6-Week Program?
 

I'm about to start this 'training' program that involves getting upwards of doing 100 consecutive pushups and 200 consecutive situps.

These workout routines only take about '30 minutes a week!'.

In addition to the 100 pushups and 200 situps, I'm going to push for a mile and 1/2 in 11 minutes. I know some of you may smoke this out of the water, but I realistically need to get my miles back down in the 7 minute category and push it out the next 4 minutes to get the next half mile.

As soon as I can get these all going, I'm going to work on my 300m sprint as well, which I am going to set for 45 seconds. I actually have no clue wether I could do this or not, but it's still going to be fun to try it out and see.

I'm currently at about 60-63 pushups in one session but I want to push it all the way out to 100.
As for situps, not as good. I'm probably only around 50-55 right now, which is okay but I am going to push it towards 200 in this 6 week program.

Here are the sites including all of the information.

http://i43.tinypic.com/w9efqc.jpg

http://hundredpushups.com/test.html
http://hundredpushups.com/week1.html

http://i44.tinypic.com/2eogrok.jpg

http://www.twohundredsitups.com/test.html
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/week1.html

I figured I would post this all here, as it will help me keep track and I can show how the system works to myself and even better, you guys.

I have not really been working out since I have been in Iraq :( But thats gonna change when we get on a daily workout schedule back in Germany. My goal is 70 Pushups in 2 minutes, 70 Situps in 2 Minutes and a 2 mile run time of 13:00 to 13:30. Wanna meet those goals with me D3V?

I am absolutely going to give it my best shot. I am willing to keep a log as well, if you are wanting to. I need to schedule my workouts and keep track of everything if I am ever going to make it into a continual routine, so I figured post it on here. 2 miles in 13-1330 will probably be the easiest thing for me to accomplish, I imagine the push-ups are going to come in time, 6 weeks should be easy. The situps though I need to hit that plateau to where I can start adding more strenght, I'm still at the point where it's a struggle ya'know?


Off-topic: Your Sig made me go dizzy for a second or two through my peripheral vision.

Thats the point of it lol. I am currently trying to make an even trippier sig.

On topic: Yea we can keep logs, perhaps create a social group for this purpose.

That could work, or just keep things in this thread. Social Groups need to be revised and worked on, the structure and lack of update notifications is annoying and hard to keep things accounted for and tracked.

Hence the poll I made. The newer version of vBulletin has customizable social groups and notifications for new messages in them. We just need to talk WetWired into the upgrade.

Well, I actually bought that P90X workout recently, and I'm in Week 5 of the workout. I'll tell you what, it is intense and really works. I haven't been in this good of shape since college, 5+ years ago!

That's awesome man. The thing is, stuff like that only works if you can get motivated, and people that are that motivated usually aren't out of shape, get my gist? Hah, but that's still great to know man.

Can I have this moved to the Health forum?(then edit this part)


I'm up to 55 pushups still, but my bench I've noticed, has increased pretty good. It's back up to 165x8 reps. (not sure of my max) and I could've done more if I had a spotter, but wasn't wanting to try my luck. Situps are still about the same, i'm going to try using weight with my crunches and get those numbers a bit higher.

Just do your situps very slow, and hold yourself at the half way up position so your back is at a 45 degree angle. And hold that until your abs are on fire and you have sweat running down your face from pain. Then rest for a few minutes and do as many situps as you can and then end it with the half way up again. Rinse, repeat each time you do an ab workout.

I assumed that you meant the whole thread. If not, please clarify...

Sorry! Too lazy to send a pm also, but yes the whole thread would be excellent. I posted it in the wrong section for some reason.

Week 3 update:

Haven't been too strict, but I'm at:

72 pushups in two minutes.
75 situps in two minutes.

As for running, I finally started back up last friday and hit up some treadmills/bike/stair stepper/inclined bike (etc) for a few hours, and am going again tomorrow. I had a light mile which timed out at 8:15 which isn't too bad, and then the next half was 5:25 or something.. i'm going today to see if I can't dip into the 7's for now, then just light jog the rest of the second mile and add the time to that. Gotta get to that 12 minute mark (military standard).

When you say that you run, are you running around a track or just on a treadmill? Both are very different, as you might know.

I've just started running around here outside, and it's been pretty nice. I run downhill for about 10-11 minutes, and then uphill for about 10-11 minutes. My goal is to be able to run for 30 to 45 minutes without stopping and with ease. Maybe get the runner's 'high'.

Ah yes I failed to mention i'm running on the treadmill, and I've left it set at the 1.0 incline setting to try and even out the difference from running on that compared to an actual track. I'm going again today to just work on endurance again and will do the same wed/thurs then on sat or sunday i'll try to see what my new fast pace is. I'm so excited about running again, it really does release a ton of endorphans and make you feel great, just gotta stick with it.

Why would you put it on an incline to offset a track feel? Running on a treadmill is much more difficult than out on a track because of your extreme limited range of running motion. If anything, you should put it on a decline to help your cause!

I figure I could get more endurance through an incline, which is what I'm working on (incline). When I go to actually test my time I'm going to set it at 0 on the treadmill and see what I run. If the time is adequate i'll go ahead and just keep working on endurance and work the distance up, if not i'll test it again on an actual track and see what's up.

Actually 13 minute 2 mile is a perfect score for the physical training test. Anything faster than that is wasted unless you score perfect for the push-ups and sit-ups. If you score 100 points in each event then you are allowed to tally whatever extra you did into your score. The highest score I have personally seen someone get was around a 380. Oh and we have this extremely buff short guy that can do 180+ push-ups in 2 minutes.

Holy shit, 180+ in 2 minutes... I haven't tried, but I always thought of myself as decent at push-ups, and I can probably only do 75 or so in 2 minutes. Actually, maybe I'll try right now.

And then I imagine Titusfied dropping down on the floor at work and doing push-ups.

Well that was interesting. I did 77, and it wasn't for lack of time. I could barely lift myself anymore by that time...