Week 6 (Second Level) : Day 1 second Attempt on 11/04/2008

Todays workout turned out be harder than I expected, I was able to raise the count only by 5 pushups. Anyways it's an improvement, that's what matters and that's all I care about.

I was required to do 40,50,25,25,Max(at least 50)

I managed to scrape 40,30,25,25,35

The last set was especially difficult, By the time, I got to the 34'th pushup, My legs were shivering,My head was feeling heavier by the second and I thought something in my heart was about to snap. But nothing really happened, My biceps were pumped up and felt  good about it.

Week 6 (Second Level) : Day 1 on 11/1/2008

I started Week 6 Again today. This time I am doing the send level of pushups, I was required to do a total of 190 pushups, I managed just 150

I was required to do 40,50,25,25,Max(at least 50)

I barely managed to do 40,30,25,25,30.

The second set was the most difficult to do. It's quite a challenge to do 50 pushups right after doing 40. The Third and Fourth sets were not too hard and, in the final set, I was not that motivated.

Exhaustion Test

Well I managed 60 Pushups on my exhaustion test.

Here is my progression of exhaustion for the last four months: 15,19,35,40,43,51,60

I have been making steady improvements over the last four months. I never expected this to be easy task. 100 pushups is no easy task. I will continue Week 6 at the second level starting tommorow.

Week 6 : Day 3 on 10/27/2008

I did not have much trouble to finish up W6D3. I did 51 pushups in the last set, although Like yesterday, I thought I was going to have an heart attack towards the end :) The weird thing is that even after doing 50 pushups, My arms are not the least bit tired, but I am breathing very hard and my rest of the body is on the verge of collapsing. May be my next workout ought to be couch to 5k program.

I was required to do 13,13,17,17,14,14,16,16,Max(50)

I was able to do 13,13,17,17,14,14,16,16,51

I will be doing an exhaustion test tommorow, I am hoping to do atleast 60+ pushups and then repeat W6 on column 2.

Week 6 : Day 2 on 10/24/2008

Today, I was in a bit of rush, I was getting late for work and also had to get my son ready. On top of that I was a day late in doing the W6D2. So I did today pushups at a very fast pace, So all my pushups may not have been good form pushups.

I was required to do 14,14,15,15,14,14,10,10,max(44)

I was able to do 14,14,15,15,14,14,10,10,45

I barely took any rest between sets and did them at a good solid pace. In the last set, I did not even pause to take rest, Kept pushuing untill I hit 45. Although, I got to say, I thought I was going to have a heart attack after the 42nd pushup. I could feel lot of pressure on my chest.

Week 6 : Day 1 Sixth Attempt on 9/21/2008

Finally... Managed to do all 5 sets successfully. Todays pushups were not that hard at all. I made a slight change, Instead of counting one by one, I counted in sets of 5. For instance... first set is 5 sets of five and second sent is six sets of five and so on. This way of counting seems like a no-brainer, but for some reason, I never felt like trying this before. This made a huge difference in doing the final set.

By the time I got to 30+ in the final set, My hands started shivering and by the time I got to 37, it felt like my head was about to explode. I was feeling bit of added weight in my head, but sqeaked in 3 more and finished my 40.

I am looking forward to wrap up day 2 and 3 as soon as possible.

Informal Test of strength on 10/19/2008

Informal Test of strength, involves putting my almost 3YO son on my back and doing pushups. Today I did 20 pushups. I could have done more, but did not feel like it.. The Last time I tried this, I managed 15 such pushups. It's a nice improvement. I will do this test again in couple of weeks.