 2:15am
1,650 2:22am
1,700 2:31am
— sleep
1,750 5:42am
2,000 7:30am
It’s official, I’m crazy: 1,500 push ups in 12 hours

May 10th, 2005

Ok, you knew it would happen one day. I’ve lost my mind. Ever since I started this fitness craze and started doing 500 push ups, 1,000 push ups, you knew the day would come when I would try 1,500.

Well today was it. I just finished 1,500 push ups tonight! When I’ve tried for it on other days, the timing and rhythm just wasn’t right. Today everything went perfectly.

The hardest part was making time to do it and keeping count of how many I did. At work I knocked down 2 set of 150, making it 300. Luckily I was stuck waiting for Caltrain today and was able to knock down 300. I had lots of TV shows recorded so when I got home, I watched TV and finish the remaining 900. (The L Word, Desperate Housewives, CSI NY)
Chest muscles have healed, pushups, pushups come to me

April 12th, 2005

It’s back, the pushup craze. My muscles have healed like I thought it would after the last fiasco when I torned my muscles. Here is a more sane version of 1,000 pushup in 24 hours, d0ing 50 reps and spread it over time. This time I didn’t tear the muscles. Next milestone : 1,500